I suppose I should mention something about the conference
itself. The University of Sussex hosted
“Rethinking Climate Change, Security, and Conflict,” a two-day conference
pulling in academics from Europe and the States. A lot of Africanists and Middle East scholars
attended, but there wasn’t much conversation around Asia or Latin America. One doctoral student from the UK presented
research on US climate and energy policy, though – that was certainly
interesting as an American!
I won’t bore you with many details about the Conference
content itself. If you want it, I have
thirty pages of single-spaced notes.
(Yes, seriously. Apparently I
heard a few things worth noting down…)
In any case, I had an absolutely wonderful time and heard
some great things. Primarily, though, it
was incredible to meet people. Probably
half of the people presenting are folks who I have cited in my coursework; it
was really great to shake their hands and hear directly from them.
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