Lueg customs office at the Brenner Pass, early nineteenth century© Ferdinand Runk, public domain
Presentation by Margareth Lanzinger
at the Workshop „Energy, Environments and Infrastructure from Anthropological and Historical Perspectives”, organised by Peter Schweitzer from the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna
introducing the project ALPINNKONNECT and its research results to date in the presentation
“Agents of Logistics and Infrastructure in Eighteenth-Century Alpine Transit Traffic – ALPINNKONNECT”
Programme:
- 14:00: Introduction of the topics and the participants
- 14:15: Philip Wight: Disacussion of his book project “Children of the Midnight Sun: An Energy History of Alaska”
- 15:00: Olga Povoroznyuk: Discussion of her project proposal “Infrastructuring Transitions: Arctic (In)security and Cultures of Energy”
- 15:45: Coffee break
- 16:15: Margareth Lanzinger: Presentation of her ERC project ALPINNKONNECT
- 17:00: Peter Schweitzer: Starting a discussion about Arctic/Alpine connections regarding energy, environments and infrastructure
- 17:45: Concluding thoughts and ideas for the future
