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Session Two
Session Three
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                                                    Saturday, November 4, 2017
9:00 a.m.
9:30 a.m.
Light Breakfast
Opening Remarks
Delivered by Matt Johnson (Georgetown)
9:35 a.m.
​Session One: Currents and Empire
Chair: Faisal Husain (Georgetown)
Commentator: Meredith McKittrick (Georgetown)

​- Aditya Ramesh (SOAS):
"Developing Water as Multi-Purpose in Colonial India"
​- John Doyle-Raso (Michigan State):
"The Water Politics of the Nile in Uganda: From Swamp Reclamation to Wetland Conservation, 1954-1995"
- Ahmed Y. AlMaazmi (Princeton):
"The Production of a Tsunamic Memory: The 1945 Makran Tsunami in the Omani Sea"
10:50 a.m.
Interlude: Introducing a Photo Exhibit
- Rina Faletti (UC, Merced): "Hydrological Sublime: Waterworks Engineering, Industrial Photography and Aesthetics of Conveyance in California"
11:00 a.m.
11:15 a.m.
​​Coffee Break
Session Two: North American Waters
Chair: Rina Faletti (UC Merced)
Commentator: Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown)

​- Daniel Grant (Wisconsin-Madison): "'
The Germ of Civilization has Just Been Planted': The Civilizing Efforts of Reclamation in the California Borderlands, 1910-1920"
​- Meredith Denning and Hillar Schwertner (Georgetown): "Dividing the Spoils: North American Responses to Inequality of Access in Changing Border Waterscapes"
- Michaela Rife (Toronto):
"Reclamation and Representation: Irrigation and Identity in New Deal Murals"
12:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m.
Lunch (open for all registered participants)
Session Three: Metropolitan Waterscapes
Chair: Abhishek Nanavati (Georgetown)
Commentator: Jordan Sand (Georgetown)

- Jeffrey Egan (Connecticut):
"Design, Development, and Demise: Building Boston’s Quabbin Reservoir, 1927-1939"
- Nikiwe Solomon (Cape Town): 
"The Kuils River in the History of the Cape Town Metropole"
- Xiangli Ding (SUNY Buffalo):
"A New Man-made Disaster? A Study of Small Hydroelectric Projects in Wartime Southwest China"
2:45 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
​Afternoon Refreshments
​Faculty Q&A
-J. R. McNeill (Georgetown) in conversation with Ellen Arnold (Ohio Wesleyan University), co-editor-in-chief of Water History.
4:00 p.m.
End of Scheduled Program
Read the biographies of our presenters here.
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