Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung 32d ago

History of Environmental Movements in Eastern and Southeast Europe Welcoming speech - Jan Philipp Albrecht, hbs Berlin Introductory talk: "State, People, Environment: Historical Continuities from the Chornobyl Disaster to the War-Induced Ecocide in Ukraine" - Tetiana Perga, Kyiv/TU Berlin. The importance of ecological historiography - Iryna Sukhi, Сo-founder of Ecodom and coordinator of the Green Network of Belarus. Commentary of an environmental veteran of the green movement Host: Walter Kaufmann, hbs Berlin 14th European History Forum Marking the 40th anniversary of Chornobyl, the 2026 European History Forum examines, from a historical perspective, the origins and development of environmental movements across Europe and their entanglements with the legacy of the nuclear disaster. The primary focus lies on socialist and post-socialist states, while also adopting a comparative perspective on West Germany and reunified Germany.