On 16 April the Subaltern Memories Conference will take place in Florence, Italy. Whether we look at natural disasters in Italy or beyond, the Chernobyl catastrophe of 1986, or the environmental calamities of warfare presented on the basis of the Spanish Civial War and the current War between Russia and Ukraine, this conference aims at putting subaltern memories, experiences, harm, and problems into the focus. Typical stories and legacies built around overcoming and resilience will be challenged.
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ESEH 2025 Is Coming Up Soon!
From 18 until 22 August this year many environmental historians, historians of technology, artists and discussion-enthusiasts are going to meet up in Uppsala, Sweden. The European Society for Environmental History invites us to participate in this lovely city about an hour north of Stockholm. The biannual ESEH conferences are always a highlight in any historian’sContinue reading “ESEH 2025 Is Coming Up Soon!”
Research under changed conditions?
This Thursday and Friday, 14-15 November, the GWTF, the Gesellschaft für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung, is hosting her yearly meeting in my old hometown of Dortmund in the Ruhr Area in the western parts of Germany. The overarching topic will be about how we can conduct research in a changed environment. Here the precarity of manyContinue reading “Research under changed conditions?”
ESEH 2023 in Bern: Panel on “Nuclear Environments”
Right now I am sitting in a study room at a hotel in Bern. The Suisse capital is beautiful. At the moment we are living through a heat wave that at least for me is the hottest I have felt this summer. I guess that is no surprise, given the fact that I am regularlyContinue reading “ESEH 2023 in Bern: Panel on “Nuclear Environments””