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</b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Residential Fellowship, 2020-21: “Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented” | UT Austin, Institute for Historical Studies</b><br class="">
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<div class="">The Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce “Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented" as its research theme for 2020-21. Please see below and attached information about
the theme. To apply for a residential fellowship, please visit <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/historicalstudies/fellowships/resident-fellows.php" class="">
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/historicalstudies/fellowships/resident-fellows.php</a>. The application deadline is January 15, 2020. </div>
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<div class="">If it is possible, we would appreciate if you'd share widely the information below with your interested colleagues and networks. Thank you.</div>
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<div class="">Miriam Bodian</div>
<div class="">Professor & Director of the Institute for Historical Studies</div>
<div class="">Department of History, University of Texas at Austin</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">“Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented"</b></div>
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<div class="">The present climate crisis seems to confront us with a rupture with the past. What can historians offer in the face of scientists’ predictions of unprecedented warming and the breakdown of the planetary systems that have sustained civilizations?
As anthropogenic climate change subverts the traditional timescale of historical consciousness, do old distinctions between human history and natural history collapse? Does this situation call for new forms of historical writing, or are traditional approaches
as relevant as ever? For its 2020-21 theme, the Institute for Historical Studies calls for projects that grapple with the challenges that climate change presents to the discipline of history. </div>
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<div class="">Taking the category of “climate” in broad terms, we seek scholars whose work explores the historical and historiographic complexities of environmental breakdown. How have history and our understanding of the past shaped social responses––or failures
to respond––to environmental concerns? How might social, political, economic, or cultural crises have unexpected historical connections to environmental change? Might we find precedents for the “unprecedented” by uncovering and analyzing the historical roots
and analogues of contemporary climate change? For example, how have people understood, adapted to, and recovered from climate events and other environmental disruptions across different time periods and places around the world? Can history offer an alternative
to visions of the future that appear to be determined by prevailing climate models, and help provide us with new ways of understanding human agency, adaptability, and resilience? </div>
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<div class="">We invite proposals of historical projects that engage these and other questions, in all time periods and all parts of the world. For more information about the institute's fellowship and application process, please visit:
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https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/historicalstudies/fellowships/resident-fellows.php</a>. </div>
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<div class="">Application deadline: January 15, 2020.</div>
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