Section:
Society and Environment: conceptions and representations of nature(s) in the history of geography
Chair:
Dr. Bruno Schelhaas, Dr. Jacobo García-Álvarez
Form of presentation:
Oral
Duration:
90 Minutes
10:00 am
Introduction
Presenters:
Bruno Schelhaas | Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig | Leipzig | DE
Jacobo García-Álvarez | Carlos III University of Madrid | GETAFE | ES
10:18 am
The traces of ice: Albrecht Penck (1858-1945) and the emergence of geographical fieldwork in the context of the German continental ice controversy, 1875-1885.
Presenters:
Norman Henniges | Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde | Leipzig | DE
10:36 am
Edmund Naumann as Geographer: Neglected Aspects of the German Father of Japanese Geology
Presenters:
Toshiyuki Shimazu | Wakayama University | Wakayama | JP
10:54 am
The Idea of Autarky: Leo Waibel's Economic Geographical Positioning Against Blood-and-Soil Ideology
Presenters:
Simon Runkel | University of Bonn, Dep. of Geography | Bonn | DE
11:12 am
Nature and Landscape in the sailing instructions of Ahmad ibn Majid (15th century)
Presenters:
Marina Tolmacheva | Washington State University | Pullman WA | US