Common Ground, Converging Gazes. Integrating the social and environmental in History
12:00 - 13:30 accueil des participants / registration
Présidence de séance / Chair : Geneviève MASSARD-GUILBAUD & Stephen MOSLEY, organisateurs du colloque, conference conveners.
Madame Nathalie KOSCIUSKO-MORIZET, secrétaire d’État chargée de l’Écologie (sous réserve)
Danièle HERVIEU-LÉGER, Présidente de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Paul-André ROSENTAL ou Gérard BÉAUR, directeurs du Centre de recherches Historiques (CNRS/EHESS)
François VALÉRIAN, rédacteur en chef des Annales des Mines
14:00 - 15:00 Conférence d'ouverture / opening lecture
Joan Martinez ALIER, Professeur à l'Université de Barcelone, Espagne, « The Environmentalism of the Poor ».
15:00 - 15:30 Pause café / coffee break
15:30 -17:00 sessions parallèles 1 /parallel sessions 1 (90 minutes)
Présidence de séance / Chair: Richard RODGER, University of Edinburgh, UK
Tim SOENS, University of Antwerp, NL, Threatened by the sea, condemned by man. The social distribution of land and environmental risk in coastal wetlands: pre-modern Flanders in a European context (12th-18th centuries).
Joanna DEAN, Carleton University Ottawa, Canada, The social production of a Canadian urban forest.
Reuben M. MATHEKA, Egerton University, Kenya, The Political Ecology of the Amboseli National Park, 1895 - 2005’.
Ian MACLAREN, University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada, Culturing Canadian Wilderness: The Establishment of National Park “Playgrounds” and the Eviction of Métis “Squatters”
Présidence de séance / Chair: Sverker SÖRLIN, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Delia Lee HAGEN, University of California at Berkeley, USA, Nations, Migration, and Métis Subsistence Possibilities, 1880-1920.
Kuang-chi HUNG, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, Governing Environment and Racializing people: Ethnicity, Social Engineering, and the Environmental Management in Taiwan and Korea during the Japanese Colonial Rule.
Liza PIPER, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Making Northern races of Nothern places, 1890-1970.
Présidence de séance / Chair : Michèle DAGENAIS, Université de Montréal, Canada
Teresa TOMKINS-WALSH, University of Houston, USA, Save Buffalo Bayou!: Class Standing and Successful Environmental Action.
Paul C. ROSIER, Villanova University, USA, In those days the air was clear’: Native American environmental memories and politics, 1960s-1970s
Robert GIOIELLI, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, “How can any community be expected to accept such a scar?”: The Movement Against Destruction and Environmental Activism in Postwar Baltimore.
17:00-17:15 Courte pause / short break
17:15-18:30 sessions parallèles 2/ parallel sessions 2 (75 minutes)
Présidence de séance / Chair: Patrice BOURDELAIS, EHESS/CRH Paris
Julia LAJUS, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia, Whose are the fish? Controversies between the state and the locals around knowledge and practices of resource use in the Russian North.
Nadia MACHOURI, docteur de l'Université Mohammed V de Rabat, Maroc, L’impact du changement de mode de vie de la population sur la durabilité des ressources naturelles. Le cas d’une région forestière marocaine.
Florent MEROT, Université Paris XIII, France, Les conséquences de la pression démographique et de l’attractivité économique dans l’Ile de France d’Ancien Régime : l’originalité paysagère de la vallée de Montmorency aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle
Présidence de séance / Chair : Gérard BÉAUR, EHESS/CRH Paris
Stéphane CASTONGUAY, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada, Agricultural Modernization, Resource Conservation and Moral Regulation : Breeding the Efficient Farmer and Reforming Rural Landscape in Quebec, 1854-1913.
Anne Marie GRANET-ABISSET, Université Grenoble 2, France, La mise en place de territoires « préservés ». Les effets inattendus de la Politique Agricole Commune sur les sociétés de montagne.
Chris SOETERBOEK, University of Melbourne, Australia, Who are the farming experts? Science and Folk-knowledge in post-WW2 Australia
Présidence de séance / Chair : Stephen MOSLEY, Leeds Metropolitan University
Jerry L. ANDERSEN, Drake University, Des Moines, USA, The Development of Ethical and Legal Protection for the Powerless: Lessons for Animal Welfare and Environmental Law from the Industrial Revolution.
