报告题目：Of Moldy Bread and Murderous Peasants: How Historians Make Sense of Climate Data
报告人：Kieko Matteson教授，夏威夷大学历史系
报告时间：2012年6月19日（周二）下午14:30
报告地点：气象楼1114会议室
主 持 人：王玉清教授
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摘要：
In this talk, I survey some of the ways that historians have used climate data to understand the context and causation of major historical events, including the famines, disorders, and witch crazes of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in Europe, and the outbreak and unfolding of the French Revolution. Historians have long been interested in climate and weather's impact on human society, politics, and economic affairs, but the questions we ask, the data we use, and the ways we apply that data are likely to be quite different - broader and driven more by inference than by precision - than meteorologists and other climate scientists might feel comfortable with. In the spirit of the interdisciplinarity that has been a hallmark of European historians' research and writing since the early twentieth century, I offer an overview of some of our approaches, while also seeking from you all advice on other ways we might approach the historical climate data at our disposal.
气象灾害省部共建教育部重点实验室
大气科学学院
2012年6月18日
