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Conference on Climate and Cultural Anxiety: Historical Perspectives
| Location: | Maine, United States |
| Conference Deadline: | 2009-04-01 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-02-17 |
| Announcement ID: |
167033 |
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Conference on Climate and Cultural Anxiety: Historical Perspectives, 04/01/2009 to 04/04/2009
A conference on historical aspects of climate change and cultural anxiety is being held at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, 1-4 April 2009. The opening session is at 7:30 pm in Olin 1. This conference will be international in scope, interdisciplinary in nature, and intergenerational in its inclusion of both graduate and undergraduate students. The meeting will be focused on a discussion of 25 pre-circulated papers being prepared for volume 26 of Osiris to be edited by James Fleming and Vladimir Jankovic. Graduate students will present their climate-related work in a special session aimed at dissertation improvement. The meeting is open to all. Colby College is committed to excellence through diversity and strongly encourages the participation of members of under-represented groups.
Here is a list of papers and participants:
• The Anxieties of an Upright Man: Glaciology, diplomacy, and the rise and fall of Hans Ahlmann’s ‘polar warming’, 1920 to 1960, Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden,
• Calculating Future Climate: CO2 measurements before Mauna Loa and the idea of a warming planet, Maria Bohn, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
• Climate and Social Thought: Eighteenth-century reflections on environmental causality, Vladimir Jankovic, University of Manchester
• Coming in from the Cold: Climate change and politics in Antarctica since the IGY, Adrian Howkins, Colorado State University
• Consuming the Weather: Climate, health, and tourism in the Caribbean, 1650-1950, Mark Carey, Washington and Lee University
• Diagnosing the dry: An environmental history of scientific perceptions and understandings of rainfall decline in south-west Australia, 1950-2007, Ruth Morgan, University of Western Australia
• Drilling at Summit: The success of a failed collaboration, Maiken Lykke Lolck, Aarhus University, Denmark
• The Fall and Rise of Climatic Determinism, Mike Hulme, University of East Anglia
• The Geopolitics of Humboldtian Science and the Discovery of Human-Caused Climate Change in the Americas, Gregory T. Cushman and Neil Oatsvall, University of Kansas; Keri Lewis, National Security Council
• Inventing Climate Change: Constructions of climate in the 19th and 20th century, Matthias Heymann, Aarhus University, Denmark
• The Letter from Dublin: Climate change, colonialism, and the Royal Society in the seventeenth century, Brant Vogel
• Local Borders, Global Change: Climatology between Tyrol and Turkestan, Deborah Coen, Barnard College
• More Than Inconvenience: Drought and the acceptance of climate change science in Australia, Don Garden, University of Melbourne, Australia
• ‘Nuclear Winter’ and Global Climatic Change, Matthias Dörries, Université de Strasbourg
• Obligated Egghead: Roger Revelle and the emergence of global warming theory, Denzil Ford, Montana State University
• Optimal Climate Change Accounts? Writing economics in/out of climate change science-policy histories, Samuel Randalls, University College London
• Past Projections of Future Climate Control, James R. Fleming, Colby College
• Planetary Climate Studies: How the National Aeronautics and Space Administration came to dominate American climate science, Erik M. Conway, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Pleistocene Glaciation, Paleoclimatology, and Peking Man: Climate change and scientific legitimacy in China, Grace Yen Shen, York University, Toronto, Canada.
• The Protestant Impulse and the Scientific Consensus, Michael Svoboda, George Washington University
• Romantic Weather: “A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!” Marilyn Gaul, The Editorial Institute at Boston University
• US, China, and Global Warming: Alone together at the top, Zuoyue Wang, Harvey Mudd College and Cal State Polytech
• Venus-Earth-Mars: Comparative climatology and the search for life in the solar system, Roger D. Launius, National Air and Space Museum
• “The War on Terra:” Cultural reflections from the Earth Observing System, Giny Cheong, George Mason University
• Where is the Dust Bowl in 20th Century American Meteorology? Roger Turner, University of Pennsylvania
Please direct all inquiries via e-mail with the subject header "Colby Climate Change Conference" to Alice Ridky, amridky@colby.edu.
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Alice Ridky
STS Program
Colby College
5800 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901
(207)859-5800
(207)859-5868
Email: amridky@colby.edu
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