Kick-Off ERC-STG SCARCE

We officially launched our project on April 17 with an inaugural event in Vienna.

You can watch the presentations below or the whole stream via the following LINK (passcode: z.Vr?M3^).

Christina Lutter (Dean of Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies): Greeting

Sebastian Felten, Claire Sabel, Sarah Seinitzer, Sebastian Leitner (SCARCE): Research Agenda

Peter Konečný (Slovak Mining Archive, Banská Štiavnica): Preserving Mining Heritage

Tina Asmussen (Ruhr University and German Mining Museum, Bochum): Landscapes as History

SCARCE (Sustained Concerns: Administration of Mineral Resource Extraction in Central Europe, 1550-1850) is a new five-year project at the University of Vienna. It aims to provide a history of today's stakeholder conflicts by showing how contradictory principles of resource management – economic development, sustainability, and technological innovation – were forged in protoindustrial settings. Sebastian Felten and his team will analyse thousands of administrative reports from across Central Europe and beyond using handwritten text recognition (HTR) and a method based on historical epistemology.