Communicating Disaster Experiences
Communicating Disaster Experiences: Religion, Science, History, and the Media
SOAS, University of London
April 4–5, 2008
Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and SOAS
Friday, April 4, 2008 (room 116)
09:00 – 09:10 | Arrival and registration |
09:10 – 09:20 | Welcome and Introduction (Anna Akasoy/Andrea Janku) |
09:20 – 11:00 | Session 1 Chair: Anna Akasoy (University of Oxford) - Jussi Hanska (University of Tampere)
“Individual Perception of Natural Disasters during the Middle Ages” - Marie Louisa Allemeyer (Universität Göttingen)
“Religious and Secular Ways of Coping with Storm Tides in Early Modern Northern Germany”
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11.00 – 11.20 | Tea break |
11.20 – 13.00 | Session 2 Chair: Tim Barrett (SOAS) - Anna Akasoy (Oxford University)
“Fires in Arabic Historiography” - Franz Mauelshagen (Universität Zürich)
“Ordeals by Fire or the Embarrassment of Lightning: Divine Wrath, Politics, and the Media in Sixteenth and Eighteenth Century Zürich”
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13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch break |
14:30 – 16:10 | Session 3 (in German) Chair: Andrea Janku (SOAS) Discussant: Lars Laamann (SOAS) - Mischa Meier (Universität Tübingen)
“Catastrophe and Blessing: Orosius’s Reinterpretation of History” - Gerrit Jasper Schenk (Universität Stuttgart)
“Des-Aster: Interpretationsmodelle von Naturkatastrophen im Mittelalter – eine Skizze”
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16:10 – 16:30 | Tea break |
16:30 – 18:00 | Internal meeting |
19:00 – | Conference Dinner |
Saturday, April 5, 2008 (room G3)
10:00 – 11:00 | Keynote lecture Grégory Quenet (Université Versailles St Quentin en Yvelines) “Earthquakes in Early Modern France: From the Old Regime to the Birth of a New Risk” |
11:00 – 11:20 | Tea break |
11:20 – 13:00 | Session 4 Chair: Franz Mauelshagen (Universität Zürich) - Greg Bankoff (University of Hull):
“Tale of Two Histories: Humanity and Nature at War in the Philippines 1896-1907” - Andreas Dix (Universität Bamberg):
“Natural Events Between Reality and Perception”
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13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch break |
14:30 – 16:10 | Session 5 Chair: Terry Cannon (University of Greenwich) - Stephanie Summermatter (Universität bern)
“The Role of the Media in the Swiss Federal Fundraising Routine during the Nineteenth Century” - Andrea Janku (SOAS)
“The Alienated Nation: Famine and the Media in Early Twentieth-Century China”
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16:10 – 17:00 | Concluding discussion |
Contact: Andrea Janku aj7@soas.ac.uk