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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:The Cold Standard: Climate Information and Memory in the Great Winter of 1709
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SUMMARY:The Cold Standard: Climate Information and Memory in the Great Winter of 1709
DESCRIPTION:<p><a href="https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2026/04/the-cold-standard-climate-information-and-memory-in-the-great-winter-of-1709">Environmental Histories of Europe Seminar</a></p><p>Historians of the early modern world have recognized the "Little Ice Age" — a period of regional cooling that occurred primarily in Europe and North America from the early 14th century through the mid-19th century — as a driver of social and political change. Yet, the term encompasses a periodization that spans multiple centuries. How much do we precisely know about the causal dynamics between climate and human culture as they happened on the ground?</p><p>Based on research at 60 archives across Europe, Jin-Woo Choi examines one of the most infamous winters that has come to represent the "Little Ice Age" as a whole. Choi will discuss how emerging technologies of information-gathering and dissemination turned the "Great Frost" of 1708/09 — Europe's coldest winter during the past 500 years — into a benchmark of climate extremity for Europe vis-à-vis other regions of the world, as well as the beginnings of a historical climatology that exploited older sources to chart epicycles of severe winters.</p>
LOCATION:Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
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