{"id":22889,"date":"2022-12-16T15:18:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T20:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?page_id=22889"},"modified":"2024-07-05T15:10:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:10:15","slug":"shannon-lectures-winter-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/shannon-lectures-winter-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon Lectures \u2013 Winter 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Shannon Lectures \u2013 Winter 2023\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"shannon-lectures-winter-2023\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shannon Lectures, Winter 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Convenor<\/strong>: Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/joanna-e-dean\/\">Joanna Dean<\/a>, Department of History, Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Climate Histories<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A series of Monday night lectures on the history of weather and climate, were held at 7 PM Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa, and also online. Sponsored by the Shannon Endowment through the Department of History, Carleton University. Co-presented with the support of the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/\">Department of Geography and Environmental Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"past-lectures-in-this-series\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Past Lectures in this Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"january-9-climate-in-the-age-of-empire-three-centuries-of-canadian-weather-observations\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">January 9:&nbsp;Climate in the Age of Empire: Three Centuries of Canadian Weather Observations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Climate in the Age of Empire: Three Centuries of Canadian Weather Observations&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HLzZPFqmuO8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Victoria Slonosky, McGill University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Speaker-Poster-4-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Speaker-Poster-4-160x247.jpg\" alt=\"event poster - all information in event listing\" class=\"wp-image-22874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Speaker-Poster-4-160x247.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Speaker-Poster-4-240x371.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Speaker-Poster-4-400x618.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Speaker-Poster-4-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Speaker-Poster-4-994x1536.jpg 994w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Speaker-Poster-4-1325x2048.jpg 1325w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Speaker-Poster-4-360x556.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Speaker-Poster-4-scaled.jpg 1656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada has a long<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">&nbsp;<\/span>scientific heritage in weather and climate observations. Letters, diaries and weather records from the 18th and 19th centuries tell us not only about the weather, but about the people, &nbsp;relationships and networks that existed in North America and Europe. They reveal the history of theories&nbsp;about&nbsp;weather and climate change in Canada as far back as the 1740s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These records are not only interesting for the history of science: they\u2019re also used in current scientific research. Millions&nbsp;of weather observations have been transcribed thanks to citizen science during the 2010s: analysis of these observations for the St-Lawrence Valley region reveals some surprising results for climatic change and variability, extreme events and hazardous weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"biography\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Victoria Slonosky is an historical climatologist. She is currently leading McGill\u2019s Data Rescue: Archives and Weather (DRAW) interdisciplinary citizen science project and is an affiliated member of McGill&#8217;s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal. Her book,&nbsp;<em>Climate in the Age of Empire: Weather Observers in Colonial Canada<\/em>, tells the story of Canada\u2019s scientific heritage in the field of climatology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"january-16-observation-nation\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">January 16: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/cu_event\/observation-nation-shannon-lecture-2\/\">Observation Nation<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>7 PM Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa and online.<br>\n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alan MacEachern, Western University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Alan-MacEachern-poster-492-smaller-size.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Alan-MacEachern-poster-492-smaller-size-160x241.jpg\" alt=\"event poster\" class=\"wp-image-22936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Alan-MacEachern-poster-492-smaller-size-160x241.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Alan-MacEachern-poster-492-smaller-size-240x361.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Alan-MacEachern-poster-492-smaller-size-400x602.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Alan-MacEachern-poster-492-smaller-size-768x1155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Alan-MacEachern-poster-492-smaller-size-360x541.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Alan-MacEachern-poster-492-smaller-size.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) was founded in 1871, it saw its principal duty as enlisting an army of ordinary Canadians in daily weather&nbsp;<em>observation<\/em>, with the long-term goal of a steadily improved understanding of the nation\u2019s weather and climate. But the government and public were so enticed by the possibilities of weather&nbsp;<em>prediction<\/em>&nbsp;that the MSC was soon drawn into that. Meanwhile, the observers continued jotting down both quantitative data (temperature, precipitation, etc.) and qualitative remarks (about the changing seasons, extreme weather, etc.) &#8230; but the MSC never found a way, or the time, to use the qualitative ones. With the Environment Canada meteorological collection now at Western University,&nbsp;Alan MacEachern&nbsp;is studying what these records can tell us about Canada\u2019s weather, climate, and people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"biography\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Alan MacEachern&nbsp;teaches history at Western University. He is the author of&nbsp;<em>The Miramichi Fire: A History<\/em>&nbsp;(McGill-Queen\u2019s, 2020) and co-author of&nbsp;<em>The Summer Trade: A History of Tourism on Prince Edward Island<\/em>&nbsp;(McGill-Queen\u2019s, 2022). He is writing a book about the first century of the MSC\u2019s observation program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"january-23-resilience-and-adaptation-in-the-history-of-climate-and-society\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">January 23: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/cu_event\/resilience-and-adaptation-in-the-history-of-climate-and-society-shannon-lecture-3-online\/\">Resilience and Adaptation in the History of Climate and Society<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Resilience and Adaptation in the History of Climate and Society&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r3IEQX0wQ_c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dagomar Degroot, Georgetown University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Dagomar-Degroot-Poster-3-reduced.