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SUMMARY: "Wondrous signs of wondrous times":  cultural histories of extrem
 e weather events in the UK - Professor Georgina Endfield\, University of N
 ottingham
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CONTACT:Ave Lauren
DESCRIPTION:There is growing concern over the impacts of inter-annual clim
 ate variability and anomalous and ‘extreme’ weather events such as dro
 ughts\, floods\, storm events and unusually high or low temperatures. Whil
 e social and economic systems have generally evolved to accommodate some d
 eviations from “normal” weather conditions\, this is rarely true of ex
 tremes.  Attempts to better understand the nature of future events and spe
 cifically the socio-economic impacts of and responses to these traumatic e
 vents\, must consider the characteristics and repercussions of similar eve
 nts in recent centuries for which most data are available (Alexander et al
 .\, 2009). Drawing on work conducted as part of an ongoing AHRC project fo
 cusing on archival investigations of past weather extremes\, I wish to exp
 lore  through selected UK based case studies how different types of events
 \, including floods\, extreme heat and cold\, extreme cold and storms\, ov
 er recent centuries affected the lives of local people and became inscribe
 d into the cultural fabric and social memory in the form of oral history\,
  ideology\, custom\, behaviour\, narrative\, artefact\, technological and 
 physical adaptation\, including adaptations to the working landscape and b
 uilt environment. These different forms of remembering and recording repre
 sent central media through which information on past events was curated\, 
 recycled and transmitted across generations. 
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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