Sentences with phrase «cultural climate from»

The curators selected works that reflect aspects of the changing American socio - cultural climate from the 1920s to the present.

Not exact matches

The recent change in the cultural climate, one that everyone from fundamentalists to People for the American Way helped produce and to which each responded, has occasioned fresh talk about civic responsibility.

Facing unprecedented economic challenges, emotional baggage from seeing so many of their parents divorced and having core values tested by a shifting cultural climate has given many millennials pause when it comes to «settling down.»

Unfortunately in our current political and cultural climate, those who claim to be the most tolerant are actually the most intolerant when confronted by someone who advocates a morality that differs from their own.

Would either the suffragist movement of the last century or current feminism have emerged from another sort of cultural climate?

So many recent cultural shifts — a growing sense of alarm over childhood (and adult) obesity, a new interest in where our food comes from and how its production affects our health and environment, concern about climate change and the need to source food locally — all point in that direction.

Her issue focus has ranged from climate change (The Climate Group, Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition) to criminal justice (Interpol, Coalition for the International Criminal Court) to humanitarian and cultural affairs (International Rescue Committee, Center for Jewish Hiclimate change (The Climate Group, Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition) to criminal justice (Interpol, Coalition for the International Criminal Court) to humanitarian and cultural affairs (International Rescue Committee, Center for Jewish HiClimate Group, Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition) to criminal justice (Interpol, Coalition for the International Criminal Court) to humanitarian and cultural affairs (International Rescue Committee, Center for Jewish History).

Many of peoples» favorite tourism destinations and activities are at risk to climate change, from the ski industry to tropical beaches, from iconic species to cultural heritage.

This cultural flexibility may have been the key to success for modern humans, says a team of international researchers, made up of archaeologists, paleo climatologists, and climate modellers from the French CNRS1 and the EPHE PSL Research University, Bergen University as well as Wits University.

Cultural impacts to tribes from climate change influences on forests.

Ghost is very much a film of its time, just as the also - Rubin - scripted Jacob's Ladder, from the same year, pinged off the cultural climate in another real, essential way by predicting not the death of the Eighties, but the transformation of the aggressive Eisenhower delusions of Reagan's voodoo cowboy foreign policy into the «history will teach us nothing» nihilism of the fast - digitizing, Luddite, Born - Again Nineties.

But the gags are predominantly broad and the cynically - minded commentary, which touches on everything from cultural capitalism and art world smuggery to the current political climate and the fickleness of success, doesn't run very deep.

In a time of continued racial strife exasperated by tiresome leaders, the cinematic fantasy of an African hero from an African nation, all in the backdrop of the familiar «MCU,» will be oxygen in a suffocating cultural climate.

We are providing a 21st century approach to its observance not just by recharging memory, but through an artistic reflection with a balanced affirmation of Hispanic heritage and indigenous traditions for collaborative new routes of expression from ancestral roots focused on the concerns of UNESCO: Cultural Rapprochement, Biodiversity, Ocean Care and Seafaring, Climate Change mitigation through sustainable energy, reforestation, gender equity and health issues.

In the late 1990s, the recently diversified Annandale High School in Virginia pulled together administrators, teachers, parents, and other elements in its community to build an accepting climate and draw students from all cultural groups into advanced classes.

It is contingent on... seeing cultural differences as assets; creating caring learning communities where culturally different individuals and heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically diverse cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students; challenging racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based on race, culture, ethnicity, and class; and accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»

We have always taken our cues from our authors — who respond to their readers and to the cultural climate — and have recently noticed a rise in submissions featuring modern retellings of classic fairy tales.

The Albuquerque area's agreeable climate, charming Spanish influence, strong economy and cultural attractions make it a haven for students, young professionals and other transplanted Americans from the East Coast.

«Famed for its pristine climate, cultural offerings and vibrant entertainment scene, Davos is a distinguished destination that draws in tourists from all over.

• A preview of Marfa Dialogues / NY from the July 15, 2013 New York Times: «Cultural Programs to Focus on Climate Change» by Allan Kozinn

The first exhibition organized by TBA21 — Academy, Tidalectics offers a thought - provoking exploration into the cultural, political, and biological dimensions of the oceans, including the effects of climate change and sea - level rise, through the work of 13 artists, nine newly commissioned pieces, and artworks carefully selected from the TBA21 collection.

