Welcome and Introduction
Learning from Historical Disasters and the Limits of our Knowledge
(Gerrit Jasper Schenk, Darmstadt, Heidelberg)

(Chair: Diamantis Panagiatopoulos, Heidelberg)

• Stefan Maul (Heidelberg): Erdbeben in Assyrien
• Joachim Friedrich Quack (Heidelberg): „Assur will suffer“. Predicting disaster in Ancient Egyptian
• Julia Itin (Halle, Heidelberg): „Hatte ich mich zuerst nur in die Vergangenheit geflüchtet, um die bedrohliche und gefahrvolle Gegenwart zu vergessen [...]“ Katastrophenparadigmen der jüdischen Geschichte

(Chair: Monica Juneja, Heidelberg)

• Anja Eisenbeiß (Heidelberg): Dealing with disaster in German courtly society: The impact of visual imagery
• Fabrizio Nevola (Oxford, Bath): Picturing disaster in Renaissance Italy
• Gregory Quenet (Paris, Versailles): What did we learn from historical earthquakes in France? State of the art and new perspectives

(Chair: Salvatore Ciriacono, Padua)

• Christian Pfister (Bern): „France has never witnessed such a disaster!“ Reflections on the cultural memory of disasters in Western Europe, 1700-2007

• Christian Rohr (Salzburg): From Mittewald (1456) to Galtür (1999). Risk management and (not) learning from avalanche disasters in the (Eastern) Alps

• Cornel Zwierlein (Bochum): Forgetting disasters. On the often missing causal link between fire catastrophes and the development of security regimes in early modern cities (16th-19th c.)