![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)
About the event
With the beginning of early modern print production, a multitude of popular genres quickly developed that dealt with the weather (often independently of the actual climatic conditions). These include, for example, calendars, broadsides, pamphlets, sermons and songs. What most of these texts have in common is that they were aimed at a popular audience, were produced quickly and cheaply, and have a rather ephemeral status in terms of their transmission. The aim of the presentation is to provide an overview of the different functions and the temporal status of the weather perception of the various genres.
Present
Dr Joana van de Löcht is a postdoctoral scholar of German literature working at Freiburg University (Germany). Her research interests lie in the early modern period and here in the area of climate and literature. Furthermore, she has been working for some time in the field of literary soil studies, especially on the cultural poetics of the peatlands. In August and September 2023, the KLIMER research group will welcome Joana as a guest researcher.
Reading
Sky Michael Johnston, "Printing the Weather. Knowledge, Nature, and Popular Culture in Two Sixteenth-Century German Weather Books," Renaissance Quarterly 73 (2020), 391–440.
Organizer
NB: External guests should register with Ada Arendt.