THURSDAY, 19 FEBRUARY 2015
9:00 Welcome addresses and introduction
I. Research Approaches and Designs
9:30 Ulf Büntgen (Zürich): A tree-ring perspective on ‘Little Ice Age’ summer temperature variability
9:50 Katrin Moeller (Halle): Halle und die Hungerkrise von 1805. Ein Plädoyer für neue Krisenmodelle in der wirtschaftshistorischen Forschung der Vormoderne / Halle and the famine of 1805. New models for early modern economic history
10:20 Christian Jörg (Tübingen): Forgotten crises of the medieval warm period. Researching famines of the High Middle Ages
10:40 Coffee break
11:15 Jürg Luterbacher (Gießen): From proxies to integrated, statistically based ‘Little Ice Age’ climate reconstructions and potential for past famine studies
11:35 Discussion
12:00 Lunch break
II. European Famines
14:00 Heli Huhtamaa (Bern/Joensuu): Exploring climate-driven food crises in Finland during the Little Ice Age with written and dendroclimatological evidence
14:20 Francis Ludlow (New Haven): Dynamics of extreme weather, Subsistence crises and violent conflict in medieval Ireland
14:40 Rudolf Brazdil (Brno): Famines in the Czech Lands during the ‘Little Ice Age’
15:00 Guido Alfani (Milano): Italian famines: An overview (ca. 1250-1800)
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Bruce Campbell (Belfast): Climate and disease: The famine of 1346-7 and near-famine of 1349-
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16:20 Discussion
18:00 Evening lecture:
Andrea Fadani (Ulm): Hunger remembrance in a museological context: Any linkage to environmental changes?
FRIDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2015
III. Global perspectives and coping strategies
9:30 Vinita Damodaran (Sussex): Climate signals, environment and livelihoods in seventeenth and eighteenth century India
9:50 Andrea De Vincenti (Zürich): Educationalizing hunger. Perceptions of the famine of 1771/72 in Zurich and coping strategies
10:10 Steven Serels (Berlin): Reconstructing patterns of human-environment interaction and collective organization in the African Red Sea World at the end of the ‘Little Ice Age`
10:30 Discussion
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Kathrin Pindl (Regensburg): Crises and strategies of subsistence in pre-modern Regensburg. Hospital grain accounts as sources for economic history
11:50 Andreas Rüther (Bielefeld): Theory of migration vs. colonization thesis? Concurrent concepts and multiple models of medieval eastward expansion
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 Jessica Dijkman (Utrecht): Coping with food shortages in the village of Berkel (Holland), late 16th - early 19th century
14:20 Discussion
14:45 Final discussion
15:15 End of conference