Dr. des. Laura Tack

Articles and book chapters

• “Die Sturmflut 1625 in Rostock – Eine Spurensuche,” Beiträge zur Geschichte der Stadt Rostock 37 (2024): 152-167.
• “Auswirkungen und Bewältigung der Ostseesturmflut am 12./13.11.1872 in der Hansestadt Wismar,” Wismarer Beiträge. Schriftenreihe des Archivs der Hansestadt Wismar 24 (2018): 49-59.

Other

• Kleemann, Katrin. A Mist Connection: An Environmental History of the Laki Eruption of 1783 and Its Legacy. [review] H-Water, H-Net Reviews. February, 2024, https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=59662.
• “Environmental History and Coastal Protection: A memorial excursion and conference,” [blog] Environmental History Now, March 14, 2023, https://envhistnow.com/2023/03/14/environmental-history-and-coastal-protection-a-memorial-excursion-and-conference/.
• “Exploring the landscape and local legends: A historical storm surge site excursion report,” [blog] Baltic Peripeties Blog, October 14, 2022, https://peripeties.uni-greifswald.de/exploring-the-landscape/.
• “Three storms and two anniversaries: Bringing back memories,” [blog] Baltic Peripeties Blog, May 3, 2022, https://peripeties.uni-greifswald.de/three-storms-and-two-anniversaries-bringing-back-memories/.

• “Climate observation during the Baltic Sea storm surge of the 10th of February 1625,” panel New Sources of Early Modern European Climate History (ca. 1550-1700), 13th Biennial European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference Climate Histories, University of Uppsala, August 18-24, 2025.
• “A Breach in the Coastline. Narrations and Consequences of a Baltic Sea Storm Surge 1497,” Transitions, Transformations and Transdisciplinarity: Histories beyond History, 4th World Congress of Environmental History (WCEH), University of Oulu, August 19-23, 2024.
• “Memory of Medieval and Early Modern Storm Surges in the South-Western Baltic Sea,” panel New Voices in Water History: Premodern Histories, 12th Biennial European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference Mountains and Plains: Past, Present and Future Environmental and Climatic Entanglements, organised by the Institute of History and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, August 22-26, 2023.
• “A Sudden Realization of Risk: The Possibly Largest Storm Surge on the German Baltic Sea Coast,” international conference Negotiating Peripeties: Change and Its Narratives, organised by the IRTG Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes, University of Greifswald, in cooperation with the Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study Greifswald, May 25-27, 2023.
• “The Risk of Forgetting. Flood Protection at the Baltic Sea Coast through Remembrance and Commemoration,” Baltic Storm Surge 1872 – 150th Memorial Conference, University of Rostock, November 14, 2022.
• Participation in the PhD Summer School in Environmental History (An-)Hydrous Environments: Rethinking Water in Environmental History, organised by the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH), University of Bristol, July 10-13, 2022.
• “Shapes of Flood Memory Sites in the Baltic Sea Region – Material and Immaterial,” workshop Tidal Recall. Maritime Sites of Memory in the Baltic Sea Region, Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO), University of Greifswald, June 17 – 18, 2022.
• “Storm Flood as a Peripety in the Creation Legend of the Curonian Spit,” 28th Biennial AABS Conference Baltic Studies at a Crossroads (AABS 2022), University of Washington, Seattle, May 27-29, 2022.
• “Baltic Sea Storm Surges,” project presentation at the IRTG Festive Anniversary Baltic Sea Region Narratives, Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, Greifswald, April 6, 2022.
• “Sea Bear, Storm Flood, Tsunami – The Impact and Perception of a Historical Baltic Sea Flood Event in 1497,” Second Baltic Conference on the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences (BALTEHUMS II), Tallinn University (online), November 1-2, 2021.