The Climate Histories Interdisciplinary Seminar is about bringing together and expanding a network of people from different backgrounds (sciences, arts, humanities, and social sciences, as well as people working in policy, media, and industry) to tackle questions about climate and environmental change in the past, present, and future.
The general questions we ask as a network are: Why does environmental knowledge matter? What can we learn about climate change from history? How can different disciplines work together to develop our understanding? (See our website created for a one-year...
A critical assessment of exploitation and stewardship in a rapidly warming Far North
Subhankar Banerjee (Independent artist and environmental humanities scholar and Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall)
Published 06/13/16
Help! Avoiding Civilisation-threatening Climate Change: Reflections of a sustainability practitioner
David Bent (Director of Sustainable Business at Forum for the Future)
David Bent will be discussing the political-economy of climate change, including stories from inside the private sector with...
Published 05/05/16
Hildegard Diemberger (Social Anthropology, Cambridge University)
in discussion with:
Christos Lynteris (Social Anthropology, Cambridge University)
Hildegard will be discussing the use of historical archives for understanding environmental change in the Himalayas, and Christos will share his...
Published 03/24/16