This new online series of webinars will provide a Virtual Open Forum for discussion of a wide range of topics on the History of the Geological Sciences and will include panel discussions, book presentations, workshops for exchange of views on methodology / practice for those new to historical research, archives and what to look for and much more.
The webinars will focus in particular on the research recently carried out by young INHIGEO members / early career scholars – suggestions for topics are welcome!
NINTH INHIGEO WEBINAR
Title: Fossils & Fabrications
Date: 14 November 2025, 16:00 to 17:30
Organised by Victor Monnin and Maddalena Napolitani and featuring talk by Reese Fulgenzi (University of California Berkeley, Usa).
EIGHTH INHIGEO WEBINAR
Title: Of Volcanos and History
Date: 26 September 2025, 16:00 to 17:30
Organised by Victor Monnin and Maddalena Napolitani and featuring talk by Valentina Roberti (Università di Catania, Italy)
SEVENTH INHIGEO WEBINAR
Title: Coming Out of the Shadows: Women and Geology at Oxford, 1813 – 1914
Date: 18 April 2025, 16:00 to 17:00 p.m.
Organised by Victor Monnin and Maddalena Napolitani and featuring talk by Grace Exley (University of Leeds, UK).
SIXTH INHIGEO WEBINAR
Title: Geology, Diplomacy and Exchange: focus in the Chinese context
Date: 24 January 2025, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Organised by Victor Monnin and Maddalena Napolitani and featuring talks by Jingfei Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) and Lijuan Yang (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China).
fifth inhigeo Webinar
Title: The Art of the Carboniferous Period in the times of decarbonization: a short introduction
Date: 22 November 2024, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Organised by Victor Monnin and Maddalena Napolitani and featuring talks by Marta Tomczok (University of Silesia, Katowice) and Pawel Tomczok (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland).
fourth inhigeo Webinar
Title: Bridging the Gulf: Intersections of Geology, Biology and Evironmental Justice
Date: 27 September 2024, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Organised by Victor Monnin and Maddalena Napolitani and featuring talk by Kailani Acosta, (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont Doherty Observatory, Columbia University in New York, USA).
third inhigeo Webinar
Title: Approaches to the History of Climatology and Glaciology
Date: 21 April 2023, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
organised by Victor Monnin and Maddalena Napolitani and featuring talks by Tatiana Carbonell (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) and Danielle K. Inkpen (Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, Canada).
second inhigeo Webinar
Title: The State, the Church, and the Earth: Collecting Practices in Geosciences
Date: 17 March 2023, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
organised by Victor Monnin and Maddalena Napolitani and featuring talks by Maria Toscano (Warburg Institute, London, UK) and Angela Strauß (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany).
first inhigeo Webinar
Title: Histories of Volcanology
Date: 24 February 2023, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
organised by Victor Monnin and Maddalena Napolitani and featuring talks by Loredana Lancini (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) and Daniele Musumeci (Università di Catania, Italy).
INHIGEO/IUGS@60 Webinar on the History of the International Geological Congresses
Title: The roots of a geological union for the future of the Earth
Date: 8 October 2022, 1:30 to 4:00 p.m.
How the histories of the International Geological Congress reveal the pivotal debates for the birth and the future role of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS).
This virtual roundtable, organized by INHIGEO in collaboration with the IUGS@60 Team, as part of the celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the IUGS, will concern the history of the International Geological Congress (IGC) within the development of the geosciences from the late 19th century to the end of the 20th century.
The aim of this event is also to emphasize and discuss the role of the IGCs for the idea of the foundation of the IUGS and for its development from the 1960s onward.
Moderators: Ezio Vaccari (INHIGEO President) and Martina Kölbl-Ebert (INHIGEO Secretary-General).
Opening address: John Ludden (IUGS President). The full program is available in the flyer.
We really hope that you will be able to take part in this event, which represents a new important interaction between our Commission and the IUGS. In fact, our webinar has been included in the program of the IUGS Earth Science Festival, which will take place from 4 to 28 October, and will be a great opportunity to present the history of geological sciences to a wider general audience.
Virtual Open Forum – 11 JULY 2022
Title: History of the geological sciences – providing resources for society
Moderators: Ezio Vaccari (President) and Martina Kölbl-Ebert (Secretary-General)
Our first webinar was an informal presentation of this new online INHIGEO initiative with an open discussion and ‘call for webinars’ on possible interdisciplinary topics for the series which will start in Autumn 2022.
Thanks to everyone for participating and creating a stimulating forum for discussion and proposing wonderful ideas for future webinars!
Great to see friends and colleagues from around the world (representing 17 countries across Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, North and South America) and across time zones!
Thanks especially to our young scholars, PhD students and early career researchers for bringing new ideas that can help foster more interest and research on the history of the geological sciences from both the scientific and humanistic communities of INHIGEO.
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