Conference Schedule
Wednesday, April 8 (Illini Union)
| 9am-1pm | Roundtable Discussion: Illinois Sustainability Vision (Illini Rooms B&C) Office Web Portal |
| 1-2pm | Bruce Rittmann: "Microbial Bioenergy Options: Promising Perspectives on Society's Energy Challenge" (Room 210) |
| 5-5:30pm | Welcome Steven Sonka, Vice-Chancellor for Public Engagement Performance Piece:"Light weight: Sky bit" Students of Jennifer Monson, Dept. of Dance, the Graduate String Quartet and Hee Yun Kim, School of Music |
| 5-8pm | Poster Presenters |
| 5:30-6:45pm | Reception (buffet dinner) |
| 6:45-7pm | Welcome Aboard Planet U: Bill Sullivan, Director, The Environmental Council, University of Illinois |
| 7-8:30pm | Keynote Address: Brian Fagan—“The Silent Elephant in the Climatic Room” |
Thursday, April 9 (Beckman Institute)
| 8-9am | Breakfast |
| 9-10am | Session #1: The Invention of Weather: A Cultural History Speakers: Jan Golinski (Univ. New Hampshire): “The Climate of Enlightenment” Stephanie LeMenager (UC Santa Barbara): "Post-Seasonal Affective Disorder: The Environmental Imagination in the Era of Climate Change" |
| 10-10:15am | Break |
| 10:15-11:45am | Session #2: Climate Change and the Media Speakers: Andy Revkin (New York Times) Dan Vergano (USA Today) Michael Hawthorne (Chicago Tribune) |
| 12-1pm | Lunch |
| 1-2pm | Special Presentation: Visualizing the Story of Climate Change Science Speakers: Don Wuebbles (Illinois) Donna Cox, and the Advanced Visualization Team, NCSA (Illinois) |
| 2-2:15 pm | Break |
| 2:15-3:30pm | Session #3: Climate and Civilizations Speakers: Bill Ruddiman (Virginia): "Early Agriculture Prevented Climatic Cooling" Lisa Lucero (Illinois): "History Lessons: Climate Change and the Maya Collapse" Gillen Wood (Illinois): "The Tambora Project" |
| 3:30-4pm | Afternoon Tea |
| 4-5:15pm | Session #4: Thinking Climate: The Ethics of Change Speaker: Calvin DeWitt (Wisconsin): "Climate Ethics: Winds of Change" Respondents: Bill Sullivan (Illinois) Susanne Moser |
| 5:15-6:15pm | Hors d’oeuvres |
| 6:15-6:30pm | Introduction to The Environmental Change Institute Wes Jarrell (Illinois) Introduction to the Office of Sustainability Dick Warner (Illinois) |
| 6:30-8pm | Keynote Address: Eugene Linden: "Climate Stimulus: What the Financial Meltdown Can Teach Us About Tackling Global Warming" |
Friday, April 10 (Beckman Institute)
| 8-9am | Breakfast |
| 9-10:15am | Session #5: Controlling Climate: Past and Present Speakers: James Fleming (Colby): "The Checkered History of Climate Control" Michael Schlesinger (Illinois): "The Illinois Climate Change Advisory Group: Policies for Reducing Emissions" |
| 10:15-10:30am | Break |
| 10:30-11:45am | Session #6: Climate Impacts on Health, Security and Population Speakers: Stanley Ambrose (Illinois): "Volcanic Winter in the Garden of Eden?" Dan Ferber (Science): "Healing An Ailing Planet" Jurgen Scheffran (Illinois): "Climate and Conflict: Security Risks and Societal Instabilities of Global Warming" |
| 12-1pm | Lunch |
| 1-2:15pm | Session #7: Climate Change and Chicago Speakers: Suzanne Malec-McKenna (Commissioner, City of Chicago Department of Environment) Don Wuebbles (Illinois) Respondent: Michael Hawthorne (Chicago Tribune) |
| 2:15-2:30pm | Break |
| 2:30-3:45pm | Session #8: Changing Landscape, Changing Crops Speakers: Peter deMenocal (Columbia): "Green Sahara: Climate Change and the Cultural Evolution of North Africa" Stephen Long (Illinois): "Adapt or Starve: The SoyFACE Project and Other Experiments in Climate Change and Grain Crops" |
| 3:45-4:00pm | Break |
| 4:00-4:45pm | Plenary Address: Susanne Moser—“Creating a Climate for Change: U’r Planet, U’r Future” Closing Remarks: Linda Katehi: Provost and Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs |
| 4:45-6pm | Cash Bar |