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Aix-en-Provence

Climate and Societies in the Mediterranean during the Last Two Millennia

Current State Of Knowledge and Research Perspectives

This two-day international conference aims to highlight recent and challenging interdisciplinary studies dealing with complex historical climate/society interactions in Mediterranean during the last two millennia. The study of these existing connections can help in better understanding the role played by past climatic events in the eruption of regional conflicts, in forced migration and displacement of people, in periodically appearing infectious disease outbreaks or in subsistence crises like food shortages and famines Similarly, it seems necessary to identify and analyze socio-economic and technological responses (e.g. water supply systems) together with mitigation and general adaptation strategies, insofar as they existed, to cope with climate change.

Nantes

Conference, symposium - Representation

Nature(s): Designing, Experiencing, Representing the natural environment (18th to 21st centuries)

The international conference "Nature(s)" which will be held on June 6-8th, 2013 and will coincide with other cultural and scientific events in Nantes as a "European Green Capital", will question what is really at stake when human beings consciously deal with nature and natural spaces, especially in an urban context. Over the centuries, how have writers, artists, painters or landscape planners been grappling with nature in a rapidly growing urban world, and how did they question the way in which human beings lived but also dreamt their future?

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.

Nantes

Call for papers - Representation

Nature(s): conception, life and representation, 18th-21st centuries

The international conference "Nature(s)" which will be held on June 6-8th, 2013 and will coincide with other cultural and scientific events in Nantes, "European Green Capital 2013", will further question what is really at stake when human beings consciously deal with nature and natural spaces especially in an urban context. How have writers, artists, painters or landscape planners been grappling with nature in a rapidly growing urban world over the centuries, to question the way human beings live but also dream their future?

Lorient

History of Port and Coastal Planning, 12th-20th c.

Technical and Economic Aspects

Journée de recherche-séminaire du CERHIO (UMR 6258) à l'Université de Bretagne-Sud sur l'histoire des aménagements portuaires et littoraux (XIIe-XXe siècle). Les aspects techniques et économiques seront abordés à travers des études de cas : la baie du Mont Saint-Michel, les assèchements des marais, l'entretien des ports et la création des infrastructures pétrolières.

Call for papers - Urban studies

Plague, resource, outlet: visions and uses of urban rivers (18th-20th centuries)

Theme issue of Geocarrefour (vol. 85, 2010)

L’objet de ce numéro est d’introduire un croisement entre l’histoire et la géographie au sujet du rapport sociétés/environnement, qui permette de revisiter les profondes mutations des usages et des représentations des rivières urbaines, depuis l’aube de l’industrialisation jusqu'aux temps présents.

Lyon

Conference, symposium - Early modern

Ecrire la catastrophe au XVIIIe siècle

Colloque international du GEHMC

Le GEHMC (Groupe d'histoire moderne et contemporaine) est heureux de signaler le Colloque international Écrire la catastrophe au XVIIIe siècle (...)

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