Strata and Three Stories

About this issue

This volume addresses our understanding of the Anthropocene and its challenges, and suggests that multidisciplinarity and storytelling play key roles in devising resilient solutions.

Content

EHL VideoDictionary: Evolutionary History

Edmund Russell on evolutionary history. This is an entry in the KTH EHL VideoDictionary.

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EHL VideoDictionary: Anthropocene

John McNeill on the Anthropocene. This is an entry in the KTH EHL VideoDictionary.

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Dune(s): Fiction, History, Science (Story Map)

Interactive story map on Frank Herbert’s book Dune and coastal history.

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Interview with John Soluri and Claudia Leal, editors of A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America

In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, John Soluri and Claudia Leal are interviewed on their edited volume, A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America.

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“Ocean Literacy and Public Humanities”

In this article, former Rachel Carson Center fellow Helen Rozwadowski argues that the humanities can and should contribute to ocean studies.

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La vita tra i giganti: tradurre l’ecologia nella storia attraverso gli studi sulla montagna

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Perspectives Issue 2020/2

Claudio de Majo mostra come la nozione di beni comuni, spesso analizzata da una prospettiva economica, possa anche essere interpretata in connessione ai cicli ecologici delle montagne della Sila in Italia e della Serra Gaucha in Brasile.

Interview with Kristina Lyons, author of Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners and Life Politics

In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Kristina M. Lyons is interviewed on her new book, Vital Decomposition Soil Practitioners and Life Politics.

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Biography of Alfred Wegener

Historian Christian Kehrt presents a short biographical profile of geologist and polar explorer Alfred Wegener, with historic photographs. Wegener’s diaries from his three Greenland expeditions (1906–1931)—digitized, transcribed, and translated—are the focus of this Virtual Exhibition.

The Wegener Diaries: Scientific Expeditions into the Eternal Ice

This virtual exhibition sheds light on Alfred Wegener’s expeditions to Greenland between 1906 and 1931. Its main focus is on the diaries Wegener wrote during his explorations, which offer unique insights into the manifold challenges man and material faced in Greenland’s extreme environments. You may choose to read the diaries in their original state, or browse the expeditions individually and read transcribed and translated excerpts by clicking on the individual chapters.

This version, published in 2020, includes minor updates to the original 2013 virtual exhibition. PDFs of the virtual exhibition, as well as original scans and transcripts of the Wegener Diaries, can be found at the exhibition’s PDF Depot.

Christian Kehrt

About the author

Kehrt, Christian

Christian Kehrt works in the fields of environmental history, military history, and the history of science and technology. He studied history and philosophy in Tübingen and Stony Brook, NY. His PhD “Moderne Krieger. Die Technikerfahrungen deutscher Militärpiloten, 1910–1945” deals with flying experiences of military pilots in the age of the two world wars. It was completed as part of the postgraduate research program “Technology and Society” at the Technical University Darmstadt and received the Werner-Hahlweg-Prize for military history, the Georg-Agricola Prize and the prize for young scholars of the German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics. As a postdoc he worked at the Deutsches Museum in Munich on a project on the origins of nanotechnology. In 2009/10 he was a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Center for Environment and Society. Currently he is pursuing a habilitation project on polar exploration in the period of the Cold War at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg where he holds a position as a research associate.

Browse the exhibition

Original Footage: Alfred Wegener’s German Greenland Expedition, 1930–1931 (1936)

Commenting actual film footage from Alfred Wegener’s last Greenland expedition, literary historian Dorit Müller describes the content and context of this unique material.

The Wegener Diaries: Scientific Expeditions into the Eternal Ice

This virtual exhibition sheds light on Alfred Wegener’s expeditions to Greenland between 1906 and 1931. Its main focus is on the diaries Wegener wrote during his explorations, which offer unique insights into the manifold challenges man and material faced in Greenland’s extreme environments. You may choose to read the diaries in their original state, or browse the expeditions individually and read transcribed and translated excerpts by clicking on the individual chapters.

This version, published in 2020, includes minor updates to the original 2013 virtual exhibition. PDFs of the virtual exhibition, as well as original scans and transcripts of the Wegener Diaries, can be found at the exhibition’s PDF Depot.

Christian Kehrt

About the author

Kehrt, Christian

Christian Kehrt works in the fields of environmental history, military history, and the history of science and technology. He studied history and philosophy in Tübingen and Stony Brook, NY. His PhD “Moderne Krieger. Die Technikerfahrungen deutscher Militärpiloten, 1910–1945” deals with flying experiences of military pilots in the age of the two world wars. It was completed as part of the postgraduate research program “Technology and Society” at the Technical University Darmstadt and received the Werner-Hahlweg-Prize for military history, the Georg-Agricola Prize and the prize for young scholars of the German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics. As a postdoc he worked at the Deutsches Museum in Munich on a project on the origins of nanotechnology. In 2009/10 he was a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Center for Environment and Society. Currently he is pursuing a habilitation project on polar exploration in the period of the Cold War at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg where he holds a position as a research associate.