This workshop presents papers by younger scholars examining the intersection of human activities with natural processes, embracing environmental history, anthropology, and political science. The topics include ecological science, human impacts on plants and animals, and state demands for natural resources, and regions ranging from the U.S. to the Middle East, Indonesia, and East Asia.
Saturday, October 28
8:00-9:00: Breakfast
8:50-9:00: Introductory remarks by Peter C. Perdue, Stevan Harrell
9:00-10:15: Panel 1 - “Managing Culture and Nature”
Chair: Laura Martin
Commentator: Peter C. Perdue
9:00-9:15
Caterina Scaramelli, “Delta Lives: Lived Histories of Flows and Sediments on a Turkish Wetland”
9:15-9:30
Angelo Caglioti, “Empire, Drought and Famine: the Ecological History of Early Italian Colonialism (1885-1896)”
9:30-9:45
Aaron Jakes, “Interest of Insects: Credit as a Socio-Ecological Relation”
9:45-10:00
Comments by Peter C. Perdue
Discussion
10:15-10:30: Coffee Break
10:30-11:45: Panel 2 - “The Politics of Extraction”
Chair: Stevan Harrell
Commentator: Brian Lander
10:30-10:45
Judd Kinzley, “Resource and the State: Toward a New Perspective on Chinese Border Regions”
10:45-11:00
John Lee, “Kingdom of Pines: State Forestry in Pre-Industrial Korea”
11:00-11:15
Greg Thaler, “Extraction, Production, and Socio-Political Organization in the Capitalist World Ecology”
11:15-11:45
Comments by Brian Lander
Discussion
11:45-1:00pm: Lunch
1:00-2:30: Panel 3 - “Imagining Ecological Communities”
Chair: Peter C. Perdue
Commentator: Harriet Ritvo
1:00-1:15
Zachary Caple, “Island Scrub: Extinction and Endurance at the Holocene/Anthropocene Boundary”
1:15-1:30
Laura Martin, “Intervention Ecology: Caring for Panthers and Sawgrass in the Florida Everglades”
1:30-1:45
Paolo Bocci, “Becoming Island: Utopian Colonies and Conservation on the Galapagos Islands”
1:45 - 2:00
Maria Taylor, “Plants at Plants: The Soviet Garden-Factory from Moscow to Tashkent”
2:00-2:30
Comments by Harriet Ritvo
Discussion
2:30 – 3:00 PM Concluding Discussion
PARTICIPANT LIST
Paolo Bocci, Fellow, Thompson Writing Program, Duke University
Angelo Caglioti, Max Weber Post-Doctoral Fellow, European University Institute
Fabian Drixler, Professor of History, Yale University
Stevan Harrell, Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington
Brian Lander, Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society, Brown University
Aaron Jakes, Assistant Professor of History, The New School
Judd Kinzley, Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
John S. Lee, Agrarian Studies Program Fellow, Yale University
Laura Martin, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Williams College
Ian M. Miller, Assistant Professor of History,St. John’s University
Peter Perdue, Professor of History, Yale University
Harriet Ritvo, Professor of History, MIT
Caterina Scaramelli, Keiter Fellow, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College
Holly Stephens, Postdoctoral Fellow in East Asian Studies, Yale University
Maria Taylor, Ph.D. candidate, Architecture, University of Michigan
Greg Thaler, Assistant Professor of International Affairs, University of Georgia
Amy Zhang, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, New York University
Ling Zhang, Associate Professor of History, Boston College