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The GHI London is a research centre supporting and connecting history students and scholars from Britain and Germany. One of 11 independent research institutes of the @maxweberstiftung.de‬. Currently closed due to renovation works. https://www.ghil.ac.uk

German Historical Institute London

📷 A storm card from the Text-Book of Seamanship, 1891, by S B Luce. Public domain via Wikimedia. 7/7

The question of commodification drove both these issues, as the lecture shows, as weather disturbance became the object of revenue generation; indeed, the uncertainty attached to it was precisely what drove its commodification. 4/7

The technical representation of storms became an urgent issue of prediction, and was also important in arbitrating legal questions around liability for insurers, underwriters in Britain, and local courts in Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras. 3/7

Ultimately, the lecture makes a case for historicizing what is too often seen as a contemporary phenomenon: the financialization of the climate crisis. Sign up now: www.ghil.ac.uk/event... #climatehistory #climatecrisis #environmentalhistory #climatescience #maritimehistory 6/7

Focusing on this process of double commodification, the lecture reveals how the non-corporeal entity of the monsoon was enclosed as a commodity and its risk further priced and thus offloaded through the courts as well as other financial instruments. 5/7

This lecture brings together the intertwined histories of maritime insurance and of technical as well as vernacular representations of maritime storms in the late eighteenth century Indian Ocean. 2/7

Join us online on 16 June for the last lecture in our summer series on environmental history! Debjani Bhattacharyya (Universität Zürich) will give a talk on 'Valuing Indian Ocean Monsoon Risk and the Making of Climate Science'. 1/7

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German Historical Institute London

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German Historical Institute London

Join us next Wednesday, 10 June, for a lecture in cooperation with the Earlier Middle Ages Seminar (@earliermiddleages.bsky.social), Institute of Historical Research, given by Gerda Heydemann (Freie Universität Berlin ) on 'The Social Life of Carolingian Exegesis'! 1/5

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Join us on 9 June at 5:30pm (BST) for the next lecture in our summer series on environmental history! 📅 Maximilian Schuh (Freie Universität Berlin ) will talk about 'Demesne Accounts, Court Rolls, and Prognostic Treatises: Weather and Its Perceptions in Fourteenth-Century England'. 1/6

German Historical Institute London