Basel Climate Science and Ancient History Lab
VICS - Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society
See the Special Issue of Climate of the Past: Interdisciplinary studies of volcanic impacts on climate and society sponsored by VICS: Interdisciplinary studies of volcanic impacts on climate and society
Using Roman Egypt as a case study, the project takes an unprecedented approach to tackling the third century CE as a period of extensive transformation, often considered as marking the transition between the High Roman Empire and Late Antiquity. Jointly deploying paleoclimate proxies and historical literary and documentary sources for the study of the human past, this methodology allows for a more cohesive interpretation of the century in question. The project aims to expand the understanding of societal transformation and environmental evolution through a detailed historical analysis, generating new approaches and research questions by integrating the climate sciences. With this integration of multiple perspectives, it will substantially advance our knowledge of this perhaps most critical century in Roman history and offer a reassessment of the closing of the Imperial age and thus, as a whole, a re-evaluation of Roman Empire at the dawn of Late Antiquity.
Website: https://ancientclimate.philhist.unibas.ch/en/homepage/
CCHRI: Climate Change and History Research Initiative
The project has aimed to integrate the research of scholars in all the relevant social scientific and natural scientific disciplines in order to evaluate and interpret the evidence for societal resilience to environmental stress and change. This aim has been met thus far by concentrating on a series of case studies. Through workshops, seminars, colloquia and lectures the specific interests and research skills of the Princeton-based organizers have been represented. Their activities have been complemented by seminars delivered by colleagues working in other areas and time periods.
chn: climate history network
The Climate History Network (CHN) is an organization of scholars who reconstruct past climate changes and, often, identify how those changes affected human history. The CHN connects academics in many disciplines, from many countries. We encourage more collaborative and interdisciplinary teaching and research in climate history. We offer contacts and resources for professors, teachers, students, and interested lay people.
The CHN grew out of discussions on the H-Environment network in 2010. We currently have more than 150 members. We are part of the International Congress of Environmental History Organizations, and we hold regular meetings at the annual conferences of the American Society for Environmental History. We also host annual climate history workshops at Georgetown University, in Washington, DC. We are planning a major conference dedicated to past relationships between climate change and conflict.
Website: https://climatehistory.net/
georgetown environmental history
The Georgetown Environmental History area of study facilitates the Climate History Network (CHN) as well as https://historicalclimatology.com/. This department offers courses to our students across a wide range of topics, explaining the historical causes and effects of climate change all throughout history. They publish papers on climate history, post articles on their EH@G blog, and oversee the “Climate History” podcast, aiming to create dialogue on what the future has in store based off of our past and current climate experiences.
PAGES (Past Global Changes) Working Groups
PAGES' Working Groups (WG) are temporary organizations that bring paleoscientists together from around the globe to target specific aspects of PAGES’ scientific agenda. They tackle broad questions that cannot be answered by a single research team but require the integration of the wider international science community. WGs provide a platform for discussion, research, and community building, and normally run in 3-year phases with each phase culminating in an intermediary or final major product (e.g. synthesis article, special issue, database).
SoHP: Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard
We are creating a supra-departmental, cross-divisional and inter-school network that brings historians and archaeologists together with other scholars and scientists to chart bold new answers to the age-old question: what is history? SoHP serves as a center for scholarly programming and innovative new courses and will network new research collaborations across departments and disciplines. We hope to develop a certificate program and/or an undergraduate major or minor as well as postgraduate degree programs that will attract students interested in redrawing the map of the human past with the tools of 21st-century science and history.
Website: https://sohp.fas.harvard.edu