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General

Election results

The election results for the officers of the International Commission on the History of Meteorology:

  • The new President of the Commission is Professor Georgina Endfield from the University of Nottingham, UK.
  • The new Vice-President of the Commission is Dr Christina Helena da Motta Barboza, Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • The Treasurer of the Commission is Anna Carlsson-Hyslop, The University of Manchester, UK.
  • The Secretary/Webmaster of the Commission is Giny Cheong, George Mason University, US.

Their four-year term starts on 1 January 2014. We will introduce the new officers during ICHM business meeting on July 26 at Manchester, during the iCHSTM Congress.

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Opportunities

Researcher position

For Nordic speaking historians of science and technology, Universitetet i Bergen has a vacant temporary position as researcher on their project about the history of meteorology in Norway.

 

For more information, visit the job posting at http://www.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=94946.

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Uncategorized

Climate and History in Late Antique and Byzantine Anatolia

(cross post from the Climate History Network)

Princeton’s Avkat Archaeological Project Workshop II

 

On the last weekend of May 2013 (24th-25th) the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies hosted a two-day meeting of archaeologists, climatologists and historians who share an interest in Anatolia’s late antique and medieval past. The event was organised by John Haldon, a historian from Princeton and the director of the Avkat Archaeological Project, together with Warren Eastwood, a palynologist from Birmingham conducting  palaeoenvironmental research around Avkat (a village in NE Turkey which once was an important Byzantine town). The aim of the workshop was to get together researchers from different disciplines who either study the climate history as their main focus, or who consider climate changes as a potentially significant factor in the phenomena and processes they study.

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Publications

Erich von Drygalski (German)

A shortened reprint of Erich von Drygalski’s travel account of the first German South-polar Expedition (1901-1903) has been published in German, including an introduction concerning the background of the expedition.
 
Erich von Drygalski, Zum Kontinent des eisigen Südens – Die erste deutsche Südpolarexpedition 1901-1903. Herausgegeben von Cornelia Lüdecke, Edition Erdmann, Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden (2013), 366 S. 24,00 €, ISBN: 978-3-86539-856-7.
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General

Elections extended

If you have not voted yet, the elections have been extended to this Friday, June 7. Please view your email for instructions on how to vote.

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General

Elections for officers

We invite members to check their emails for a recent message about voting for new officers. Please contact the current officers if you need the info resent or have questions about the process.

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Opportunities

Talking Weather event

We are holding a one-day event on ‘Talking Weather’, as part of our AHRC funded project ‘Weather Walks, Weather Talks’, and would like to invite early career researchers interested in the cultural spaces of climate, to participate in discussions. The purpose of ‘Talking Weather’ is to bring together individuals with an interest in weather study and cultural histories of the weather, to explore the ways in which people engage with and ascribe meanings to the weather and make sense of it. We will also be reflecting on the life and work of climatologist and geographer Gordon Manley whose archives have formed the basis of our research for the broader project.

 

Speakers include John Kettley (freelance broadcaster and weather consultant), Stephen Burt (author of The Weather Observer’s Handbook), Trevor Harley (University of Dundee and ‘psychometeorologist’), Cerys Jones (University of Aberystwyth) and Lorna Hughes (University of Wales), who will reflect on their experiences in engagement through the broadcast media, in print, and online, alongside others with direct connections to Gordon Manley and his work; John Adamson (Moor House National Nature Reserve), and Frank Oldfield (Emeritus Professor, University of Liverpool).

 

The event will be held at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), in London, on Tuesday 27th August 2013, between 10:00am and 4:30pm. It is timed just ahead of the RGS-IBG Annual Conference which begins on Wednesday 28th August.

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Publications

Online seminar available

Jim Fleming, “At the Cutting Edge: Harry Wexler and the Emergence of Atmospheric Science,” Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network (CoCoRAHS) online seminar, Fort Collins, CO, Thursday, May 9, 2013.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-MqY0y1rt8&feature=youtu.be

“This presentation tells the story of the emergence of the new interdisciplinary field of atmospheric science in the twentieth century as shaped by the influences of multiple technologies. It does so from the perspective of MIT-trained meteorologist Harry Wexler (1911-1962), an American student of the Bergen School of air mass analysis, head of research in the US Weather Bureau, and one of the most influential meteorologists of the twentieth century, whose career spanned the middle decades of the twentieth century…By telling the story through Wexler’s eyes, a more personal story can be told.”

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Conference

INHIGEO: International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences

39th Symposium, co-sponsored by the Geological Society of America

Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California

July 6 – 10, 2014

 

Conference Themes:
(1) Doing the History of the Earth Sciences: What, Why, and How?
and (2) California’s Place in the History of the Earth Sciences

 

In 1994, the Geological Society of America hosted the Penrose Conference, “From the Inside and the Outside: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the History of the Earth Sciences.” The focus of that meeting was on how practicing scientists (“insiders”) and professional historians (“outsiders”) approached research in our field. Twenty years later, it is fitting to ask where we stand presently on fundamental questions about scholarly inquiry into the development of the geosciences.

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Conference

Race, alterity and affect workshop

A workshop entitled “Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement” will take place from 18 to 19 June at Durham University in England. From the H-Net Announcement: “the aim of this workshop is to bring debates about climate change and migration broadly defined into dialogue with contemporary critical race theory and postcolonial theory. Recent interventions have suggested that racialisation in the context of debates about climate change and migration unfolds through at least three interrelated tropes: naturalisation, the loss of political status, and ambiguity. This work also argues that given their historiographic emphasis, theories of the postcolonial on their own appear to be insufficient for properly theorising the alterity of the climate change migrant. This is because climate change and migration discourse is written in the future-conditional tense. In contrast, others have embraced theories of the postcolonial to interpret issues of climate change and mobility. Thus one of the aims of this workshop is to consider how critical race theory and theories of the postcolonial might be usefully reinterpreted to address the future-conditionality of climate change and migration discourse.”

 

To register, contact Ellie Whittles (e.c.whittles@durham.ac.uk).

 

Organisers: Andrew Baldwin (Durham University) and Katherine E. Russo  (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale)

Partners: COST Action IS1101 Climate change and migration; Institute for Advanced Studies (Durham University); Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale