 13 January
Department of Geography
13.30
Welcoming remarks
+ Paul Warde (Cambridge)
14.00 – 15.15
Session One: Imagined Environments
+ Bill Adams (Cambridge)
Habitat, Possession and Community: reflections on the history of conservation ideas
+ Sverker Sörlin (Stockholm)
Warm Weather and Cold War: On the Proto-politics of Climate Change
15.45 – 17.15
Session Two: Global environmental histories
+ Georgina Endfield (Nottingham)
“The pernicious calamities that occasion...hunger": climate variability and social vulnerability in colonial Mexico
+ Richard Grove and Vinita Damodaran (Sussex)
“Imperialism and environmental change; unearthing the origins and evolution of global environmental history’
+ Stefania Gallini (Bogota)
‘Latin American Environmental History: notes for a state-of-the-art’
19.00 – 20.30
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Reception and headline talk
Kirsten Hastrup (Copenhagen)
’Destiny and Decision: Icelandic Lessons for Environmental History’
14 January
Department of Geography
9.15-10.45
New Researchers
+ Peter Alagona (UCLA)
‘Environmental history and ecological science: where do we stand?’
+ Tim Cooper (St.Andrews)
‘Waste and the urban environment’
+ Dorothee Brantz (German Historical Institute, Washington DC)
‘Where are the animals in environmental history?’
+ Wilko Graf von Hardenberg (Cambridge)
‘Modifications of rights to resources in fascist Italy’
11.15 - 12.30
Session Three: Space, Polity and Environment
+ Marc Cioc (Santa Cruz)
A River Runs through It: What Environmental History Has Meant to the History of Rivers, and Vice Versa
+ Graeme Wynn & Matthew Evenden (University of British Columbia)
Fifty-four, Forty, or Fight? Writing within and across boundaries in North American Environmental History
12.30
Lunch
13.45 – 15.15
Session Four: New histories, new methods: taking stock of the environment
+ Fiona Watson (Stirling)
Crossing the Two Cultures barrier: Environmental History and the Natural Sciences in the 21st century
+ Robert Dodgshon (Aberystwyth)
Does the environmental history of mountain areas have its own agenda?
+ Poul Holm (Odense)
‘The uses of models and narrative in (marine) environmental history
15:15
Coffee
15.45 – 17.00
+ Chris Bayly (Cambridge)
World History and the Environment; some concluding questions
Reflections and concluding remarks by Alan Baker
17.00
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