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graphical writings of Alexander
von Humboldt’
12.15-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-14.15 Hubert van den Berg
(University of Groningen), ‘The
representation of nature as convention.
On the role of genre
denominations’
14.15-15.00 Svend Erik Larsen
(University of Aarhus), ‘Virtues
and virtualities’
15.00-15.30 Tea break
Natura naturata v. natura naturans
15.30-16.15 Frans Vera (Ministry
of Agriculture, Nature Management
and Fisheries, The Hague)
‘Doomed to reconstruct. Because
we’ve made nature disappear as
fact, we have condemned ourselves
to fiction’
16.15-17.00 Rob Leopold (independent
philosopher, Niebert),
‘Nature between distance and
participation’
Friday 5 November, Offerhauszaal
Nature and nation
9.30-10.15 Henk van Zon (University
of Groningen), ‘Illusion
and reality. Picturesque or realistic
portrayal of Dutch landscapes by
some nineteenth-century painters’
10.15-10.45 Coffee break
10.45-11.30 Friedmar Apel (University
of Paderborn), ‘Sacral
nature and nationalism in the
Wandervogel movement and in
the circle of Stefan George’
11.30-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-14.15 Nina Witoszek (University
of Oslo), ‘Modernity and
nature mythologies: the case of
Germany and Scandinavia’
14.15-15.00 Wil Verhoeven (University
of Groningen), ‘Ecology as
requiem: nature, nationhood, and
history in Francis Parkman’s “history
of the American forest”’
15.00-15.30 Tea break
Nature and sustainability
15.30-16.15 Andrew Dobson
(Keele University), ‘Nature: just a
social construction’
16.15-17.00 Maarten Hajer (University
of Amsterdam), ‘A frame
in the fields. Analysing culture
and identity in environmental
politics’
17.00 Closure of the symposium;
reception.
Registration
Further information and registration
(before Monday 25 October
1999) at the following address:
Marijke Wubbolts, Rudolf Agricola
Instituut, Rijksuniversiteit
Groningen, Postbus 716, 9700 AS
Groningen
e-mail: m.r.b.wubbolts@let.rug.nl ;
tel: +31-50-363 7336
The entrance fee for the entire symposium
is Dfl 120,- Entrance for one
day only will cost Dfl 65,- Students
and Ph.D.-students (aio’s / oio’s) pay
no fee. Lunch, coffee and tea are included
in the entrance fee, which is to
be paid cash at the symposium.
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Location
Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5,
Groningen. Dates of the AIO
course: 14 October, 28 October
and 11 November, 14 -17 pm
Organization
Hubert van den Berg,
Faculty of Arts
(tel +31-50-363 5197)
Marcel Wissenburg,
Faculty of Philosophy
(tel +31-24-361 1853)
Marijke Wubbolts,
secretary / coordinator Agricola
Eva-Anne le Coultre,
student assistant Faculty of Philosophy
in collaboration with the
research group “Representation of
nature” of the Rudolf Agricola research
school.
Disastro! Disasters
in Italy Since 1860
A two-day International Conference
to be held at Yale University,
organized by the Association for
the Study of Modern Italy, the Department
of History, Yale and the
Department of Italian, Yale and
Modern Italy. The Journal of the
Asssociation for the Study of Modern
Italy.
Friday 18th and Saturday 19th June
1999, Yale University, New Haven,
USA
There is no European society whose
modern history has been more
deeply marked by disasters, both
natural and social, than has Italy’s.
The recent earthquakes have highlighted
once again the geographical
frailty of the peninsula. Italy is a
land with active volcanoes, seismic
zones from North to South
(only Sardinia has been free of
earthquakes) 1,000 miles of vulnerable
coastline, river basins which
flood frequently, forests which burn
every Summer, land which is vulnerable
to slips and snowfalls. Disease,
both epidemic and endemic, from
cholera and malaria to AIDS, has
haunted Italy insistently. Italy has
not been free of man-made disasters,
such as the Vajont dam flood
of 1963 (where over 2,000 people
were killed) or the Seveso chemical
leaks of 1976. Terrorism created
its own traumatic disasters, such
as at Piazza Fontana and Bologna
Station. Military defeats - Custoza
and Lissa, Dogali and Adowa, Caporetto
and the Second World War
-have sent profound shocks through
Italian society. The 1990s saw
landslips ingulf whole towns near
Naples, whilst thousands of prospective
immigrants risked death on
a daily basis attempting to reach
Italy in flimsy craft.
The response to many of these tragic
events can tell us much about
Italy. Disasters test the social fabric
and the political system to their li-
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