PRE-CIRCULATED PAPERS FOR THE HSS CLIMATE ROUNDTABLE

HSS Pittsburgh Meeting 2008

Thursday, 5:30-7:00 p.m.

Co-Plenary Roundtable: Climate Change Science, Environmental Challenges, and Cultural Anxiety (T1)

*James R. Fleming, Colby College (organizer and facilitator)

Marilyn Gaull, Boston University, "Romantic Climates: 'A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!"

Vladimir Jankovic, University of Manchester, "Climatological Citizenship: The Many Lives of a Modern Fetish"

Matthias Dorries, Universite Louis Pasteur, "'Nuclear Winter' and Global Climatic Change"

Spencer R. Weart, Center for the History of Physics, AIP, "'Educational Toys:' The Evolution and Persistence of Simple Models of Climate Change"

Roger D. Launius, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, "Venus-Earth-Mars: Comparative Climatology and the Search for Life in the Solar System"