Werner Tschacher, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Universität Luxemburg
The organizers of this conference work in the “Remixing Industrial Pasts in the Digital Age” project that is funded by the European Capital of Culture Esch2022. We are interested in the history of regions that went through continuous transformations from industrialisation to de- and post-industrialisation. Although our focus is on iron ore mining, on the steel industry and, in particular, on the inhabitants of the Minett and their daily lives, we are looking for contributions on comparable regions from Europe and beyond. Our rough timeframe is 1870s to 1970s but we also invite contributions that deal with de- and post-industrialization past 1980.
We are looking for contributions from contemporary history, history of technology, business history, environmental history, labour history, social history and other related fields.
Some of the topics that are of interest for this conference:
- Impact of industrialization on local and migrant communities, on everyday lives and collective identities
- Economic developments of industrial regions
- Migration history from migration movements within regions and countries, and between neighbouring and more distant countries
- The housing and living conditions in industrial regions
- The shaping, re-shaping and contestation of identities between industrialization to de-industrialization
- The transformation of “natural” landscapes and the creation of industrial landscapes
- The history of industrial pollution
Travel and accommodation costs of invited participants will be covered by the C2DH.
Please send proposals (350 words max.) and a brief biographical statement to werner.tschacher@uni.lu; deadline 10 April 2022.