2023
Topics of the six KLIMER sessions in the Spring semester include human-environment relations, the cultural and political discourse around border rivers, as well as discussions of some of the key concepts in environmental history: the Little Ice Age and the Anthropocene, with speakers from the Universities of Vienna, Helsinki, Bern, and Stockholm.
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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.
![Painting of the storm flood in Antdorf [Antwerpen] in November 1570.](https://www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english/research/groups/klimer-climate-environment-energy/events/2023/seminars/stormflood.png?alt=listing)
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.'
Images of the Zbruch and the Ideologization of its Riverscape in Interwar Soviet Ukraine by Oleksii Chebotarov.