How to Write the Enviromental History of a City?

International workshop organized by the research group “Budapest - Environmental History of an Urban Area” (NKFI FK no. 142451)

Eötvös Loránd University / Budapest City Archive

DAY 1

Location: Institute of Historical Studies Szekfű Gyula Library, Eötvös Loránd University (Múzeum krt. 6–8. I/115. Budapest 1088)

13.00: Welcome and Introduction of the Project

13.30–15.15: Best practices in environmental history

Sonnlechner, Christoph (Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna)

Schmid, Martin (Institute of Social Ecology, Department for Economics and Social Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna)

Szmytka, Rafał (Institute of History, Jagiellonian University in Kraków)

15.15–15.45: Coffee Break

15.45–19.00: Towards a monograph I.

Klement, Judit (Institute of History, Eötvös Loránd University/ Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities HUN-REN):

• The Possibilities of Integrating Environmental History to the New Multi-Volume History of Budapest on the Example of the Dualist Period (1867–1918)

Vadas, András (Institute of History, Eötvös Loránd University):

• Climate, Waterscape, and the Urban Space at Premodern Buda and Pest
• Urban Environmental Policy in Premodern and Modern Buda and Pest

Demeter, Gábor (Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities HUN-REN):

• Buda, Pest, and Their Hinterlands

Németh, Ágnes (Budapest City Archives):

• Urban Water Management and Urban Disasters – Epidemics and their Consequences, and the Sanitation Reform in Budapest

Coffee Break

Balogh, Róbert (Institute of Central European Studies, Ludovika University of Public Service):

• What Was Energy Transition Like in the Early Twentieth Century? Conflicting Interests and Technologies in the Energy Supply of Budapest
• Does Interspecies History Make Sense? Black Locust and Pigeons in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Budapest

Bodovics, Éva (Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Archives of the Hungarian National Archives):

• Floods and the City: Changing Cityscape, Changing Attitudes towards Disasters

Eszik, Veronika (Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities HUN-REN):

• Infrastructural Challenges of a New Capital: Urban Brownfields and Tap Water in Late Nineteenth-Century Budapest

Simon, Katalin (Budapest City Archives):

• Cartographic Representations of the Twin Cities Pest and Buda in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Devescovi, Balázs (Institute of Hungarian Literature and Cultural Studies, Eötvös Loránd University):

• Visual Representations: The Svábhegy Hill on Nineteenth-Century Paintings

DAY 2*

Location: Budapest City Archives (Teve u. 3–5, Budapest 1139)

10.00–12.00: Visit to the Budapest City Archives

Guide: Ágnes Németh

12.00–12.30: Towards a monograph II.

12.30–13.30 Lunch break

13.30–15.30: Urban environmental history of Budapest – A Guided Walk

* The first day is open to public, in case of interest in joining for the second day, please send an email enquiry to vadas.andras@btk.elte.hu