Saturday, November 4, 2017
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9:00 a.m.
9:30 a.m.
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Light Breakfast
Opening Remarks
Delivered by Matt Johnson (Georgetown) |
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9:35 a.m.
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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" |
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10:50 a.m.
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Interlude: Introducing a Photo Exhibit
- Rina Faletti (UC, Merced): "Hydrological Sublime: Waterworks Engineering, Industrial Photography and Aesthetics of Conveyance in California" |
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11:00 a.m.
11:15 a.m.
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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" |
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12:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m.
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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" |
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2:45 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
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Afternoon Refreshments
Faculty Q&A
-J. R. McNeill (Georgetown) in conversation with Ellen Arnold (Ohio Wesleyan University), co-editor-in-chief of Water History. |
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4:00 p.m.
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End of Scheduled Program
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