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Past Answers to Current Concerns: Failing Strategies 2
November 3, 2020 · 1:30 pm · via Zoom
Climate Change and History Research Initiative; Program in Medieval Studies
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The Climate Change and History Research Initiative, in partnership with the Environmental History Lab of the Program in Medieval Studies, and with the support of the Humanities Council, launches a new series of six online seminars entitled “Past Answers to Current Concerns: Approaches to Understanding Historical Societal Resilience.”
The presentations are open to the public. Each set of papers will be followed by a Q & A session of 30 minutes, after which the public section will close and a specialist project team discussion will follow. Registration and Zoom information for Seminar 1 is listed below.
Seminar 5
Tsunamis, El Nino, and War on Aceh, Sumatra
Emmanuel Kreike (History)
Are all unhappy systems alike? Finding Patterns in Historical Collapses
Thayer Patterson & Miguel Centeno (Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies)