Thursday, 10 October 2024          

09:15–09:45       Morning coffee.

09:45–10:00       Dominik Collet (Oslo) Introduction – co-writing the Little Ice Age

10:00–10:15       Sam White (Helsinki) The Little Ice Age as a Period of Human History (online presentation)

10.15–10.30       Discussion

10:30–10:45       Small break 

Focus I: Origins and use of the LIA concept

10:45–11:00       Astrid E.J. Ogilvie (Boulder, Akureyri) Origins of the "Little Ice Age" 

11:00–11:15       Dominik Collet (Oslo) The Little Ice Age as a boundary object 

11:15–11:45       Discussion

12:00–13:15       Lunch

Focus II: Long-term perspectives

13:15–13:30       Kirstin Krüger (Oslo) High-frequency climate forcing causes prolonged cold periods in the Holocene

13:30–13:45       Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist (Stockholm) Reflections on the Little Ice Age: Climate science meeting history

13:45–14:00       Jan Esper (Mainz) Proxy selection to refine the Holocene temperature record in Europe (online presentation)

14:00–14:45       Discussion

14:45–15:15       Coffee break 

Focus III: Landuse and agriculture

15:15–15:30       Andrea Seim (Freiburg) Land-use changes during the LIA: insights from tree rings and pollen data

15:30–15:45       Heli Huhtamaa (Bern) Societal symptoms of the Little Ice Age: Stagnation or expansion?

15:45–16:15       Discussion

16:15–16:30       Time to refill coffee cups

Focus IV: Rain, Snow and Ice

16:30–16:45       Hans Linderholm (Gothenburg) LIA, not only temperature

16:45–17:00       Martin Miles (Bergen) Integrating geological, biological and historical archives to discover “Great Sea-Ice Anomalies” in the Little Ice Age (online presentation)

17:00–17:30       Discussion

18:30- Dinner: Lorry

Friday, 11 October 2024             

09:15-17:30       Co-writing retreat

18:30- Dinner: Lofotstua