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“Wetlands in History” receives support from SEED funding from the University of Augsburg

The working group Wetlands in History: Histories from the quaking zone, 1630-1997 - a collaboration between the Chair of Early Modern History, the Chair of Global Environmental History, the IEK, WZU and Bukowina Institute - is receiving support from SEED funding from the University of Augsburg, enabling it to continue and expand its work.

 

The working group led by Professors Simone Müller, Ulrich Niggemann, Jana Osterkamp, Lothar Schilling and Jens Soentgen is studying wetlands in Central and Western Europe from a long-term historical perspective from 1630 to 1997.

 

Starting from the ambivalent basic state of the wetlands - as neither water nor land - it brings new archives and actors to the fore who were inspired by precisely this, including Alessandro Volta, Adolf Pleischl and Käthe Seidel.

Prof. Dr. Simone Müller makes it to the final of the Fleck Prize 2025 with her book “The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade”.
The Fleck Prize, first awarded in 1992, recognizes an outstanding book in the area of Science and Technology Studies. For the 2025 prize, the Committee reviewed more than 45 books and evaluated nominated books on their contributions to the field of Science and Technology Studies, their novelty, and their overall scholarly quality.

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