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DESCRIPTION:In 2000\, Mike Davis published the now classic work\, Late Vict
 orian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World. The 
 book’s main argument\, that colonial policies exacerbated the effects of
  global climate patterns and led to the excess death of millions of people
  in late nineteenth century famines\, stirred debate and ultimately led to
  the reassessment of colonialism’s lasting impact on the Global South. R
 uth Mostern\, Raja Adal (University of Pittsburgh )\, Nadin Heé\, Daniel 
 Hedinger (Leipzig University)\, and Shellen Wu (Lehigh University) will co
 nduct a roundtable panel on the use of AI to read nineteenth century larg
 e-scale weather data and archival materials at scale to reexamine the fami
 nes that arose from the 1877 El Niño. We would like to revisit Mike Davi
 s’ arguments in Victorian Holocaust with empirical evidence that new t
 echnological developments now make possible. Focusing on a crucial period 
 in the late nineteenth century - for the rise of meteorological sciences\,
  instrumentation\, and global networks for the collection of data\, we wil
 l share strategies\, methodologies\, and tools for using AI and other digi
 tal tools for large scale historical research. This panel brings together 
 a range of fields that are rarely articulated at once: world history and t
 he history of empire\, environmental history\, the history of science and
  technology\, and digital methods for history.
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LOCATION:Room 403 PC Desk (Seats 30)
SUMMARY:Late Victorian Holocausts Revisited - Ruth Mostern\, Raja Adal\, Sh
 ellen Xiao Wu\, Nadin Heé
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/B8TUGB/
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