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• 31 jan 2018	07 fév 2018	14 fév 2018
  21 fév 2018	07 mar 2018	...

  Paris

  Seminar - Geography

  Rumours and fake new in environmental issues

  Incertitudes, rumeurs et fausses vérités ont parfois accompagné les discours sur tel événement ou tel enjeu environnemental que ce séminaire viendra mettre en lumière. Les interventions pourront analyser des discours présents (une géographie culturelle des rumeurs environnementales) ou passés (une géohistoire), afin de montrer aussi ce qui fait la spécificité de chaque époque et/ou de chaque rumeur dans sa diffusion et mobilisation spatiale. Comparer les temporalités de différentes rumeurs permettra aussi de voir comment chaque époque construit sa définition de la rumeur. Avec des interrogations spatiales et environnementales, les intervenants viennent de différentes disciplines.

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• 07 jan 2013

  08 jan 2013

  09 jan 2013

  Oxford

  Conference, symposium - History

  Climate and Weather: Science as Public Culture

  Scientific Communication and its History – III

  This conference is the third in a series devoted to historical and contemporary perspectives on the communication of science and technology. Climate and weather provide a particularly rich and challenging case study to complete the conference series. As with other disciplines studied during the previous conferences, 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. Shifting interests within the history of science and the development of environmental history have greatly expanded the field in recent years. The conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on these historiographical developments via a specific focus on the communication of weather and climate from the 18th to the 21st centuries. The conference will address three themes in particular: Commodification of meteorological knowledge, Media, and Historicizing climate history.

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