Welcome from Miles Taylor

Beveridge Hall

Plenary lecture I

The green light of a new world: natural abundance, scarcity and the historians
Donald Worster (Kansas)
Chair: Miles Taylor (IHR)

Beveridge Hall

Tea and coffee

Panel sessions I

Protecting the rural environment in Britain, c.1850–1950 (Beveridge Hall)
Chair: Michael Thompson 

• The Crown, the commoners and the public: the battle over the New Forest, Hampshire, 1851–1949
  Paul Readman (KCL)
• Preservation, community and the ‘renaissance of English rural life’, 1870–1950
  Jeremy Burchardt (Reading)
• Conserving the Chilterns, c.1920–50
  Roland Quinault (IHR)
  

Imagining and conserving modern America (Room G32)
Chair: (tbc)

• ‘My Winchester spoke to her’: crafting the Northern Rockies as a hunter’s paradise, c.1870–1910
  Karen Jones (Kent)
• Reshaping the Great Plains in the Russian image
  David Moon (Durham)
• East, west and American conservationism, 1830–1950
  David Schorr (Tel Aviv)
• Regenerating the prairies: Rescuing the ‘natural’ landscape in North America
  Janet Waymark (Birkbeck)
  

Working the landscape (Room 103)
Chair: Simon Smith (Hull)

• Petro-landscapes: work and environment in the age of oil
  Stefania Barca (Coimbra)
• Economic progresses, environmental failures: mining in La Oroya, 1890s–2010
  Jose Carlos Orihuela (Columbia)
• Water conservancy development in the Ningxia irrigation district during the Qing dynasty
  Yue Yunxiao (Fudan)

• Objects and well-being in the early modern Italian home
  Marta Ajmar-Wollheim (Victoria & Albert Museum)
• Insanitary nuisances in urban neighbourhoods: bottom-up, self-regulation of the micro-scale environment in northern English and Scottish towns, 1560–1700
  Leona Skelton (Durham)
• ‘Just a change in the weather is often the cause of death, or of good health’: the environment and health in early modern Italy
  Tessa Storey (RHUL)

Names, places and colonial encounters (Deller Hall)
Chair: (tbc)

• The water-world of Ketakamigwa and the ‘people of the dawn’
  Sharla Chittick (Stirling)
• Pure environment, pure people: eugenics, race betterment and the frontier in late 19th century America
  Kathy Cooke (Quinnipiac)
• Combing the shore: littoral culture and the shaping of Narragansett Bay
  Christopher Pastore (New Hampshire)
• The impact of American environmentalism in Southeast Asia, with special reference to Malaysia
  Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells (Cambridge)

Lunch reception in publishers’ fair

Plenary lecture II

Big history as prophylactic to premature interpretation: example - an Anthropocene exchange for the Columbian Exchange
Alfred Crosby (Texas)
Chair: (tbc)

Beveridge Hall

Afternoon coffee

Panel sessions II

Waste and the environment: past, present and future (Deller Hall)
Chair: Mark Jenner (York)

• Waste in the age of scarcity
  John Clark (St Andrews)
• Waste and the political ecology of Victorian Britain
  Timothy Cooper (Exeter)
• The living dead: time, memory and nuclear waste
  John Scanlan (Manchester Metropolitan)
  

Knowing the environment (Room G32)
Chair: (tbc)

• American timber in an English house: William Blathwayt, Dyrham Park and changing representations of America in an early 18th-century country house
  Stephanie Barczewski (Clemson)
• Environment, identity and memory in Cromwell’s Ireland
  Sarah Covington (City University of New York)
• The human history of plant societies, 1918-89: physiology, geography and taxonomy in the origins of the environmental science
  Adam Lawrence (California)

Environment in the long view (Beveridge Hall)
Chair: Felix Driver (RHUL) (tbc)

• Modern climate change in Holocene perspective
  John Brooke (Ohio State)
• A colonial climate: explorations of scale and variability in the south west of Australia, 1829–2007
  Ruth Morgan (Western Australia)
• From Earthrise to Earth Day: the space programme and the eco-renaissance
  Robert Poole (Cumbria)

Governance and the environment (Wolfson/Pollard room)
Chair: Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck)

• The Aqua Augusta and imperial control of water resources in the Bay of Naples in antiquity
  Duncan Keenan-Jones (Macquarie)
• Governance, stakeholders and the Thames environment, 1947–64
  Vanessa Taylor & Sarah Palmer (Greenwich)
• Behaviour and environment: the county magistrates in northern Shanxi province during the Qing dynasty
  Qing-yao Zhang (Shaanxi Normal University)

Fish, wine and the politics of conservation (Room 103)
Chair: Janet Waymark (IHR) (tbc)