2002 3 Decades 3 Printmakers - Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA Glimpses of the Permanent Collection - CAM - Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, NY Black Mountain College: Una aventura americana - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid All American, Part II - Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York City, NY The Big Americans - The Art of Collaboration - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT Group Exhibition - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The New York School: Abstract Expressionism and Beyond - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI American Abstraction - Alan Cristea Gallery, London, United Kingdom Art Since the Mid-Twentieth Century - A Politicized Cultural Climate - Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT Arte Múltipla - Galeria 111 - Lisboa, Lisbon Memoir of Freedom - CAM - Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, NY Intermezzo - Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich The Synthetic Century - Collage from Cubism to Postmodernism - Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Gesammelte Werke / Collected Works - Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich

Far from being overly theoretical, Nickas» writing style is straightforward; his technique, to interweave the social, cultural and political climate surrounding artistic practice.

Featuring works from the Dakis Joannou Drawing Collection, Animal Spirits comments on the current global crisis and the cultural climate it has fostered.

One of the most exciting aspects to emerge from this discussion has been the continued growth of contributions from young creative practitioners to the cultural and artistic climate of South Africa.

A review of artistic connections from the 80's presented in David Zwirner New York last May is a show, but also an excellent study of one time and cultural climate.

Beyond Climate Change: Wildland Fires and Human Security in Cultural Landscapes in Transition — Examples from Temporate - Boreal Eurasia.

The cultural cognition thesis says that many contested issues of risk — from climate change to nuclear power, from gun control to the HPV vaccine — involve this same dynamic.

From the press release (here): «Holmgren uses a scenario planning framework to bring to life the likely cultural, political, agricultural and economic implications of peak oil and climate change.

They say that the profits will go to the coal and railroad companies, while the pollution will effect us all and exacerbate climate change, and communities from Montana to the Pacific Northwest will be left to pay the price with damaged water, air, wildlife habitats, sacred cultural sites, landscapes, and livelihoods.

A few points that have caught my interest so far: • dealing with complex problems using complex tools, ideas • the idea of reconciliation in scientific debates is to try different approaches in an experimental meeting for attempting nonviolent communication in impassioned debates where there is disagreement • reconciliation is not about consensus, but rather creating an arena where we can have honest disagreement • violence in this debate derives from the potential impacts of climate change and the policy options, and differing political and cultural notions of risk and responsibility.

My point was that, if we accept this basic story (it's too simple, even as an account of how cultural cognition works; but that's in the nature of «models» & should give us pause only when the simplification detracts from rather than enhances our ability to predict and manage the dynamics of the phenomenon in question), then there's no reason to view the valences of the cultural meanings attached to crediting climate change risk as fixed or immutable.

Because the congeniality of the cultural meaning of information shapes how readily they engage with the content of it, we predicted that the hierarchical individualists in the geoengineering condition would respond much more open - mindedly to the information from the climate change study on carbon dissipation.

Dozens of iconic tourist destinations including Venice, Stonehenge and Old Town Lunenburg, N.S., are threatened by risks linked to climate change, from rising sea levels to extreme weather, says the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

What I've been talking about is your identification of a «calamitous climate change culture,» and your distinguishing that «culture,» as a matter of kind, from the cultural components the larger framework of associated ideological polarization.

The fairy story that climate scepticism is largely the creation of Jastrow, Nierenberg and Seitz originates from a 2008 paper by Myanna Lahsen called Experiences of modernity in the greenhouse: A cultural analysis of a physicist «trio» supporting the backlash against global warming.

In this panel, hear from the representatives from We Are Still In and America's Pledge on this new form of American climate leadership and how they are working with a coalition of over 2700 U.S. cities, states, businesses, faith groups, indigenous people and cultural institutions committed to bold climate action, thereby waving the flag that the US is still in.

To address the scientific, cultural, health, and social issues arising from climate change requires an in - depth and cross-disciplinary analysis of the role of uncertainty in all of the three principal systems involved: The physical climate system, people's cognitive system and how that construes and potentially distorts the effects of uncertainty, and the social systems underlying the political and public debates surrounding climate change.

