Around 800 million people live in areas that could be directly affected by volcanic hazards. As populations grow around active volcanoes, the challenge is not only to understand eruptions, but to make risk clear across languages, cultures, and communities.
Volcanoes have shaped human history across the world: burying cities, feeding soils, forcing migrations, creating myths, and redefining how societies live with danger. This workshop will explore how language influences the way volcanic hazards are understood, translated, and acted upon.
Drawing on experience from Chile, New Zealand, the USA, France, Guatemala, and Ecuador, the session will discuss how volcanic hazards and monitoring techniques can be explained to broad audiences. It will also introduce the development of a new educational hazard poster, designed for scientists, hazard practitioners, students, and the public, with the long-term aim of adapting it into many languages and contexts.
ITI Network member fee: Free
ITI member fee: £10
Non-member fee: £25
Additional information: A lunch and ceilidh will follow the workshop, to mark ScotNet's 35th anniversary. More info (including additional fees) available here: https://itiscotland.org.uk/events/save-the-date-for-a-very-s
Location: Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, above, Victoria St, Edinburgh EH1 2JL
Contact name: Ramon Inglada Florensa
Contact email: [email protected]
Closing date: 25 September 2026
CPD hours: 2.5
Network website: https://itiscotland.org.uk/