RHN 77/2024 | Event
Organisers: Interfaculty Centre for Agrarian History (ICAG), KU Leuven
14 June 2024, Aula Emma Vorlat (00.E20) at AGORA, Edward Van Evenstraat 4, 3000 Leuven, Belgium or online via Teams
Meet the Jury-seminar:
“Vienna and the Danube – A co-evolutionary history”
Prof. Dr. Martin Schmid (Associate Professor at the Center for Environmental History (ZUG), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna)
In the run-up to the public PhD defence of Eline Lathouwers (ICAG/KU Leuven, Belgium), examination committee member Martin Schmid (BOKU university, Vienna) will give a so-called “Meet the jury seminar”. Prof. Dr. Martin Schmid is an environmental historian working on rivers in Austria.
Almost 15 years ago, an interdisciplinary group in Vienna began researching the environmental history of the Danube. In this lecture Martin Schmid will summarise results of this research, many but not all of which have since been published. In fact, this research has changed our idea about the history of Vienna, about the genesis of this centre of the Habsburg Empire. The environmental history of the Danube itself, of this large, most international river in the world, remains a formidable challenge for European research. Based in these experiences, the lecture will then discuss a more fundamental question: How should riverine environmental history be conceptualized and practiced today, to become meaningful and effective in a world of dramatic environmental change, in times of increasing pressure on rivers and on those dependent on their rivers' integrity?
This seminar will be held in English.
Hybrid ICAG-seminar: live and online
Friday 14 june 2024 (2:30 PM – 4 PM (GMT+2))
Aula Emma Vorlat (00.E20) at AGORA, Edward Van Evenstraat 4, 3000 Leuven
OR digital via Teams
More information and registration here.
Source: https://ghum.kuleuven.be/icag/english/icag-seminar-friday-14th-of-june-2024/