Lecture: Global agricultural history in climate change

Lecture by Dr. Franz Mauelshagen (Potsdam)

This contribution to the lecture series illuminates the interconnection between agricultural and climate history in a historical longitudinal section from the beginnings of agriculture until today. The relationship between humans and climate has changed fundamentally since industrialization. In addition to greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion, industrialized land use has become a driver of global warming today. What does this mean for the research and teaching tasks of a globally oriented agricultural history in an interdisciplinary working context where historical findings do not stand on their own, but take on meaning for the present and the future?

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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 who dedicate their work 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 through historical distance. Keywords are: Climate change, globalization, colonialism, migration, access to land, land use change, Nazi agricultural policy and organic farming - to name just a few.

Our initiative wants to encourage that the much-cited "holistic thinking" in the context of sustainable concepts of agriculture is thought further and includes global-historical aspects - and does not fade out.

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