EcoGlobReg, Dr. Melanie Arndt
TUESDAY, MAY 16TH
14:00 – 14:30 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Ulf Brunnbauer (IOS Regensburg)
Bernard Ludwig (ANR, Paris)
Marc Elie (CERCEC / CNRS-EHESS, Paris)
Melanie Arndt (IOS Regensburg)
14:30 – 16:30 1ST SESSION
Chair: Guido Hausmann (IOS Regensburg)
Laurent Coumel (CERCEC / CNRS-EHESS Paris): Upper Volga River Goes Global. Water Quality Controversies in the Late Soviet Times (1970s-1990s).
Comments:
Katja Bruisch (Trinity College Dublin)
Zsuzsa Gille (University of Illinois, Urbana)
Katja Doose (Eberhard Karls University,Tübingen): Eco-nationalism or Environmental Legitimacy? The Ecological Transition of the Armenian Communist Party 1956-1991.
Comments:
Kate Brown (The American Academy in Berlin / University of Maryland, Baltimore)
Michel Dupuy (Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, Paris)
16:30 -17:00 COFFEE & TEA
17:00-19:00 KEYNOTE
Donald Worster (University of Kansas / Renmin University, Beijing): Shrinking the Earth: The Rise and Decline of Abundance.
Chair: Melanie Arndt (IOS Regensburg)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 17TH
9:00-11:00 2ND SESSION
Chair: Irina Morozova (IOS Regensburg)
Melanie Arndt (IOS Regensburg): Nostalgic Bonfires and Nuclear Burnups: West Meets East in the Post-Soviet Garden, 1986-1996.
Comments:
Kate Brown (The American Academy in Berlin / University of Maryland, Baltimore)
Zsusza Gille (University of Illinois, Urbana)
Isabelle Ohayon (CERCEC / CNRS-EHESS, Paris): Facing Desertification: Herdsmen, Scientists, and the Social and Environmental Impacts of Pasture Degradation in Kazakhstan, 1960s-1990s.
Comments:
Julia Obertreis (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Katja Bruisch (Trinity College Dublin)
11:00-11:30 COFFEE & TEA
11:30-13:30 3RD SESSION
Chair: Christof Mauch (Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich)
Raphael Schulte-Kellinghaus (Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen): Negotiating Nature. The Baltic Sea Invades the Iron Curtain.
Comments:
Jacob Hamblin (Oregon State University, Corvallis)
Julia Lajus (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg)
Marc Elie (CERCEC / CNRS-EHESS, Paris): The End of the Virgin Lands or Their Return? The Environmental Impact of the Fall of the Soviet Union on Steppe Agriculture in Russia and Kazakhstan.
Comments:
Paul Josephson (Colby College, Waterville)
Julia Lajus (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg)
13:30-15:00 LUNCH
15:00-17:00 4TH SESSION
Chair: Ulf Brunnbauer (IOS Regensburg)
Alexander Ananyev (Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen): “The Arctic belongs to us!” Russian Polar Politics and Environmental Problems in the 1990s.
Comments:
Jacob Hamblin (Oregon State University, Corvallis)
Michel Dupuy (Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, Paris)
Eva Bertrand (Centre d’études franco-russe de Moscou): Internet and natural disasters. Online mobilization during the fires of 2010 in Russia.
Comments:
Julia Obertreis (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Paul Josephson (Colby College, Waterville)
17:00-17:15 COFFEE & TEA
17:15-18:00 CONCLUDING DISCUSSION
Chair: Klaus Gestwa (Eberhard Karls University Tübingen)