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Congress of The International
Union of the Anthropological
and Ethnological Sciences
(IUAES)
Exploitation and Overexploitation
in Societies Past and Present
Göttingen July 18-21 2001
Aims of the Congress
“Exploitation and Overexploitation
in Societies Past and Present” is the
theme of the 2001 InterCongress of
the lnternational Union of Anthropological
and Ethnological Sciences.The
question has been chosen as
it covers a subject intensely discussed
in the scientific communities
of anthropology, ethnology, environmental
history and related fields
such as archeology or historical
geography. Questions of resource
economics and the evaluation of
human impact on natural systems
gain more and more importance
in public discourse.The Congress
aims to bring together researchers
of related, but often too distant,
fields and offers insights to the
public as well. Human impact on
landscape can be conceptualised in
terms of socially governed ecological
systems. In the past the adaptive
capacity of human cultural systems
has been emphasised. Nowadays, a
shift can be recognised towards modified
views. Resources are discussed
as prerequisites for establishing
complex human societies.This
includes also a more biologically
minded view from the standpoint
of the humanities. In such a view,
human societal complexes can be
understood as systems that manage
energy and matters.The concept of
social-metabolic regimes has developed
in such a context. Cultures, as
seen within this paradigm, are not
understood merely as autopoietic
symbolic entities but as results of an
interaction of material prerequisites
and emerging social structures. One
might dismiss this as an epistemological
shift, part of the play of
science with itself. But it remains
unsolved so far in terms of evolutionary
theory if the ultimate goal
of evolution is reproductive success
or accessibility to and optimising of
energy resources.
There are other important reasons
for this conference, however. It
becomes increasingly evident that
man-nature-relationships which are
strongly expressed in exploitation
strategies will turn into the most
decisive issue for the forthcoming
century.The conference will focus
on the most urgent questions of
this development and therefore add
a much-needed perspective to the
discourse on Global Change.We
aim to refurnish the changing world
with social subjects, their reasoning,
their suffering and their culturally
and biologically driven ability for
solving the challenge of survival.
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Preliminary programme
Wednesday July 18th Afternoon
Opening session
Official addresses
Keynote Addresses Marian Fischer-
Kowalski (Vienna, Austria)
Keynote Addresses Anrew Goudie
(Oxford, UK)
Wednesday July 18th Evening
Public Lecture H.J. Schnellnhuber
(Potsdam, Germany)
Reception Aula of the Georg-August
University Göttingen
Thursday July 19th Morning
Plenary session on Environmental
History
Speaker Karl Butzer (Austin, Texas,
USA)
Speaker John McNeill (Washington
DC, USA)
Speaker Verena winiwarter (Vienna,
Austria)
Thursday July 19th Afternoon
Parallel sessions on the topics
Environmental History (chair
Verena Winiwarter, Vienna, Austria)
Archaeology of Landscapes (chair
Karl Butzer, Austin, Texas, USA)
Recycling (chair Bernhard Streck
(Leipzig, Germany)
Conference Dinner
Friday July 20th Morning
Plenary session on Sustainability
Speaker William Woods (Edwardsville,
USA)
Speaker Rolf Peter Sieferle (St Gallen,
Switzerland)
Speaker Joan Martinez-Alier (Barcelona,
Spain)
Friday July 20th Afternoon
Parallel sessions on the topics
Concepts of Sustainability (chair
Rolf Peter Sieferle, St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Agricultural Systems vs. Industrialized
Systems (chair Andrew Goudie)
Human Subsistence in Past and Present
Societies (chair Rainer Marggraf)
Saturday July 21st Morning
Plenary session on Environmental
Sociology
Speaker Gerd Spittler (Bayreuth,
Germany)
Speaker Bernhard Streck (Leipzig,
Germany)
Saturday July 21st Afternoon
Parallel sessions on the topics
Nature in Culture-Culture in Nature
(chair Bernd Hermann, Göttingen,
Germany)
Extreme Environmental Conditions
(chair Tim Ingold, Aberdeen, UK)
Evaluating Summary by Roy Ellen
(Canterbury, UK)
Closing lecture
Sunday July 22nd Morning
Post Congress Excursion to the
Ethnographic Museum Berlin
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