Join King’s Water and the Department of Geography this Wednesday for an exciting, story-focused Human Geography Research Seminar.
Sarah Dry, independent scholar and science writer, will share recent research from a popular book-in-progress on the past 150 years of scientific studies of water and the global climate. She’ll discuss the lives of scientists such as John Tyndall, Charles Piazzi Smyth and Gilbert Walker in relation to their work on glaciers, water vapour, and monsoons. Full of vivid detail, biography is a compellingly readable form but it is often associated with misleadingly heroic narratives of scientific progress. Is biography suited to telling a nuanced history of evolving global concepts of climate? What might a climate-oriented biography of water look like?
Sarah Dry is an award-winning writer and historian of science. She is the author of The Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts (OUP, 2014), co-editor of Epidemics: Science, Governance and Social Justice (Earthscan, 2010) and Curie: A Life (Haus, 2004).
This event is free and open to the public. Join us in the King’s Geography Pyramid Room, Strand Campus King’s Building Room KU4.12, from 4:30-6pm this Wednesday 14 October 2015.