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It is commonplace to note that environmental history research has flourished in recent years. But with the growing amount of studies, the original thrust to rewrite history in a new, “green” cast has somehow faded into the background. Against this background, the conference seeks to reexamine the issue of general turning points in environmental history. Can we discern any major turning points in the range of topics environmental historians have studied in recent decades? Are any of the early periodizations of environmental history still valid? What criteria have environmental historians used in defining turning points? What factors have stood behind particular turning points? And how does the periodization of environmental history relate to periodizations of history in general? Do the turning points of environmental history generally coincide with common chronological schemes, or does environmental history demand a periodization of its own? The conference unites a distinguished set of speakers for an open-ended discussion of these questions.
June 16, 2005
19.00 Opening of the Conference with a presentation of Joachim Radkau
June 17, 2005
9.00 1. Session (Chair: Christof Mauch)
Bernd-Stefan Grewe: Forest History
Thomas Lekan: The Nation-State
Richard Grove: Colonialism
11.00 2. Session (Chair: Christof Mauch)
Verena Winiwarter: Soil
Deborah Fitzgerald: Agriculture
Stefan Brakensiek: The Commons
13.00 Lunch
14.00 3. Session (Chair: Franz-Josef Brüggemeier)
Friedemann Schmoll: Nature Protection
Joel Tarr: Urban Environmental History
Dieter Schott: Infrastructures
16.00 4. Session (Chair: Franz-Josef Brüggemeier)
Christian Pfister: The 1950s Syndrome
Alla Bolotova: Eastern Europe
Jens Ivo Engels: The “Ecological Turn”
Frank Uekoetter: The Knowledge Society
June 18, 2005
9.00 5. Session (Chair: John McNeill)
Anna-Katharina Wöbse: The Second Thirty Years’ War
Thomas Potthast: The Biological Sciences
Carmit Lubanov: Population
Fiona Watson: Landscape
11.00 Concluding Session (preparation on the basis of the precirculated papers)
13.00 Lunch
The Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) can accept a limited number of participants. Those interested must register in advance with Martina Hoffmann at Marina.Hoffmann@uni-bielefeld.de.
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