History Underground

Just got back from the conference History Underground, held at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich. It was the first time I presented my new project and some very preliminary results - the responses were quite encouraging. Besides, I got to know many people working in the field of an environmental history of mining and got an insight into the discussions going on in that community. Still, I discovered that most issues discussed there are not really what I am interested in doing in my own work - so yet again an indicator to clearly distinguish my project from mining history.