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Workshop: Locating and Reorganizing Global Spheres

Scientific Experts, the Natural Environment, and Transcontinental Fieldwork, 1900-1950

22.03.2017

This workshop looks into scientists in the early Age of Extremes who, in the process of studying nature, divided it up into specific spheres. These "nature spheres" were designed to capture different climates, environments, physical processes, and other natural phenomena, but more often than not also represented political spheres: academic disciplines, scientific cultures, national claims, and imperial claims, all in an increasingly competitive transnational and multidisciplinary world. 

Martin Meiske (RCC/Deutsches Museum), Raf de Bont (Universiteit Maastricht), and Robert-Jan Wille (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) explore the interactions of the environmental sciences with different global environments between 1900 and 1950, a time of high imperialism, radical nationalism, and systematic industrialization. Gregg Mitman (University Wisconsin-Madison / RCC), Franziska Torma (TUM), and Jan Arend (LMU) will be commentating.

The workshop takes place on 22 March 2017 at the Rachel Carson Center. If you would like to attend, please register by 19 March 2017 by email: R.Wille@lmu.de.

For further information, see the flyer.