06.11.2024

Still open until 1 December 2024: CfA for Workshop "Rewilding in Europe: Genealogies, Imaginaries and Practices of Conservation in the Anthropocene"

The deadline has been changed to 1 December 2024 for the Call for Abstracts for ‘Rewilding in Europe: Genealogies, Imaginaries and Practices of Conservation in the Anthropocene’, an interdisciplinary workshop of the Leibniz Research Alliance ‘Value of the Past’. The venue is the Museum Koenig Bonn, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB). The event will be held in English.

The organizers are Katharina Schmidt-Loske (Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Museum Koenig Bonn), Bernhard Gißibl (Leibniz Institute of European History), Jordi Serangeli (University of Tübingen), Pavla Šimková (Collegium Carolinum Munich), Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Museum Munich), Willi Xylander (Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz)

Application deadline is December 1, 2024.

The interdisciplinary workshop, taking place from 19 to 21 March 2025 at the Museum Koenig in Bonn (Germany), will bring together scholars from the humanities and the natural sciences with practitioners of conservation to discuss and reflect on the historical development, the current practice, and the future of rewilding in Europe. Speakers are encouraged to address the following problems and questions, drawing upon the expertise gathered in their academic work as well as through participation in rewilding projects that seek to transform humanoccupied landscapes into new wildernesses.

We still seek for oral presentations (ca. 20 min) or posters: Please send proposals with an abstract of max. 300 words and a short CV to Bernhard Gißibl and Katharina Schmidt-Loske by December 1, 2024. Please don’t hesitate to get in
contact with any of the organizers for further information.

Contact:
Bernhard Gißibl (Leibniz Institute of European History): gissibl@ieg.mainz-de
Katharina Schmidt-Loske (Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change /
Museum Koenig Bonn): k.schmidt- loske@leibniz-lib.de