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.
Information on participating / attending:
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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
Email address:
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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