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SUMMARY:The Cultural Functions of Climate - Mike Hulme
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CONTACT:Mike Hulme
DESCRIPTION:The idea of climate has always fulfilled important psychologic
 al\, cultural and political functions. Climate may be understood according
  to aggregated statistics of weather or apprehended more intuitively\, as 
 a tacit idea held in social memory. But however defined\, “climate” es
 tablishes certain expectations about the possibility of stable and meaning
 ful human action in the world. In this talk I offer evidence for this argu
 ment drawing upon the environmental humanities -- anthropology\, literary 
 and religious studies\, environmental history and cultural geography\, as 
 I reflect on the reasons we might need to think differently in the Anthrop
 ocene about the idea of climate.
LOCATION:Plumb Auditorium\, Christ's College
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