A Vast Machine:
Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
Paul N. Edwards
MIT Press (2010)
Calendar of public events
- 11.7.2013: "Code, Community, and Trust in Climate Science," University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- 11.1.2013: "Knowledge Infrastructures and Climate Change Science," University of Missouri
- 6.9.2013: "The History and Future of Knowledge Infrastructures in the Earth System Sciences," AGU Chapman Conference on Communicating Climate Science, Snow Mountain Ranch, Colorado
- 5.28.2013: "Scaling Up: space, code, trust, and the organization of climate modeling work," Technische Universiteit Berlin
- 5.22.2013: "Knowledge Infrastructures and Climate Change: Past, Present, Future," Université de Genève, Switzerland
- 4.25.2013: Keynote address, 26th PhD Workshop on International Climate Policy, Paris
- 3.20.2013: "Cold War and Carbon Knowledge: the strange relations of climate science and nuclear weapons research," séminaire Guerre et Environnement au XXe siècle, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
- 3.8.2013: "Global Infrastructures and the Politics of Climate Change," Dept. of Sociology, London School of Economics
- 3.4.2013: "Scaling Up: space, code, trust, and the organization of climate modeling work," Science, Technology & Innovations Studies, University of Edinburgh
- 1.11.2013: "Roundtable: A Wish List for Anthropocenic Research," The Anthropocene Project, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
- 12.3.2012: "Climate Audit, Climategate, and the Future of Public Science," Erb Institute, University of Michigan
- 10.11.2012: "Scaling Up: space, code, and the organization of climate modeling work," Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris
- 7.23-27.2012: After Fukushima: Climate science, nuclear power, and global warming, Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies (co-taught with Gabrielle Hecht)
- 6.27-29.2012: Cold War/Blue Planet: Rise of the Environmental Sciences in a Divided World, Manchester, UK
- 5.4-5.2012: "Fallout Research, Carbon Knowledge, and the Politics of the Atmosphere, 1945-1989," Midwest STS Conference on Facts, Artifacts, and the Politics of Consensus, Northwestern University
- 02.09.2012: "The State of Infrastructure Studies," panel with me, David Ribes, Steve Jackson, Jillian Wallace, and Ayse Buyuktur at the iConference, Toronto, Canada
- 02.03.2012: Paul Edwards and Gabrielle Hecht, "Knowing the Invisible: Climate Change, Nuclear Things, and their Entangled Histories," Rice University, Houston
- 11.21.2011: "Climate Controversies and Public Science: The History and Politics of Knowledge about Global Climate Change," HSS Workshop, Dept. of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
- 10.6.2011: "Climate Change: Data, Models, and the Politics of Global Warming," and "Friction: On the History of Information and its Technologies," Science & Technology Studies Program, University of Wisconsin
- 8.26.2011: "Uncertain about Uncertainty: Talking about Climate Change to Non-Scientists," 2011 Stephen H. Schneider Symposium, Climate Change: From Science to Policy, Boulder, Colorado (August 24-27)
- 5.10.2011: "Climate Controversies: Science and the Politics of Knowledge about Global Climate Change," Dept. of History and Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland
- 4.4.2011: "Climate Data, Computer Models, and the Politics of Global Warming", College of the Environment, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT
- 3.28.2011: webinar on A Vast Machine, Chevron Corporation (no payment taken)
- 3.7.2011: "Computers, Global Data, and Cold War: Making Climate Knowledge, 1945-1990," Dept. of History, Columbia University, New York
- 2.14.2011: "Global Warming Controversies: Data, Computer Models, and the Politics of Climate Change," Wayne State University, Detroit
- 10. 28.2010: "Les controverses climatiques aux EUA: la politique des données," Colloque Controverses Climatiques, Brussels, Belgium (in English with bilingual slides)
- 10.26.2010: "La friction et la connaissance climatique: sur la matérialité des données et du calcul dans la science du climat," Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris, France (in French)
- 10.25.2010: "'Climategate' et les controverses du climat aux USA," Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France (in French)
- 10.4.2010: Keynote address to the SHOT SIG on Computers, Information, and Society, Tacoma WA