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Prof. Stefan Berger

Director
Ruhr University Bochum
Participates in 2 items
Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and the History of Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum, where he is also excecutive chair of the Foundation Library of the Ruhr. Before joining Ruhr University in 2011, he was Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester (2005 – 2011) and Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Glamorgan (2000 – 2005). He is currently chairing two externally-funded projects on industrial heritage in the Ruhr in global comparative perspective and industrial heritage and the lieux de memoire of the Ruhr. He is also directing an oral history project on the mining history of the Ruhr. Previously he has chaired the European Science Foundation Programme ‘Representations of the Past: the Writing of National Histories in Europe, 1750 to the Present’.  He has published widely on comparative labour history, the history of social movements, the comparative history of historiography, historical theory and the history of nationalism and national identity. His most recent monograph is ‘The Past as History: National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Modern Europe’ (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015). His most recent edited collection is ‘Nationalizing Empires’ (with Alexei Miller, Central European University Press, 2015). On industrial heritage he published “Representing the Industrial Age: Heritage and Identity in the Ruhr and South Wales”, in: Peter Itzen and Christian Müller (eds), The Invention of Industrial Pasts. Heritage, Political Culture and Economic Debates in Great Britain and Germany, 1850 – 2010 (Augsburg, 2013), pp. 14 – 35.
“Industriekultur und Strukturwandel in deutschen Bergbauregionen nach 1945”, in: Dieter Ziegler (ed.), Geschichte des deutschen Bergbaus, vol. 4: Rohstoffgewinnung im Strukturwandel. Der deutsche Bergbau im 20. Jahrhundert (Münster, 2013), pp. 571 – 602.

Sessions in which Prof. Stefan Berger participates

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
13:30 - 17:00 | 3 hours 30 minutes
Heritage Changes the Living EnvironmentIndustrial HeritageUrban HeritageArchitecture and Urbanism
Heritage changes the environmentHeritage values

In many parts of Europe and North America, but also in Australia, Japan and parts of China, regions of heavy industry, in particular regions of coal and steel industries, have been in decline since the 1960s. In many of these regions, the transition to post-industrial landscapes has provoked discussions surrounding industrial heritage, what to do with it and for which purposes. One of the most ambitious industrial heritage projects was initiated in the Ruhr region of Germany from the 1960s on...

Sessions in which Prof. Stefan Berger attends

Wednesday 8 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
8:30 - 17:30 | 9 hours
Tour/Excursion

||| Les Mohawks constituent la nation amérindienne la plus nombreuse parmi les dix différentes nations que compte le Québec. La nation mohawk compte près de 17 350 habitants. Il y en a 2 700 qui vivent hors réserve et les autres sont dispersés dans trois grandes communautés que sont : Kanesatake, Akwasasne et Kahnawà :ke. Située à proximité de Montréal, sur la rive sud du fleuve Saint-Laurent, la communauté de Kahnawà :ke compte près de 7 300 habitants. Elle est parmi les première...