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Dagomar-Degroot-Poster-3-reduced-160x247.jpg\" alt=\"event poster\" class=\"wp-image-22951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Dagomar-Degroot-Poster-3-reduced-160x247.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Dagomar-Degroot-Poster-3-reduced-240x371.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Dagomar-Degroot-Poster-3-reduced-400x618.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Dagomar-Degroot-Poster-3-reduced-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Dagomar-Degroot-Poster-3-reduced-994x1536.jpg 994w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Dagomar-Degroot-Poster-3-reduced-360x556.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Dagomar-Degroot-Poster-3-reduced.jpg 1056w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause and likely magnitude of today\u2019s global warming have no parallel in human history. Yet Earth\u2019s climate has changed repeatedly over the 300,000-year history of our species. This talk will explain how and when it has changed \u2013 and how researchers know it has. It will then introduce the History of Climate and Society (HCS), an interdisciplinary field that considers how human populations responded to past climate changes. It will describe popular case studies in the field that identify vulnerability to climate change in past populations and focus on examples of crisis and collapse. It will then introduce new research in the disciplines of archaeology and history that uncovers examples of resilience to climate change in past populations. It will describe a series of strategies that these populations used to endure, adapt to, and even exploit past climate changes, and it will consider the extent to which we can learn from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"biography\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Dagomar Degroot is an associate professor of environmental history at Georgetown University. His first book, <em>The Frigid Golden Age<\/em>, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018 and named by the <em>Financial Times<\/em> as one of the ten best history books of that year. His next book, <em>Ripples in the Cosmic Ocean<\/em>, is under contract with Harvard University Press and Viking. He publishes equally in historical and scientific journals, including <em>Nature<\/em> and the <em>American Historical Review<\/em>, and writes for a popular audience in, for example, the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, <em>Aeon Magazine<\/em>, and <em>The Conversation<\/em>. He maintains popular online resources on the history of climate change, including the podcast Climate History. He has shared the unique perspectives of the past with policymakers, corporate leaders, and journalists in many countries, from Wuhan to Washington, DC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"february-6-climate-diplomacy-and-its-histories-inside-the-ipcc\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">February 6: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/cu_event\/climate-diplomacy-and-its-histories-inside-the-ipcc-shannon-lecture-4\/\">Climate Diplomacy and its Histories: Inside the IPCC<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>7 PM Online and in person at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ruth Morgan, Australian National University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Ruth-Morgan-Poster-38.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Ruth-Morgan-Poster-38-160x247.jpg\" alt=\"event poster\" class=\"wp-image-22942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Ruth-Morgan-Poster-38-160x247.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Ruth-Morgan-Poster-38-240x371.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Ruth-Morgan-Poster-38-400x618.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Ruth-Morgan-Poster-38-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Ruth-Morgan-Poster-38-994x1536.jpg 994w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Ruth-Morgan-Poster-38-360x556.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Ruth-Morgan-Poster-38.jpg 1056w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A planetary challenge such as climate change suggests the logic of an international collaborative response. The climate diplomacy that emerged at Fukuyama\u2019s \u2018end of history\u2019 was founded on the notion that its technocratic internationalism, underpinned by climate expertise, offered a politically neutral alternative to liberalism. These origins encouraged the expectation that climate diplomacy would neatly follow scientific advances, and produce multilateral solutions to the climate problem. That this process has proven to be more complicated warrants further inspection. In the wake of the conclusion of the IPCC&#8217;s Sixth Assessment cycle, this paper reflects on this organisation\u2019s turn towards the humanities and social sciences in its efforts to inform the climate diplomacy of the early twenty-first century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"biography\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Ruth Morgan is the Director of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhistory.cass.anu.edu.au%2Fcentres%2Fceh&amp;data=05%7C01%7CTanyaSchwartz%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C7490d64bc5f145a1069e08dadf8a8ac5%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638068083525240990%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=FQsntrgdqvc0EqEbbBQiEFHBG%2FCx%2BI5oYPUARbG3fo0%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Centre for Environmental History<\/a>&nbsp;at the Australian National University. She has published widely on the climate and water histories of Australia and the British Empire, including her award-winning book,&nbsp;<em>Running Out? Water in Western Australia<\/em>&nbsp;(2015). Her current project, on environmental exchanges between British India and the Australian colonies, has been generously supported by the Australian Research Council and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She was a Lead Author on the Water chapter in Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change&#8217;s Assessment Report 6, and co-author of Cities in a Sunburnt Country: Water and the Making of Urban Australia (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Her next book&nbsp;<em>Climate Change and International History<\/em>&nbsp;is under contract with Bloomsbury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon Lectures, Winter 2023 Convenor: Professor Joanna Dean, Department of History, Carleton University. Climate Histories A series of Monday night lectures on the history of weather and climate, were held at 7 PM Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa, and also online. Sponsored by the Shannon Endowment through the Department of History, Carleton University. 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