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Conference

Workshop on Historicizing Climate Change

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date April 5, 2014

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

Climate History Network Publications

Climate History Forum in Environmental History

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date April 4, 2014

(cross post from the Climate History Network)

The April 2014 issue of Environmental History features an extended forum on climate history. The introductory essay focuses on two questions raised throughout the articles: (1)How does the study of climate history enrich the field of environmental history more broadly? (2) How can environmental historians contribute to present-day understandings of and responses to global climate change? The first contribution, by Adrian Howkins considers the history of Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys as a lens on contemporary climate science and the meaning of the Anthropocene. Georgina Endfield analyses the workings of vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation through past climate changes and extremes, with case studies from colonial Mexico. Lawrence Culver discusses the historical perceptions and cultural construction of climate through 19th-century American debates over expansion into the arid West and the myth that “rain follows the plow.” Sam White’s essay surveys the place of animals in climate history, emphasizing human use of animals as a key factor in past and present climate change vulnerability and resilience. Sherry Johnson considers the impact of smaller climate cycles and extreme events through a case study of Florida natives during the War of Jenkin’s Ear and the Stono Rebellion (1738-40). James Fleming traces the history of a medical metaphor of climate and climate change both in scientific and popular discourse, noting its effects on policy proposal including as geoengineering. Philip Garone details the practical and political significance of climate change for US public lands management and considers its consequences for our understandings of conservation, preservation, and wilderness. Finally, Mark Carey makes a case for a critical climate history: an active involvement of historians in climate change discussions, and climate models and scenarios that are better informed by history.

Conference

Call for papers: International Conference of the International Conference of Historical Geographers

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date March 20, 2014

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.

Publications

Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date February 19, 2014

Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective
James Rodger Fleming and Ann Johnson (eds.)

For more info, visit: http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36392

Conference

International Conference on Volcanoes, Climate, and Society

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date February 19, 2014

“Bicentenary of the great Tambora eruption”

International Conference on Volcanoes, Climate, and Society

7 – 11 April 2015, University of Bern, Switzerland

Two hundred years after the eruption of the Tambora volcano in April 1815, an event that changed global climate, the University of Bern and the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) organize the international conference ‘Volcanoes, Climate, and Society’.

Publications

New Book on Fog – French

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date February 17, 2014

La brume et le brouillard dans la science, la littérature et les arts (Hermann, 2014)

Sous la direction de Karin Becker et Olivier Leplatre.

Click here for more info at the publisher’s website.

Conference

Creating climate services through partnerships

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date February 12, 2014

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.

Conference

Food and Weather

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date February 10, 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.

Opportunities

Open Call for “Strange Weather”

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date February 1, 2014

How Can We Model and Even Generate Weather?

Calling all future forecasters, weather hackers and planetary visionaries, Science Gallery is seeking project proposals for our upcoming summer exhibition, Strange Weather.

Strange Weather is a curated exhibition that will bring together meteorologists, artists, climate scientists, cloud enthusiasts and designers to explore how we model, predict, and even create weather.

Conference

Call for Papers: Changing Climate Change Communication

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date January 15, 2014

Please follow the link below for the CfP for a conference on “Changing climate change communication: A conference on the interactions between culture, society and language in the context of global warming”, to be held in Amsterdam on 21-22 July 2014.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/research/projects/climate-change/changing-climate-change-communication.aspx