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05/02/2024 - 05/03/2024 | Leipzig

Assessing the Fluvial Anthropocene

Agency, Materiality and Culture in Eastern European Hydroscapes

The world’s waters are a powerful historical force in their own right, and their materiality puts the predominance of human agency into question. Recent historiography presents a variety of transdisciplinary paradigms like nature-culture, envirotechnical systems, or socio-natural sites. They creatively frame societal changes and anthropogenic constants through time, in rare cases even offering a longue-durée perspective that leads from antiquity to the Anthropocene. In this contested ‘age of humans’, whose agency is considered a geo-physical force, water has become ever more coveted as a commodity with conflicts ensuing over its accessibility. Here, much is still to be learned about water management in a diachronic approach that contrasts the ideas and ideals of empires, nation states and international institutions through (proto-)capitalist and socialist regimes in a world connecting.

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Date:

05/02/2024 14:00 - 05/03/2024 17:00

Event venue:

GWZO
Specks Hof (Entrance A)
4th floor
Reichsstrasse 4
04109 Leipzig
04109 Leipzig
Sachsen
Germany

Target group:

Scientists and scholars

Relevance:

transregional, national

Subject areas:

Environment / ecology, History / archaeology

Types of events:

Conference / symposium / (annual) conference

Entry:

04/10/2024

Sender/author:

Virginie Michaels

Department:

Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

Event is free:

no

Language of the text:

English

URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event76694

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