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Workshop "Nature and Nation in Europe since 1860" - Trento, Italy 15-17/09/2010
| Location: | Italy |
| Workshop Date: | 2010-09-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-08-31 |
| Announcement ID: |
178504 |
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We are pleased to announce a workshop on environmental history in modern Europe from the national point of view at the Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali of the Università di Trento.Attendance is open to the public.
NATURE AND NATION IN EUROPE SINCE 1860
Wednesday September 15, 2010
17:00 Marco Armiero and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
Introduction
17:30 Mark Bassin (Birmingham)
Environmental Influences and the Construction of National History: Afanasii Shchapov’s “Frontier Hypothesis” of Russian Nationhood
18:10 Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted (United Arab Emirates University)
Aesthetics of the Volga and national narratives in Russia
18:50 Loreta Zydeliene (Hull)
Independence essentials: interwar Lithuanian forestry and why attempts to maintain sustainable forest reserves failed
Thursday September 16, 2010
09:00 Peter A. Coates (Bristol)
Keynote lecture
10:30 Coffee-break
11:00 Valentin Nicolescu (Bucharest)
Nation and Nature in Romanian Ecologist Discourse
11:40 Johann Zechner (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Politicized Timber: The ‘German Forest’ and the Nature of the Nation
12:20 Tait Keller (Rhodes College, Memphis)
Glacial Bonds and Racial Peaks: The Alps and National Identities in Germany and Austria, 1871-1933
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Marcus Hall (Zürich)
Publishing a National Environmental History: Notes from the Italian trenches
15:40 Judith O’Connell (NUI Galway)
The socialisation of nationalism, with reference to the changing depiction of the Irish famine
16:20 Charles-François Mathis (Sorbonne, Paris)
Nature and the English Nation from the last third of the 19th century
17:00 Coffee-break
17:30 Roundtable
19:00 Wilko Graf von Hardenberg and Marco Armiero
Conclusions
On September 17 (9-12am) we will hold also a restricted discussion group on further networking about the history of nature and nation. If you are interested in taking part also in this activity please inform us at least a week in advance with a short motivational e-mail: info@natureandnation.eu
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Wilko Graf von Hardenberg,
Università di Trento
Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali
via Verdi 26, 38100 Trento, Italy
mob. +39 329 216 3846
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Email: info@natureandnation.eu
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