Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research
Schifferstraße 44
47059 Duisburg
Germany
Phone: 49 (0)203 379-5230
Fax: +49 (0)203 379-5276
E-Mail: mauelshagen@gcr21.uni-due.de
Vita
08/2015–03/2018 | Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam Fellow Program Senior Fellow |
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06/2014–01/2015 | Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society Fellow Programme Senior Fellow |
11/2008–06/2014 | Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (Essen) Working Section: Climate & Culture Research Coordinator / Principle Investigator |
09/2003–10/2008 | University of Zürich Department of History Lecturer |
04/2000–07/2003 | University of Bielefeld Department of History Postdoctoral Researcher |
Seminars and Conferences
- Fleeing Europe: German-Atlantic Migration and the Tambora Crisis, 1816-17, Trinity Hall, Cambridge (Co-organiser)
- 2016/09 Transforming Unfamiliar Environments in the Americas, 1600-1850, Trinity Hall, Cambridge (Co-organiser)
- 2016/09 Resources and Economies of Knowledge in the Anthropocene, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Co-organiser)
- 2015/11 The Climates of History, International Conference in Honor of Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, German Historical Institute, Paris (Organiser)
- 2014/05 Climate Change and Global Crisis in the Seventeenth Century (KWI Essen, co-organized with Geoffrey Parker) (Organiser)
- 2013/07 Colonialism and Climate History (Georgetown University) (Co-organiser)
- 2011/09 Historical Climatology: Past and Future (KWI, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, DHIP), German Historical Institute, Paris (Co-organiser)
- 2011/08 Environmental Change and Migration in Historical Perspective (KWI, RCC, BMBF), Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich (Co-organiser)
Awards
- Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, 2015-8
- Visiting Scholar, Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, History Faculty (sup-ported by DAAD Research Hub for German Studies), 2016/09
- Carson Fellow, Rachel Carson Center Munich (6 months), RCC Research Pro-ject: “The Climatological Revolution of the Eighteenth Century”, 2014-5
- Book Award for “Wunderkammer auf Papier” (translation grant), Börsen-verein des Deutschen Buchhandels, German Foreign Office, Fritz Thyssen Foundation, VG Wort, “Geisteswissenschaften, 2013
- PhD Fellow, German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), 1997-2000
Research Project at the Centre
The History and Future of Planetary Politics — Science-Policy Cooperation in the Anthropocene
Planetary politics evolved after the Second World War. It has created a unique sphere of cooperation between scientists and politicians, making it distinct from other spheres of international politics (peace keeping; trade and development). In my study of this sphere of cooperation I will combine history with theory. The scope of my historical account reaches from 1945 to the Paris Agreement, 2015, with strong focuses on climate politics from 1988 and climate engineering as an extreme case of planetary stewardship. The results of my historical study will be spelt out with regard to a recently emerging political epistemology of the Anthropocene, guided by three principal challenges for science-policy cooperation in the international arena: (1) strategic cross-communication, (2) scientific uncertainty, and (3) cultural plurality.
Selected Publications
White, Sam; Pfister, Christian; Mauelshagen, Franz (eds.) (2018): Palgrave Handbook of Climate History, Basingstoke: Palgrave. |
Mauelshagen, Franz (2018, forthcoming): Migration and Climate in World History, in: White, Sam u.a (Hrsg.): The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History, Basingstoke: Palgrave. |
Leggewie, Claus; Mauelshagen, Franz (2018, forthcoming): Tracing and Replacing Europe's Carbon Culture, in: Leggewie, Claus/ Mauelshagen, Franz (Hrsg.): Climate and Culture in Europe (=Climate and Culture, Leiden, Boston. |
Mauelshagen, Franz (2017): Das Zeitalter der Ungewissheit: Zukunftsszenarien und globale Bedrohung nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg <The Age of Uncertainty: Future Scenarios and Global Threat after Word War II>, in: Hannig, Nicolai/ Malte Thießen (ed.): Vorsorgen in der Moderne. Akteure, Räume und Praktiken (=Schriftenreihe der Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 115), Berlin, S. 79-103 |
Mauelshagen, Franz (2017): Bridging the Great Divide—the Anthropocene as a Challenge to the Social Sciences and Humanities, in: Deane-Drummond, Celia u. a. (ed.): Religion and the Anthropocene, Eugene OR 2017, S. 87-102. |
Mauelshagen, Franz (2017): Reflexiones acerca del Antropoceno <Reflexions about the Anthropocene>, in: Desacatos: Revista de Ciencias Sociales 15, 54, S. 74-89 |
Leggewie, Claus; Franz Mauelshagen (ed.) (2018): Climate Change and Cultural Transition in Europe (=Climate and Culture 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill. |
Mauelshagen, Franz (2016): Der Verlust der (bio-)kulturellen Diversität im Anthropozän <The Loss of (Bio)Cultural Diversity in the Anthropocene>, in: Haber, Wolfgang (ed.): Die Welt im Anthropozän. Erkundungen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Ökologie und Humanität, München, S. 39-55. |
Mauelshagen, Franz (2015): Defining Catastrophes, in: Gerstenberger, Katharina; Nusser, Tanja (eds.): Catastrophe and Catharsis: Perspectives on Disaster and Redemption in German Culture and Beyond, Camden East ON , S. 172-190. |
Mauelshagen, Franz (2014): Redefining Historical Climatology in the Anthropocene, in: The Anthropocene Review 1, 2, S. 171-204. |
Mauelshagen, Franz (2017): Historische Klimaforschung: Ursprünge, Trends und Zukunftsperspektiven eines interdisziplinären Forschungsfeldes <Historical Climate Research: Origins, Trends, and Future Perspectives of an Interdisciplinary Research Field>, in: Frühneuzeit-Info 28 (2017), S. 56-74. |
Mauelshagen, Franz (2016): Ein neues Klima im 18. Jahrhundert , in: Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, 1, S. 39-57. |