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Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator

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From: Adam Sweeting
Boston University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]


CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS

CLIMATOGRAPHY: ESSAYS ON WEATHER, CULTURE, AND THE METEOROLOGICAL
IMAGINATION

For a volume of critical essays addressing those cultural spaces
bordering on the meteorological, we seek proposals that explore the role
of weather in culture, literature, and the arts.

Weather, we assume, underpins the basic material and emotional forces
that form the basis of how we live. Every region has its own weather --
from the cold and blustery to the temperate and serene -- as well as
ways to represent it. Our daily conversations are so often about the
weather, yet discussions of the meteorological influences have received
surprisingly little attention from scholars interested in the overlap of
nature, culture, and environments.

Our volume aims to broaden conventional considerations of the weather by
drawing on the insights of writers in such diverse fields as literature,
geography, meteorology, history, environmental studies, and the fine
arts. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary approaches, especially
those that challenge the boundaries between modes of inquiry.

Topics might include (but need not be limited to) weather in literature;
art and meteorology; gendered weather; seasons and seasonal change;
climatological history; weather myths and lore; weather reporting;
technology and weather science; history of meteorological science.

Please send proposals or completed papers (20-25 pages) by June 30, 2001
to:

Adam Sweeting
Boston University
College of General Studies
871 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215

Email inquiries should be directed to:
Todd Robert Peterson, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
or Adam Sweeting, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer
Environmental Management & Design Division
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 84
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fax: 64-03-325-3841
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