Projects
Cultural Techniques
Pedantry and Historiography
Lisa Cronjäger is a doctoral 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 journeys 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, 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 sciences and humanities. How the virtue of exactitude is addressed on illustrations, in descriptions and measurements, in economic planning and in rules concerning the living conditions in forest areas is one central question in her involving project.
M.A. in Cultural History and Theory, 2017
Humboldt University Berlin
ERASMUS exchange studies, 2015
University of Helsinki
B.A. in Cultural History and Theory, Art and Visual Studies, 2013
Humboldt University Berlin
Pedantry and Historiography