War landscapes: environmental destruction and historical memory in Eastern Europe

Colloquium of the Osteuropa-Kolleg NRW on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, Room 09 on Floor 1 of the University Library

 

Picture: @ yulydesign GbR; War Landscapes: Environmental Destruction and Historical Memory in Eastern Europe


Thursday, 8.5.2025, 6 - 8 p.m. c.t.
Environment and war: Ecosystems and technical infrastructures in the crosshairs of the Russian attack on Ukraine (ger.)
Anna Veronika Wendland (Herder Institute Marburg)

Wednesday, 14.5.2025, 6 - 8 p.m. c.t.
Militarized Environment: Nature and Space on the Eastern Front of the First World War (ger.)
Oksana Nagornaia (Humboldt University Berlin)

Wednesday, 21.5.2025, 6 - 8 p.m. c.t.
Writing War: History, Knowledge, and Resistance
Olesya Khromeychuk (Ukrainian Institute London)

Wednesday, 4.6.2025, 6 - 8 p.m. c.t.
A museum against the war. History of the German-Russian memorial project in Berlin-Karlshorst (ger.)
Jörg Morré (Museum Berlin-Karlshorst)

Thursday, 3.7.2025, 6 - 8 p.m. c.t.
„Putins Kriegsrhetorik“ (Book presentation and discussion)(ger.)
Riccardo Nicolosi (Munich)

Wednesday, 9.7.2025, 6 - 8 p.m. c.t.
Environmental protection in the Cold War: the service writer Leonid Leonov and the dissident Oleg Volkov (ger.)
Ulrich Schmid (University of St. Gallen)