Dr. Michael Farrenkopf, M.A. (born 1966), studied history, journalism and art history at the Universities of Mainz and Berlin between 1987 and 1994, for which he was awarded a Master of Arts. Between 1995 and 1998 he was a research fellow at the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (i.e. German Mining Museum) in Bochum (DBM), working on a comprehensive history of the cokemaking industry (published in two volumes in 2003). 1999/2000 he wrote his PhD thesis at the Technical University of Berlin on the topic “Fire Damp and Coal Dust. The explosion risk in the industrial Ruhr mining (1850-1914)”, published 2003 in German language, for which he received the Young Investigator Award of the Georg-Agricola-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik e.V. (i.e. Georg-Agricola-Society for the promotion of history of natural science and technology). Since 2001 he has worked as head of the mining history document center as well as head of the research division of mining history since industrialization at DBM. Between 2001 and 2010 he was also editor in chief of the mining history magazine DER ANSCHNITT. Since 2003 he is lecturer at the history faculty of the Ruhr-University Bochum, since 2014 also lecturer at the Institute for industrial archaeology, science and technical history at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg in Saxony. Since 2004 he is head of the historian commission of the Association of German coke plant specialists; from 2005 to 2009 he was speaker of the working group of archives of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Association (Leibniz-Gemeinschaft). Since 2014 he is head of the department “collections and documentation” at DBM as well as member of the steering committee of DBM.
His publications have included contributions on the subjects of economic and company history, historical accident research in mining, the cokemaking industry, and diverse archival and documentary topics.
Sessions auxquelles Michael Farrenkopf participe
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
Regular session
Torsten Meyer, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Modérateur.rice)
Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Modérateur.rice)
Michael Farrenkopf, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Modérateur.rice)
Dr. Barry L. Stiefel, College of Charleston (Modérateur.rice)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
Regular session
Torsten Meyer, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Modérateur.rice)
Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Modérateur.rice)
Michael Farrenkopf, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Modérateur.rice)
Dr. Barry L. Stiefel, College of Charleston (Modérateur.rice)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
Regular session
Torsten Meyer, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Modérateur.rice)
Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Modérateur.rice)
Michael Farrenkopf, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Modérateur.rice)
Dr. Barry L. Stiefel, College of Charleston (Modérateur.rice)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
Regular session
Torsten Meyer, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Modérateur.rice)
Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Modérateur.rice)
Michael Farrenkopf, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Modérateur.rice)
Dr. Barry L. Stiefel, College of Charleston (Modérateur.rice)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
Paper
Torsten Meyer, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Conférencier.ère)
Michael Farrenkopf, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Conférencier.ère)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
Regular session
Torsten Meyer, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Modérateur.rice)
Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Modérateur.rice)
Michael Farrenkopf, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Modérateur.rice)
Dr. Barry L. Stiefel, College of Charleston (Modérateur.rice)
Sessions auxquelles Michael Farrenkopf assiste
UQAM, Cœur des sciences - Agora Hydro-Québec
Cocktail
Patrick Dieudonné, Université de Bretagne occidentale, Institut de Géoarchitecture, France (Autre participant.e)
Lucie K. Morisset, Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine urbain (Modérateur.rice)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Conférencier.ère)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Conférencier.ère)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Stefan Berger (Conférencier.ère)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Cathy Stanton, Tufts University (Conférencier.ère)
Usine C - Hall
Repas