Kick-Off ERC-STG SCARCE
April 17, 6 pm, Aula am Campus, Hof 1.11 (Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Vienna)
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.
You can access the presentations via the following LINK. The Passcode is: z.Vr?M3^
18:00 Presentations
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
19:00 Reception
Tubal-Cain in his forge, Johann Sadeler (I), after Maerten de Vos, 1583 (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Public Domain)