
Dr. Torsten Meyer is Senior Scientist at the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum and Deputy Head of Department at the Mining History Document Center (montan.dok). Prior to that he was researcher and senior researcher at the University of Hamburg, the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. He is mainly interested in the History of Technology and Science (16th-18th century), History of Post-Industrial Landscapes (20/21th century), and Construction History (18th-20th century). He was member of the editorial board of the “Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit” (2005-2012) and since 2017 he is editor (together with Marcus Popplow) of the “Studien zur Geschichte von Technik, Arbeit und Umwelt” (formerly “Cottbuser Studien zur Geschichte von Technik, Arbeit und Umwelt”, founded by Günter Bayerl). He has worked on the industrial heritage of the GDR and is working on authenticity issues of industrial heritage in the UK. He is lecturer at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Documents
Sessions in which Torsten Meyer participates
- Explorations in the Preservation of Coal Mining Heritage Areas I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- During the Industrial Revolution coal was the most important energy source for both homes and industries. At the time, coal mining created stron...
- Regular session
- Explorations in the Preservation of Coal Mining Heritage Areas II UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- During the Industrial Revolution coal was the most important energy source for both homes and industries. At the time, coal mining created stron...
- Regular session
- Explorations in the Preservation of Coal Mining Heritage Areas III UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- During the Industrial Revolution coal was the most important energy source for both homes and industries. At the time, coal mining created stron...
- Regular session
- Explorations in the Preservation of Coal Mining Heritage Areas IV UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- During the Industrial Revolution coal was the most important energy source for both homes and industries. At the time, ...
- Regular session
- New cultural landscapes in East German lignite mining regions UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
- Speaker Torsten Meyer (Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM)) | Speaker Michael Farrenkopf (Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM)) |
- 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM | 20 minutes Part of: Explorations in the Preservation of Coal Mining Heritage Areas IV
- Paper
- Explorations in the Preservation of Coal Mining Heritage Areas V UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- During the Industrial Revolution coal was the most important energy source for both homes and industries. At the time, ...
- Regular session
Sessions in which Torsten Meyer attends
- Tour: The Lachine Canal with Heritage Montreal
- Signup required
- 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 2 hours
- Explore the banks of the Lachine Canal, the cradle of industry in Canada. Benefiting from access to hydraulic power, maritime and rail tran...
- Tour
-
Héritage MontréalSponsor
- Opening ceremony
- Signup required UQAM, Cœur des sciences - Agora Hydro-Québec
- 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 2 hours
- Join the conference organisers and TICCIH board members for a welcome cocktail and some festive words of introduction, in the former forge of th...
- Cocktail
- Word of Welcome UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutes
- Event
- Public lecture: Le Grand Montréal industriel d’hier à demain
- Available Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Si la vallée du canal de Lachine a été le berceau de l’industrialisation canadienne, la géographie industrielle métropolitaine ne s’y est pas co...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Public lecture: Industrial heritage as agent of gentrification?
- Available Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Efforts to preserve industrial heritage occurs in a socio-economic and political context. But what is being pres...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Legacy of innovative land use after open pit mining UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1580
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The legacy of open pit mining in general, and in the landscape of the Lusatian lignite district in Germany in particular, is a recultivated, res...
- Regular session
- Sharing industrial heritage glocally UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- In this roundtable we will resume and discuss main ideas and findings from the regular session on "Reinterpreting industrial heritage from a glo...
- Roundtable
- Public lecture: Fear, loss and the potential for progressive nostalgia: challenging right-wing populism
- Available Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- In this lecture, I would like to talk about deindustrialised communities, heritage and memory in the context of right-w...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Public lecture: Trajectories of deindustrialization and the memoryscapes of industrial pasts – Towards global perspectives
- Available Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This lecture will argue that the landscapes of industrial heritage that can be found in different parts of the world ar...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Social gathering at Ecomusée du fier monde and launch of the congress' souvenir stamp
- Signup required Écomusée du fier monde - Piscine
- 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM | 2 hours
- Cocktail
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Écomusée du fier mondeSponsor
- Public lecture: Heritage from the outside in: Cultural practice in an already changed climate
- Available Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- In the refusal of people in communities abandoned by industrial capital to abandon their own places, we can read an implicit critique of the mob...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
- Closing dinner
- Available Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket Usine C - Hall
- 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM | 3 hours
- Come and share the good times of the congress and celebrate your scientific and professional discoveries in a former fruit jam factory, Usine C,...
- Repas