KREFELD HISTORICAL SYMPOSIA
SYMPOSIUM 2005
PROF. DR. NORBERT FINZSCH
PROF. DR. URSULA LEHMKUHL
PROF. DR. HARTMUT LEHMANN
PROF. DR. HERMANN WELLENREUTHER
Historians’ Nature.
Comparative
Approaches to Environmental History
Eighth Symposion
To be held at Krefeld
from
May 5 to 8, 2005
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Thursday, May 5, 2005
12.30 p.m.
Lunch
with the Lord Mayor of the City of Krefeld
Gregor Kathstede
2.30 – 6.30 p.m.
1st Session
The Historicization of Nature
Chair: Hartmut Lehmann (Göttingen)
Dorothee Brantz (Washington, DC)
Changing Conceptions of the Environment in Transatlantic History
Ursula Lehmkuhl (Berlin)
Historicizing Nature: Time and Space as Analytical Concepts in German and American
(Environmental) Historiography
Comments:
Christoph Mauch (Washington, DC)
Mark Häberlein (Bamberg)
Michael Williams (Oxford)
7.00 p.m.
Buffet Dinner
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19.45 p.m.
Bus Transfer to Burg Linn
Keynote Address at Burg Linn
Host: Ursula Lehmkuhl (Berlin)
Address by the Lord Mayor of the City of Krefeld
Gregor Kathstede
Presentation of Awards to three young scholars
on behalf of the City of Krefeld
Public Address
Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, MdB
über
Geld contra Gemeinsinn: 30 Jahre Auf und Ab
für die Umwelt und die Demokratie
Public Reception
Bus Transfer to Hotel
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Friday, May 6
9.00 a.m. – 12. 30 p. m.
2nd Session,
Nature as Actor: Social and Economic Consequences
of Environmental Catastrophes and Epidemics/Infectious Diseases
Chair: Hermann Wellenreuther (Göttingen)
Christian F. Feest (Vienna)
Microbes’ Role in History -- Colonial History as Environmental History -- the Environmental
Context and Consequences of the Interaction of European Colonizers and the Colonized in the
Americas
Marie-Louisa Allemeyer (Göttingen)
Nature in Conflict. Disputes about the Dike in 17th Century Northern Frisia
as a Mirror of a Coastal Society in the Early Modern Era
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Comments:
Klaus-Georg Wey (Düsseldorf)
Stanley E. Trimble (Los Angeles, CA)
Franz Mauelshagen (Zürich)
13.00 p.m.
Buffet Lunch
14.30 – 18.30 p.m.
3rd Session
The Interaction of People and Nature
Chair: Ursula Lehmkuhl (Berlin)
Andrew C. Isenberg (Philadelphia, PA)
The Formation of Cultural Landscapes and Regional Mentalities
in the United States of America and Germany
Claudia Schnurmann (Hamburg)
European and American Ways of Cultural Apprehension of Land or: How Europeans and
Americans Gave "Space" a Meaning
Comments:
Mark Cioc (Santa Cruz, CA)
Keri Lewis (Concord, NH)
Nils Freytag (Munich)
7.00 p.m.
Buffet Dinner
7.45 p.m.
Bus Transfer
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8.00 – 10.00 p.m.
Concert
Saturday, May 7
9.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
4th Session
The Ecology of Urban Places
Chair: Susan Strasser (Wilmington, DE)
Hanjo Berressem (Cologne)
City and Nature and Nature in the City
Bernd Herrmann (Göttingen)
Cleaning up the Urban Landscape
Comments:
Franz-Joseph Brüggemeier (Freiburg)
Andrew Hurley (St. Louis, MO)
James T. Lemon (Toronto, ON)
1.00 p.m.
Buffet Lunch
2.30 p.m.
Official Opening of Exhibition
“Krefeld’s Changing Environment Since the 17th Century
Or How Krefeld’s Dirty Water Became Clean Again”
3.00 p.m.
Visit of Krefeld’s Sewage Works and Environmental Agencies
7.00 p.m.
An Exploration Into the Known:
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FOOD, BEER AND PEOPLE IN THE BREWERY AUGUST GLEUMES
Sunday, May 8
9.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
5th Session
Environmental Diplomacy
Chair : Norbert Finzsch (Cologne)
Kurk Dorsey (Concord, NH)
Potential and Reality
of Safeguarding Environmental Issues in American Diplomacy
Frank Zelko (Brisbane, QLD)
Make it a Green Peace!
The Origins of International Environmental Activism
Comments:
Kristine Kern (Berlin)
James Morton Turner (Gettysburg, PA)
David Simon (Berlin)
1.00 p.m.
Lunch
with the Lord Mayor of the City of Krefeld
GREGOR KATHSTEDE
2.30 P.M.
Press Conference
5.00 p.m.
Public Panel Discussion
Diskussionsleitung
Norbert Finzsch (Köln, Germany)
„UMWELT UND POLITIK: NATUR UND MENSCH
IM SPANNUNGSFELD VON WIRTSCHAFT UND POLITIK”
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7.00 p.m.
Dinner
Monday, May 9, 2005
9.30 a.m. – 12.00 p.m
American-German Teams meet Seniors
in Krefeld’s Secondary Grammar Schools
1.00 p.m.
Lunch
2.00 p.m.
Departure
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