Lecture: Environmental protest, alternative milieu and rural areas in the "era of ecology"

Lecture by Dr. Birgit Metzger (Saarbrücken/Freiburg)

Since the 1970s, the environmental movement has become the signature of an era, and its diversity and dynamism is evident if you follow current events. The lecture will explain and critically classify the new formation of the ecological movement in the field of tension between old nature conservation and new protest culture, progressive and conservative interpretations, between global references and local actions.
Using examples from the anti-nuclear movement, the forest dieback debate and the controversy surrounding a toxic waste disposal site, we will show how not only the political (self-)understanding of the ecological movement changed, but also the alternative milieu's idea of 'land' and 'home'.

This is an event organized by
Agrargeschichte weiter_denken!

Lecture series on agricultural history in Witzenhausen

What perspectives can agricultural history offer for a differentiated understanding of agriculture?
In order to approach this question, we would like to invite historians to Witzenhausen whose work is dedicated to questions of agricultural history.

The dynamics, interactions and effects of environmental-historical and social processes and phenomena in the context of agricultural forms of use and human consumption can often only be analyzed and studied from a historical distance. Keywords here are: Climate change, globalization, colonialism, migration, access to land, land use changes, Nazi agricultural policy and organic farming - to name just a few.

Our initiative would like to encourage the much-cited "holistic thinking" in the context of sustainable concepts of agriculture to be taken further and to include global-historical aspects - and not ignore them.

The aim is the continuation, further development and reorientation of agricultural history teaching and research at Faculty 11, which discusses current scientific discourses and research approaches from a global-historical perspective. To be continued in the winter semester!