Archived 2011 Postings

Announcements

American Meteorological Society Graduate Fellowship in the History of Science The goal of the graduate fellowship is to support dissertation topics in the history of the atmospheric, or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences, and to foster close working relations between historians and scientists. Applications will be due February 10, 2011. More information.

Calls for Papers

ICHM Call for Papers: Climatic Determinism: Then and Now This 2-day meeting at the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens from 18–20 July 2011 encourages historians, philosophers, sociologists, geographers, literary historians, and cultural theorists to reflect and debate about reductionist readings, deterministic explanations and the putative obviousness of the climate crisis in both the academic and the public spheres. The submission deadline will be 1 March 2011. More information.

Call for Proposals for an International Colloquium on "Climate, Knowledge and Politics, XVIIIth-XXth centuries" Please email a 500-word abstract and a one-page CV to climateconferenceparis@gmail.com by the 15th of March 2011. More information.

Publications

Susan Barr and Cornelia Lüdecke recently edited The History of the International Polar Years (IPYs) in the series From Pole to Pole, Vol. 1 published by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg in 2010. Available as an ebook.

Vladimir Jankovic recently published Confronting the Climate: British Airs and the Making of Environmental Medicine (Palgrave, 2010).

Jim Fleming recently published a new book, Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control (Columbia, 2010). For more information and updates, visit his blog, “Atmosphere.”

Erik Conway and Naomi Orekes recently went on the Bob Edwards radio show to discuss their new book Merchants of Doubt. Listen to the interview.

Luis Enrique Ramos recently presented his new book, Huracanes: Desastres naturales en Cuba (1750-2008) at the International Book Fair of La Habana, Cuba.

Weather, Local Knowledge and Everyday Life: Issues in Integrated Climate Studies, edited by Vladimir Jankovic and Christina Barboza (Rio de Janeiro: MAST, 2009). Features 29 papers presented at the ICHM's meeting in Rio in May, 2008.