Introduction to Global Environmental History 2: Changing Perceptions of Humans and Nature

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Reading list, Master's level, 5KV029

A revised version of the reading list is available.

Main group 1

Seminar 1

The Augsburg Cabinet related to Issues concerning Nature and Culture in Local and Global Perspective

Seminar 2

National and International Rules about Landscape, Culture and Environment

UN 1992, Convention on Biodiversity, http://www.cbd.int/convention/text/default.shtml

UNESCO 1972, Convention concerning the protection of World Heritage, http://whc.unesco.org/en/conventiontext/

Seminar 3

The Musealisation of Nature

Seminar 4

Ecological Art, Landscape Art and Street Art in a Global Perspective

Seminar 5

Landscapes and Gardens - from Linnaeus to Arcadia

Seminar 6

Nature and Human through History

Seminar 7

Nature through Media

Oelsner, Gertrud: The Democracy of Nature, 2012

In: Romantik: Journal for the Study of Romanticisms, Vol 1:2012, pp. 69-99

ISBN 978 87 7124 086 3

ISSN 2245-599X

Seminar 8

Art threatened, Threatening Nature

  • Adorno, Theodor W., Aesthetic theory, London, Athlone, 1997Compulsory (pp. 61–78)
  • Flodin, Camilla, Art and Threatened, Threatening Nature, Part of: EurozineCompulsory
  • Flodin, Camilla, Of Mice and Men: Adorno on Art and the Suffering of Animals, Part of: Estetika (Praha)., vol. 02, 2011Compulsory (pp. 139–156 www.ceeol.com)

Tickell, Alison, 2010, "Julies bicycle", Long Horizons: an exploration of the art of climate change.

British Council, (http://www.britishcouncil.org/climatechange-longhorizons-2.pdf)

Seminar 9

Nature and Dystopia

Seminar 10

Worldviews, Religion, Ethics and the Environment

* Compulsory

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