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infoclio.ch Conference 2018: Archives of the Environment. Natural Sciences and History
The irreversible effects of global warming raise new questions for the humanities within science too: where did earlier societies stand in relation to their environment, and what impact did this have? The 2018 infoclio.ch conference focuses on the human and non-human traces that bear witness to our relationship with the environment.
Videos
Session 1: Introduction to Environmental History
Chair: Melanie Salvisberg (Universität Bern)
Jon Mathieu (Universität Luzern)
Heilige Berge in Europa? Zur Wahrnehmung der Umwelt im Übergang zur Moderne
Christian Rohr (Universität Bern)
Anthropogenic Historical Sources and Their Use for an Interdisciplinary Environmental and Climate History
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Centre de Recherche Historique, EHESS)
La naissance de la climatologie historique 1770-1830
Session 2: Natural Sciences as Historical Sciences?
Chair: Marcus Hall (Universität Zürich & Environmental Humanities Switzerland)
Oliver Heiri (Universität Basel)
Paläoökologische Umweltrekonstruktion: Ansätze, Annahmen, Beispiele
Keynote
Dipesh Chakrabarty (Chicago University)
The Human in Natural and Humanist Histories: Towards a Fragile Rapprochement
Round-table session
Participants:
Dipesh Chakrabarty (Chicago University)
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Centre de Recherche Historique, EHESS)
Moderation:
Marianne Sommer (Universität Luzern)
Session 3: Environmental Sources and Archives: Preservation, Exploitation and Access
Stefan Brönnimann (Universität Bern) und Franziska Hupfer (ETH Zürich)
Historische Wetterdaten:Klimatologische und geschichtswissenschaftliche Perspektiven
Christoph Scheidegger (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL)
Natural History Collections in Switzerland
Denis Reynard (Archives de l’Etat du Valais)
Archives de l’environnement en Valais
Alexandre Elsig (Université de Fribourg)
Savoirs experts, savoirs profanes. De quelques sources en histoire des pollutions industrielles
