New Materiality: Things – Environment – Human-Animal-Relations

Workshop im Rahmen des Projekts: „Work – Love – Violence. Rural Societies and New Research Perspectives" Leipzig, 16.-17.3.2017

Organizer: The Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of East Central Europe (GWZO)

Concept: Dietlind Huechtker (GWZO), Claudia Kraft (Universität Siegen)

Programme

Venue: GWZO, Specks Hof (Entrance A), 4th floor Reichsstraße 4, 04109 Leipzig

Thursday, March 16

14.00–14.15
Welcome and Introduction

14.15–15.00
Keynote
Eunice Blavascunas (Whitman College, Walla Walla)
Humans and Non-Humans: Theoretical and Methodological Debates in Humanities
Comment: Claudia Kraft (Universität Siegen)

Approaches
15.15–18.45
Chair: Christian Lübke (GWZO, Leipzig)

Article-based discussions on Things – Environment – Human-Animal Relationships
Presentations
Maria Hetzer (Universität Siegen)
Barbara Klich-Kluczewska (UJ, Kraków)
Margareth Lanzinger (Universität Wien)
Ewelina Szpak (PAN, Warszawa)

19.30–21.00
Reflections
Ute Raßloff (Berlin)
Mikołaj Szołtysek (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S.)
Anna Dobrowolska (UW, Warszawa)
Dietmar Müller (GWZO, Leipzig)

Friday, March 17

9.00–9.45
Introduction: Ernst Langthaler (Johannes Kepler Universität Linz)

Questions and Problems
Chair: Sabine von Löwis (CMB, Berlin)

9.45–10.30
Markus Krzoska (JLU Gießen)
Sense and Non-sense of Non-human Agency: Examples from Białowieża
Comment: Matthias Kaltenbrunner (Universität Wien)

10.30–11.15
Alina Strugut (Toronto) EU Rural Tourism and the Commodification of Nature and Local Subsistence Livelihoods: Lessons from Gura Raului, Romania
Comment: Olga Linkiewicz (PAN, Warszawa)

Chair: Jaśmina Korczak-Siedlecka (PAN, Warszawa)

11.30–12.15
Iurii Zazuliak (NANU, L’viv)
Making Boundaries and Uses of Physical Landscape in Galicia (Red Ruthenia) during the 15th– 16th Centuries
Comment: Michael G. Müller (MLU Halle-Wittenberg)

12.15–13.00
Matthias Hardt (GWZO, Leipzig) Overcoming the Mountains: Cultivating the Country (Landesausbau)
Comment: Tomasz Wiślicz (PAN, Warszawa)

13.45–14.45
Conclusions
Jürgen Heyde (GWZO, Leipzig)
Dietlind Hüchtker (GWZO, Leipzig)

Programme

Tagungsbericht