Category: Conference

Call for abstracts: Cultural histories and memories of extreme weather events

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date July 18, 2014

Abstracts are invited for inclusion in a proposed session at the International Conference of Historical Geographers, London, 5-10 July 2015

(see http://www.ichg2015.org/)

Extreme weather events are as much social texts as material occurrences. Geographical context, particular physical conditions, an area’s social and economic activities and embedded cultural knowledges, norms, values, practices and infrastructures all affect community experiences, reactions and responses to extreme weather. The way in which an extreme event is perceived in turn determines whether it becomes inscribed into social memory in the form of oral history, ideology, custom, behaviour, narrative, artefact, technological and physical adaptation, including adaptations to the working landscape and built environment. These different forms of remembering and recording weather in the past act to curate, recycle and transmit extreme events across generations and into the future. Cultural memories, experiences and knowledge of past weather events and personalised weather narratives and autobiographical memories of past events may thus serve an important orientating function and could play significant role in popular understanding and articulation of current debates about weather and climate. This session will draw together scholars whose research uses archival/ documentary based investigations and oral history approaches to i.) construct climate histories, including histories of extreme weather and associated impacts in a range of case study regions and ii.) to explore whether and how extreme weather events affected the individuals lives of local people and became inscribed into the cultural and infrastructural fabric and social memory of local communities. We welcome abstracts from people working on climate (re)construction as well as those interested in weather observers and their historical geographies.

We welcome submissions across a broad range of sub themes and from early career scholars as well as those in established posts. Please contact Georgina.endfield@nottingham.ac.uk or Lucy.veale@nottingham.ac.uk for further information.

Abstracts should not exceed 200 words.

Deadline for abstract submission (to Georgina.endfield@nottingham.ac.uk): August 25^t^h

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Call for papers: “The Coldest Decade of the Millennium?

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date July 15, 2014

“The Coldest Decade of the Millennium? The Spörer Minimum, the Climate during the 1430s, and its Economic, Social and Cultural Impact”

4 and 5 December 2014, University of Bern, Switzerland.

For further information, please download the flyer.

Please contact the organiser, Dr. Chantal Camenisch at chantal.camenisch@hist.unibe.ch with any questions.

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Call for papers: International Conference of Historical Geographers 2015

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date July 14, 2014

“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.

Conference

World Congress of Environmental History

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date July 5, 2014

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)

Conference Opportunities

Climate in meteorology, meteorology in climate studies

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date July 5, 2014

November 20-21, 2014, Bergen, Norway

The International Commission on History of Meteorology (ICHM) announces four competitive travel bursaries available to graduate students and recent Ph.D.s to support their participation in a workshop hosted by the history of meteorology project at the University of Bergen. The university will provide accommodation at the workshop for the successful applicants. The bursaries are intended to support the costs of airfare, prorated by distance and cost.

Applicants should send their name, contact information, affiliation, year or expected year of Ph.D., dissertation topic or title, and a 200-word abstract of a proposed paper to Georgina Endfield, President of ICHM, Georgina.Endfield@nottingham.ac.uk by 4pm August 1st, 2014. All submissions will be considered by an ICHM panel.

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Place and Practice: Doing Science in and on the Ocean, 1800-2012

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date June 10, 2014

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.

Climate History Network Conference

Workshop Report: Climate Change and Global Crisis in the Seventeenth Century

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date May 20, 2014

(cross post from the Climate History Network)

On 5-6 May 2014, the Institute for Advance Study in the Humanities at Essen held a two-day workshop on “Climate Change and Global Crisis in the Seventeenth Century.”

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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

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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.

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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’.