Event Description
The reciprocal dynamics between humans and their environments in socio-natural sites, or “industryscapes,” call out for interdisciplinary study. Natural sciences can provide an understanding of the physical landscape, while the social sciences can illuminate the human landscape of relations to the land and its materials, especially in decisions about value, risk, ownership, and use. Historians of science/knowledge can chart the varied systems of knowledge that structured geo-anthropic interactions and relations as they were rooted over the longue durée in diverse social and cultural settings. This talk will introduce perspectives, methodologies, and insights such socio-natural sites can yield.
Event Speaker
Pamela H. Smith, Seth Low Professor of History and Founding Director of the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University
Event Information
Free and open to the public; registration required for in-person and online guests. For more information, please visit the event webpage or contact Sebastian Felten at [email protected].
Hosted by the University of Vienna.
