PROGRAM

THURSDAY, 27 JUNE

18 Opening Panel

Greetings from the IOS and the Graduate School (Ulf Brunnbauer, Jürgen Jerger)
Introductory Remarks (Luminita Gatejel/Melanie Arndt/Manuela Troschke)

Keynote talks:
Brown, Kate (University of Maryland)
Book presentation: “Plutopia. Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters”
Sauer, Thomas (Jena) t.b.a.

FRIDAY, 28 JUNE

9-11 (Inter-)National Regimes of Environmentalism

Chaney, Sandra (Erskine College)
“Nature and East Germany’s Search for Legitimacy during the Cold War”

Müller, Martin (St. Gallen)
“From Sacred Cow to Cash Cow: The New Political Economy of Protected Areas in Russia”

Buzogany, Aron (Speyer)
“Environmental Change in Transition Countries and the Role of External Actors: The Impact of the European Union on Environmental Policy‐making in Romania”

Dzioubinski, Oleg (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe)
“Contribution of Energy Efficiency to Green Growth in South-Eastern and Eastern Europe”

11.30-13 Property and the Environment

Luković, Jovica (Berlin)
“The Unlimited Forest: The Exploitation of an Important Resource and the Threat of Habitat in Serbia in the 19th Century”

Seirinidou, Vaso (Athens)
“Bavarian Visions for the Greek Forests. The Organization of Forest Administration in the Young Greek State (1833-1840)”

13-14.30 Lunch break

14-30-16.30 Popular Attitudes and Practices

Bieri, Franziska (University of Maryland) & Stoilova, Rumiana (Sofia)
“Environmentalism in Bulgaria: An Empirical Study on the Effects of Income, Post-Material Values, and Social Trust”

Domazet, Mladen, Ančić, Branko & Dolenec, Danijela (Zagreb)
“Sustainability at Europe’s Southeastern Periphery: Combining Historical progress and Nature Protection”

Petrić, Hrvoje (Zagreb)
”Hydropower vs. Environment in Socialist Yugoslavia”

Frey, Miriam (Regensburg)
"The Persistence of Environmental Awareness"

17.00-18.30 Using and Taming the Danube

Gatejel, Luminita (Regensburg)
“Steaming up the River. Construction and Consolidation Works on the Lower Danube (1830-1856)

Serban, Stelu (Bucharest)
“Divergent approaches of Danube Damming in Romania. A Historical Perspective”

Ivan, Oana (Kent)
“’My Father Would Die Again If He Saw How Ecologists Turned Our Ancestors’ Fishing Ground Into a Pelican Reservation’ Cultural Understandings of the Environment, Environmentalism, and Nature; Histories from a Romanian Fishing Village”

SATURDAY, 29 JUNE

9-10.30 The Management of Water

Štanzel, Arnost (Munich)
“Water management in Czechoslovakia Between Economy and Environment. On the ‘Capitalistic’ Use of Water in State-Socialism, 1948-1989”

Dorondel, Stefan (Bucharest)
“Wasted Waters: State, Property Rights, and the Post-Socialist Appropriation of Nature in Romania”

Gray, Robert (Keele)
“Between the Wood and the Water: Control and Use of Riparian Resources at the End of Hungarian Seigneurialism, c. 1750-1890”

11-12.30 Perceptions and Usages of the Upland

Brunnbauer, Ulf (Regensburg)
“Social adaptation to mountain environments and political change: the Balkans in the ‘long’ 19th century”

Koranyi, James (Durham)
“Across the Carpathians: Perceptions of Nature in British Travel Reports to the Carpathians, 1860-1914”

Glötzl, Gregor (Bamberg)
“Landscape and Communism: Terraced Cultural Landscapes in Albania in Transition”

12.30-13.30 Lunch break

13.30-15 East and West Entanglements

Arndt, Melanie (Regensburg)
“From Iron Curtain to Radioactive Cloud. Fading Borders After the Chernobyl Disaster”

Megyesi, Boldizsár (Budapest)
“The Role of Household Farming in Reducing CO2 Emissions”

Obertreis, Julia (Erlangen)
“The Limits of Growth – Environmental Discourses and Movements in Eastern Europe and Western Influence, 1970s to 1990s”

15.30-17 Concluding Session

Troschke, Manuela (Regensburg)
“Concluding remarks”
Final Discussion