Xinyue LI

PhD candidate. History of Meteorology/ Environmental History/Cultural and Social History of Science in China/Modern Chinese History

[Michelle Pfeffer @michpfeffer]

We have a second public lecture on the history of weather forecasting! 🌦️

On 9 Oct, Louisiane Ferlier (@royalsociety) explores the Royal Society’s meteorological archive & the development of forecasting before the @metoffice.

📍 Schwarzman Centre, Oxford | 9 Oct, 5.30pm 👇

[Michelle Pfeffer @michpfeffer]

@SimonDolet and I are very happy to share the programme for our hybrid conference, Forecasting the Weather, Between Divination and Science, 8-9 October, in Oxford and online. For the full programme and to register, see the link in my bio

[CHSTM PhDs @chstmphds]

📢 Join us for CHSTM PG Seminar Series 25/26!
🗓️ Xinyue Li (University of Manchester) “More than Superstition: Rethinking Rainmaking as Drought Relief in an "Age of Science””
Tue 2 June, 1–2 pm (UK)
Email [email protected] for the link
#HistSTM

[Xinyue LI @LI_Xinyue_]

Thanks to the Marco Polo Center for Global Euro-Asia Connections for sponsoring our panel! Dr. Xiao Liu, Yifan Song @rua36349417 and I will be presenting on meteorology in China on July 21 at the 26th biennial conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies. #EACS2026

[Michelle Pfeffer @michpfeffer]

New CFP: Forecasting the weather, between divination and science, 9 Oct 2026, Oxford @TORCHOxford

If you're working on the history of weather forecasting, please do send us an abstract! ⛈️⛈️⛈️

More info here: https://t.co/4kQl34dR4v

[CHSTM PhDs @chstmphds]

📢 Join us this spring for the CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 2025/2026! Explore new perspectives in HSTM. Our seminars run throughout the year, typically on Tuesdays, 1–2 pm on Zoom. To receive the Zoom link, contact:[email protected] #HistSTM

[Xinyue LI @LI_Xinyue_]

Magnificent Caucasus Mountains from the flight.

[CHSTM PhDs @chstmphds]

📢 Call for Presentations! CHSTM Postgraduate Lunchtime Seminar Series (Spring 2026) invites PhD students to share their research in HSTM. 🗓️ Deadline: 15 Dec 2025 Apply here👉 https://t.co/GGGEjM66v1 Enquiries: [email protected] #HistSTM #histmed

[CHSTM PhDs @chstmphds]

📢 Join us this autumn for the CHSTM Postgraduate Seminar Series 2025/2026! Explore new perspectives in HSTM. Our seminars run throughout the year, typically on Tuesdays, 1–2 pm on Zoom. To receive the Zoom link, contact:[email protected] #HistSTM

[CHUS @ChusChus1987]

The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program offers in-resident opportunities for independent research or study related to Smithsonian collections, facilities, and/or research interests of the Institution and its staff. Apply by Oct. 15, 2025: https://t.co/aJdiR9eVTp

[Xinyue LI @LI_Xinyue_]

@UoMChina

[CHSTM PhDs @chstmphds]

🎓 One of our CHSTM PhDs, @LI_Xinyue_, will give her talk “Bringing the Past to the Future: Discovery of Folk Weather Knowledge in Republican China”
📍 Manchester China Institute
🗓️ 9 Oct 2025 | 🕧 12:30–2:00 pm
Everyone is welcome!

[CHSTM PhDs @chstmphds]

The CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series is back this semester! 🎉 Our first talk will be on Tuesday, 21 October 2025. Stay tuned for speaker details and more updates! #HistSci #HistMed #CHSTM

[Annals of Science @AnnalsOfScience]

New Special Issue:

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 ‘𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧’ 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬
https://t.co/MoVIMjmMez

[Xinyue LI @LI_Xinyue_]

Wrapped up our centre’s PGR lunch seminar series @chstmphds @MancHSTM for the semester today🎉🎉 I had a wonderful time co-hosting it with my brilliant colleague Daniela Dandes and meeting so many friends. Grateful for the opportunity to learn so much over the past two years.

[Pint of Science UK @pintofscience]

✨Tickets for #pint25 are now on sale!✨

🎟Book here
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🗓19th-21rd May 2025
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🗣400 events

[ASIAR Research Cluster @asiarhk]

Join our upcoming talk to explore the dynamics of human-spiritual power and the transformation of ancient Chinese cosmology in the context of state-led weather water projects in contemporary rural China.

Learn More and Register🎟️: https://t.co/MOkgR7nvzK

[History of Meteorology @HistMeteorology]

Come read Fiona Williamson discuss her new book "Imperial Weather: Meteorology, Science, and the Environment in Colonial Malaya."
https://t.co/VnItHQ1Hsb

[Engineering Studies Journal @EngrStudies]

🔥 New in Engineering Studies! 🔥
How did thermal comfort standards evolve from 1920s America to modern Bahrain? Marwa Koheji unpacks this fascinating history of engineering and comfort! Read now: https://t.co/P5cluEK274

[Association of Southeast Asian Studies (ASEAS) @ASEAS_UK]

📚Book launch event: The Nature of Kingship: The Weather-World in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam by Kathryn Dyt
📌Date: Wednesday 26th of February 5-7pm
📍Location: Room S209 in the Paul Webley Wing of SOAS, Senate House (free, no prior registration necessary, in-person only)

[CHSTM PhDs @chstmphds]

Please join us for our next CHSTM Postgrad Seminar with speaker Brian Li from @Cambridge_Uni presenting on "Meteorological Latin: The Semantics of Respectability and Representation in Early Cloud Nomenclature, 1803-1820". Tuesday, Feb 18th, 1-2 pm UK time via Zoom, DM for access!