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Is Winter Still Coming? The Arctic Humanities in Times of Climate Change - Roundtable Discussion of the International Doctorate Program "Rethinking Environment"
How has human-made climate change changed the Arctic Humanities, as an interdisciplinary field of research? What can the topics, research questions, and methods that emerge in this context contribute to the common perception of and the scientific debates about the Arctic? What is the role of the humanities in dealing with the socio-ecological transformation processes taking place in the Arctic? To what extent do the disciplines involved challenge the stereotypical concept of the Arctic as a static and extra-societal region that exists outside of history?
Based on their own work in the field, Prof. Dr. Sverker Sörlin (Environmental History), Dr. Juliane Egerer (Scandinavian Studies), Anne-Sophie Balzer (Literary Studies) and Floris Winckel (History of Technology) will discuss these and other questions during our roundtable discussion on April 30 from 10:00 to 12:00 in Building D, Room 4056.
The event is open to the public.
Gastvortrag "The Climate of Fascism. Science, Environment, and Italian Colonialism (1860-1960)” von Angelo Caglioti
Am 17. April trägt Professor Angelo Caglioti im Colloquium der Historikerinnen und Historiker zum Thema "The Climate of Fascism. Science, Environment, and Italian Colonialism (1860-1960)” vor.
Er arbeitet derzeit an einem Buchmanuskript mit demselben Titel, das die Umweltgeschichte des italienischen Kolonialismus in Libyen und am Horn von Afrika aus der Perspektive italienischer Kolonialexperten rekonstruieren wird. Sein besonderes Interesse gilt dem Aufstieg des faschistischen Imperialismus im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert.
Der Vortrag findet um 18.15 Uhr im Raum L 1005 statt.
Podcast "Waste Trade or Waste Colonialism: A Conversation with Simone Müller"
The interview with Paul Sutter in "Edge Effects" is online as of February 15. The digital magazine focuses on environmental issues and is produced by students at the Center for Culture, History and the Environment (CHE), a research center of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
You can stream or download the episode here:
https://edgeeffects.net/simone-muller/
Workshop with Maya Hey on 29 February 2024
Dr. des. L. Sasha Gora, project director of the international research group “Off the Menu: Appetites, Culture, and Environment” is delighted to invite its first guest researcher to the University of Augsburg: Maya Hey. As part of her visit to Bavaria, Maya Hey will present a public lecture at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich on Wednesday 28 February 2024 (at 16:30), organized together with the RCC Fermentation Group, and a workshop at the WZU at the University of Augsburg on Thursday 29 February 2024 (from 10:00 to 17:30).
Maya Hey is an expert on human-microbe relations in food settings, with degrees in dietetics, food studies, and communications. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the Centre for the Social Study of Microbes at the University of Helsinki.
Diskussion mit Prof. Dr. Müller beim Berlin-Brandenburger Colloquium für Umweltgeschichte
Es ist die sechste und letzte Veranstaltung in diesem Semester am Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF). Zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Simone Müller wird über die Ergebnisse ihrer langjährigen, innovativen Forschung zur Umweltgeschichte des internationalen Handels mit giftigem Abfall und seinen Implikationen für Umweltgerechtigkeit diskutiert.
Datum: 5. Februar 2024
Zeit: 18.00 - 20.00 Uhr
Organisation: Jan-Henrik Meyer, Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF) und Astrid M. Kirchhof, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Kontakt und Anmeldung
Dr. Jan-Henrik Meyer
Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF)
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam
E-Mail: meyer@zzf-potsdam.de
Dr. Astrid M. Kirchhof
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
E-Mail: astrid.m.kirchhof@hu-berlin.de
Gastvortrag "Die Universität als nachhaltiges Unternehmen. Historische Perspektive und aktuelle Entwicklungen."
Im Rahmen der Vorlesung von Prof. Dr. Müller „Rettet die Erde vor den Ökonomen? Zur Verflechtungsgeschichte von Ökologie und Ökonomie.“ spricht Frau Prof. Dr. Kreis der Universität Siegen zum Thema "Die Universität als nachhaltiges Unternehmen. Historische Perspektive und aktuelle Entwicklungen."
Herr PD Dr. Simon Meißner ergänzt den Vortrag mit einer Replik.
Der Gastvortrag findet am 22. Januar 2024 um 11.45 Uhr im Hörsaal IV statt.
Antrittsvorlesung von Prof. Dr. Simone Müller
Podcast on Simone M. Müllers newly released book "The Toxic Ship"
Brian Hamilton, chair of the Department of History and Social Sciences at Deerfield Academy, talks with Simone M. Müller about her new book on his New Books Network - Environmental Studies podcast.
In "The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade" (University of Washington Press, 2023), Simone M. Müller uses the voyage of the ship as a lens to illuminate the global trade in hazardous waste - the transport of materials ranging from obsolete consumer goods and pesticides to barges carrying all kinds of toxic waste - from the 1970s to the present.
https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-toxic-ship
Gastvortrag "The Soviet Union, Whaling, and the Nature of the Twentieth Century"
"Wie viel Gift verträgt die Welt?"
New DFG Heisenberg Professor at the University of Augsburg
The University of Augsburg has appointed historian Prof. Dr Simone Müller, an expert on global environmental history and environmental humanities, as new DFG Heisenberg Professor. The sought-after historian, who works in an advisory capacity for the Polish National Science Council, the Academy of Finland, and the Swedish Research Council, researches globalisation processes and the relationship between ecology and economy. In 2017, she was nominated by the German Research Foundation as a leading researcher in her field (Academia.net).
