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• 15 sep 2012

  Oxford

  Call for papers - History

  Climate and Weather: Science as Public Culture

  Scientific Communication and its History – III

  Climate and weather provide a particularly rich and challenging case study to complete the conference series. The climate sciences are characterised by complexity: in their professional networks; their conceptual models; and the logistics of their large-scale data and computing needs. Yet few modern scientific disciplines attract the same level of public engagement, in both everyday life and passionate debate on the future of the planet. Moreover, their status at the intersection of policy, scientific controversy and the public sphere is not a recent development: the same issues and fault lines ran through meteorology from the 18th-century onwards.

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• 20 jui 2012

  Oxford

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Europe

  Offre d'emploi webmestre assistant-bibliothécaire au Royaume-Uni (Oxford)

  La Maison Française d'Oxford recrute, dans le cadre d'un Volontariat international, une personne au poste de webmestre à compter du 1er septembre 2012 et pour une durée de 12 mois.

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