Julia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, and Franziska Torma in cooperation with Cornelia Lüdecke
Thursday, January 27, 2011
14:30 Opening Remarks: Christof Mauch (Rachel Carson Center, Munich), Helmuth Trischler (Rachel Carson Center / Deutsches Museum, Munich)
15:00 Keynote: Sverker Soerlin (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm), “The Birth of Cryohistory: The 2007 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum as an Event and the Slow Growth Legacies of Glacial Decline”
16:00 Coffee Break
Environmental Knowledge
Chair: Helmuth Trischler (Rachel Carson Center / Deutsches Museum, Munich)
16:30 Roger D. Launius (National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.), “Creating Open Territorial Rights in Cold and Icy Places: Cold War Rivalries and the Antarctic and Outer Space Treaties”
17:15 Ron Doel (Florida State University, Tallahassee), “Constituting the Arctic Environment: Military Funding, Polar Warming, and the Rise of the Physical Environmental Sciences”
18:15 Peder Roberts (University of Strasburg), “Meteorology on the Margins of the World: Norway, South Africa, and Bouvetøya in the Early Cold War”
19:00 Film by Sophie Elixhauser (University of Aberdeen / Universität Augsburg) and Anni Seitz, Sermiligaaq 65°54'N, 36°22'W (Greenland)
Friday, January 28, 2011
Cold Spaces: Greenland
Chair: Sophie Elixhauser (University of Aberdeen / Universität Augsburg)
9:00 Matthias Heymann (Aarhus University), “Exploring Greenland: Denmark, the US Military, and Technology in the Cold War”
9:45 Ingo Heidbrink (Rachel Carson Center, Munich / Old Dominion University, Norfolk), “‘Camp Century’ and ‘Project Ice-Worm’: Two Experimental US Military Facilities on Greenland during the Early Years of the Cold War”
10:30 Coffee Break
Sites of Knowledge: Laboratories
Chair: Christian Kehrt (Helmut Schmidt Universität, Hamburg)
11:00 Dania Achermann (DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen), “Snow and Avalanche Research as Patriotic Duty? The Institutionalization of a Scientific Discipline in Switzerland”
11:45 Sebastian Grevesmühl (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris), “Deconstructing Laboratory Visions of Antarctic Research since 1900”
12:30 Lunch
Sites of Knowledge: Practices ‘East’
Chair: Julia Herzberg (Rachel Carson Center, Munich)
14:00 John McCannon (University of Saskatchewan), “Soviet Arctic Science 1945-1953”
14:45 Pey-Yi-Chu (Princeton University), “From Merzlotovedenie to Geocryology: Soviet Permafrost Science in the Cold War”
15:30 Coffee Break
Sites of Knowledge: Practices ‘West’
Chair: Frank Uekötter (Rachel Carson Center, Munich)
16:00 Cornelia Lüdecke (Rachel Carson Center, Munich / SCAR), “Traditions in German Arctic Research”
16:45 Christian Kehrt (Helmut Schmidt Universität, Hamburg), “EGIG I and German Polar Research Traditions”
17:30 Anne M. Jensen/ Glenn W. Sheehan (Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation Science Division, Barrow / Barrow Arctic Science Consortium), “Inupiat and Cold War Science in Alaska / Cold Arctic, Cold War”
19:30 Conference Dinner
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Representations: Metaphors and narrations
Chair: Franziska Torma (Rachel Carson Center, Munich)
9:00 Pascal Schillings (Universität zu Köln), “An Exploration of the Self, Reinhold Messner’s Antarctic Expedition 1989”
9:45 Mark Wasiuta (Columbia University, New York), “Distant Early Warning North”
10:30 Coffee Break
Representations II: Actors and their Environment
Chair: Julia Landau (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum)
11:00 JamesR. Fleming (Colby College, Waterville), “Cold Regions and Cold War: Harry Wexler as Scientific ‘Entrepreneur’”
11:45 Franziska Torma (Rachel Carson Center, Munich), “Staging ‘the Cold’ as Environment: Jacques-Yves and Philippe Cousteau’s Journey to Antarctica (1975/1976)”
12:30 Paul Josephson (Colby College, Waterville), Final Discussion and Comments
13:30 End