Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History Winter 2020-2021

In the winter semester 2017/18, the Berlin-Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History presents up-to-date environmental history research on the Nordics, Tanzania, Formentera, Latin America and Japan and Germany. In addition to the usual schedule of talks, we proudly present a documentary film screening on anti-tourism protest, and a book panel on the role of International Organisations in the rise of the Growth and Environment Agendas in the second half of the 20th century.

This colloquium provides an open forum for the discussion of environmental history research broadly defined in the region and internationally.

The Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium presents its new programme for the spring / summer semester 2015 (April - July) - covering a global range of environmental issues from nuclear testing in the Pacific, forests on the Philippines, to water management in Southern France and the colonization of the German moorlands. Some of the core themes of this semester are nuclear and energy issues and the emergence of the Green party. We are looking forward to intense and fruitful discussion in an informal atmosphere.

2021

This colloquium provides an open forum for the discussion of environmental history research broadly defined in the region and internationally. This semester it is fully online, covering two main issues: First a mini-series of three events on the Uses of the Past in environmental history and the history of technology, followed by two talks in June on the history of nuclear energy and uranium mining in West and East Germany. Everyone is invited to attend. Please email us to register and obtain the login detail at meyer@zzf-potsdam.de

This colloquium provides an open forum for the discussion of environmental history research broadly defined in the region and internationally.

The Berlin Brandenburg for Environmental History has been providing a forum for discussing environmental history broadly defined since 2012. This summer term we will present 7 talks - ranging from colonial environments in Africa, Australia and India to recycling in East Germany and anti-nuclear protest. Celebrating our 5th anniversary, we will start the semester with the Jubilee talk by Professor KATE BROWN (American Academy Berlin / Baltimore, USA). The Great Chernobyl Mystery: How Ignorance became Policy and Politics Friedrichstr. 191-193, R. 5061 Wednesday, 03.05.2017

Donnerstag, 21.04.2016 Jan-Henrik Meyer (Trondheim/Copenhagen): Challenging the Ultimate Resource. Reviewing Social Movement Approaches to the Nuclear Energy Conflict in a Historical Perspective Donnerstag, 12.05.2016 Axel Zutz (Cottbus): Von den Mühen der Ebene in der Peripherie Brandenburgs: Protagonisten, Periodika und Praxis des Natur- und Heimatschutzes in der Niederlausitz zwischen 1900 und 1990 Donnerstag, 19.05.2016 Veronika Settele (Berlin): Die Produktion von Tieren. Landwirtschaftliche Tierhaltung in Deutschland, 1950 – 1980 Donnerstag, 09.06.2016 Alison Kraft (Birmingham): Radiological Dangers: From Unsafe Spaces to Environmental Hazard, 1900 - 1958 Donnerstag, 23.06.2016 Regine Auster (Potsdam): Umweltrecht in der DDR – Zum Wirken von Ellenor Oehler Donnerstag, 30.06.2016 Christina Gerhardt (Hawaii, USA): A Rose is a Rose is a Rose: Natural History in Adorno's Negative Dialectics Donnerstag, 14.07.2016 Santiago Gorostiza (Coimbra): Building a Fascist Wall: The Transformation of the Pyrenees during the Francoist Dictatorship in Spain (1939 – 1959) Donnerstag, 21.07.2016 Anja Neumann (Frankfurt, Oder): Die Obstbausiedlung „Eden“ bei Oranienburg unter dem Einfluss völkischer Ideen (1893-1933)

This colloquium provides an open forum for the discussion of environmental history research broadly defined in the region and internationally.

2019

We are happy to present a number of new research projects, on environmental policy avant la lettre in the Netherlands and the UK, on the colonisation of the climate, and on the second generation of the makers of environmentalism in the German Green party. Finally, we are particularly happy to have a guest from Brazil who will introduce us to how environmental ideas have been discussed among lawyers in the global south.