Internationaler Workshop “A Global History of Dams”
Virtual Zoom Workshop, 30. September und 1. Oktober 2021
Organisation: Vincent Lagendijk (Maastricht University) und Frederik Schulze (WWU Münster)
Kontakt: Frederik.schulze@uni-muenster.de
September 30
17:30-17:50: Introduction
- Vincent Lagendijk (Maastricht), Frederik Schulze (Münster)
17:50-18:50: Europe
- Benjamin Brendel (Marburg): Artefacts of Imagined Modernities: European Dams between Futurism and Francoism from 1910s to 1960s
- Jíra Janáč (Prague): Building Socialism on Dams: Czechoslovak Hydroprojekt in Global Networks
Commentator: Martin Schmid (Institute of Social Ecology Vienna)
19:00-20:00: U.S./Canada
- Jane Griffith (Toronto): Damming and Settler Colonialism: Rhetoric, Narrative, Professional Communication
- Daniel MacFarlane (Western Michigan): Networked Niagara: Niagara Falls and the International Diffusion of Hydraulic Expertise
- Commentator: Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted (Eastern Washington)
October 1
16:45-17:45: Asia
- Flora Roberts (Cardiff): Soviet Dams Go Global? The Friendship of the Peoples Trope in Central Asian Dam Building
- Robert Winstanley-Chesters (Bath/Leeds): Dams, Hydro-Electrics, Hydrology and Charismatic Politics in North Korea: 1948-2020
- Commentator: Rohan D’Souza (Kyoto)
17:50-18:50: Latin America
- Diana Schwartz Francisco (Chicago): Hydraulic Revolution? Dams, Displacement, and Expertise in Mexico after 1940
- Christine Folch (Durham): Catastrophic Hypotheses, Disaster Imaginaries, and Environmental Diplomacy: Building the Infrastructure of State Power in South America
- Commentator: Jacob Blanc (Edinburgh)
19:00-20:00: Africa
- Birte Förster (Bielefeld): Damming the Konkouré River: On the Planning, Failure and Revival of a Dam Project in (French) Guinea
- Stephan Miescher (Santa Barbara): Dam Building, Decolonization, and the Cold War in Ghana
- Commentator: Abou Bamba (Gettysburg)