Program

Tuesday, 11.09.2018

9.00-9.15
Welcome and Intro (with coffee): George Adamson, Matthew Hannaford, Eleonora Rohland

9.15-10.15
Rowan Jackson (University of Edinburgh): “Climate-Adaptation and History: How can we start to construct a Transdisciplinary Research Framework?”

11.15-12.15
Sarah Davies (Aberystwyth University): “How can locally specific Weather Histories contribute to Climate Change Adaptation? Examples from the TEMPEST Database of UK Historical Weather Extremes.”

12.15-13.30
Lunch Break

13.30-14.30
Christian Rohr (University of Bern): ”Local Knowledge and Disaster Memory in Pre-Modern and Present-Day Societies and their Impact on Climate Change Adaptation.”

14.30-15.30
Bas van Bavel (University of Utrecht): "Understanding the Interplay between Social Structures and Formal Institutions: Using History as a Laboratory.”

15.30-16.00
Coffee Break

16.00-17.00
Thomas Labbé (University of Bourgogne): "The Construction of the Vulnerability Concept in Disaster and Development Studies and its Use by the Historians of Climate: Paradox and Necessity (?)“

17.00-18.00
James Jeffers (Bath Spa University): "Developing Historically Informed Adaptation Research: Reflections on Challenges and Opportunities."

18.00-18.30
Summary

19.30
Conference Dinner