{"id":3778,"date":"2025-12-17T15:26:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2026-01-04T22:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T21:16:40","slug":"guest-lecture-tulin-fidan-tracing-dumped-munitions-in-the-north-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/2025\/12\/guest-lecture-tulin-fidan-tracing-dumped-munitions-in-the-north-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Talk: T\u00fclin Fidan: \u201cTracing dumped munitions in the North Sea\u201d &#8211; 08 January, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tracing-dumped-munitions-in-the-North-Sea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3781\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tracing-dumped-munitions-in-the-North-Sea-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tracing-dumped-munitions-in-the-North-Sea-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tracing-dumped-munitions-in-the-North-Sea-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tracing-dumped-munitions-in-the-North-Sea-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tracing-dumped-munitions-in-the-North-Sea.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><strong>T\u00fclin Fidan<\/strong>, a research associate at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven and member of the Lab, will be talking about:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tracing dumped munitions in the North Sea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this talk, I will follow the traces of dumped munitions in the North Sea. After WWII, it is estimated that around 1.6 million tons of munitions ended up in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, which were used as a place for human disposal. Eighty years later, the munitions are corroding, and toxic substances such as TNT are leaking out.<br \/>\nDrawing on my ethnographic research as part of the EU-Interreg research project REMARCO (Remediation, Management, Monitoring and Cooperation addressing North Sea UXO, UXO = unexploded ordnance), I reflect on the traces those munitions leave underwater and on the coast, in scientific endeavours, in political decision-making, in the armaments industry, and in questions of heritage and responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Image: &#8220;Working deck of FS Heincke\u201d, created by T\u00fclin Fidan.<\/p>\n<p>The session is moderated by Melina Antonakaki.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody is very welcome!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, 08 January 2026<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>10:00 \u2013 11:30 am, (s.t.!)<\/strong><br \/>\nHybrid<br \/>\n<strong>@ Institute for European Ethnology (IfEE), HU Berlin, room 408 (accessible elevator available)<\/strong><br \/>\n&amp; on Zoom (for the link, please contact: <a href=\"mailto:milena.bister@hu-berlin.de\">milena.bister@hu-berlin.de<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00fclin Fidan, a research associate at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven and member of the Lab, will be talking about: Tracing dumped munitions in the North Sea In this talk, I will follow the traces of dumped munitions in the North Sea. After WWII, it is estimated that around &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":3782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3799,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions\/3799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}