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.

Winter term 2026/27 current 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 am

Saskia Limbach (Göttingen): Invisible Women? Widows in the Early Book Business (1550–1700) – joint event with Book Studies Münster

28.01.

Diego León-Villagrá (Weimar): Figures of Snow: Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, 1650–56

Summer term 2026 Early modern (climate) Sources – Data – Databases▼

Winter term 2025/26 Early Modern Climate and Religion▼