Anna Katharina Wöbse (Gießen, Germany), Patrick Kupper (Innsbruck, Austria): Greening Europe: Environmental Protection in the Long 20th Century

Zeit: 19-21 Uhr | Online

Vortrag von Anna Katharina Wöbse (Gießen, Germany) und Patrick Kupper (Innsbruck, Austria) im Berlin-Brandenburger Colloquium (BBC) für Umweltgeschichte im Wintersemester 2021/22

Veranstalter des BBC für Umweltgeschichte:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin) in Kooperation mit dem Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF Potsdam)
Organisation: Dr. Jan-Henrik Meyer (ZZF Potsdam), Dr. Astrid M. Kirchhof (HU Berlin)

Abstract:
Fresh from the printing presses: "Greening Europe: Environmental Protection in the Long 20th Century" is Volume 1 of the handbook series "Contemporary European History". In 15 chapters, 24 authors have dealt with the question of changing human-nature relations by looking at the many ways people have interacted with their environments and made them issues of European concern. How did notions of Europe matter in these activities? What kind of entanglements of activists across the subcontinent exist? How did they connect and network, exchange knowledge, worldviews, and strategies that exceeded their national horizons? Which role did flora and fauna, spaces, places and infrastructures play in both “greening” Europe and making Europe a shared environment? The editors will be joined by authors to discuss the main findings and challenges of this book project.

Short Bios:
Patrick Kupper is Full Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His expertise is in transnational economic, social and environmental history of modern Europe. He is the author of Creating Wilderness: A Transnational History of the Swiss National Park (New York: Berghahn, 2014) and of an introduction to environmental history of modern Europe, Umweltgeschichte (Göttingen: UTB, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)

Anna-Katharina Wöbse is an environmental historian, curator, and researcher at the University of Gießen. She has extensively published on media and the environment, human-animal relations, and the history of transnational environmental movements and diplomacy (Weltnaturschutz: Umweltdiplomatie in Vereinten Nationen und Völkerbund 1920-1950, Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 2012). Her current research project focusses on the history of wetlands and amphibians.