Communicating the urgency of climate change to be keynote topic at CLASS Annual Research Conference
Communicating the urgency of climate change to be keynote topic at CLASS Annual Research Conference
Communicating the urgency of climate change to be keynote topic at CLASS Annual Research Conference
3/3/2020
Exploring how to better communicate the urgency of climate change will be the topic of Kirill O. Thompson鈥檚 keynote address at the 41st Annual Research Conference being hosted this Friday by the 91快播鈥檚 College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. His message will be one of 50 other presentations on research projects related to the strength, well-being, and independent rights of the Pacific nations under the conference theme 鈥淏uilding Strength and Sovereignty in the Pacific.鈥� The conference is free of charge and open to the public.
Thompson is a retired professor specializing in Chinese philosophy from National Taiwan
University who has been actively involved with research groups on Confucian thought
and culture as well as humanities for the environment.
鈥淚t is difficult to get our heads around the problem of climate change because it is so large and all-embracing,鈥� Thompson said. 鈥淚t is also difficult because special interest groups and their supporters use the media to obscure the facts, downplay the issues, and keep people in the dark about climate change and its urgency.鈥�
In his speech titled 鈥淔acing Climate Change: Changing Hearts and Minds,鈥� Thompson will bring philosophy to the climate change discussion related to communicating the message in a way that grips people鈥檚 sense of responsibility and inclines them to change their mindset, outlook, and lifestyle.The CLASS Annual Research Conference is a multidisciplinary forum for intellectual engagement and discussions, featuring research presentations by local, regional, and global scholars, scientists, visual artists, performing artists, and students.
Other presentations will include:
鈥� 鈥淒eveloping CHamoru Language Infrastructure: Goggue Yan Chachalani Mo鈥檔a I Fino鈥�-ta鈥�
by Robert Underwood, Ed.D., and David Ruskin, Ph.D.
鈥� 鈥淢aking Local Sense of a Global Tragedy: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Guam鈥� by
Anne Perez Hattori, Ph.D.
鈥� 鈥淰aping on Guam: The Trend and its Link to Respiratory Issues鈥� by Mackenzie Urbano
鈥� 鈥淐limate Data in the 1800s: Research in the Spanish Records鈥� by Carlos Madrid, Ph.D.
鈥� 鈥淭he significance of the Asia-Pacific fish weir cultural landscape鈥� by William Jeffery,
Ph.D.
The Annual Research Conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, March 6, in the Humanities and Social Sciences building on the UOG campus. No registration is needed to attend.
The event will conclude with an art show at the Isla Center for the Arts, located in House #11 in Dean鈥檚 Circle on the UOG campus, exhibiting works by students, faculty, and community artists.
For more information on the conference and the full schedule, visit .