Category: Conference

“Towards policy-driven research in historical climatology”

London, 5-10 July 2015
Convened by George Adamson (King’s College London)

The interrelationship climate and society during the past 500-1000 years is a fast-growing area of research within historical climatology. Substantial work has been undertaken to uncover climatic agency in the Little Ice Age, on the role of climate in the collapse of major societies such as the Classic Maya, and on adaptation strategies within pre-industrial communities. Yet historical approaches have thus-far largely failed to engage with the policy agenda. This is partly due to an epistemological divide that exists between practitioners of historical climatology and the development research community that largely dictate adaptation paradigms.

With thanks to the compiler Alex Hall, please see a list of all weather/meteorology/climate related panels and papers for the upcoming World Congress of Environmental History in Portugal. Those unable to attend can follow many of these sessions on Twitter by searching for the hashtag #WCEH2014.

Weather and Climate related panels at WCEH 2014 (pdf)

The conference “Place and Practice: Doing Science in and on the Ocean 1800-2012” may be of interest to members. For more information, please see http://www.situsci.ca/event/place-and-practice-doing-science-and-ocean-1800-2012.

Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies

Research Community on Communicating Uncertainty:

Science, Institutions, and Ethics in the Politics of Global Climate Change

Workshop on Historicizing Climate Change

May 2-3, 2014

219 Aaron Burr Hall, Princeton University

Version of March 5, 2014

Organizers:

Melissa Lane, Professor of Politics, Princeton University

Robert Socolow, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Emeritus, and Senior Research Scholar, Princeton University

The 16th International Conference of the International Conference of Historical Geographers will be held in London UK, 5-10 July 2015. The
call for papers and proposals is now open at http://www.ichg2015.org

The deadline for receipt of proposals is 15 September 2014. All further details – of sessions, field trips, plenaries, accommodation, and social
events – is available from the ICHG website.

14th Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society (EMS) and the 10th European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC)

6 – 10 October 2014 in Prague, Czech Republic.

EMS & ECAC 2014 conference theme: Creating climate services through partnerships

The scientific programme and abstract submission are now accessible at:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/ems2014/sessionprogramme

Deadline for abstract submission with application for Young Scientist Travel Award (YSTA) or waiver: 12 March 2014.

Deadline for abstract submission: 15 April 2014.

ENeC, l’IEHCA, l’université de Münster sont partenaires pour organiser un colloque pluridisciplinaire en Sorbonne et à l’Institut Goethe les 2-4 avril 2014 intitulé: L’alimentation et le temps qu’il fait / Essen und Wetter

Ce colloque vise à combler une lacune dans la recherche, en étudiant les nombreuses interdépendances qui existent entre les conditions atmosphériques et les différents aspects de l’alimentation humaine.

Alors que la recherche pluridisciplinaire sur l’histoire et les cultures de l’alimentation s’est institutionnalisée, développée et diversifiée sur un plan international au cours des dernières années surtout dans le cadre de l’IEHCA (http://www.iehca.eu), celle sur le temps et le climat connaît actuellement un essor comparable, qui se manifeste notamment dans les activités du Réseau Perception du climat (EHESS : http://www.perceptionclimat.net). Une mise en regard de ces champs conceptuels semble donc féconde.