8:30 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
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Light Breakfast
Opening Remarks
Delivered by J.R. McNeill (Georgetown) |
9:15 a.m.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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End of scheduled program
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Image credit: © The Trustees of the British Museum