Early Modern Climate Cultures

The English-language online colloquium offers an international exchange platform for everyone interested in the cultural consequences of early modern environmental conditions.

Summer term 2026 current 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

Winter term 2026/27 Snow and other forms of water in the arts before 1800▼

Winter term 2025/26 Early Modern Climate and Religion▼