Multimedia | interviews and talks
Being in the Air: An Intellectual and Aesthetic History of Climate
This animated short film taps into the deep pain of the pandemic, experienced by millions of people all over the world.
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“The Monster Swallows You”: Disaster Memory and Risk Culture in Western Europe, 1500–2000
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, Christian Pfister examines disaster memory and risk culture. In contrast to the memory of war, the memory of natural disaster is markedly short-lived in a globalized world, yet such memory should be preserved in order to minimize the impact of similar disasters in the future.
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Making Rain under the Mallas
Nepalese manuscripts on rainmaking rituals offer data on droughts in historical climate reconstructions.
Multimedia | book, full-text
A Mist Connection: An Environmental History of the Laki Eruption of 1783 and Its Legacy
The full book by RCC alumna Katrin Kleemann.