Flows
Second Annual Environmental History Workshop
Northumbria University, Newcastle
Friday 13 September 2019
Room 201, 207, Sandyford Building,
City Campus, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Twitter: #EHW2019
Workshop conveners:
Guillemette Crouzet, University of Warwick
Jane Rowling, University of Hull
Rebecca Wright, Northumbria University
The Environmental History Workshop 2019 is supported by the British Academy through a Newton Postdoctoral Fellowship, the British Agricultural History Society, and Northumbria University.
10.00 Registration and Coffee, [S201]
10.20 Welcome Address, [S201]
10.30 Morning Parallel Sessions
Flows of People and the Making of Place (A), [S201]
(Chair: Matt Kelly, Northumbria University)
Enslaved Migrants and Environmental Thought
Lindsey Walters, University of Cambridge
From Oil to Hipsters: Material and human flows in the making of Venice (California) as a green utopia
Elsa Devienne, Northumbria University
The Environmental Limits of the Infrastructural State: The failure of the T’aean canalization projects and their implications in early modern Korea
John Lee, University of Manchester
Flows of Resources (A), [S207]
(Chair: tbc)
The Physical and Monetary Flows of Trade: The case of the Colombian agrarian sector during the twentieth century
Alexander Urrego-Mesa, University of Barcelona
The Commodification of the China Coast: Natural resource frontiers and transport capitalism during the long nineteenth century
Shirley Ye, University of Birmingham
From Charcoal to Nuclear: Japan’s ‘routes of power’ and Fukushima in the twentieth century
Hiroki Shin, Science Museum
11.40 10 minute break
Flows of People and the Making of Place (B), [S201]
(Chair: John Morgan, University of Manchester)
The Dynamic Interaction between People and their Place: The evidence for continuity and change through time in the Scottish landscape
Sarah Govan, ClimateXChange, Scotland
“I wandered lonely as a cloud” – The flow, rhythm and ‘meshworks’ of walking in the North York Moors National Park
Thomas Ratcliffe, Northumbria University
Out of the Forest: A place-making theory of deforestation
Diogo de Cavalho Cabral, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Flows of Resources and Trade (B), [S207]
(Chair: Adrian Howkins, University of Bristol)
Policing the Livestock: War economy, environment and border regimes in the Middle East during World War II (1939-1945)
Laura Stocker, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Global Tannins and London’s Leather Industry, 1772-1924
Jim Clifford, University of Saskatchewan
‘The Swamp and the Mill’: Agrarian counter-reforms and nutrition in 1960s Colombia
Diana María Valencia, University of Exeter
13.10 Lunch [R201]
14.00 Afternoon Parallel Sessions
Flows of Water, Administration and Protest, [S201]
(Chair: Leona Skelton, Northumbria University)
Local Knowledge, Administrative Praxis, and Rural Water Flows in Roman Egypt
Brendan Haug, University of Michigan
Water, Workers, and Revolts: The Little Ice Age and the revolts of 1647-1652 in Andalusia
Fred Carnegy, University College London
Internal Drainage Boards (IDBs) and the Making of the English Lowlands: An applied environmental history approach
Greg Bankoff, University of Hull
Flows of Knowledge and Ideas, [S207]
Chair: Guillemette Crouzet, University of Warwick)
The European in India: Movements across disparate environments post Industrial Revolution
Baijayanti Chatterjee, Seth Anandram Jaipuria
College, University of Calcutta
Disease, Slavery and Debate in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1815-1860
Huw Batts, University of Cambridge
Infrastructure and Flow in Some American Images of the 1970s
Adam O’Brien, University of Reading
Biological Engineering as Genre: History of science and literary analysis for Environmental History
Dominic Berry, London School of Economics
16.00 Keynote Address, [S201]
Entangled Flows: Thinking about Movement in Environmental History
Giacomo Parrinello, Centre for History, Sciences Po
17.00 General Discussion and Closing Remarks, [S201]
17.30 Wine Reception
The Wine Reception will be followed by a post-event meal at Pani’s Café, Newcastle [http://paniscafe.co.uk/] for anyone who would like to join us.
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