Launching the Atmospheric Humanities

The Fifth International Workshop on Science, Philosophy and Literature

Hermoupolis, Syros Island, Greece

14-16 July 2020

Organized by the International Commission of Science and Literature and the International Commission on History of Meteorology

The Atmospheric Humanities is a new and fast-emerging multidisciplinary field of scholarship that explores socio-cultural dimensions of atmospheric knowledge and practice. Atmospheric Humanities is envisioned as a trans-disciplinary exercise designed to capture the atmosphere's agency as it becomes manifest as a medium, life-giver, carrier, nutrient source, threat and a concern in modern life, politics, and art. In foregrounding these manifestations, the atmosphere emerges as a site of inquiry into the cultural appropriations of air¿s modalities and diverse forms of climatological citizenship.

This foundational workshop aims to foster discussions on how atmospheric themes, memes, and objects emerge, spread and travel across artistic and academic communities. We especially welcome contributions from scholars whose work spans disciplines, including, but not limited to, literary and media studies, history of science, environmental history, aesthetics, visual arts, architecture, phenomenology, and social sciences.

Key themes:
• The changing representation(s) of the atmosphere in art and popular media, both contemporary and historical.
• Interfaces and interactions between scientific understanding(s) of the atmosphere and other ways of knowing or experiencing the atmosphere (e.g. political, indigenous, religious, philosophical, aesthetic).
• Explorations of space and scale in relation to human understanding of the atmosphere and related concepts such as weather and climate.
• The material culture of the atmosphere, including technologies used to measure, assess, represent and manipulate the atmosphere.

The organizers will provide a limited travel support to early career scholars.

Organizing committee: Vladimir Jankovic (University of Manchester), Madalina Diaconu (University of Vienna), Alexander Hall (University of Birmingham), James R. Fleming (Colby College)

Please send your abstract before 31 January 2020 to Dr Vladimir Jankovic

For information on support, contact Dr Alexander Hall

PhD Studentships in Climate, History and Culture at King’s College London, 2014-15
(Programme de doctorat en Climat, Histoire et Culture, King's College - Londres, 2014-15)

Date limite de réception des dossiers : 31/01/2014

London Arts and Humanities Partnership is pleased to invite applications from outstanding candidates for AHRC/LAHP Doctoral Training Awards for 2014-15 entry. Up to 80 studentships are available for postgraduate research students studying Arts & Humanities at University College London, King's College London, or School of Advanced Study (University of London) from London Arts & Humanities Partnership (AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership) 2014.

The Department of Geography at King’s College London invites applications for +3 PhD studentships. The main areas of interest include:

• Cultural Geography
• Development Geography
• Historical Geography
• Political Geography
• Urban Geography

We welcome student proposals which relate in particular to the following themes: climate history and culture; sexuality and space; migration, race and cities; development geographies and patterns of consumption; post-colonial geographies; geopolitics; cultural geographies of the built environment; heritage; historical geographies of welfare; visual culture and cities.

Applications encompassing an interdisciplinary aspect are particularly welcomed. Proposals must fall under the subject areas supported by the LAHP, available here: http://www.lahp.ac.uk/studentships

Studentships are available to applicants living in the UK and the European Union. For full details on eligibility, and to apply, please visit:
http://www.lahp.ac.uk/studentships

Candidates are encouraged to explore the details of the department’s research interests in more detail here:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/geography/research/index.aspx

Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact potential supervisors in the Department as early as possible to discuss their research proposal.

The deadline for all scholarship applications is: 17.00 GMT, 31 January 2014.