Cultural critic and media theorist Judith Williamson interrogates the ways in which images, particularly those created by the media and advertising industries, perpetuate what she calls the ‘deknowing’ of climate change. 

Judith Williamson, Writer, Professor of Cultural History, University for the Creative Arts (UK)

Judith Williamson is the author of Decoding Advertisements: Ideology and Meaning in Advertising, Consuming Passions: the Dynamics of Popular Culture, and Deadline at Dawn: Film Criticism 1980-1990. She is Professor of Cultural History at the University for the Creative Arts in the UK.

Chair: Ian Wedde, Writer and Curator


Ian Wedde is a freelance writer and curator based in Wellington. In 2008/9 he curated the Rotorua Museum of Art and History's centennial exhibition,'He Korowai o te Wai - the Mantle of Water', a project about freshwater. His recent books are an art monograph, 'Bill Culbert: Making Light Work'(AUP/RGAP 2009) and a collection of poems, 'Good Business' (AUP 2009).