Thomas LettangStipendiat/Doktorand
Contact
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 July 2023
Doctoral candidate with a finalization scholarship of the ZZF Potsdam
since May 2023
Associated doctoral candidate at ZZF Potsdam in Dep. II
April - September 2023
Lectureship in the History of Technology at the Technical University of Berlin
May 2019 - April 2023
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
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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...
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Publications
review: Felix Lieb, Arbeit und Umwelt? Die Umwelt- und Energiepolitik der SPD zwischen Ökologie und Ökonomie 1969–1998, Berlin 2022 in: H-Soz-Kult, 06.04.2023, URL: http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-128917
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
"Technology acceptance from 'above' and 'below'. Energy conservation technologies and governmental action in West Germany, 1978-1985", 05./06.10.2023, International Workshop "Histories of Technology Acceptance in the 20th Century" (Dr. Fabian Zimmer), TU Berlin
"State Provision and Private Responsibility. The Regulation of Private Energy Consumption in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1970-1989", 16.01.2023, Forschungskolloquium zur Technikgeschichte (Prof. Dr. Heike Weber), TU Berlin.
"Remaking Consumer Choice: Negotiations of the Governability of Energy Consumption and Statehood in the Federal Republic of Germany (1970s and 1980s)", 29.06. - 01.07.2022, The 10th Tensions of Europe Conference: Technology, Environment and Resources, Aarhus (Denmark).
“Saving energy without sacrificing comfort!” Market economy and administrative interventions into household energy consumptions in West Germany, 1973-1989, 15./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
"Regulations of Energy Consumption in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1970-2000", Workshop "Konsumgeschichte, Konsumentengeschichte, Konsumpolitik seit den 1970er-Jahren", 16.01.-18.01.2020 (DFG-Projekt „Der konsumierende Staatsbürger als semantische Konstruktion neuer Partizipationsformen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland“), Forschungszentrum Europa, Universität Trier; Fachbereich III – Neuere und Neueste Geschichte, Universität Trier