ReForm - Of people and resources
Human beings are permanently confronted with change. For a deeper understanding of societies and their living environments, it is revealing how people react to processes of change, trigger them or are involved in them.
In this context, resources play a decisive role: they express what people perceive as relevant for their lives in order to satisfy physical, social or religious needs, for example. Resources are thus involved in the construction of societies in many ways.
ReForm aims to explore the potential of resources for change, which, especially with regard to socio-ecological aspects, can be considered significant not only for human history, but also for contemporary society. In a multi-perspective approach, the project partners from the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and economics want to examine exemplarily how people are intertwined with their material environment through various practices and how social institutions emerge and change during these processes.
News
A new perspective on resources
A new perspective on resources What can object-oriented ontology achieve? Prof. Dr. Markus Keck Chair of Urban Climate Resilience, Centre of Climate Resilience, Universität Augsburg Haus der Archäologien, Hörsaal 10.02.2026 – 4 pm c.t. Under the heading of ‘new materialism,’ a number of new approaches have been developed in the…
New Perspectives on Extractivism
New Perspectives on Extractivism Inspirations and open questions for researching resources in different times Dr. Dorothea Hamilton PostDoc at the ScienceCampus ReForm FernUniversität in Hagen (Sociology, Prof. Dr. Frank Hillebrandt) Haus der Archäologien, Hörsaal 10.02.2026 – 4 pm c.t. The term extractivism emerged from Latin America to describe the expansion…
[A/The] Matter of Resources
[A/The] Matter of Resources The lecture series examines how materialities involved in resource-making – such as artefacts, infrastructures, and bodies – interact and transform. It fosters an interdisciplinary dialogue on theoretical and methodological approaches to grasp the dynamic nature of resources and their material foundations. New Perspectives on Extractivism New…
History of the nuclear phase-out
History of the nuclear phase-out: The anti-nuclear power movement in Germany Lecture by Dr. Astrid Kirchhof Haus der Archäologien, Seminarraum 1 27.01.2026 – 16 Uhr c.t. Germany’s nuclear phase-out was the result of decades of social conflict. Since the 1970s, a diverse anti-nuclear movement had been forming, uniting local, ecological,…
EXTRACTIVE ZONES
EXTRACTIVE ZONES Künstlerisch-wissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf den Uranbergbau im deutsch-tschechischen Erzgebirge Over generations, the traces of uranium mining in the German-Czech Ore Mountains have been inscribed in the landscape, bodies and atmosphere. EXTRACTIVE ZONES examines the historical and contemporary dimensions of uranium mining between Johanngeorgenstadt and Jáchymov from an artistic-scientific perspective.…
Humboldt fellow visitor: María Florencia Becerra
Andean Archaeology and pre-Columbian mining and metallurgy Planned activities for the visit of the Humboldt Fellow, María Florencia Becerra (CONICET), in January 2026 María Florencia Becerra, a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina, will visit Bochum in January 2026 as part of a Humboldt Linkage Project,…