Can Climate Fiction Become our Reality?

Kim Stanley billede

An afternoon with Kim Stanley Robinson, the climate-fiction author of the New York Times bestseller The Ministry for the Future.

 

17.00     Opening remarks: Helle Porsdam, Professor of History and Cultural Rights at the University of Copenhagen.

 

17.05     Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson (via video conference) by Vincent Hendricks, Professor of Formal Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen.

 

17.45     Panel debate featuring: Author Kaspar Colling, Morten Svendstorp, Chairman of Humanity in Action, and Lars Tønder, Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Sustainability and Society (SUSY), University of Copenhagen.

The debate will be moderated by Helle Porsdam.

 

18.15     Q&A with audience

 

18.30     Event closes.

 

 

Humanity in Action’s educational, networking and leadership programs have for over 20 years now focused on human rights violations, social tensions and how to sustainably address and prevent them.

Together with over 2.700 Fellows and Senior Fellows, who are committed to social justice all around the globe, we are an international non-profit, non-partisan and non-governmental organization. We bring carefully selected students of diverse backgrounds to the same tables and collectively look at the histories behind contemporary social justice headlines and develop solutions to contemporary human rights challenges.

For the next three years, Humanity in Action Denmark’s will focus on the nexus of climate change and human rights by bringing together Danish, American and European students. To learn more about or apply for the 2023 Copenhagen Fellowship, please click here.

An afternoon with Kim Stanley Robinson, the climate-fiction author of the New York Times bestseller The Ministry for the Future.

 

 

All are welcome, but we need you to register via this link.

If you are not able to attend in person, you can watch the streaming from home.

Zoom webinar link: https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/64600062216 

All inquiries should be addressed to: michelle.kjaerulff@jur.ku.dk