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 Centre 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. 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 to participate or present 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), jhmeyer@gmx.de

Schedule

Monday, 28.4.2014

Sabine Sauter (Tübingen): "Der Wandel von Umweltkonzeptionen unter dem Bedrohungsdruck durch Sand- und Staubstürme in Australien 1930-1945"

Monday, 12.05.2014

Matthew Gandy (London, England): "Zoöpolis redux: reflections on urban nature” - Ecology Days: Opening Session

Ecology days – a nomadic colloquium that links ecological thinking across the city's knowledge producing institutions. Information: http://www.ecologydays.de/

Achtung: Cooperation with "Ecology Days", thus takes place at the Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Universitätsstr. 3b, Room 002 (ground floor)!

Monday, 19.5.2014

Raja Kumaresan (Pondicherry, Indien): "Environmental Administration and Sustainable Development: The Indian Experience"

Monday, 16.6.2014

Pavla Kacmarova (Prag, Tschechien): "The impact of ecological economics in the era of the "scientification" of politics in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1969-1974"

Monday, 23.6.2014

Adam Izdebski (Krakau, Polen): "Ethnicity, culture, and the environment in medieval Anatolia and the Balkans"

Monday, 7.7.2014

Matthias Lieb (Darmstadt): "Bürgerschaftliches Engagement für den Umweltschutz in der Stadt - Mainz, Wiesbaden und Freiburg"

 

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

Time:
18-20:00

Organisers:
Astrid M. Kirchhof, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, astrid.m.kirchhof@geschichte.hu-berlin.de
Jan-Henrik Meyer, Aarhus Universitet, jhmeyer@gmx.de