Zentrum für Umweltgeschichte

"Archäologie am Fluss"

Abendvortrag der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Mittelalterarchäologie im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe im Wintersemester 2021

Tomaž Nabergoj (Narodni muzej Slovenije, Ljubljana) wird zum Thema "The Ljubljanica river and its archaeological legacy from the Medieval and Early Modern Period" sprechen.

The Ljubljanica river was an important communication route in central Slovenia from prehistory onwards. The National museum of Slovenia has more than 6000 river finds from all periods, many of them from Medieval and Early Modern Era. The river played a special role for the medieval town of Ljubljana, besides being a waterway, it served as a source of water and food as well as of energy and drainage for various crafts. Archaeological finds, such as fishing gear, pottery, table knives, agricultural tools, arrowheads for hunting etc. document activities connected to the river and nearby marshes. The finds also consist of weaponry, including swords, combat knives, spearheads, arrowheads, and pole arms, as well as equestrian and horse gear. We will present various topics, related to interpretations of river finds: stratigraphy and spatial distribution of objects, landscape networks, long term phenomena and reasons for the deposition of objects, also in relation to written sources.

Achtung: bei persönlicher Teilnahme wird um eine Anmeldung zur Veranstaltung bis 19.10.2021 unter: claudia.theune(at)univie.ac.at gebeten.  Es gelten die 2,5-G-Regel bzw. die zum Zeitpunkt gültigen COVID-Maßnahmen.

Falls Sie online teilnehmen möchten, können Sie sich unter folgendem Link zuschalten: univienna.zoom.us/j/93268571341
Sie können auch über den Zoom-Client teilnehmen, wenn Sie folgende Daten verwenden: Meeting-ID: 932 6857 1341 Kenncode: 250285

Place: Hybridvortrag
Time: 20.10.2021, 18:00 c.t.

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CfP: Dissertant*innen-Tagung Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte

Veranstalter: JKU Linz, Institut für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte in Kooperation mit Austrian Economic and Social Historians (AESH) und Environmental History Cluster Austria (EHCA)

Die Dissertant*innen-Tagung Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte ist eine jährlich stattfindende Veranstaltung, die der Präsentation und Diskussion aktueller Dissertationsprojekte in den Bereichen Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte, der Nachwuchsförderung und der innerwissenschaftlichen Vernetzung dient. Die Vortragenden sind Dissertant*innen aus den Geschichtswissenschaften und aus anderen Wissenschaftsbereichen, die an wirtschafts-, sozial- oder umwelthistorischen Fragestellungen arbeiten und ihre Dissertationen an einer österreichischen Universität verfassen, eine Zweitbetreuung an einer österreichischen Universität haben oder zu einem Thema mit Österreichbezug forschen.

Die Bewerbung für einen Vortrag ist bis 20.11.2021, die Anmeldung zur Teilnahme an der Diskussion bis 31.1.2022 an lisa_maria.hofer(at)jku.at zu senden.

Ort: JKU Linz, Uni-Zentrum, Festsaal B
Zeit: 24. - 25.2.2022

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Kerner von Marilaun Symposium 2021
Soy in The Anthropocene

We live in a world of soy. Nearly all of us consume the bean in some form, again and again – either directly, as tofu in a veggie burger, or indirectly, as a piece of pork on the grill. Since the main sites of consumption and production are widely spread, soy's trade routes span the globe. Indeed, the soybean and its by-products, soyoil and soymeal, have emerged as the world's leading agricultural commodity from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. The global soy web affects large tracts of our planet's ‘socio-nature’ in often devastating ways. Therefore, soy has become a decisive factor of the anthropocene, the age of human-made nature.
The conference discusses how soy emerged from a regional food crop to a global cash crop in the 150-years era of globalization. An interdisciplinary and international group of scholars addresses the topic from a holistic perspective, including socio-economic (commodity chains, labor relations, business strategies etc.), socio-political (state policies, international relations, civic movements, etc.), and socio-natural dimensions (plant breeding, farm technology, deforestation, etc.). Against the backdrop of developments in the past, soy's ambivalent role in transitions to a more sustainable future will be discussed.

