Projects
Cultural Techniques
Pedantry and Historiography
Lisa Cronjäger is a PhD student at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her research project deals with forestry travelogues, written by the German forestry scientist Edmund von Berg on his research trips to Scandinavia, Poland, Hungary and the Alpine countries in the 1850s. How were concepts of sustainability used to advocate forestry administrations in Europe? What does exactitude mean, when it comes to the representation, measurement and planning of forest areas?
Forestry travelogues contain a variety of media (illustrations, maps, timber yield tables, revenue plans) and techniques (measurement, cartography, drawing, the description of observations, the calculation and prognostication of wood revenue). These scientific practices question the methodological division between natural sciences and humanities. A central question of my PhD project is how the virtue of exactitude and concepts of sustainability are addressed on illustrations, in descriptions and measurements.
M.A. in Cultural History and Theory, 2017
Humboldt University Berlin
ERASMUS eschange studies, 2015
University of Helsinki
B.A. in Cultural Studies, Art and Visual, 2013
Humboldt University Berlin
Pedantry and Historiography