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Tobias Markowitsch stellte am 16. Juni ein Projekt der Bildungsagenda NS-Unrecht vor. Dieses befasst sich mit den Akten des Sondergerichts Mannheim, welches während der NS-Diktatur Regimekritiker und -kritikerinnen  anklagte und in über 8.000 Verfahren in den Jahren 1933 - 1945 verurteilte. Im Rahmen dieses Projektes ermöglichte das Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe Schülerinnen und Schülern verschiedener Karlsruher Gymnasien, darüber tiefe Einblicke in das Unrechts-System des NS-Staates zu erlangen.

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Am 9. Juni stellte Jary Koch (Potsdam) im Forschungskolloquium Auszüge aus seinem Dissertationsprojekt über Arbeit, Technik und Natur in der chemischen Industrie der Bundesrepublik zwischen den 1960er und 1980er Jahren vor. Konkret beleuchtete Koch in seinem Vortrag Aspekte der Computerisierung und Automatisierung der Chemieindustrie und deren Folgen für industrielle Forschung und Produktion.

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In his guest lecture "Archives of Nature & Archives of Society: Studies on the Bohemian Forest in Computational Historical Ecology" on June 2, Arne Cypionka presented his research based on computational humanities, which digitizes and analyzes forestry maps and archival data from the 19th century to, among other things, investigate forest development in this specific region of Eastern Bavaria and visualize changes in biodiversity.

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PD Dr. Ole Sparenberg reported on his research on Antarctica in environmental history teaching at the History Department's research colloquium on 19 May.

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The German-speaking Society for the History of Technology (GTG) met at the Zeche Zollern in Dortmund on the topic of "Un|Visibilities - Energy History between Materiality, Practice and Representation", from May 7 to 9. Three contributions from the Department of History were held at the annual conference. Clarissa Kopanitsak gave a presentation on CAD modeling in heritage conservation in the Young Researchers' Forum. Ole Sparenberg presented his research on the use of peat in 19th century Berlin in the panel "Regional energy regimes: culture, politics, environment". And Nicole Hesse, who was involved in the organization and moderation of the conference as a member of the programme committee, gave a presentation on wind energy use in times of energy crisis in the 20th century.

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On May 12, Florian Bettel from Vienna opened the lecture series at the History Department's research colloquium with his research report on "Plastics processing on a small scale - Viennese family businesses after 1945".