The Rylands Lunchtime Online Seminar: Re-Mapping Past Weather and Climate
| Dates: | 18 April 2024 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 13:45 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | John Rylands Library |
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| Who is it for: | Adults, General public |
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Join us online to examine how historians, climatologists and their collaborators have mapped past weather and climate, drawing on a range of printed, digital, and algorithmic maps, including those held in the University Map Collection. Scholars have represented atmospheric phenomena through a sophisticated visual repertoire that is effective for determining the physical properties of weather and climate but detaches the atmosphere from the human and non-human worlds it envelops or remains committed to a physicalist vision of interactions between weather and society. The talk will also introduce digital maps that instead attempt to represent weather and climate as they were understood and confronted by historical contemporaries. The wider proposition is that historians and scholars in the humanities might want to consider crafting their own cartographic language rather than borrowing it. For this talk we'll be joined by Luca Scholz, Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Manchester and Donna Sherman, Curator of Maps at the Rylands.
To book a free place for this online event please follow the link to Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/re-mapping-past-weather-and-climate-tickets-827172734917
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