OPEN WORKSHOP 1-4 APRIL 2009:

 

Socio-environmental dynamics over the last 12,000 years: the creation of landscapes

We thank all the participants at the workshop for their fruitful contribution to the different sessions and public lectures!

 

 

Pictures by: F. Bauer. Clockwise, beginning from top left: Annegret Kranz and Uta Lungershausen reporting at the plenary meeting, ice-breaker at the Leibniz Laboratory, one of the posters of the GS doctoral students, Carolin Lubos during poster session, Christoph Nübel, Andrea Ricci and Michael Teichmann at the ice-breaker, Rebecca Renneberg at the plenary meeting the last day of the workshop.

 

 

Workshop publication

Speakers, who presented a paper or a poster at the workshop are invited to send their contribution to the publication committee until July the 15th, 2009. The book will provide a wide-ranging discursive resource on the session topics of the Kiel workshop. Results are presented for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, lecturers and other scholars. Chapters may review the existing evidence in a region with a distinct thematic question in mind, disseminate the results of recent research, and/or set out agendas and themes for future work. As such, the book will combine up-to-date and much needed syntheses with current, and often innovative thinking.

 

Rationale

Creation of cultural environments amplifies the meaning of landscape: Beyond natural conditions social constants play a decisive role in the formation of landscapes.
Social environments, within this landscape concept, are not only reflected by material remains but also by the spatial imprints of mobility and sustainability. The development
of social space under specific ecological conditions is linked to the ideological systems maintained by societies for economic reasons or ritual purposes. The study of landscapes thus does not concern only environmental, demographic, and social aspects but also the
ideological changes regarding ’landscapes’, i.e. the conception that individuals and societies have concerning ’nature’.

 

Within this frame the Graduate School organised the Open Workshop

"Socio-environmental dynamics over the last 12,000 years: the creation of landscapes", which took place on April 1-4, 2009 at the University of Kiel.

 

 

Public Lectures - Wednesday, April, 1st, 2009

 

• Fouquet, Gerhard (CAU, Kiel, President) – "Humanities and natural sciences at the University of Kiel".
• Parzinger, Hermann, (Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz) - "Steppe peoples and landscape space in Eurasia".
• Shennan, Stephen, (Institute of Archaeology, UCL, UK) - "Evolutionary ecology and archaeology: the reconstruction of processes".
• Haug, Gerald H.  (Geologisches Institut, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich) – "Men and climate".
• Kirleis, Wiebke and Nelle, Oliver (Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes” CAU, Kiel) – “Vegescapes: palaeobotanical approaches to spatiotemporal scenarios”.
• Renneberg, Rebecca, (Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes” CAU, Kiel) – “Ancient DNA – A molecular guide to the past”.
• Käppel, Lutz and Müller, Johannes (Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes” CAU, Kiel), -“Concepts of social space in landscape”.

 

Public lectures to download here

 

 

Sessions 1-7: April, 2-4 2009

 

• Session 1: Monuments and monumentality

 

• Session 2: Central sites

 

• Session 3: Impact of resource exploitation, trade, and transport on environment and societies

 

• Session 4: Separating natural and anthropogenic influences in environmental change

 

• Session 5: Population dynamics and demographic proxies

 

• Session 6: Perception, mental construction and conceptualisation of landscapes

 

• Session 7: New approaches and proxies for socio-environmental reconstructions

 

 

Programme

 

The general workshop programme is available here

 

 

Registration

 

If you want to be part of the audience, you can register sending an e-mail to:

workshop2009(at)gshdl.uni-kiel.de

 

Please mention which session you would like to attend.

The registration deadline for auditors is March the 11th. 2009. A registration fee of 20 euros should be paid in cash the first day of attendance.

 

 

Venue

 

Olshausenstraße 75, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel:

Public Lectures: Olshausenstraße 75, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kie,

OS75 / Hörsaal 2 (Lecture Hall 2), April 1th. (1.00pm-6.30pm)

 

Some useful maps and plans for the workshop are available here:

-Campus map

-Main workshop locations (university, hotels, conference dinner, central station)