• Shifting baselines or shifting currents: an environmental history of fish and fishing in the south-west capes region of Western AustraliaAndrea Gaynor (Western Australia)
• The making of ‘Chiantishire’: the history of the Chianti region in the 20th century
  Leo Goretti (Reading)
• Cockles, conservation and the contested coast of Wales
  Kaori O’Connor (UCL)
  

The natural history of England: the Victoria County History and the environment (Germany room)
Chair: John Beckett (IHR)
details tbc

Plenary lecture III

Shadows of things to come: preservation and progress in the 19th century
Harriet Ritvo (MIT)
Chair: Ludmilla Jordanova (KCL)

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Plenary lecture IV

Plant transfers, imperialism and biodiversity: a view from Africa
William Beinart (Oxford)
Chair: Vivian Bickford-Smith (IHR)

Beveridge Hall

Morning coffee

Panel sessions III

Campaigning for the environment in Britain and the United States, 19th and 20th centuries (Beveridge Hall)
Chair: Roland Quinault (IHR)

• Campaigning for the environment in Britain and the US in the 19th century
  Charles-François Mathis (Paris) 
• Environmental NGOs and environmental campaigning in Britain since 1945
  TNick Crowson, Matthew Hilton, James McKay & Jean-François Mouhot (Birmingham)
• Progressivism and the environment
  John Brown & Joan Broome (Georgia Southern)

Forest history: transatlantic connections (Room G32)
Chair: Phil Buckner (Institute of Commonwealth Studies) (tbc)

• Conquering the Highlands: the arrival of ‘Canadian style’ large forestry in the Scottish Highlands, 1920–60
  Jan Oosthoek (Edinburgh)
• British Columbia conifer seeds, 1912–40
  David Brownstein (British Columbia)
• Seeing the forests through the cities: the urban influence on US national forests
  Adam Sowards (Idaho)

Resilient communities: local level response to disasters on three continents, 1300–1900 (Deller Hall)
Chair: Sarah Palmer (Greenwich Maritime Institute) (tbc)

• Creating civil community: municipal governance and local responses to flood in the 19th-century Philippines
  Greg Bankoff (Hull)
• Pestilence, flood and plague: climate deterioration and its effects on the Cistercian Abbey at Lewaux, Lower Hull Valley, in the first half of the 14th century
  Mary Carrick (Hull)
• Volcanic hazard in a slave society: the 1812 eruption of Mount Soufriere in St Vincent
  Simon Smith (Hull)

Measuring environmental impact (Room 103)
Chair: (tbc)

• Disappearing worlds: an archival study of environmental change in the glaciers of the Mer de Glace using historical cartography and photographic surveys
  John Hessler (Library of Congress)
• Climate, fascism and ibex: a case study in historical animal population trends
  Wilko Graf von Hardenberg (Trento)
• Dead polecats: a Yorkshire perspective
  Chris Webb (York) 

Migrants in the landscape: ethnic groups in new environments (Wolfson/Pollard room)
Chair: David Feldman (Birkbeck)

• From Garlic Hill to Goatsville: Italians in the American landscape
  Marco Armiero (Universitat Autonoma Barcelona)
• Environment degradation as a cause of migration
  Louis Warren (University California Davis)
• Migration and environmental crisis in frontier Nevada
  Angus Wright (California State University, Sacramento)

Conflict and space (Germany room)
Chair: (tbc)

• Rebuilding a nation: disability and rurality after the First World War
  Wendy Gagen (Exeter)
• Volatile spaces and the infrastructure of pain: patients and practitioners in military medicine, 1914–18
  Ann Carden-Coyne (Manchester)
• Disabled ex-servicemen and their home environment in the Second World War
  Julie Anderson (Kent)

Lunch reception

Panel sessions IV

Popular protest and moral ecology in Britain (Wolfson/Pollard room)
Chair: Matthew Cragoe (IHR)

• Performing tasks in the Forest of Dean: the Warren James riots of 1831
  Iain Robertson (Gloucestershire)
• Landscapes in the making: enclosure and enclosure riots in early modern Yorkshire and Northamptonshire
  Briony McDonagh (Hertfordshire)
• Changing landscapes in northern England: Popular protest in urban-rural hinterlands, 1812–34
  Katrina Navickas (Hertfordshire)

Beyond the battlefield: army bases, militarisation and environmental change and continuity in Britain, France and the US (Room 103)
Chair: William Philpott (KCL) (tbc)

• From Epynt to SENTA: the environmental history of Sennybridge Training Area, Wales, 1939–2009
  Tim Cole (Bristol)
• From battlefield to military base: the environmental history of Suippes Camp, France, 1914–2009
  Chris Pearson (Bristol)
• From toxic liabilities to ecological assets: the environmental history of Rocky Mountain Arsenal and Rocky Flats, Colorado
  Peter Coates (Bristol)

