8:30 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
Light Breakfast
Opening Remarks
Delivered by J.R. McNeill (Georgetown)
9:15 a.m.
​Session One: Waterscapes
Chair: Graham Pitts (NC State)
Commentator: Meredith McKittrick (Georgetown)

​- Erica Mukherjee (Stony Brook): “Shoring up Sovereignty: The Influence of Embankments and the Environment on East India Company Rule”
​- Meredith Denning (Georgetown): “Crossing Boundaries: Institutional Flexibility and Local Capacity in Water Quality Research on the Great Lakes, 1906-1941"
- Isacar Bolaños (Ohio State): “From Nature to Disease in Ottoman Iraq: Floods, Marshes, and Infrastructure during the Nineteenth Century”
10:30 a.m.
10:45 a.m.
​​Coffee Break
Session Two: Terrains of Medieval Warfare
Chair: Jackson Perry (Georgetown)
Commentator: Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown)

​- Yuan Chen (Yale): “Frontier, Fortification, and Forestation: Defensive Woodland on the Song-Liao Border, 916-1123”
​- Kevin Bloomfield (Cornell): “Water and Power in Roman Libya”
- Ariana Myers (Princeton): “Royal Herbicide and Grand Theft Animalia: Environmental Warfare in the Thirteenth-Century Conquest of Valencia”
12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m.
Lunch (open for all registered participants)
Session Three: Modern Environmental Regimes​
Chair: Robynne Mellor (Georgetown)
Commentator: J. R. McNeill (Georgetown)

- Timothy Lorek (Yale): “Growing the Seeds of State Formation: Integrated Agricultural Research at a Tropical Latin American Experiment Station, 1927-1937”
- Samuel Dolbee (NYU): “Pests and Peoples or Peoples as Pests”
- Kenneth Linden (Indiana): “The Khiimori of the Wolf Under Socialism: Wolves, Pastoralism, and Modernity in Mongolia”
2:30 p.m.
2:45 p.m.
​Afternoon Refreshments
​Session Four: Roundtable
Moderator: J. R. McNeill (Georgetown)

- Lisa Brady (Boise State)
- Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown)
- Kathryn M. de Luna (Georgetown)
- Timothy P. Newfield (Princeton)
4:00 p.m.
End of scheduled program
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