Jan-Henrik Meyer Announces Upcoming Series of Talks on Environmental History in Berlin

The Berlin-Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental history is happy to announce its schedule of talks for the winter semester 2013/14. This seminar series was initially conceived on the margins of a conference at the Rachel Carson Center 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 combines the global and the local in terms of contributors and contributions – this semester including papers on the United States, the sea, the Amazon in Brazil, the Baltics, Europe, Berlin, and East Germany. 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 feel free to come by or get in touch with the organizers:

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

Jan-Henrik Meyer (Aarhus Universitet), jhmeyer@gmx.de

From this semester onwards, we are proudly announcing a cooperation with the Carson Center’s Environment and Society Portal’s Arcadia site: http://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia

Berlin-Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental History

Winter Semester 2014

Monday, 28 October 2013: Ella Müller (Freiburg): "The Earth Is Tougher Than You Think!" Widerstände gegen Umweltpolitik in den USA von 1970 bis in die frühen 1990er Jahre"

Monday, 18 November 2013: Julia Heunemann (Weimar): "Formationen des Wissens über das Meer im 19. Jahrhundert"

Monday, 2 December 2013: Kevin Niebauer (Berlin): "Wie die grüne Hölle zum Regenwald wurde: Amazonien als Topos der ökologischen Krise, 1970 – 1992"

Monday, 16 December 2013: Ulrike Plath (Tallinn): "Umwelt und Körper: Demographische Katastrophen im Baltikum der Frühen Neuzeit"

Monday, 6 January 2014: Jan-Henrik Meyer (Aarhus): "The Myth of Independence. Experts in early European Environmental Policy in the 1970s"

Monday, 20 January 2014: Karin Winklhöfer (Berlin): "Eine stinkende Brühe? Verunreinigung der Berliner Spree im Zeitraum 1873 bis 1914"

Monday, 3 February 2014: Astrid Mignon Kirchhof (Berlin): "Die Natur des Kalten Krieges. Naturschutzpolitik in der DDR während des Ost-West-Konfliktes 1945-1990"

Place: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Eingang Kronenstraße, mit dem Lift in den 5. Stock, Raum 5028.

Time: 18-20 Uhr

Organisers:                           

Astrid M. Kirchhof, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, astrid.m.kirchhof@geschichte.hu-berlin.de

Jan-Henrik Meyer, Aarhus Universitet, jhmeyer@gmx.de

In cooperation with: http://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia

A pdf version of this schedule can also be downloaded from here: http://pure.au.dk/portal/files/56407097/BBC_WS_2013_14_final.pdf

Contact:

Dr. 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

 

Dr. Jan-Henrik Meyer
Aarhus University
Department of Culture and Society
Jens Chr. Skous Vej 5, 4.´
DK-8000 Aarhus C

Email:  jhmeyer@gmx.de
http://person.au.dk/en/ihojhm@hum