Monday 26 May
10:00 – 10:30 OPENING CEREMONY 10:30 - 11:15 OPENING LECTURE Weather, climate, and everyday life: social science perspectives Steve Rayner (James Martin Institute, University of Oxford)
11:30 – 13:00 1. Envisioning weather knowledge Chair: Mart Stewart Katherine Anderson (York University, Canada), Cloud-Spotting, Past and Present Marilyn Gaull (The Editorial Institute at Boston University, USA), “If the Bard was weather-wise”: The Art and Poetry of British Romantic Weather Doria Grimes (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA), Why the Weather?
Craig Martin (Oakland University, USA), Understandings of Natural Disaster in Renaissance Italy Christian Rohr (Universität Salzburg, Austria), Confronting Avalanches in the Early Modern Alps Gaston R. Demarée (Royal Meteorological Institute, Belgium) and Isabel Malaquias ( Aveiro University, Portugal), Aspects of Weather, Science and Religion related to the 1 November 1755 Earthquake of Lisbon
Matthias Heymann (Aarhus University, Denmark), Technology and Natural Disaster: Reflections on a Changing Relationship Frank Uekötter (Deutshes Museum, Germany), Normal and Other Weather: The Dust Bowl as a Meteorological Event Lucí Hidalgo Nunes, Flávio Renato Nascimento dos Santos, Ricardo Araki, Daniel Henrique Candido and Andréa Koga Vicentre (State University of Campinas, Brazil), The Perception of an Extreme Atmospheric Event in two Brazilian Cities
Tuesday 27 May
A Brief History of Meteorology and Weather Prediction in Brazil Antonio Divino Moura (National Institute of Meteorology, Brazil)
Gary Alan Fine (Northwestern University, USA), Forecasting for Land, Forecasting for People?: How Meteorologists Make Sense of Their Audiences Renzo Taddei (University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil), The Politics of Uncertainty and the Fate of Forecasters: Climate, Risk, and Blame in Northeast Brazil Phaedra Daipha (Rutgers University, USA), Who Can Predict Mother Nature? Meteorologists, Fishermen, and Forecasting in Everyday Life Samuel Randalls (University College London, UK), Making Climate Change Real… and What is Left Behind
Priscilla Faulhaber (Paraense Museum Emilio Goeldi, and Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences, Brazil), Anthropology of weather and indigenous cosmology inscribed in ritual artifacts Virginia Acosta (Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico), Local Knowledge and Practices in the face of Climate: Past and Present Mexican Experiences Esther Katz (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, France), Ethnometeorology: Folk Knowledge versus Scientific Knowledge
Teasel Muir-Harmony (University of Notre Dame, USA), UFOs, Clouds and Weather Ana Lucia do Amaral Villas-Bôas and Luiz C. Borges (Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences, Brazil), Weather, Scientific Strategy and State Policy: The Brazilian Space Programme Russel E. Lee (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, USA), Flying High and Far: The Impact of Meteorological Knowledge on the Sport of Soaring Flight
Rain Kings and Climate Engineers: Authority, Praxis, and the Control of Nature James Fleming (Colby College, USA)
Ben Orlove (University of California Davis, USA); Carla Roncoli (University of Georgia, USA); Merit Kabugo (Makerere University, Uganda), Starting to Talk about Climate Change: Farmers' Conversations in Southern Uganda Tamar Bajgielman (National Museum of Brazil, Brazil) and Marcio D'Olne Campos (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Associations between weather and fauna, as perceived by the fishermen of Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Akiko Yamane (California State University Fresno, USA), Changing value of local knowledge: the case of rainfed farmers in Sri Lanka
Chris Low (Oxford University, UK), The Role of Weather in the life of historic and contemporary Khoekhoe and San of Southern Africa Luiz C. Borges (Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences, Brazil) and Flavia Pedroza City (Planetarium Foundation, Brazil), The contribution from Tupinamba and Guarani to the Knowledge and Control of Weather Marcio D'Olne Campos (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro) and Tamar Bajgielman (National Museum of Brazil, Brazil), Weather Dependent Methods for Observing the Sky and Reckoning Time among the Kayapó
Moderator: Karen Pennesi (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Thursday 29 May
Manufacturing weather: climate change, indoors and out Elizabeth Shove (Lancaster University, UK)
Cornelia Luedecke (ICHM, Germany), 'I always feel the Foehn, even if it is not there': The Bavarian Foehn Phenomenon in Everyday Life Russell Hitchings (University College London, UK), Practice and unpredictability: how professional office workers deal with the weather in London today Vladimir Jankovic (University of Manchester, UK), Wearable Climates and the Political Economy of Goretex, Polartec and DryFlo
Christina Barboza (Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences, Brazil), Scientific Meteorology and Everyday Life in Brazil: the Rio-Apa shipwreck Anna Carlsson (University of Manchester, UK), What is a Storm: Severe Weather and Public Life in Britain, January 1928 Matthias Deutsch (Cottbus, Germany) and Karl-Heinz Pörtge (University of Göttingen, Germany) Early water-level measurements and weather observations from Prussian gauging stations - Examples from Saxonia (ca. 1817 - ca. 1875) Flávio Renato Nascimento dos Santos and Lucí Hidalgo Nunes (State University of Campinas, Brazil), The spread of weather and climate information: a Brazilian example
Roger Turner (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Keeping Meteorology Masculine: The American Meteorological Society's Response to TV “Weather Girls” in the 1950s Jamie L. Petruska (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Forecasters on Trial: The U.S. Weather Bureau's Public Verification of Weather Forecasting at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Robert Henson (University Corporation of Atmospheric Research, USA), From Galveston 1900 to New Orleans 2005: The process and people involved in disseminating U.S. hurricane warnings Kris M. Wilson (Emory University, USA), TV Weathercasters as Station Scientists
Mart A. Stewart (Western Washington University, USA), Naturalizing Culture: Climate and Culture in the American South Heloisa Meireles Gesteria (Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences, Brazil), Climate and the people of Brazil: observations of Nature and Netherlandish colonization in America (1637/1645) Heloisa Maria Bertol Domingues (Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences, Brazil), The rain and the dryness in the “Tristes Tropiques”
Jorge Lossio (University of Lima, Peru), The role of culture in high-altitude adaptation Sandra Caponi (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil), Climate, disease and racial conflict in José Ingenieros Flavio Edler (Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Brazil), Medical Geography outlines a new cartography for themedical knowledge: the Brazilian case
LUNCH AND OPTIONAL BUS TOUR
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