*Weather, Local Knowledge and Everyday Life*
Second Call for Papers
Museu de Astronomia e Ciencias Afins (MAST)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 26-30 May 2008
The International Commission for the History of Meteorology (ICHM)
invites papers and session proposals for an interdisciplinary conference
on ‘Weather, Local Knowledge and Everyday Life,’ at the Museu de
Astronomia e Ciencias Afins (MAST) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 26-30 May
2008 (www.weatherlife.org).
The conference will explore how people engage, create sciences about,
ascribe meanings to and base everyday actions upon the weather, in
history and today. We’d like to look the ways in which weather really
matters in different places at different times to different people and
how various disciplines conceptualize the evolution of climatological
citizenship as it manifests itself in daily routines, rituals,
perceptions, reactions to and uses of the weather. We want to bring to
light the fact that people worldwide engage with the weather not as
individuals only, but also as members of a family, extended community,
city, region, or nation and as bearers of religious, ethnic,
professional and otherwise 'tribal' identities. How have people
conceived of, remembered about and acted in relation to the weather?
What are the ways in which the public 'takes the weather in their hands'
and what is the perceived role of expert knowledge in providing the
information and warnings about the day-to-day and extreme atmospheric
events? How do local and indigenous forms of weather knowledge interact
with globalizing discourses and representations? Speakers include
Katherine Anderson, Gary Alan Fine, Ben Orlove, Renzo Taddei and Mick
Worboys. Organizing committee: Vladimir Jankovic, Cornelia Ludecke,
James Fleming, Samuel Randalls.
Please submit paper or session proposals by 1 December 2007 to Vladimir
Jankovic, Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine,
University of Manchester: [log in to unmask]
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/
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Carsten Timmermann, PhD
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
University of Manchester
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