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07/14/2023 - 07/14/2023 | Praha
Die „Prager Vorträge“ der Prager Außenstellen des Collegium Carolinum und des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Warschau, sowie der Deutsch-Tschechischen Plattform GWZO Prag FLÚ wenden sich in erster Linie an tschechische Fachhistorikerinnen und -historiker. Sie sollen helfen, einen Begegnungs- und Kommunikationsort (nicht nur) zwischen tschechischen und deutschen Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern zu bilden.
Darüber hinaus bieten die Vorträge auch geschichtliche Informationen und Anregungen für eine breitere interessierte Öffentlichkeit. Auf Grundlage neuer Ansätze und Forschungsthemen mit entweder regionalem, europäischem oder globalem Bezug bildet die Veranstaltungsreihe ein fortlaufendes Diskussionsforum. Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen.
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Undine Ott (Leipzig)
Climate Crisis and Food Security. How the Black Death Traveled from the Black Sea to the Middle East.
In the mid-14th century, the so-called second plague pandemic reached the Middle East aswell as Europe. It arrived from Central Asia and the Northern shores of the Black Sea.How it got to Egypt, Syria and the Hejaz, the territories which, at the time, constitutedthe Mamluk sultanate, remains unclear, though.As has recently beendemonstrated with regard to Europe, a massive climate crisis in the 1340s formed thebackground upon which the spread of the Black Death on the continent needs to be understood. The climate anomaly of the 1340s affected the Middle East, too, but has, sofar, gone unnoticed in research on the region. The years 1343 and 1345 to 1347witnessed an accumulation of locust infestations and extreme weather events, especially during the winter months, a crucial period for agriculture. The lecture will combine epidemic, climate and economic history to shed some light on plague transmission routes that have, so far, largely remained in the dark: A fatal chain of climate crisis, harvest failures, famine and the sultan’s efforts to secure food supply in his territories culminated in the biggest calamity in the 14th-century Mideast: the plague wave that hit Egypt, Syria and the Hejaz in 1348 and 1349 and exacted an unparalleled death toll on the region’s population.
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Undine Ott is a doctoral candidate at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the ERC project “Mobility, Empire and Intercultural Contacts in Mongolian Eurasia” and at the Alexander von Humboldt Kolleg for Islamic Intellectual History at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Her Ph.D. topic is “Erinnerungsort Grab. Funktiones muslimischen Totengedenken in Zentralasien im 12./6. bis 14./8. Jahrhundert”. She was researcher at the Georg-August-University Göttingen and at the GWZO project “Early Medieval Centres on the Danube”. Since April 2020 she is a research assistant at the GWZO in the junior research group “Dantean Anomaly”.
Information on participating / attending:
Date:
07/14/2023 17:00 - 07/14/2023 18:30
Event venue:
GWZO Prague FLÚ
Valentinská 91/1 , CZ 110 00 Praha 1
Gebäude SLÚ AV ČR, 3. Stock
110 00 Praha
Czech Republic
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, Students
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Art / design, Cultural sciences, History / archaeology, Oceanology / climate, Social studies
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
03/07/2023
Sender/author:
Virginie Michaels
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event73735
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