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Book „Kalkulierte Gefahren. Naturkatastrophen und Vorsorge" wins Award

The 2021 Turku Book Award 2021 —a joint award of the Rachel Carson Center and the European Society for Envrionmental History—goes to Nicolai Hannig (TU Darmstadt) for his monograph Kalkulierte Gefahren. Naturkatastrophen und Vorsorge seit 1800 (Wallstein, 2019).

Das Institut für Geschichte trauert um Prof. Dr. Elke Hartmann-Puls. Sie verstarb am Mittwoch, dem 21.07.2021, im Kreise ihrer Familie.

Essay by Darmstadt Aretin Prize winner David Blischke in the Middle Ages Blog

The history of crisis management of the Magdalen flood of 1342 in selected examples

The interdisciplinary Research Training Group KRITIS invites researchers and practitioners to participate in its second international conference in November 2021.

At first glance, infrastructures appear to be solid, stable and immovable. But is that really the case? Research in recent years has shown the opposite: Infrastructures are dynamic and malleable, characterized by continuous development, interruptions, breakdowns as well as reconstruction, and repair. Update: Deadline extended until May 16th

DFG approves funding worth millions

On 29 March 2021, the German Research Foundation announced that of 47 initiatives submitted for a priority programme, a total of 13 will receive funding. One of the approved initiatives is the proposal “Auf dem Weg zur fluvialen Anthroposphäre/ On the way to the Fluvial Anthroposphere”. It has been developed together with the section “History of the Middle Ages”, Institute of History of the Technical University of Darmstadt (Prof. Dr Gerrit Jasper Schenk) in a team led by Prof. Dr Christoph Zielhofer (University of Leipzig, Geoarchaeology and Fluvial Geomorphology) and Prof. Dr Natascha Mehler and PD Dr Lukas Werther (both University of Tübingen, Archaeology of the Middle Ages and Post-Medieval Period).

Prof. Dr. Lothar Graf zu Dohna ist am 9. März 2021 verstorben.

Der am 4. Mai 1924 Geborene lehrte von seiner Berufung 1972 bis zu seiner Emeritierung 1989 Geschichte des Mittelalters am Institut für Geschichte der Technischen Universität Darmstadt.

The price has been awarded to David Blischke and Frauke Honkomp

Read more in the German version

The new study on Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) by our staff member Nora Thorade was published at Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung at the end of last year. You can download the study (in German) on their Website.

Last Thursday, Martin Schmitt received the award of the Society for the history of Science, Medicine and Technology (GWMT) together with Lucia Aschauer. He received the award for my dissertation on the digitalisation of banking in Germany.

What is black coal? What is it made of and where does it come from? What are its advantages and why? What was it used for and why not? In the 19th century, questions such as these increasingly came to the attention of scientists and miners. They were triggered by the rising economic value of hard coal, the increasing necessity of a secure supply, but also by the widespread use of hard coal. Nevertheless, little is known about how contemporaries in the age of industrialization viewed the materiality of this raw material. Using the example of three small areas of the German black coal mining industry, this book takes a look behind the scenes of industrialization and makes black coal, one of its most important raw materials, an actor in history.

Prof. Dr. Gerrit Jasper Schenk Co-Organizer

More than 130 scientists and practitioners from 30 countries and UN organizations met at the Herrenhausen Conference “Extreme Events – Building Climate Resilient Societies” supported by the Volkswagen Foundation in Hanover at Herrenhausen Palace from October 9 to 11, 2019.