Diversity in the Global Reconstruction and Representation of Weather and Climate: East, South, West, North

Symposium of the International Commission on History of Meteorology XXII International Congress of History of Science 24-30 July 2005 Beijing, China

This symposium investigates the interaction of the history of meteorology and climatology, broadly defined, with attempts to reconstruct past weather and climate events around the world, emphasizing the vulnerability of past societies and economies to climate variations, climate extremes and natural disasters, and exploring past discourses, meanings, and social representations of climate. Papers are sought from all eras and all parts of the world, with special emphasis on developing areas and on maximizing the diversity of perspectives.

Please note that no travel support is available.  To be considered for one of the few remaining slots on the program, please send, via e-mail, your name, affiliation, paper title, and 200-word abstract by 15 September 2004 to Jim Fleming, Science, Technology and Society Program, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, USA jfleming@colby.edu and send a copy to the following co-organizers:

Rudolph Brázdil, Department of Physical Geography, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic: brazdil@sci.muni.cz

Togo Tsukahara, Department of History, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan: Tsukaken@cs.cla.kobe-u.ac.jp

Youngsin Chun, Senior Research Scientist, Applied Meteorological Research Laboratory, Meteorological Research Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea: yschun@metri.re.kr

Cornelia Lüdecke, Privatdozent, History of Science, University of Hamburg: c.luedecke@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

The organizers anticipate that space will be available at the Congress for poster presentations and for a special session of contributed papers in the Scientific Section on History of Meteorology.