Future Carson Fellow Jan-Henrik Meyer Announces Series of Talks

The Berlin-Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental history is happy to announce its schedule of talks for the coming spring/summer semester. This seminar series was initially conceived on the margins of a conference at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich in early 2012, and has been running since the summer of that year. Its goal is to provide a forum for the intellectual exchange and cooperation among researchers interested in issues relating environmental history in a broad sense – at various stages of completion – in the German capital region – and beyond.

The colloquium is rapidly internationalizing both in terms of contributors and contributions – including papers on Brazil, Britain, North America, Austria, East and West Germany. This coming summer term, for the first time, a majority of papers will be given in English by international guests. However, as the global and the local shall go together, contributions are welcome in both English and German, discussions are conducted in both languages.

The colloquium is hosted by Humboldt-University Berlin’s department of history, situated in the city centre of Berlin in the Friedrichstrasse – see address below.

Anyone interested is invited to participate and join us for the discussion and a beer afterwards. Guests from outside the region are particularly welcome to attend – or present at a later stage.

If you are interested in participating or presenting in the future, please get in touch with the organizers:

Astrid Mignon Kirchhof (Humboldt-University Berlin), astrid.m.kirchhof@geschichte.hu-berlin.de

Jan-Henrik Meyer (Aarhus Universitet/Rachel Carson Center), jhmeyer@gmx.de

 

Berlin-Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental History

Spring/Summer Semester 2013

Monday, 8 April 2013            Suleiman Osman (Washington, D.C.): "The New Localism: Neighborhood Protest and the Emergence of a 'Slow-Growth' Coalition in North America and Europe in the 1970s."

Monday, 22 April 2013          Julie Ault (Chapel Hill): "Networking Environmentalism: Exploring East German Environmental Connections in East and West, 1980-1990."

Monday, 29 April 2013          Antoine Acker (Florence): "'Umweltsuender VW do Brasil': the Making of an Environmental Villain in the early Hours of the Rainforest Protection Movement"

Monday, 13 May 2013           Christian Forstner (Jena): "The Lights are still burning“: Austria, Nuclear Energy and the Anti-Nuclear Movement“ /“Die Lichter brennen noch: Oesterreich, Kernenergie und Anti-AKW-Bewegung" (in German)

ATTENTION: This talk will take place from 4-6 p.m. in room 3010a (3rd floor)!

Monday, 27 May 2013           Astrid Mignon Kirchhof (Berlin): "Nature Protection and Politics in the two Germanys“ / „Naturschutz und Politik in beiden deutschen Staaten" (in German)

Monday, 10 June 2013           Christoph Laucht (Leeds): "De-Centering Cold War Environmental History: British Scientists, the British State and the Nuclear Test Ban Debate of the 1950s'"

Monday, 24 June 2013           Martin Stief (Berlin): "Environmental pollution and protection in the Eyes of the East German Secret Service (Stasi). How the Stasi dealt with environmental problems in the GDR chemical district of Halle” / “Umweltschmutz und Umweltschutz im Visier des MfS. Die Staatssicherheit im Umgang mit Umweltproblemen in der DDR - am Beispiel der Chemie-Industrie im ehemaligen Bezirk Halle" (in German)

Place:
Humboldt-University Berlin, Friedrichstrasse 191-193, Entrance Kronenstrasse, take the elevator to the 5th floor, room 5028.

Time:
6-8 p.m.

Organised by:
Astrid M. Kirchhof astrid.m.kirchhof@geschichte.hu-berlin.de
Jan-Henrik Meyer jhmeyer@gmx.de

Web:                                       http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/projects/berlinbrandenburger-colloquium-fur-umweltgeschichte-spring-schedule-2013-out-now%284f4a2623-e953-4bd5-aa5a-e08a2012fcd8%29.html
http://pure.au.dk/portal/files/52275983/Kolloquiumsplan_SS_2013_final.pdf

Contact:
Astrid Mignon Kirchhof
Humboldt University Berlin
Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften
Mohrenstraße 40
10117 Berlin
Room 341
Phone 0049-30-20931741
astrid.m.kirchhof@geschichte.hu-berlin.de

Jan-Henrik Meyer, Dr. phil.
Aarhus University
Department of Culture and Society
Jens Chr. Skous Vej 5, 4.
DK-8000 Aarhus C
Phone: +45 871 62217
Email:  jhmeyer@gmx.de
Office:  bldg.  1463 room 622
http://person.au.dk/en/ihojhm@hum