Chernobyl – Turning Point or Catalyst? Changing Practices, Structures and Perceptions in Environmental Policy and Politics (1970s-1990s)

Jan-Henrik Meyer Announcement
Location
Germany
Subject Fields
Environmental History / Studies, Modern European History / Studies, Political History / Studies, Public Policy, Russian or Soviet History / Studies
Chernobyl – Turning Point or Catalyst? Changing Practices, Structures and Perceptions in Environmental Policy and Politics (1970s-1990s)International Conference, 2-3 December 2016Heinrich-Boell-Foundation (HBS), Schumannstr. 8, D-10117 Berlin, GermanyConvenors: Christoph Becker-Schaum (Heinrich-Boell-Foundation), Jan-Henrik Meyer (Copenhagen/HoNESt) and Marianne Zepp (Heinrich-Boell-Foundation) In cooperation with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, HoNESt – History of Nuclear Energy and Society Project  at the University of Copenhagen the Center for Metropolitan Studies (TU Berlin) and the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF) .The conference is bilingual (English/German) with simultaneous translation. Registration until 30 December at https://calendar.boell.de/de/event/tschernobyl-wendepunkt-oder-katalysatorDownload the programme from: https://calendar.boell.de/sites/default/files/flyer_tschernobyl_-_wendepunkt_oder_katalysator.pdf Conference Programme  Friday, 2. December 2016  Great Hall, Heinrich Boell Foundation headquarters, Schumannstr. 8, Berlin, Germany 8:30 – 9:00 hrsChristoph Becker-Schaum, Marianne Zepp, Jan-Henrik Meyer:Welcome and Introductory Remarks 9:00 – 11:00 hrs Between Politics and Society: Environmental policy responses after Chernobyl: Eastern and Western Europe: Part 1Chair: Alison KraftArne Kaijser: The effects of the Chernobyl disaster on Swedish energy and environmental policiesLuigi Piccioni: Towards a non-nuclear country: The impact of the Chernobyl accident on the institutionalization of environmental policy and politics in ItalyKarena Kalmbach: Chernobyl and no Consequences? Impacts on environmental policy in France and the UKComment: Elisabetta Bini 11:00 – 11:30 hrs Coffee break   11:30 – 13:00 hrs State and Public Administration: Risk and Safety after ChernobylChair: Jan-Henrik MeyerSusanne Benöhr-Laqueur: Routineprogramm? Der Regelungsmechanismus des Strahlenschutzvorsorgegesetzes auf kommunaler Ebene – dargestellt am Beispiel der Stadt Bremerhaven (=Business as usual? The regulatory mechanism of radiation protection law at the local level - Bremerhaven)Bruno de Corte: Tschernobyl, Wendepunkt der belgischen Energie- und Umweltpolitik (= Turning Point of Belgian Energy and Environmental Policy)Comment: Lutz Mez 13:00 – 14:00 hrs Lunch 14:00 – 16:00 hrsBetween Politics and Society: (Environmental) policy responses after Chernobyl: Eastern and Western Europe: Part 2Chair: Franz MauelshagenIvaylo Hristov: The Green change in Bulgaria. Dynamics in Bulgarian environmental policies in a period of transition (1985-1995)Tatiana Perga: The role of the Chernobyl disaster in the formation of the protest movement in Ukraine (1986-1991)Dimitry V. Efremenko: Chernobyl, eco-nationalism and the downfall of the Soviet Union Comment: Barbara Curli 16:00 – 16:30 hrs Coffee break 16:30 – 18:00Industry and Politics: Safety after ChernobylChair: Aristoteles TympasAnna Veronika Wendland: Von der Angstabwehr zur Sicherheitskultur. Diskursive und technologische Strategien der Atomwirtschaften im globalen Norden nach Tschernobyl (=From fighting fear to security culture. Discursive and technological strategies of nuclear economies in the global North after Chernobyl)Andrei Stsiapanau: The techno-political controversies in Belarus and Lithuania after ChernobylComment: Rüdiger Graf 19:00 hrsIntro: Marianne ZeppEvening TalkJoachim Radkau:Tschernobyl: Wendepunkt oder Katalysator der Umweltpolitik? ( = Chernobyl. Turning point or catalyst in environmental policy)  Reception  Saturday, 3 December 20169:00 – 10:30 hrsBetween Politics and Society: Environmental policy responses after Chernobyl: Eastern and Western Europe: Part 3Chair: Astrid Mignon KirchhofJulia Ault: Chernobyl as a Turning Point in Communist Eastern Europe. Protest and System-Critique in East Germany and PolandMaria Schubert: Tschernobyl – Anfang vom Ende der DDR (=Chernobyl - Beginning of the end of GDR)Comment: Timothy Scott Brown 10:30 – 11:00 hrs Coffee break 11:00 – 12:30 hrsParty Politics and Chernobyl: Changing positions on environmental policy?Chair: Marianne ZeppJan-Eric Hansen: Streit um die Zukunft: Der umweltpolitische Diskurs in der deutschen Sozialdemokratie (= Struggling about the future. The environmental policy debate among West German Social Democrats)Christoph Becker-Schaum: Atomausstieg als Markenkern. Die Grünen und Tschernobyl (= Phaseout as a trademark issue. The Greens and Chernobyl)Comment: Frank Bösch 12:30-13:30 hrs Lunch   13:30 - 15:30 hrsBeyond the reactors: Chernobyl and energy transition(s)Chair: Eleonora RohlandJan-Henrik Meyer: The Critique of Nuclear Power and the Search for Alternatives in DenmarkStephen Milder: Between Apokalypses: Chernobyl, Global Warming, and the Beginnings of Germany’s EnergiewendeMiina Kaarkoski: The German ‘Energiewende’ and Re-assessing the Importance of the Chernobyl Nuclear AccidentComment: Ute Hasenöhrl 15.30 - 16:30 hrs Conclusions: What have we learnt and where to go?  
Contact Information

HEINRICH-BÖLL-STIFTUNG - BUNDESSTIFTUNG BERLIN

Dr. Marianne ZeppSchumannstr. 810117 Berlin, Germany Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis Dr. Christoph Becker-SchaumEldenaer Str. 35, 10247 Berlin

Dr Jan-Henrik Meyer

Saxo-Institute
Faculty of Humanities
University of Copenhagen
Karen Blixensvej 4, DK-2300 København S

j.h.meyer@hum.ku.dk

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