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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Environmental Histories of Europe Seminar: "The Cold Standard: Climate Information and Memory in the Great Winter of 1709"
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SUMMARY:Environmental Histories of Europe Seminar: "The Cold Standard: Climate Information and Memory in the Great Winter of 1709"
DESCRIPTION:<p>** Please note: this event was originally scheduled for April 7, 2026, and has been rescheduled to April 14, 2026. **</p><p>Speaker: <a href="https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/ehppf/choi.html"><strong>Jin-Woo Choi</strong></a><em>Prize Fellow, Joint Center for History and Economics. Harvard University</em><br><br>Chair: <a href="https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/people/ailish-lalor-2"><strong>Ailish Lalor</strong></a><em>Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate &amp; Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard University</em><br><br>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>
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