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Lecture: Global agricultural history in climate change
Lecture by Dr. Franz Mauelshagen (Potsdam)
This contribution to the lecture series highlights the interrelationship between agricultural and climate history in a historical longitudinal section from the beginnings of agriculture to the present day. The relationship between humans and the climate has changed fundamentally since industrialization. In addition to the emission of greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels, industrialized land use has also become a driving force behind global warming. What does this mean for the research and teaching tasks of a globally oriented agricultural history in an interdisciplinary working context, in which historical findings do not stand for themselves, but gain significance 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 whose work is dedicated 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 from a historical distance. Keywords here are: Climate change, globalization, colonialism, migration, access to land, land use changes, Nazi agricultural policy and organic farming - to name just a few.
Our initiative would like to encourage the much-cited "holistic thinking" in the context of sustainable concepts of agriculture to be taken further and to include global-historical aspects - and not ignore them.
The aim is the continuation, further development and reorientation of agricultural history teaching and research at Faculty 11, which discusses current scientific discourses and research approaches from a global-historical perspective. To be continued in the winter semester!