Our Roundtable at ASEEES Annual Convention 2024 in Boston
On Sunday, November 24th 2024, the Russian Ecospheres network held a roundtable at the ASEEES Annual Convention in Boston, titled “Russian Ecospheres Research Network Roundtable: Concepts of Scale in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union”, in continuation of our third annual meeting at GWZO Leipzig in July 2024.
Summary
Popularized in human geography, problems of ‘scale’ and practices of ‘scaling’ have been widely discussed in such various fields as biology, ecology, architecture, engineering, and mathematics. More recently, they have gained new relevance in debates on the Anthropocene. Through the lens of scale, the roundtable asks new questions about the relationship between humans and their environments across different scales of space and time, pursuing a large historical scope from the 18th to the 20th century.
The roundtable included the following papers:
- Colleen McQuillen: Problems of Perception: Lomonosov and Learning How to See ‘priznaki’ of Precious Metal Ores
- Erik Martin: Spisat’ s prirody/Writing from Nature. The Sketch as a Full-Scale Technique of Description (The očerk in the 1830s–1850s).
- Philipp Kohl: The First Big History in Russia? Petr Lavrov’s Pre-Human History of Thought
- Mieka Erley: Soviet Energy-Entropy Debates: Disciplines as Scalar Solutions
- Andy Bruno: Balancing the Scales: Ecology and Economy in Soviet Socialism
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