[Commlist] CFA: Interdisciplinary conference Beyond Oil 2025: Changing Climate Futures

CFA: Interdisciplinary conference Beyond Oil 2025: Changing Climate Futures

Are you doing communication or media research on the topics of climate 
change and/or energy? Then we invite you to submit your abstract to the 
interdisciplinary conference Beyond Oil,  October 22nd – 23rd  2025, 
taking place at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Call for abstracts:

BEYOND OIL: CHANGING CLIMATE FUTURES

Bergen, Norway; 22nd and 23rd of October, 2025

Is society inevitably moving beyond oil?

We are confronted by ecological degradation, social fragmentation, and 
climate change. Moving beyond oil entails transforming 
our resource-driven economy, consumer society, and relationship with 
capital.  This moment of change presents an opportunity to rebuild the 
economy, society, and the world in more sustainable, convivial and 
equitable ways. Imagining and enacting alternative climate futures is a 
key element in moving society beyond oil.

Since 2015, the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation’s biennial 
Beyond Oil conference has broadened and pluralised understanding of 
societal futures beyond oil, championing engagement with climate and 
energy futures. Research at this critical juncture of transition as we 
shoot past 1.5˚C global warming is pivotal towards redefining and 
identifying scope for the change in trajectory we so urgently need.

How can society move beyond oil? What futures can be made feasible by 
whom? What societal, political, and economic effects are held in the 
grasp of possible climate futures? For our 10th anniversary, we invite 
social scientists and humanists to jointly grapple with these 
foundational ethical, ontological, and epistemic questions of our time.

Join us in a collective reckoning of the present, informed by the past, 
and intent on shaping transformative climate and energy futures.

Submit your abstract here (200-300 words): 
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=vCSKZI2pJUCcYEjBmhQgaamZAaHVLBJEvAoZ7_KHALNURFIzSjhYTEpRTFhUN1g5WVlXVURZM1E1My4u 
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Deadline March 28th.

Confirmed speakers:

                 •             Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History 
of Science, Harvard University

                 •             Andy Stirling, Professor of Science and 
Technology Policy, University of Sussex

                 •             More names to be added shortly

More information on the CET website: 
https://www.uib.no/en/cet/173079/beyond-oil-2025-changing-climate-futures 
<https://www.uib.no/en/cet/173079/beyond-oil-2025-changing-climate-futures>

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