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CONFERENCE PROGRAM Monday, 5 September 20119:00&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Welcome AddressesGrudrun Gersmann (Director of the GHIP), Franz Mauelshagen, Gr&#233;gory Quenet, and Christian Pfister (Conference Organizers)9:30&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; SESSION 1&#160;&#8211; The State of the Art&#160;of Historical Climatology Short Presentations (15 min. per presentation)9:30 &#160;&#160;&#160; Climate Reconstruction in Historical Climatology (Rudolf Br&#225;zdil et al.)9:45 &#160;&#160;&#160; Historical Climate Impact Research: Methologies, Examples, and Future Challenges (Christian Pfister et al.)10:00 &#160; Cultural Representations and History of Knowledge about Climate (Franz Mauelshagen et al.)10:15&#160;&#160; Discussion11:00&#160;&#160; Coffee Break11:30&#160;&#160; First Keynote Lecture Facing the Current Challenge of Climate Change: What Historians can Contribute (Martin Parry)12:30 &#160; Lunch at the GHIP14:00 &#160; SESSION 2: New Research14:00&#160;&#160; Assessing the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the Middle East: The Potential of Arabic Documentary Sources (Steffen Vogt et al.)14:30&#160;&#160; Climate, Disease and Society in the 14th Century (Bruce Campbell)15:00&#160;&#160; Cold, Rain and Famine: Three Crises in the Burgundian Low Countries During the Fifteenth Century (Chantal Camenisch)15:30&#160;&#160; The Animal Crisis: The Commencement of the Little Ice Age, Fodder Scarcity and the Great Cattle Pestilence in Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century (Philip Slavin)16:00&#160; Coffee Break16:30 &#160; Spatio-Temporal Change of Climate Induced Regional Vulnerability and Resilience in Central Europe since AD 1000 (R&#252;diger Glaser et al.)17:00&#160;&#160; City Fires as Natural Hazards? Climate Anomalies and Fire Impact Severity (Eleonora Rohland et al.)17:30 &#160; The &#171; Year Without a Summer &#187; 1816 and the Social Vulnerability of Switzerland (Daniel Kr&#228;mer)18:00&#160;&#160; Coffee Break18:30&#160;&#160; Public LectureL&#8217;historien face &#224; l&#8217;histoire du climat (Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie)Tuesday, 6 September 20119:00 &#160;&#160;&#160; SESSSION 3 &#8211; Fresh Ideas in Historical Climatology9:00 &#160;&#160;&#160; Historical Perspectives and Developments on the Reconstruction, Reanalysis and Societal Impacts of Tropical Cyclones: A Review (Cary Mock)9:30&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Transational Flood Risk History of the Upper-Rhine Valley (Brice Martin et al.)10:00&#160;&#160; Tanks, Dishpans, and Reality: On Experimenting the Atmospheric Circulation (Isabell Schrickel)10:30 &#160; Coffee Break11:00&#160;&#160; SESSION 4 &#8211; Historical Climatology and the Historical Discipline11:00 &#160; Historical Climatology and Environmental History (Ranjan Chakrabarti, John R. McNeill)11:30&#160;&#160; Climate History and Historical Epochs (Christian Rohr et al.)12:00&#160;&#160; Historical Climatology of the Anthropocene: The Need for a Climate History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Franz Mauelshagen, Steven Engler)12:30 &#160; Lunch at the GHIP14:00 &#160; Second Keynote Lecture The Meaning of the Anthropocene to Human History (Dipesh Chakrabarty)15:00 &#160; SESSION 5&#160;&#8211; Global Warming and the Future of Climatology 15:00 &#160; The Future of Climate Research in the Natural Sciences (Ricarda Winkelmann)15:30&#160;&#160; The Future of Climate Research in the Social Sciences (Claus Leggewie, Bernd Sommer, Fran&#231;ois Gemenne)16:00&#160;&#160; Discussion16:30&#160;&#160; Coffee Break17:00 &#160; Final Roundtable Discussion: The Future of Historical Climatology