• Date: September 19th, Thursday, 2025, 10:00 – 12:00
• Location: Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)

Presenter: Jungjae Park (Dept. of Geography)

Climate change and food crises trigger war and migration. Sometimes war breaks out first, and other times mass migration precedes it. The ancestors of Koreans, too, were climate refugees. The sustained cooling of temperatures in the later Holocene forced northern peoples onto the Korean Peninsula. Yet today’s global warming runs directly counter to the climate trends of the past several millennia. By examining how past cooling shaped the migration history of Eurasia and East Asia, we reflect on the kind of future global warming may bring—grounded in lessons from the past.