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MSCL Colloquium – Prof. Dr. Julia Pongratz

We would like to invite you to our next MSCL Colloquium on July 26th 12:00.

Prof. Dr. Julia Pongratz will speak about the Challenges in the Discourse about Carbon Capture and Storage: Improving Technological Mitigation without Risking Rebound Effects. With the Paris Agreement, many countries in the world have committed themselves to implementing methods of “Carbon Dioxide Removal”. Prof. Dr. Pongratz will discuss the opportunities and risks associated with this emerging field of climate science and policy.

Prof. Pongratz is a professor and chair in the Department of Physical Geography and Land Use Systems department at LMU and the Director of the Department of Geography at LMU.

This is an online event carried out in English. However, questions in German are also welcomed. We look forward to your participation in our lively after-talk discussion! If you haven’t yet, please register in advance here.

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MSCL Colloquium – Prof. Dr. Dominique Brossard

We would like to invite you to our next MSCL Colloquium on July 12th at 16:00.

Prof. Dr. Dominique Brossard will lead a discussion on her paper “Science Communication During Covid-19: When Theory Meets Practice, and Best Practices Meet Reality”. Prof. Brossard is a professor and chair in the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an affiliate of the UW-Madison Robert & Jean Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, the UW-Madison Center for Global Studies, and the Morgridge Institute for Research. This will be a virtual event in English. Please register here in advance.

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MSCL Colloquium – Dr. Kavoori

We would like to invite you to our next MSCL Colloquium on June 28th from 11:00 to 12:00.

Dr. Anandam Kavoori will speak on his current paper “Towards a Successful Science/ Environmental Communication Pedagogy”. In this paper, Dr. Kavoori will discuss problems and prospects in teaching science / environmental storytelling and literacy in the classroom over a ten-year period. He will draw on his experience teaching students in the United States and in several international settings, including Austria, Cambodia, Costa Rica, India, Ecuador, and Mexico. Dr. Kavoori is a Professor at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia.

This discussion will be in English in a hybrid format – if you would like to attend in person, please email us at info@mscl.de. Otherwise, please register here in advance.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the colloquium.

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MSCL Colloquium – Dr. Thassilo Franke

This June, we are kicking off our Tuesday’s MSCL Colloquiums series – an open place for discussion and academic reflection on science communication and planetary health. The aim is to have an open space for intellectual thought and reflection on this multidisciplinary topic for the community, students, and practitioners.

With this, we would like to invite you to the first talk of the series “Discussing Science: what works in which format to target whom. Is it possible to achieve the holy grail of science communication?” by Dr. Thassilo Franke, taking place virtually on June 21st, 2022 at 14:00.

Science is important, science arouses keen interest in society, and science should be communicated and discussed. The question is: how? What ingredients go into the soup that makes up good science communication? How long do I cook until even the hard-to-digest ingredients are digestible? How do I dose spices like humor, irony, and provocation? How do I adjust the ingredients to the tastes of the time – or is that even necessary? How do I give the soup my own distinctive flavor? How do I garnish it and to whom do I want to serve it? And – last but not least – how do I find out if everyone liked it?

Discuss these and other questions with Dr. Franke, Science Communicator at MSCL and Senior Researcher at BIOTOPIA – Natural History Museum of Bavaria.

We encourage you to participate and ask you to register in advance here. This session will be held in German.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the colloquium.

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2021 MSCL Symposium – Communicating Planetary Health

The 2021 MSCL Symposium happened virtually on July 29th, 2021.

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Planetary Health as a Wicked Problem for Science Communication

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Sara Davis – Reflecting on the role of public communication in an age of wicked problems.

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Sam Myers: Planetary Health: The Science and the Story

Session 1 with keynotes and discussion moderated by Michael John Gorman (BIOTOPIA / LMU Munich).

  • Sarah Davies, Professor of Technosciences, Materiality, & Digital Cultures at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna.
  • Sam Myers, Principal Research Scientist at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Director of the Planetary Health Alliance.

Planetary Health in the Media: Chances and Risks of a New Approach

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Session 2: Conversation moderated by Bernhard Goodwin (LMU Munich / Mediaschool Bayern) with:

  • Philipp Dettmer, Information Designer, Kurzgesagt.
  • Henriette Löwisch, School Director of the Deutsche Journalistenschule DJS.
  • Astrid Viciano, Editor of Medien-Doktor Gesundheit, medical reporter.

Closing Discussion

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Moderation: Christof Mauch, Director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society, LMU Munich.

  • Julia Pongratz, Chair of Physical Geography and Land Use Systems, LMU Munich.
  • Constanze Rossmann, Professor of Communication Science, University of Erfurt.
  • Helmuth Trischler, Professor of Modern History and the History of Technology at LMU Munich, Head of Research at Deutsches Museum.
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Communicating Planetary Health Workshop

Virtual Workshop on February 25 2021 with the goal to be a first milestone for the Lab.

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Planetary health is an incredibly important, large and complicated issue. This means, there needs to be a vision, collaboration, and creativity. Or to put it in terms of the planetary health community, there is a knowledge challenge, an implementation challenge, and an imagination challenge before us.

With the Munich Science Communication Lab, we want to be part of this transdisciplinary community because we think that communication plays a threefold important role in the processes at hand. First, communication is important for us in interacting with the public we serve – to get the message out. Secondly, communication is also important to get the message in, to understand how the public perceives our facts, visions, and solutions. Thirdly communication is important for us as a field, to understand ourselves and each other. Defining what we are and agreeing on a common language, while keeping our diversity and openness.

The workshop created a shared vision of how to do this.