[Sci-tech-public] MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History Series via Zoom: October 7, 2022

[Kathleen Lopes]

Friday, Oct 7 @ 2:30pm ET
A Zoom Lecture
On Zoom (Click here<https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqdumprjwiG91v3kxx4ULEMaWbfsP0IBTk> to register in advance)
Medieval Riverscapes
Ellen Arnold, Associate Professor at University of Stavanger, Norway

Currently, drought, devastating floods, and climate insecurity are causing Europeans to pay more acute attention to their rivers. Riverscapes are appearing more and more frequently in the news, as rising rivers wipe out towns and wreak havoc on industries and drought dries up famous rivers. Such changes affect more than transit and economy-they impact cultural imaginations and dredge up long-lost stories. Shrinking rivers reveal mysteries of the past such as the hunger stones of the Danube and sunken warships, and floods touch on old memorial markers. Such dynamic and shifting riverscapes are striking, but not new. In this talk, the author will explore how medieval people understood, interpreted, and responded changing and changeable rivers in their own time, and how their own river stories connected past and present.



Kathleen Lopes
Administrative Assistant II
History Section, SHASS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

617.253.4965
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