Net Werk voor de Geschiedenis van Hygiëne en Milieu, 1994-1996 ...

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Prof. Dr. Rüdiger vom Bruch,
Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften
Humboldt-Universität,
Unter den Linden 6-8,
D-10099 Berlin.
Tel.: 00-4930/20932870
Fax: 00-49-30/2093 2431
Landschap en technologie
in Hollufgaard
Humanities Research Center, Odense
University, Denmark January 10-12
1997
During the past thirty years two
scholarly discourses have emerged
that each address the complex relations
between advanced industrial
cultures and the natural world:
landscape studies and work on
technology and culture. Each of
these fi elds is interdisciplinary,
drawing to varying degrees on art,
history, literature, geography, anthropology,
and the social sciences.
Th e two areas of research share
many concerns, and this seminar
aims to advance the dialogue between
them through a two day
international seminar.
It will address such questions as the
following:
How have technologies been used
to shape or imagine landscapes,
for example at international exhibitions,
or in literature, photographs
and paintings?
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How have technologies been used
to transform specifi c environments,
and what (often unanticipated)
changes have resulted?
How have technological innovations
been “naturalized,” so that
they seem to be in harmony with
their surroundings?
What are the relationships between
gender, technology, and specifi c
sites?
Is it possible to discuss a landscape
without having a concept of a
technology that is “appropriate”
for it?
How have diff erent cultures adapted
the same technologies to different
landscapes?
Conference presentations (c. 30
minutes) are invited in these and
related areas. Th e deadline for receipt
of abstracts and a short c.v. is
September 1,1996. Decisions on
acceptance will be made by October
1 at the latest.
For more conference information,
contact David Nye,
Humanities Research Center,
Man & Nature, Hollufgaard,
Hestehaven 201,
5220 Odense SO, Denmark.
Phone: (+ 45) 65 95 94 93,
fax: (+ 45) 65 95 77 66,
E-mail: nye@hist.ou.dk
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redactie: myriam d a r u
webversie: jan van den n o o r t
Net Werk 52 - augustus 1996
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century
Studies 12th Annual Conference University
of California, Berkeley; April
4-6, 1997
Th e theme for this year’s conference
will be death and life. Suggested
topics include: destruction and creation
of people, cemeteries, corpses
and graves ceremonies and technologies
of birth and death, disease
and epidemic, war and mutinies,
the concept of population, capital
punishment, labor, midwifery, male
birthing, pathos, sentimentality,
mourning, elegies and other writing
about the dead, anatomical illustration
and picturing the dead.
Send 200 word abstracts, and, if
possible, papers (15 pages maximum).
We will consider proposal for interdisciplinary
panels that draw on
scholars from at least three diff erent
disciplines. When proposing a
panel, please indicate whether you
would like individual papers considered
separately if the panel is not
accepted. Abstracts due October
15, 1996; Notifi cation sent by December
1, 1996; Completed papers
due January 15,1997.
Direct all correspondence to:
INCS-Berkeley,
English Department,
322 Wheeler Hall,
University of California,
Berkeley, CA 94720-1030.
E-mail: ines@violet.berkeley.edu.
Selected conference papers will be
published in Nineteenth-Century
Contexts: An Interdisciplinary
Journal.
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