Thomas

Lettang
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/Doktorand

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Thomas Lettang

Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam

Office: Am Neuen Markt 9d, room E.05

Phone: +49 331 74510-139
Fax: +49 331 74510-143

E-Mail: lettang [at] zzf-potsdam.de

Vita

since May 2019
Research Associate/ Doctoral Candidate at the Center for Contemporary History Potsdam

March 2018 – March 2019
Editor at the Central Editorial Department of H-Soz-Kult, Department of History, Humboldt University Berlin

October 2017 – February 2018
Academic tutor for the first semester B.A. seminar at the Department of History, Humboldt University Berlin

Feburary – April 2017
Internship at the Place of Remembrance and Corporate Archives of Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg

September 2016 – February 2017
Exhibition docent for a participatory concept of guided tours in the exhibition "+ultra. knowledge & gestaltung" (9/30/2016 - 01/08/2017), Interdisciplinary Laboratory "Image Knowledge Gestaltung", Humboldt University Berlin

October 2014 – March 2019
M.A. "Moderne European History", Humboldt University Berlin

May – June 2014
Internship during the exhibition "Feeling War" (27.06.2014 - 30.08.2015) at Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Oktober 2010 – August 2014
B.A. History & Cultural Anthropology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Projects

Regulating energy consumption in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1970-2000

PhD Project

The project examines the regulation of the energy consumption of private households from the 1970s to 1990s. Methodically, it focuses on the regulatory instruments, which were supposed to influence citizens’ behaviour in ecologically friendly ways. Based on a... » zum Projekt

Publications

together with Laura Kaiser, Tagungsbericht: Internalizing External Experience. Perspektiven auf kommerzielle Beratung in Wirtschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft seit dem ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert, 01.10.2020-02.10.2020 digital, in: H-Soz-Kult, 06.03.2021, URL:<www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-8890>

together with Nathalie Kohl & Verena Leufen, wissen schafft fragen - Ein partizipatorisches Vermittlungsformat, in: Frauke Stuhl/ Horst Bredekamp/ Wolfgang Schäffner (Hg.), +ultra. gestaltung schafft wissen. Dokumentation der Ausstellung und ihrer partizipativen Vermittlungsformate, Münster 2017, S. 77-80. (open access)

Lectures

"Die Erwartung von Grenzen und die Begrenzung von Erwartungen. Die Regulierung von Umwelt und Energie in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1970-2000", 16.01.2023, Forschungskolloquium zur Technikgeschichte (Prof. Dr. Heike Weber), TU Berlin

"Remaking Consumer Choice: Negotiations on the Governability of Energy Consumption and Statehood in the Federal Republic of Germany (1970s and 1980s)", 01.07.2022, The 10th Tensions of Europe Conference: Technology, Environment and Resources, Aarhus (Dänemark)

“Saving energy without sacrificing comfort!” Market economy and administrative interventions into household energy consumptions in West Germany, 1973-1989, 16.09.2021, Workshop "Environmental Governance. Experience, Knowledge, Expectations since 1945" (PD Dr. Rüdiger Graf, Dr. Nils Güttler, Laura Kaiser, Thomas Lettang), ZZF Potsdam

„Energiesparen ohne Komfortverzicht!“ Konsument:innen-Bilder und Steuerungspraxis des privaten Energiekonsums in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1973-1989, 22.06.2021, Forschungskolloquium der Fachbereiche Neuere Geschichte und Technikgeschichte (Prof. Dr. Martina Heßler/ Prof. Dr. Nicolai Hannig), TU Darmstadt