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Florian Fockelmann

Research Associate

Jahr Position
since
4/2024

Assistant Professor at the Chair of Environmental and Technology History, Professor Dr. Stephanie Zehnle, University of Passau.

2022-2023

Tutor for seminars (Dr. Maike Lehmann: Sozialistische Subjekte. Individuum, Staat und Gesellschaft in der Sowjetunion, 1917-1991) and lectures (Prof. Klaus Gestwa: Russisch-sowjetische Umweltgeschichte seit dem 19. Jahrhundert) at the Institute for East European History and Regional Studies, University of Tübingen.

4/2021-3/2023

Research Assistant in the German-French research project EnviroHealth: The Ecological Body in a Toxic World. Environment and Health in the Soviet Union and Its Successor States, 1945–2000; Institute for East European History and Regional Studies, University of Tübingen.

2019-2023

Master of Arts in History, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.

2013-2019 Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.

  • Technology and Environmental History in the Context of the East-West Conflict
  • History of Space Exploration
  • Global History of the East-West Conflict

"Lastwagen für den Weltraum. Die OTRAG und envirotechnische Verflechtungen privater Raumfahrt-Infrastruktur zwischen Nord und Süd, 1970-1990." (since 4/2024)

Reviews

Year Review
2025 Florian Fockelmann (with Stephanie Zehnle, Dennis Yazici): (Nicht)Zeigen und (Nicht)Wissen. Die Macht der kartographischen Visualisierung in der Agrargeschichte, in: Anna Henkel / Matthias Kussin / Holli Brandhuber / Katrin Hirte / Laura Scheler (eds.): Agrarwissen in der Reflexion. Sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf die Transformation von Landwirtschaft, Bielefeld: transcript 2025, pp. 83-97.
2025 Florian Fockelmann (with Madline Fischer, Elisabeth Wallmann): Kritische Infrastrukturen und vulnerable Umwelt(en), in: Fabian Zimmer et al. (eds.): Umwelt – Technik – Wissen. Verflechtungen vom 18. Jahrhundert bis heute. Bielefeld: transcript 2025, pp. 99-104.
2025 Florian Fockelmann: »Gravity always wins«. Satelliten als Infrastrukturen einer extremen Umwelt, in: in: Fabian Zimmer et al. (eds.): Umwelt – Technik – Wissen. Verflechtungen vom 18. Jahrhundert bis heute. Bielefeld: transcript 2025, pp. 129-140.
2024 Florian Fockelmann, Rezension zu: Bateman, Aaron: Weapons in Space. Technology, Politics and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative. Cambridge 2024 , ISBN 978-0-262-54736-9, in: H-Soz-Kult, 30.10.2024, http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-143924.

Year Lecture
06/2026 5th Aachen Workshop for Young Researchers on “The History of Knowledge”: Knowledge and Technology—Past and Present, RWTH Aachen. Presentation: "Das Scheitern der Billigrakete: Die OTRAG und privatwirtschaftliche 'low-tech' Raumfahrt"
3/2026 Conference "The Ecological Bootprint Apprehending the Military-Environmental Nexus", Rachel Carson Center. Short presentation: "The Transatmospherical Bootprint. Military Satellites, Commercial use and the Environment"
9/2025 Summer School “Narratives of Disruption and Continuity in Science, Technology, and Society”, Wuppertal
6/2025

Conferece „European Conference on African Studies ECAS”, Prag, Lecture: “Rocketing the Global South into Orbit? OTRAG, Zaire, and the Technopolitics of Space in the 1970s“

11/2024

Workshop “Umwelt-Technik-Wissen” TU Berlin

Lecture "Transatmosphärische Verflechtungen: Satelliten-Infrastruktur in den Umwelten All und Erde"

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