Resources and Environment

The Birmingham-Berlin Talks are a collaborative effort between Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin and the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies (CREES) in Birmingham, United Kingdom. 

We will be holding 3 online events over the next 3 months – in April, May and June. They will be organised as ‘brown bag lunch’ sessions, so please feel free to bring your lunch when joining us!

Please register though the following link for attendance on Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkdeiqqDIiEtakC4ydBaLo_m7xJhYZ3zE2

This Day there will be talks by:

• Dr Nikolaos Olma (ZMO) The End of What? Contesting Remediation in a Former Uranium Mining Town in Kyrgyzstan
• Dr Nadezhda Mamontova (CREES) Weather as a Resource: Colonial Atmospheres in the Russian North 
• Dr David Leupold (ZMO). From Science Town to Ekopolis. A Kyrgyzstani-Jewish Philosopher's Quest for Sustainable Urbanity in Moscow’s Hinterland