New European Conservation Humanities Network

We have some very good news to share: the new European Conservation Humanities Network that the Corridor Talk team has applied for in cooperation with ten other scholars from Germany and other European countries has been approved! Funded by the DFG, the network will run for three years, starting in early 2024. It will buildContinue reading “New European Conservation Humanities Network”

Wadden Sea workshop in Lauwersoog

At the end of April, the Corridor Talk team gathered for our third and final place-based workshop. This time, we convened in Lauwersoog, in the fluid landscape of the Dutch Wadden Sea coast. Our first encounter with the area was a trip around the Lauwersmeer National Park in the company of fisherman Jaap Vegter and biologistContinue reading “Wadden Sea workshop in Lauwersoog”

Joint presentation by Corridor Talk and BOAR project members

Pavla Šimková from the Corridor Talk team and Laura Kuen from the BOAR project based at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague spoke about the Bavarian Forest and Šumava and Transcarpathia in Western Ukraine and about the role that concepts of landscape, periphery, and wilderness play in their research. The event was organized byContinue reading “Joint presentation by Corridor Talk and BOAR project members”

Corridor Talk at the 12th Congress of Czech Historians

Corridor Talk team member Pavla Šimková presented a paper at the 12th Congress of Czech Historians that took place from 20-22 September 2022 in Ústí nad Labem. Her talk, entitled “Nature without Borders? History of Transboundary Nature Protection in the Bavarian Forest and Šumava,” was part of a section focusing on environmental discourses in CzechContinue reading “Corridor Talk at the 12th Congress of Czech Historians”