Soil – Dirt – Earth: Ecologies below Ground, 1750–1850 // International Conference, 22-23 June 2023, University of Passau
Soil – Dirt – Earth: Ecologies below Ground, 1750–1850
22 – 24 June 2023, University of Passau
Organised by
Katharina Boehm (University of Passau)
Frederike Middelhoff (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
Paul Hamann-Rose (University of Passau)
John Clerk, “Unconformity at Jedburgh”, engraving incl. in James Hutton, Theory of the Earth (1795)
Location: ITZ Building, Seminar Room 017 (https://www.uni-passau.de/en/international/campustour/itz-building/; please open the link and scroll down for a map of the campus)
Wednesday, 21 June
19:00 Conference Warming, Restaurant Paulusbogen (Rindermarkt 2, 94032 Passau)
Thursday, 22 June
9:30 Welcome and Introduction (Katharina Boehm, Paul Hamann-Rose, Frederike Middelhoff)
10:00-11:00 Susan Oliver (Essex, UK): Life below Ground: James Hutton, Theories of the Earth, and Imagined Animals
11:00-12:00 Timothy Attanucci (Mainz, GER): Earth as (Once) Living Environment: George Cuvier’s Fossil Reconstructions
12:00-12:15 Coffee
12:15 -1315 Oliver Völker (Frankfurt, GER): “Travelled Materials”: Earth, Soil, and Economic Productivity in Hutton and Lyell
13:15 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Philipp Erchinger (Düsseldorf, GER): Grave Culture: Wordsworth’s Groundwork
15:30-16:30 Will Abberley (Sussex, UK): Geological Raptures and Spiritual Sustainability in Hugh Miller’s The Old Red Sandstone
16:30-17:00 Coffee
17:00-18:00 Mira Shah (Bern, CH/Frankfurt, GER): “Testimony of the Soil”: Archaeological Ecologies and the Discovery of Human Prehistory
20:00 Dinner
Friday, 23rd June
10:00-11:00 Tess Somervell (Oxford, UK): Earth’s Histories and Futures in Jago’s Edge-Hill
11:00-12:00 Mary-Ann Constantine (Cardiff, UK): Gashes in the Landscape: Mines, Quarries and Peatlands in Romantic-Era Tours of Britain
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Jim Scown (Cardiff, UK): Science, Poetry, and the “Celestial Soil” of Romantic Ecology
14:30-15:30 Jos Smith (Norwich, UK): “Stories of the Soil”: Contemporary Nature Writing’s Romantic Moderns
15:30 Closing remarks / Coffee
16:00-18:00 City Tour
20:00 Dinner