ICHG-2015-Programme-Book

Mon
Timeslot 1 Timeslot 2 Lunch Timeslot 3 Plenary Evening
09:15 – 11:00 11:30 – 13:15 13:15 – 14:15 14:15 – 16:00 16:30 – 18:00 18:00 – 19:30
3 Magnetism, scientific instruments, and expeditionary science in the nineteenth
century - Matthew Goodman, Simon Naylor, Hayden Lorimer (University of Glasgow, UK)
4 Instruments and empire: terrestrial physics in mid-nineteenth-century Canada and
India - Simon Naylor (University of Glasgow, UK)
5 Measuring prime meridians: Paris and Greenwich, c.1780-c.1881 – precision,
accuracy, and "truth" - Charles W. J. Withers (University of Edinburgh, UK)
24 Cultural histories and memories of extreme weather events (2)
M2 | RSM-LT147
Related sessions: 13
View abstracts online: http://conference.rgs.org/ICHG/24
Convenors
Chair
Georgina Endfield (University of Nottingham, UK), Lucy Veale (University
of Nottingham, UK)
Lucy Veale (University of Nottingham, UK)
1 A temporal and spatial approach on the memory of hurricanes and typhoons - Cary J.
Mock, Douglas O. Mayes, Jennifer A. Simmons (University of South Carolina, USA),
Eleonora Rohland (Foundation for Global Sustainability, Switzerland), Lourdes B. Aviles
(Plymouth State University, USA)
2 A hydrographical society remembered? Flooding, drought, adaptation and culture in
the Welsh colony of Patagonia, Argentina - Hywel Griffiths, Stephen Tooth (Aberystwyth
University, UK)
3 Remembering in God’s name: the role of the church and community institutions in
commemorating floods - Alexander Hall (Coventry University, UK)
4 Discussant - Georgina Endfield (University of Nottingham, UK)