Natural Disasters and Cultural Strategies : Responses to Catastrophe in Global Perspective

Participants: Anna Akasoy (University of Frankfurt), Greg Bankoff (University of Auckland, New Zealand, currently Netherland Institute for Advanced Study), Lauri Bauer Coleman (College of William and Mary), Vinita Damodaran (New Delhi, India and University of Sussex), Mathias Deutsch (University of Erfurt), Andreas Dix (University of Bonn), Georgina Endfield (University of Nottingham), Lutfallah Gari (Yanbu al-Sinaiyah, Saudi Arabia), Gustavo Gerardo Garza-Merodio (Universidad de México), Anne Marie Granet-Abisset (Grenoble), Alain Gioda (Maison des Sciences de l’Eau IRD, Montpellier), Richard Grove (Center for World Environmental History, University of Sussex), Andrea Janku (University of Heidelberg), Michael Kempe (Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt), Itoko Kitahara (Kanagawa University, Japan), Gabriele Lingelbach (University of Trier), Franz Mauelshagen (University of Zurich), Bernard Mergen (George Washington University), James K. Mitchell (Rutgers University), José Mouthaan (European University, Florence), Timo Myllyntaus (University of Turku), Karen Oslund (University of Maryland, College Park), Marı́a del Rosario Prieto (Instituto Argentino de Nivologı́a, Glaciologı́a y Ciencias Ambientales, Mendoza), Christian Rohr (University of Salzburg), Hugo Romero (Universidad de Chile), Stephanie Summermatter (University of Bern), Bertrand Taithe (University of Manchester), Otfried Weintritt (University of Cologne), Cornelia Wilhelm (University of Munich).