Current Issues in American Cultural History and Environmental Studies
Oberseminar
05.11.2018 – 07.11.2018
Convener: Christof Mauch
Location: Studienhaus Schönwag
Graduate Students will present and discuss their work with LMU faculty members and RCC fellows.
Monday, 5 November
14:00 Arrival
14:30 – 15:00 Welcome and Introductions
15:00 – 16:15 Commons and Communities
- Claudio de Majo Understanding the Commons: Origins, Debates and Disciplinary Paths
- Talitta Reitz Community Transformation and Ecological Restoration in Portland, Oregon and Munich, Bavaria
16:30 – 18:00 Excursion (guided tour at the trout farm “Forellenhof Schönwag”)
18:00 – 19:00 Perceptions of Pollution and Landscapes
- Irma Allen Resigned Adaptation: Normalizing Exposure to Burdensome Environments
- Nina Jessen Sensing the Soil
19:00 Dinner
Tuesday, 6 November
08:15 Breakfast
09:15 – 10:30 Ecologies and Economics
- Troy Vettese Firm and Super-Firm: Neo-Liberalism, John Dales, and the Origins of Pollution-Permit Trading
- Andreas Jünger Organic Farming in Andalusia: Capitalist Agro-Industrial Continuity or Social-Ecological Alternative?
10:45 – 12:00 Canadian Environments
- Sasha Gora Trains and Tundra: Tales of Culinary Appropriation
- Daniel Dumas Tar Sands and Traditional Lands: Contemporary Responses to Tar Sands Extraction in Northern Alberta, Canada
12:15 - 12:45 Writing in Place: A Research Method
- Alison Pouliot Offline at the End of the World. Writing in Place using Environmental Archives
13:00 Lunch
14:30 - 16:30 Excursion (Mushrooms in the Woods, guided by Alison Pouliot)
16:45 – 18:45 Science and Technology
- Jonatan Palmblad The Mechanization of Mankind: Lewis Mumford on Technology, Environment, and Human Agency
- Martin Meiske Maintaining Mobility – Fixing Deforestation. The Rise of Creosote and its Hazardous Legacy
- Nils Hanwahr Environmental Research Infrastructures in the Command and Control Anthropocene – a book proposal draft
19:00 Dinner
Wednesday, 7 November
08:00 Breakfast
9:00 – 10:15 Ecological Pressures
- Jesse Peterson How do Nutrients Become Pollution? Nitrogen Cascade and Eutrophic Representation in Science and Culture
- Arvid van Dam A village in the unmaking
10:30 - 11:45 Water and the City
- Fabian Zimmer The Day of the Waterfall
- Pavla Šimková Spectacle: A History of Boston’s Urban Islands
12:20 Return to Munich
Faculty:
Dr. Ruth Morgan
Dr. Alison Pouliot
Dr. Monica Vasile
Dr. Aleksandar Shopov
Prof. Catherine Dunlop
Prof. Jared Farmer
Prof. Dr. Christof Mauch