Events

Isak Winkel Holm from the University of Copenhagen will discuss his research project investigating the nexus of care crisis and environmental crisis.

A talk by Siv Gøril Brandtzæg (NTNU) about depictions of natural disasters in popular early modern printed sources.

In this session, Anton Runesson will present his ongoing project and discuss the different frameworks for explaining the behavior of livestock that men and women of early modern households made use of. 

How did coastal communities in Norway respond to the famine years during the Little Ice Age? In this session, Wanda Marcussen will present the findings of her research project, which shows the crucial role of marine harvesting in overcoming famine. 

A talk by Elena Kochetkova, Associate Professor in Modern European Economic History at the University of Bergen. 

A talk by Maximilian Schuh, lecturer in Medieval History at Freie Universität Berlin.

A talk by Skafti Ingimarsson, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of History at the University of Iceland.

Workshop with guest researcher Dr Joana van de Löcht (University of Freiburg) and Dr Ada Arendt (University of Oslo) welcomes students wishing to engage with Early Modern literary sources to study past human-environment entanglements.

A talk by guest researcher Joana van de Löcht about weather perception in various literary genres at the beginning of early modern print production.

In the first part of this session, Ingar Mørkestøl Gundersen will present his project 'Curating climate. Exhibiting past climate-society-interactions.' In the second part, Dominik Collet will present his paper '(Ab)using climate. The first partition of Poland Lithuania, 1772.'