On the way to ecological statehood? The Agricultural and Forest History of the 18th Century in the Sign of the Anthropocene

Lecture by Dr. Richard Hölzl (Kassel/Göttingen).

In this contribution to the lecture series, Richard Hölzl will explain the scientific perspective of the Anthropocene, critically classify it, and use this concept to discuss the interconnectedness of humans and the environment in the context of the 18th century. Examples from agricultural and forestry history-debates over forest privatization, wetland drainage, agricultural insurance-will be used to show how the 18th century state attempted to regulate human-environment relations.

This is an event of 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 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 aim 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 against global-historical perspectives. To be continued in the winter semester!