Place: Zoom/University of Vienna, Kolingasse 14-16, R. 4.25
Time: 14:30-16:00 CET
All are welcome. Please sign up here [zoom link] to register for the meeting and receive the Zoom link. A draft paper will be circulated approximately one week before the colloquium.
The idea of an economy, as self-evident as it seems to us today, is a recent one. In his 2023 monograph, Die Entdeckung der Wirtschaft: Der mittelalterliche Bergbau und die Vermehrung der Welt (Wallstein Verlag, 2023) Andreas Lingg explores the origins of the concept of economy, leading us back to the late-medieval world of mining and the quest for silver, to the surveying of previously unknown worlds and the emergence of a new kind of political economy, one that imagined that the earth’s resources were inexhaustible. Lingg will join us to discuss his monograph.
Reading: Introduction and Ch. 7, Die Entdeckung der Wirtschaft.
A PDF of the reading will be circulated to registered participants approximately one week before the colloquium. Note that the text is in German but the discussion will be in English.
Dr. Andreas Friedolin Lingg studies the history of economic thought, economic history, and the history of knowledge. A central theme of his research is the interplay between concrete economic practices and locales, and political-economic concepts of spaces and techniques. He completed his studies at the Zeppelin Universität Friedrichshafen, Humboldt University, Berlin and at TU München, and is now Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Assistant Professor) at University of Witten/Herdecke. In Wintersemester 2024/25 he was Kenneth E. Boulding Fellow and guest researcher at the Chair for Late Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Mannheim. Since June 2024 he has been a Fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Universität Duisburg/Essen. Andreas is a board member of the International Center for Sustainable and Just Transformation [tra:ce] as well as a founder and director of sieben:viertel, a workshop for the future of regional development at the University of Witten/Herdecke.
Dr. Andreas Friedolin Lingg arbeitet zur ökonomischen Ideengeschichte, Wirtschafts- und Wissensgeschichte. Zentral in seiner Forschung ist das Wechselspiel zwischen konkreten wirtschaftlichen Praktiken und Zentren einerseits sowie politökonomischen Raumvorstellungen und Techniken andererseits. Er studierte an der Zeppelin Universität Friedrichshafen, der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin sowie der TU München und ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Universität Witten/Herdecke. Im Wintersemester 2024/25 war er Kenneth E. Boulding Fellow und Gastforscher am Lehrstuhl für Geschichte des Spätmittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit der Universität Mannheim. Seit Juni 2024 ist er zudem Fellow am Centre for Global Cooperation Research der Universität Duisburg/Essen. Er ist Direktoriumsmitglied des International Center for Sustainable and Just Transformation [tra:ce] sowie Gründer und Leiter des sieben:viertel, der regionalen Zukunftswerkstatt der Universität Witten/Herdecke.