Mobilising for the environment (Deller Hall)
Chair: Paul Readman (KCL) (tbc)

• Restoring the Garden of Eden in revolutionary England: the Diggers' attitude towards the environment
  Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths)
• The short 20th century of the environment, 1908-85: the environmental question and the ecological issue in Italy
  Marzia Maccaferri & Federico Paolini (Istoreco/Siena)
• Freak power and environmental politics
  Jim Morrow (Nottingham Trent)

Arranging the environment: cultures of natural history, 1750–1900 (Room G32)
Chair: Emma Spary (UCL)

• Connoisseurship, commerce and nature, c.1760–93
  Sarah Easterby-Smith (Warwick)
• Jutting teeth and gaping mouths: representations of nature, 1760–1800
  Kate Smith (Warwick)
• ‘Flowers that never fade’: artificial flowers in science, art and fancywork of the 19th century
  Ellery Foutch (Pennsylvania)

Environments of empire in India and Africa (Beveridge Hall)
Chair: Vinita Damodaran (Sussex)

• Electrifying Africa: environmental consequences of technological innovation
  Kate Showers (Sussex) 
• Improvements for progress: hydraulic transformations in colonial south Asia
  Rohan D’Souza (JNU, Delhi)
  
• Black wattle, eucalyptus, pine: colonial tree planting and its legacies in the South Pare Mountains, Tanzania
  Pauline von Hellerman (York)

Artistic environments: disability and image making (postgraduate session) (Germany room)

• Introduction and commentary
  Catherine Kudlick (University of California, Davis)
• Painting by mouth: art, disability and Victorian fascination
  Ann Roberts (Exeter)
• 'The image of objectivity': albinism, photographic environments and British eugenics research, 1905–14
  Tom White (Manchester)

Change over time

Plenary lecture V

Mosquito empires
John McNeill (Georgetown)
Chair: Philip Murphy (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

Beveridge Hall

Afternoon tea

Panel sessions V

Flooding as an agent of change in medieval and early modern Europe (Germany room)
Chair: James Galloway (IHR)

• Reconstruction, assessment and impact of high tides, storms and storm surges in the southern North Sea area, 1390–1690
  Adriaan de Kraker (Free University of Amsterdam)
• A managed retreat? Storm surges, landscape change and economic strategies in coastal Flanders, c.1300–c.1600AD)
  Tim Soens (Antwerp)
• Managing the risk of floods in the Upper Rhine Valley and Tuscany in the Renaissance, c.1270–1560
  Gerrit Jasper Schenk (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
• Floods of the Upper Danube river and its tributaries and their impact on urban economies, c.1350–1600
  Christian Rohr (Salzburg)

Collaboration and communication between environmental history scholars (Beveridge Hall)
Chair: Jan Oosthoek (Edinburgh)

• Of networks, archives and collaboration across the pond
  Alan MacEachern (Western Ontario)
• The European Society for Environmental History and networks
  David Moon (Durham)
• The facilitation of networks of environmental historians
  Harriet Ritvo (MIT)

The ecology of empire: mixing and moving nature’s objects (Wolfson/Pollard room)
Chair: Hal Cook (Wellcome Institute) (tbc)

• Manioc in Mozambique? The ecological imperialism of governing an Atlantic empire
  Neil Safier (British Columbia)
• Reading a herbarium as a mestizo object: imperial mixtures in books of nature
  James Delbourgo (Rutgers)
• Whose botanical garden? Buddhist and British attitudes to nature in Ceylon
  Sujit Sivasundaram (LSE)

The nature of the public good: contesting resources in Britain, 1600–1800 (Deller Hall)
Chair: Christopher Smout (St Andrews)

• Pollution or national asset: coal, smoke and the London economy, 1660–1700
  William Cavert (Northwestern)
• Commons or common wealth? Drainage, enclosures and the debate over the public good in the early 17th century
  Julie Bowring (Yale)
• Peak coal 1789: the politics of ecological limits
  Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (Chicago)

City climates and small-scale histories (Room G32)
Chair: Derek Keene (IHR)

• Unwritten histories of urban weather
  Vladimir Jankovic & Michael Hebbert (Manchester)
• Fixing the urban sky
  James Rodger Fleming (Colby College)
• Gardens and the construction of micro-climate narratives
  Georgina Endfield (Nottingham)

Sustainability and resources in the early modern Atlantic world (Room 103)
Chair: Peter Lake (tbc)

• Sustaining environmental control: the design and implementation of early modern state forestry in Spain, 1748–54
  John Wing (City University of New York)
• ‘Gross mistakes and carelessness for the future’: Pehr Kalm’s observations of the use of natural resources in the Nordic countries, England and North America
  Laura Hollsten (Turku)
• Soil and society in Britain, c.1600–1770
  Paul Warde (UEA)

Evening reception and conference close