On Environment: Going Live with Selçuk Dursun

Published on

26/11/2021

Keywords

FORESTS, CLIMATE EMERGENCY, ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

"On Environment,"Architecture as Measure - Going Live Conversation Series #2. Selçuk Dursun in live conversation with Neyran Turan, Ece Emanetoğlu and Samet Mor. August 17, 2021.

The second episode of the Going Live Online Conversation Series of the Pavilion of Turkey at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale hosted environmental historian Selçuk Dursun. The Going Live Online Conversation Series has taken place periodically throughout the Biennale and has been live-streamed online. In this second episode, curator Neyran Turan, along with the other members of the curatorial team Ece Emanetoğlu and Samet Mor, discuss forests, climate change, and the role of environmental history at this live conversation with Selçuk Dursun. Dursun's essay titled "Migrations and Forests" was published in the Essays section on our website in December 2020.

About the author Selçuk Dursun is an environmental historian affiliated with the History Department at the Middle East Technical University. Dursun’s current research focuses on the environmental (ecological) and economic history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, with a particular emphasis on the commons and the use and management of natural resources, such as forestry and fisheries. He previously conducted post-doctoral research at the Europe in the Middle East/Middle East in Europe (EUME) program at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin as a fellow and at the Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) an associated fellow.