Siberian Thaw:
Climate Change and Social Change in Siberia

*All sessions located at The Franke Institute for the Humanities
at the Regenstein Library of The University of Chicago, 1100 E. 57th St., Chicago
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Conference Agenda
May 9, 2007 (Friday)

• 2:30 p.m. PRE-EVENT FILM SCREENING
  The Linguists
• 4:15-5:00 p.m. REGISTRATION & RECEPTION
• 5:00 p.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS
• David Archer, The University of Chicago
  Deparment of Geophysical Science
  "Sea Ice, Permafrost, and Climate Change in Siberia"

May 10, 2008 (Saturday)

(click on paper titles for available abstracts, in PDF)

• 8:30-9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
• 9:00-10:30 AM Panel 1
• William Fitzhugh, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
  Director, Arctic Studies Center
  "Climate and Culture Change in Siberia and Other Northern Regions:
  Deep-Time and Today"
• Lenore Grenoble, University of Chicago
  Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
  Department of Linguistics
  "The Siberian Linguistic Landscape"
• 10:45 AM-1:00 PM Panel 2
• Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Georgetown University
  Department of Sociology and Anthropology
  Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies
  "The Intertwined Nature of Ecological, Political and Cultural Change in the Siberian Far East"
• K. David Harrison, Swarthmore College
  Department of Linguistics
  "Vanishing Knowledge Systems Among South Siberian Herders and Hunter-Gatherers"
• Theodore Levin, Dartmouth College
  Department of Music
  "Music and the Land"
• 1:00-2:00 p.m. LUNCH (provided)
• 2:00-3:45 PM Panel 3
• Eduard Alekseyev, Independent Scholar
  "Cataclysms in Nature and Culture: Ethnomusicological Horizons"
• Nadezhda Bulatova, Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg
  Senior Researcher, Institute of Linguistic Research
  "Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: A Personal View"
• Florian Stammler, Cambridge University
  Senior Institute Associate, Scott Polar Research Institute
  "And if the tundra turns into a desert, we start herding camels, but we have only one planet to live on, so let’s save it now together"
• Gary Cook, Earth Island Institute
  Director of Russian Programs
  “How can Siberians influence the decisions that are made in Moscow?: Do public interest groups really have any influence on the policy-makers and oligarchs in Russia?”
• 4:00-6:00 PM FILM SCREENING + DISCUSSION
• Hunters Since the Beginning of Time
  Winner of the Best Documentary Award, Mexico International Film Festival FICCO 2008
  Discussion with Director Carlos Casas