The international conference "New perspectives on global environmental images", organized by the Paris Consortium Climate-Environment-Society (GIS Climat- Environnement-Société) and the laboratory Koyré, was held in Paris-Meudon on October 9 and 10, 2014.

Conference outline
The international conference proposed to mobilise a broad variety of perspectives from a large disciplinary spectrum in order to analyse the strategies and imaginaries that are connected to the production, the circulation and the power of global environmental images. From icons of the environmental movement over expert graphics mobilised by the IPCC to satellite imagery, global environmental images form the sensory basis of our understanding of the planetary processes that govern the "Anthropocene". The images all actively participate, at very different scales, in our interpretation and understanding of the changes of the Earth system as well as the consequences we closely associate to global climate change. As true mediators between different publics and cultures, between global processes and local impacts, new critical enquiries into global environmental images propose a highly fruitful discussion of the complex relationship between science, society, politics and nature.

Programme
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Acts of the conference
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The speakers' presentations

Introduction
Sylvie Joussaume, CNRS, GIS Climat-Environnement-Société
Sebastian Grevsmühl, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie
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Icons of the environmental age
Global crisis, green consumers: environmental spectacle in a neoliberal age
Finis Dunaway, Trent University
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One image all over the world: analysing blue marble's meanings
Silke Vetter-Schultheiß, TU Darmstadt
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Expert graphics and visual cultures of IPCC
"Of exactitude in science": the visual representation of uncertainty
Richard Hamblyn, University of London, Birkbeck College
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Visual cultures of IPCC: objectivity, judgement, futures
Martin Mahony, King's College London
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Uncertainty visualisation in the climate change discourse: from the IPCC reports to climate web portals
Thomas Nocke, PIK Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
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Visualising climate negotiations with the help of digital traces
Nicolas Baya-Laffite, SciencePo Media Lab
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Visual cultures of the anthropocene
Imag(e)ining Technocultures: Big picture framings
James R. Fleming, Colby College
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How to do things with worlds: the natures of cosmograms
John Tresch, University of Pennsylvania
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Burning Worlds. A critical approach to the climate cosmograms of the anthropocene
Birgit Schneider, Potsdam University
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Remote sensing and the global environment
Observing from the outside, you feel as a part of the inside
Cathy Dubois and Michel Avignon, CNES/HT2S-CNAM
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Best effort: the uses of satellite cartography in disaster monitoring
Arnaud Saint-Martin, Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
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Earth under remote control: satellite imagery and the emergence of the body-planet
Leandro Siqueira, Pontifica Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo
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Technology, satellite imagery and the environment
Johan Gärdebo, KTH Stockholm
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Johan's blog of the conference

Environmental aesthetics
Environmental aesthetics and the anthropocene
Nathalie Blanc, CNRS/LADYSS
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Costal landscapes as part of a global ocean
Hervé Regnauld, University Rennes 2
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Concluding discussion
Introduced by Chantal Pacteau, GIS Climat-Environnement-Société and Jean-Paul Vanderlinden, Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
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