[Commlist] Reframing Water and Climate Resilience symposium

*We kindly invite you to join the symposium /Reframing Water and Climate 
Resilience, /which will be held online next month – 27.5.2022*.

Water is the medium through which we experience many of the impacts of 
climate change: in droughts or floods, in melting glaciers, rising sea 
levels and more. Accordingly, visualisations of water or its absence 
have been at the core of climate change media discourse for decades and 
have shaped popular perceptions of this crisis. In recent years, 'water 
resilience’ has increasingly been embraced as a tool for addressing the 
impacts of climate change and other ongoing stressors; not only as a 
tool for adaptation, but also as a tool for mitigation that addresses 
the water-energy nexus and greenhouse gas emissions from water 
infrastructure. However, water resilience scholarship is still primarily 
focused on the physical, technological and managerial aspects of the 
climate crisis, while issues of social justice, power and politics are 
at the margins of the debate. As such, the transformative potential of 
climate and water resilient futures goes unrecognised.

This symposium aims to bring together the overlapping conversations 
around resilience, climate, water, communication and politics in order 
to advance social justice and reduce climate-induced water 
vulnerability; with presenters coming from nine counties brining case 
studies from: India, South-Africa, Israel, Belgium, Jamaica, Brazil, USA 
and more. This one-day event will follow in the footsteps of the 2008 
STEPS Centre symposium, /Re-Framing Resilience/, which opened the door 
for critical resilience research which addresses aspects of power, 
politics and justice in relation to resilience.

*Keynote speakers: * Prof. Joanne Garde-Hansen (University of Warwick), 
author of Media and Water: Communication, Culture and Perception; and Dr 
Filippo Menga (University of Bergamo), author of Water and Power in 
Central Asia and co-editor of Water, Technology and the Nation State.

**

Please share this invitation among your networks, postgraduate research 
students are welcome.

*For registration please use this link to Eventbrite* 
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reframing-water-and-climate-resilience-online-symposium-tickets-324009560317>**

More information can be found here: https://scienv-com.eu/?p=420

*Timetable: *

10:00-11:15 _Opening Keynote Talk:_

Opening greetings by Prof. Melissa Leach (IDS).

*Keynote lecture by Prof. Joanne Garde-Hansen (University of Warwick): 
/Amphibious Screens - Sustainable Cultures of Water/ *


11:30-13:00 _Session 1: New, media and water resilience:_

·Swati Jaywant Rao Bute (Jagran Lakecity University): /Role of news 
channels in running media campaigns for water conservation projects in 
India /

·Edson Capoano, Alice Balbé & Pedro Rodrigues Costa (University of 
Minho): /Analysis of Brazilians comments on the water issue on Twitter /

·Nelson Okorie (Pan-Atlantic University/): Media Framing, Climate Change 
and issues of Water Security in South Africa /

·Shai Kassirer (University of Reading): /“Israel Is Drying, Again”: 
Framing Resilience in Televised Water Conservation Campaigns /


13:30-15:00 _Session 2:  Water (in)justice in Jamaica and India_

·Henrice Altink (University of York): /“No water”: the unequal impact of 
drought in Jamaica in the 1990s. /

·Shruti Jain (Institute of Economic Growth Delhi) & Bhupen Singh 
(Uttarakhand Open University): /Essentiality of Rights for Building 
Resilience Climate and Water Politics in Uttarakhand Himalaya/

·Farhat Naz (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur/): Dynamics of Water 
Access: Trust and Mistrust at the International Border Line /

·Asrarul Haque Jeelani (Jawaharlal Nehru University): /No Water No 
Votes: Electoral Right as a Political Tool for Dealing with Water Distress /

15:15-16:45 _Session 3: Water, technology and public perception_

·Piotr Szpunar (University at Albany): /Walled Shores, Waning Future/

·Christina Walter (Universität Augsburg): /Digital Technologies for 
Water Resilience? Examining the Discourse on Digital Water/

·Biliana Gaume, Pascal Verhoest, Joke Bauwens, Petrus te Braak and 
Marijke Huysmans (Vrij Universiteit Brussel): /Food for Thought A Survey 
on the Acceptance of Crops Grown with Treated Wastewater /

·Ruhil Iyer (IDS), Jeremy Kohlitz (University of Technology Sydney), 
Nicole Klaesener-Metzner (UNICEF) & ​Sue Cavill, (UNICEF): /Water 
management for hygiene and sanitation in the climate crisis: Programming 
lessons from South Asia and the Pacific /

17:00-18:00 _Closing Keynote Talk: _

*Dr Filippo Menga, University of Bergamo: /Spectacular Environments: 
Framing the Global Water Crisis in Troubled Times/*

The symposium is organised by the University of Reading, the Institute 
of Development Studies, and the Science and Environment Communication 
Section of ECREA.


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