Study Day – 1816: The Year Without A Summer

10.00am Tea/coffee

10.30–11.30am Talk 1: Atmospheric Effects of the Mt. Tambora Eruption
Prof Giles Harrison (Professor of Atmospheric Physics, University of Reading)

11.30am–12.30pm Talk 2: Frankenstein’s Weather!
Prof Gillen D’Arcy Wood (Professor of English, University of Illinois)

12.30 – 1.30pm Lunch (not provided)

1.30–2.30pm Talk 3: ‘Not yet saved’: Europe after the fall of Napoleon
Prof Robert Tombs (Professor of French History, University of Cambridge)

2.30–3.30pm Talk 4: Lightness, Darkness and the Creative Brain
Prof Michael Trimble (Emeritus Professor of Behavioural Neurology, UCL)

3.30pm Tea/coffee

3.45–4.30pm Panel discussion
Speakers and Judith Bingham (composer), chaired by Ian Ritchie

Two hundred years ago, the world’s biggest volcanic eruption caused severe climate change: it was a time of extraordinary creativity alongside famine, poverty, disease and migration. Four leading experts, from the various fields of science, medicine, neurology, culture and history, explore the complete context of this extraordinary year in their individual talks and interactive panel discussion.