📢Please join us online today at 4:30 pm for our next Montagskolloquium! ➡️tinyurl.com/mvzkd5ab Lachlan Fleetwood (LMU/global dis:connect) will talk about "Imperial Geography, Climate Science and the Habitability of the Silk Roads." In his presentation he examines how Central Asia’s lost cities ...
climatic change over time. In examining key moments in the formation of the disciplines of geography and climatography, he ultimately reflects on how imperial ideas about climate change in the early twentieth century have long legacies and how these histories matter today.
became key to new theories of climate change and stability, even as they raised imperial anxieties about ‘desiccation’ and the drying up of the Earth. In tracing this story, he also reveals the many ways these theories of climate depended on the knowledge of Central Asian brokers and guides to map