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: Environmental History
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…
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”…
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…
September 18th at 23:59 CET is the deadline to submit a proposal for a paper to the 2024 World Congress of Environmental History. The WCEH will be held in Oulu, Finland from…
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…
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…
Dendrochronologist Andrea Seim will give a seminar in English on the topic “Historical forest cover and timber availability during the last millennium in central Europe: insights from tree rings and pollen”. As…