
Poster WiSe 2026/27

Poster SoSe 2026 · © Anne Ramin

Programm WiSe 2025/26
Online-Kolloquium
Early Modern Climate Cultures
Das englischsprachige Online-Kolloquium bietet eine internationale Austauschplattform für alle, die sich für die kulturellen Folgen frühneuzeitlicher Umweltbedingungen interessieren.
Wintersemester 2026/27 aktuell
Snow and other forms of water in the arts before 1800▲
22.10.
Susanne Wosnitzka (Augsburg): Jingle Bells: Wetter und sein Einfluss auf Musik und Musikschaffen
05.11.
Cornelia Blasberg (Münster): Schnee – Wissen – Bedeutung. Überlegung zu einer kleinen Literaturgeschichte des Schnees
12.11.
Mia Argyriadis-Brauns (Heidelberg): Experiencing the Arctic: Nature, Environment, and Landscape in Gerrit de Veer's „Warhafftige Relation" (1598)
19.11.
Charlotta Forss (Södertörn): Northern bodies: Early modern conceptions of snow, rain and seasonal health in the Baltic Region
03.12.
Dîlan Canan Çakir (Cambridge): Flooding in one-act plays in the 18th and early 19th centuries
17.12.
Nadine Luskovec (Leipzig): Beyond Painted Weather Reports – The Role of Dutch Winter Images in Perceiving and Coping with Early Modern Cold Waves
14.01.
Urs Büttner (Düsseldorf): Snow. A Global History of Literary Meteorology
19.01., 10:00 Uhr
Saskia Limbach (Göttingen): Invisible Women? Widows in the Early Book Business (1550–1700) – gemeinsame Veranstaltung mit Book Studies Münster
28.01.
Diego León-Villagrá (Weimar): Figures of Snow: Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, 1650–56
Sommersemester 2026
Early modern (climate) Sources – Data – Databases▼
23.04.
Siv Brandtzæg (Trondheim): Songs on Screen: The Making of a Database
21.05.
Sylvia Brockstieger, Rebecca Hirt (Heidelberg/Karlsruhe): From Material Text to Digital Data: Creating the Writing Calendar Database
02.06.
Andrew Pettegree (St. Andrews): The Universal Short Title Catalogue and the Perils of Big Data
25.06.
Rüdiger Glaser (Freiburg): Climate Data Analysis from the Little Ice Age to the Modern Warming
02.07.
Jöran Landschoff, Carolin Schwegler, Leyla Rommel (Cologne/Bremen): Close Reading/Distant Reading: Approaching Climate Discourses in Large Text Corpora
Wintersemester 2025/26
Early Modern Climate and Religion▼
30.10.
Discussion: Rienk Vermij, A Science of Signs. Aristotelian Meteorology in Reformation Germany. Early Science and Medicine 15,6 (2010)
13.11.
Discussion: Linnéa Rowlatt, Weathering the Reformation. Climate and Religion in Early Sixteenth-Century Strasbourg (2024)
27.11.
Linnéa Rowlatt: Talk on Weathering the Reformation (2024), 4–5 pm
11.12.
Rahel Schär (Bern): Nature, Body, and Religion in Extreme Situations: Environmental and Gender History Perspectives
08.01.
Discussion: Dean Bell, The Little Ice Age and the Jews. AJS Review 32:1 (2008)
22.01.
Dean Bell (Chicago): Talk on Judaism, History, and the Environment. Climate Change and Natural Disasters (2025), 4–5 pm
05.02.
Cecilia Rosengren (Gothenburg): Freezing cold. Northern European imaginaries of winter, snow and ice during the Little Ice Age