SCARCE (Sustained Concerns: Administration of Mineral Resource Extraction in Central Europe, 1550-1850) is a new five-year project at the University of Vienna. It aims to provide a history of today’s stakeholder conflicts by showing how contradictory principles of resource management – economic development, sustainability, and technological innovation – were forged in protoindustrial settings. Sebastian Felten and his team will analyse thousands of administrative reports from across Central Europe and beyond using handwritten text recognition (HTR) and a method based on historical epistemology.
SCARCE will hold a hybrid kick-off event on 17 April, 6pm local Vienna time (2am Melbourne local time). No RSVP necessary. Several leading scholars in preindustrial mining will present:
Christina Lutter (Dean of Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies): Greeting
Sebastian Felten, Claire Sabel, Sarah Seinitzer, Sebastian Leitner (SCARCE): Research Agenda
Peter Konečný (Slovak Mining Archive, Banská Štiavnica): Preserving Mining Heritage
Tina Asmussen (Ruhr University and German Mining Museum, Bochum): Landscapes as History
More information about the kick-off event is found here (SCARCE site).