- ARAMATE (The reconstruction of ecosystem and climate variability in the north Atlantic region using annually resolved archives of marine and terrestrial ecosystems)- CLIM - ARCH-DATE (Integration of high resolution climate archives with archaeological and documentary evidence for the precise dating of maritime cultural and climatic events)- CLIVASH2k (Climate variability in Antarctica and Southern Hemisphere in the past 2000 years)- CoralHydro2k (Tropical ocean hydroclimate and temperature from coral archives)- Global T CFR (Global gridded temperature reconstruction method comparisons)- GMST reconstructions - Iso2k (A global synthesis of Common Era hydroclimate using water isotopes)- MULTICHRON (Constraining modeled multidecadal climate variability in the Atlantic using proxies derived from marine bivalve shells and coralline algae)- PALEOLINK (The missing link in the Past — Downscaling paleoclimatic Earth System Models)- PSR2k (Proxy Surrogate Reconstructclimate variability in the north Atlantic region using annually resolved archives of marine and terrestrial ecosystems)- CLIM - ARCH-DATE (Integration of high resolution climate archives with archaeological and documentary evidence for the precise dating of maritime cultural and climatic events)- CLIVASH2k (Climate variability in Antarctica and Southern Hemisphere in the past 2000 years)- CoralHydro2k (Tropical ocean hydroclimate and temperature from coral archives)- Global T CFR (Global gridded temperature reconstruction method comparisons)- GMST reconstructions - Iso2k (A global synthesis of Common Era hydroclimate using water isotopes)- MULTICHRON (Constraining modeled multidecadal climate variability in the Atlantic using proxies derived from marine bivalve shells and coralline algae)- PALEOLINK (The missing link in the Past — Downscaling paleoclimatic Earth System Models)- PSR2k (Proxy Surrogate Reconstructclimate archives with archaeological and documentary evidence for the precise dating of maritime cultural and climatic events)- CLIVASH2k (Climate variability in Antarctica and Southern Hemisphere in the past 2000 years)- CoralHydro2k (Tropical ocean hydroclimate and temperature from coral archives)- Global T CFR (Global gridded temperature reconstruction method comparisons)- GMST reconstructions - Iso2k (A global synthesis of Common Era hydroclimate using water isotopes)- MULTICHRON (Constraining modeled multidecadal climate variability in the Atlantic using proxies derived from marine bivalve shells and coralline algae)- PALEOLINK (The missing link in the Past — Downscaling paleoclimatic Earth System Models)- PSR2k (Proxy Surrogate ReconstructClimate variability in Antarctica and Southern Hemisphere in the past 2000 years)- CoralHydro2k (Tropical ocean hydroclimate and temperature from coral archives)- Global T CFR (Global gridded temperature reconstruction method comparisons)- GMST reconstructions - Iso2k (A global synthesis of Common Era hydroclimate using water isotopes)- MULTICHRON (Constraining modeled multidecadal climate variability in the Atlantic using proxies derived from marine bivalve shells and coralline algae)- PALEOLINK (The missing link in the Past — Downscaling paleoclimatic Earth System Models)- PSR2k (Proxy Surrogate Reconstructclimate variability in the Atlantic using proxies derived from marine bivalve shells and coralline algae)- PALEOLINK (The missing link in the Past — Downscaling paleoclimatic Earth System Models)- PSR2k (Proxy Surrogate Reconstruction 2k)

From its role in modulating the climate to how it provides a variety of socio - economical, cultural and environmental benefits, the ocean contributes greatly to human wellbeing.

Under these conditions, in regions, states, and cities it will not only be easier to gain public support from across the political and cultural spectrum, but it will also give members of Congress and future presidents, if they can be pressured into returning to the business of governing, more options by which to reach agreement on actions that address climate change.27

Whatever is happening in the great outdoors regarding actual climate, inside the minds of men overwhelming evidence indicates that Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is a self - sustaining narrative that is living off our mental capacity, either in symbiosis or as an outright cultural parasite; a narrative that is very distanced from physical real - world events.

Additionally, the work of James Painter at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford has also highlighted how cultural / media support for climate sceptics varies greatly from country to country.)

Whatever is happening in the great outdoors regarding actual climate epidemics, inside the minds of men overwhelming evidence indicates that Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming the Germ Theory of Disease is a self - sustaining narrative that is living off our mental capacity, either in symbiosis or as an outright cultural parasite; a narrative that is very distanced from physical real - world events.

Bianka holds a Master's degree in English Literatures from Humboldt University Berlin; her thesis focused on the shifting cultural politics and global discourses of climate change.

As this suggests, becoming a denialist does not follow from carefully weighing up the evidence (that is, true scepticism) but from associating oneself with a certain cultural outlook and taking on an identity defined in opposition to a caricature of those who support action on climate change.

And just in case, again, I agree that disentangling people's cultural identities from their comprehension of climate change is key; in fact it is completely fundamental to discovering what I think «is going on», as you might say.

Hiring equal numbers of female and male trainers to teach climate - adaption farming strategies, which would help get around cultural rules in some places that forbid female farmers from spending a lot of time with a male trainer.

I came to this domain not through any climate route but from the observation that cultural mechanisms dominate, and my aim is to make these mechanisms clearer as they occur in many domains (with CC as a great example, because most of it's life is played out in modern times and latterly on the Internet), for those who want to pursue this.

Expressed via several papers24 (2005 to 2012 and not focused on climate change) Lewandowsky and co-authors confirm that a «stable personality trait» of skepticism boosts our resistance to this type of misinformation, i.e. deceptions resulting from cultural / worldview biased transmission.