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Lecture "Wilderness and World Heritage or Locals and Bisons – The Polish-Belarussian National Park of Białowieża"

The Department of Historical Sociology and the Department of Social and Cultural Ecology cordially invite you to a lecture "Wilderness and World Heritage or Locals and Bisons – The Polish-Belarussian National Park of Białowieża" by Prof. Dr. Thomas Bohn (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen).

The lecture takes place at the regular Environmental Expert Seminar II. of the Department of Social and Cultural Ecology on Monday, Feb. 26th 2018 at 3:30pm (University area Jinonice, room 1036).

Anotation

The primeval forest of Białowieża owes its unique character to the hunting monopoly of the Polish kings and Russian tsars. From the late 18th Century it was the last remaining home of the European bison. In terms of environmental history, this contribution explores the relationship between humans and nature whilst, from the perspective of regional history, discussing the impact of transformations in the political order.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Bohn is Professor for Eastern European History at the Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen. His main research interests cover history of historiography, urban history, environmental history and superstition and nonconformism. In all these fields he has published many books and numerous articles: Russische Geschichtswissenschaft von 1880 bis 1905. Pavel N. Miljukov und die Moskauer Schule. Köln-Weimar-Wien 1998; Minsk - Musterstadt des Sozialismus. Stadtplanung und Urbanisierung in der Sowjetunion nach 1945, Köln-Weimar-Wien 2008; «Minskii fenomen». Gorodskoe planirovanie i urbanizaciia v Sovetskom Soiuze posle Vtoroi mirovoi voiny, Moskva 2013; Der Vampir. Ein europäischer Mythos, Köln-Weimar-Wien 2016; Wisent-Wildnis und Welterbe. Geschichte des polnisch-weißrussischen Nationalparks von Białowieża, Köln-Weimar-Wien 2017 (with Aliaksandr Dalhouski and Markus Krzoska). Prof. Bohn’s current research projects are Polesie as a place of intervention (Leibniz Community 2015-2018), Vlad Dracula. Biography and edition of documents (DFG 2016-2019) and Minsk as contact and conflict zone in the interwar period (LOEWE Foundation 2017-2020).