Climate, Environment, Settlement and Society Conference, 2012

Climate, Environment, Settlement and Society

Changing historic patterns in Ireland

 24-6 February 2012

 ALL Hallows College

Name	Institution	Title
Mike Baillie	QUB	‘Tree rings hint at environmental triggers for settlement change’
David Dickson	TCD	‘Environment and the infrastructural development of eighteenth century Dublin’
David Fleming	UL	‘Climate, reclamation and settlement in eighteenth-century Ireland’
Jim Galloway	University of London	‘Storms, flooding and economic change in the later middle ages: the Thames Estuary as a case-study’
Kieran Hickey	NUIG	‘A bolt from the heavens! The historical record of lightning in Ireland and its impact on settlement and people’.
Jessica L. Jones	TCD	The nature and evolution of Irish coastal settlements: fishing and the environment in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland’
Francis Ludlow	Harvard	‘The causes and societal impacts of meteorological extremes as revealed through the environmental record of the medieval Irish Annals’
Michael Monk	UCC	‘Climate, environment and settlement in Early Medieval Ireland’
Margaret Murphy	Carlow College	‘Dirty Old Towns: environmental impacts of medieval Irish towns’
Michael O’Connell	NUIG	‘Climate, environment and farming in Ireland during the last two millennia: insights from palaeoecology’
Gill Plunkett	QUB	‘Bogged down with data? Peatland-based investigations of cultural responses to climate change in the last two millennia’
Tim Soens	University of Antwerp	‘Cultures of disaster or amphibious societies? Institutional responses to flood disasters in Flanders and Northern Germany, fourth-sixteenth centuries’
Ingelise Stuijts	Discovery Programme	‘The human factor in woodlands: from tree to faggots as seen from the archaeobotanical records’

 

A conference organised by the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement, Irish Environmental History Network and the Discovery Programme

A full programme and registration details will be posted here in December 2011.