Call for Participation: "Towards a History of Paleoclimatology: Changing roles and shifting scales in climate sciences" (original) (raw)

CALL FOR REGISTRATION (deadline 31 Aug. 2017) We are pleased to announce the programme of the interdisciplinary workshop “Towards a History of Paleoclimatology: Changing roles and shifting scales in climate sciences” (Hamburg, 6-7 Sept. 2017). The workshop is organised within the frame of the German Centre of Excellence “Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction (CliSAP)” and in cooperation with the Centre of Environmental Humanities, Aarhus University. We invite scholars with an interest in the history of paleoclimatology (from the humanities, social sciences as well as from climate sciences) to participate in the workshop. Registration is needed until 31 Aug. by email to lara.jung@studium.uni-hamburg.de The climate of the past is a fundamental part of today’s climate research. Paleoclimatological data from the archives of nature serve to calibrate climate models and inform current knowledge about future climate changes. But how did the study of the “deep past” become such a crucial pillar of modern climate science? How did it contribute to the understanding of climate on different temporal and spatial scales throughout the 20th century? And how has it impacted the very notion of ‘climate’, and what were the consequences for both, paleoclimatological and climate science practices? It is the goal of the workshop to tackle these and related questions in an interdisciplinary setting: The invited speakers are historians, sociologists and archaeologists, as well as (paleo)climatologists. You can find more information about the content and a detailed programme with abstracts in the PDF as well as here: https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereich-sowi/professuren/roedder/ueber-uns/news/workshop-paleo.html