Place: Small Festive Hall, University of Vienna, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna (upon registration) or online https://www.oeaw.ac.at/veranstaltungen/live
Time: 3.11.2021, 9:00 Uhr

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CfP: ÖGM Tagung 2022
Das 19. und 20. Jahrhundert im Fokus der Historischen Archäologie/The Historical Archaeology of the 19th and 20th centuries

Das 19. und 20. Jahrhundert ist die Zeit der Früh- und Hochindustrialisierung, deren Folgen heute noch nachwirken. Es kam zu enormen gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen und zu einer fortschreitenden Urbanisierung bzw. Bildung von Ballungsgebieten. Diese Entwicklungen gingen Hand in Hand mit der Herausbildung großer sozialer Gegensätze, was wiederum zu Protest-, Arbeiter*innen- und Frauen- oder auch Naturschutzbewegungen führte. Massenproduktion und Massenkonsum im globalen Maßstab bewirkten den Ausbau und die Verdichtung lokaler, regionaler und überregionaler Infrastruktur. Schnellere Verkehrsmittel und das aufkommende Fernmeldewesen ermöglichten eine raschere bzw. intensivere Kommunikation über größere Distanzen. Die Industrie, der Bauboom, die Ausbeutung von Rohstoffen verursachten aber auch massive Umweltschädigungen und führten zu tiefgreifenden Landschaftsveränderungen. All diese Prozesse haben die Lebensbedingungen in den beiden letzten Jahrhunderten bis in die Gegenwart gravierend beeinflusst und werden noch eine ferne Zukunft mitbestimmen. Sie manifestieren sich nicht zuletzt in materiellen Quellen, in archäologischen Kontexten, in der Landschaft.

Abstracteinreichung bis 31.1.2022

Ort: Linz (Museum Francisco Carolinum, Museumstraße 14, 4020 Linz)
Zeit: 13.-17. September 2022

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Now Online

Umwelthistorische Datenbank Österreich
Environmental History Database Austria (EHDA)

Materialien zur Umweltgeschichte Österreichs Nr. 8

In 2004, the then newly founded Centre for Environmental History (ZUG) started to systematically search and collect bibliographical data on environmental historical literature in Austria. Over the years, the data set has grown to the 3,751 entries tabulated in this volume. Until 2019, the collection then named "Environmental History Database Austria (EHDA)" was available for online searches in a custom-made environment. EHDA entries comprise works with publication dates from 1945 until 2019 and include hard-to-find grey literature and academic qualification works. Since EHDA went online about 15 years ago, digitalisation has markedly impacted scientific publishing and research. Powerful finding aids, mostly with access to full texts, full-text searches and linked searches have become available. While EHDA has been regularly updated, because committed colleagues have invested time and expertise, we have not been able to modernize the tool in terms of search possibilities and links. We have therefore taken EHDA off the Internet. This volume of the “Materialien” makes the entire content of EHDA available to all interested parties as a fully searchable pdf document with carefully preserved tags. The introduction includes search tips and explains the search possibilities we have tried to preserve or are able to now offer under the new possibilities of full-text indexing and other search engine possibilities.

>zum Materialienband (pdf, 4,35 MB)

ESEH conference 2022: Same planet, different worlds: environmental histories imagining anew

The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) is pleased to announce its upcoming conference at the University of Bristol, UK. We want to host a conference for a post-plague world. Right now, our old ways of living have been interrupted, disrupted and ruptured by the COVID-19 outbreak. This devastating global pandemic carries an undeniable message of our entanglement across continents, species, societies, and bodies. Yet the virus hits us differently. We are all on the same planet but we are experiencing radically and divergently altered worlds. We thus draw inspiration for our conference theme from Arundhati Roy’s observation: ‘But the rupture exists. And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves. Nothing could be worse than a return to normality. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next’. The conference will provoke questions and conversations that can help us through the gateway. After all, our conferences have always been meaningful reactions to global conditions. Twenty years ago, at St Andrews we held the first ESEH Conference on ‘Environmental History: Problems and Potential’. Two decades later, we are now long past ‘potential’ – we need urgent intervention from historians in the crises of our times.

Ort: University of Bristol, UK
Zeit: 4-8 July 2022

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CfP: The 10^th Tensions of Europe Conference: Technology, Environment and Resources

The 10^th Tensions of Europe Conference will as usual be open to all topics and themes. The special theme of this conference will be the history of interactions between technology, the environment and resources. It aims to explore connections between aspects such as scientific exploration, technological development, resource exploitation and use, resource markets and environmental change by investigating both scientific and technological practices as well as narratives and perspectives related to natural resources and environmental issues. The conference places particular emphasis on processes of circulation and appropriation of knowledge, ideas, technologies and resources across space and time in allhistorical periods and at local, regional and global scales.

Deadline for proposals is 31 Oktober 2021

Ort: Aarhus University, Denmark
Zeit: 29 June - 1 July 2022 (revised date!)

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ICEHO Bulletin 19

Das Zentrum für Umweltgeschichte ist Mitglied von ICEHO und stellt das neueste Bulletin von ICEHO hier auch direkt zur Verfügung

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