The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) is pleased to invite proposals for its biennial conference, taking place in Uppsala, Sweden, August 18th – 22nd, 2025. The conference theme, Climate Histories, seeks to bridge historical…
Tag: Climate
A new paper has been published in Nature and co-authored by IHOPE SSC member Fredrik Chapentier Ljungqvist. The paper “Jet stream controls on European climate and agriculture since 1300 ce” highlights how…
Coming of Age on the New Planet is a guest blog written by David Finnigan exploring if climate stories belong in our past, present, or future.
This month the journal Climate of the Past published a new paper that is co-authored by IHOPE SSC member Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist. The paper “Climatic signatures in early modern European grain harvest yields”…
On Wednesday, December 6th, the Swedish National Infrastructure for Digital Archaeology (Swedigarch) will be hosting its third Inspirational Lecture online. IHOPE’s SSC member Marcy Rockman will speak on the Radical Importance of…
IHOPE SSC member Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, alongside Andrea Seim and Dominik Collet, has published a new paper in WIREs. The paper Famines in medieval and early modern Europe—Connecting climate and society examines…
The Belmont Forum currently has Collaborative Research Actions open for Applications. The Belmont Forum is a partnership that funds collaborative research projects focused on environmental change. Currently there are two open Belmont…
Pierre Salvadori from Sorbonne Université will give the seminar “Challenging Maps: Migrating Goths, Unstable Ice, and Cartographic Bridges over the Northern Seas, 1540–1610”. The seminar is part of Stockholm University’s ongoing Climate…
We are excited to announce that IHOPE’s affiliate TerraNova has developed a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Integrated Landscape Analysis: Addressing the biodiversity and climate crises – which is now open…
Dr. Philip Slavin’s seminar “The Birth of the Black Death: Biology, Ecology and Climate in Tian Shan in the Early Fourteenth Century” considers the context around the beginning of the Plague in…