Contested Spaces, Geo-Interventions, and the Search for Order - IN PERS

The predicaments of the early twenty-first century seem to call established narratives of modern trajectories into question. Environmental crisis and the shock of the Anthropocene coincide with disillusionment about classical tales of Western liberty, emancipation, and conquest of planetary space. How did we get there, and what kinds of stories should we be telling?

Paul Nolte’s (FU Berlin) lecture surveys the field for the case of modern Germany and suggests a framework that brings together recent approaches in the history of ecology, space and territory, and political regimes since the eighteenth century.

The Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship is a co-operation between the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the German Historical Institute London (GHIL), and the Gerda Henkel Professor’s home university.

Host or Publisher German Historical Institute London