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Lars von Felten-Kury Has Given a Talk at the TU Munich
Lars von Felten-Kury has given a talk entitled «Infrastructuring Empire: The Strait of Malacca and the Making of an Environmental Transit Corridor, c. 1870-1920» at the Technical University of Munich. The lecture covered theoretical and empirical aspects of his PhD project, focusing on complex interconnections between human and non-human factors and forces in the rise of the Strait of Malacca as a global transit corridor in the 19th century. The presentation took place on 24 June 2024 and was part of the Oberseminar lecture series jointly hosted by the Technical History Department and the Research Institute of the Deutsches Museum.
Lars von Felten-Kury has been a research assistant in European and Global History since 2021. His research interests include global history, environmental history, the history of infrastructure, and capitalism.