Workshop "Environmental Savings: Historical Perspectives on Practices of Austerity and Abstinence"
The KHYS-sponsored workshop "Saving the Environment" took place in an inspiring workshop setting at KIT on June 5 and 6, 2025. The organizers Nicole Hesse and Silke Zimmer-Merkle organized a varied program in which the intensive, also practical, examination of historical sources was combined with theoretical and methodological considerations on thrift and renunciation in history. Thematically and epochally broad, the topics ranged from specific objects of thrift to practices of thrift and renunciation to discourse histories from the early modern period to contemporary history, addressing overarching questions about cultures, motives and actors of environmental saving. The integrated workshop on science communication by Philipp Schrögel and the exclusive evening tour through the exhibition "Kann das weg? Von Abfällen und Einfällen" at the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe expanded the discussions to include questions of communication and mediation.
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