Márcia GRISOTTI, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, et Fernando DIAS DE AVILA-PIRES, Académie brésilienne de Sciences, Brazil, The emergence of slugs as a farming pest problem and as source of disease in Brazil: a study of the socioeconomic impacts.
Dorothee BRANTZ, TU Berlin, Germany, Between Nature and Culture: Towards a Socio-Environmental History of Human-Animal Relations.
18:30 Pot de bienvenue / welcome reception
9:00-11:00 sessions parallèles 3 /parallel sessions 3 (120 minutes)
Présidence de séance / Chair: Dominique PESTRE, EHESS/Centre Alexandre Koÿré Paris.
Stephen BOCKING, Trent University Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, Situating the social and the environmental in the history of aquaculture science
Gabrielle BOULEAU, IGREF, France et University of California, Berkeley, USA, Quantifier la qualité des rivières françaises : entre héritage et innovation.
Christophe BONNEUIL, Centre Koyré d’Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques, CNRS, et INRA/TSV, Claire HAMON, ENSA Rennes, Elise DEMEULENAERE, ENS-CERES et Isabelle GOLDRINGER, UMR de génétique végétale du Moulon, INRA, France, A la croisée de l’histoire sociale et culturelle des sciences et de l’histoire environnementale : biodiversité cultivée, génétique végétale et modernisation agricole, 1850-1970.
Juan D. Pérez CEBADA, Universidad de Huelva, España and Institute of Canadian Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada, Searching the “Invisible Injury”: the Scientific Controversy about Pollution in Mining.
Richard HOELZL, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany, Forest Crimes and the Advent of Scientific Forestry in Preindustrial Germany.
Présidence de séance / Chair: Verena WINIWARTER, University of Klagenfurt at Vienna, Austria.
Antonio ORTEGA SANTOS, University of Granada, Spain, Commons and rural communities. An Environmental History of Conflicts in Mediterranean Ecosystem”.
John WING, University of Minnesota, USA, Guernica Oak and Galleon Hull: Forests, Society, and Empire in Early Modern Spain.
Noelle PLACK, Newman University College, Birmingham, UK, Putting the environment into the French Revolution: the issue of common land.
Elisabeth JOHANN, IUFRO, Austrian Forest Society, Wasteland and its Recultivation in the History of the Alpine Region of Austria.
D. Seth MURRAY, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, The past in the present: a historical ecology of Basque common property landscapes
Présidence de séance / Chair: Marjolein 'T HART, University of Amsterdam ; NL.
Bao MAOHONG, Peking University, China, Social transformation, Environmental change and the acculturation of Orongen in China (1858-1945)
José Augusto PÁDUA, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Slavery as a cause of environmental destruction: The evolution of a Brazilian political debate, 1786/1888
Raphaël MORERA, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France, Changement environnemental et société. Le cas des assèchements de marais en France au XVIIe siècle.
Uma WAKTOLE TIKI, Hawassa University, Ethiopia, Social-Environmental History of Ancient Tula Wells in Borana, Southern Ethiopia: 18th century to 21st Century.
Jim RICE, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, USA, Climate, Culture, and Power: The Little Ice Age and the Transformation of Society in Two American Indian Nations.
11:00 - 11:30 Pause café / coffee break
11:30-12:45 sessions parallèles 4 / parallel sessions 4 (75 minutes)
Présidence de séance / Chair : Paul-André ROSENTAL, CRH/EHESS Paris
Elizabeth RAYMOND and Peter GOIN, University of Nevada, Reno, USA, Waste Places? Landscape and Memory in American Mining.
David A. ROSSITER, Western Washington University, USA, The Natural Province: Forests and the Construction of Identity in British Columbia, Canada.
Scott HEYES, University of Melbourne, Australia, Melting Ice, Evaporating Traditions? Inuit connections to place in a changing environment.
Présidence de séance / Chair: Alice INGOLD, EHESS/CRH Paris
Carla DE WILT, Water board Hoogheemraadschap van Delfland, NL, What about water? A revealing socioeconomic approach of conflict analysis about water management practices and environmental results in Holland and Flanders in the 16th century.
Paul WARDE, University of East Anglia, UK, Sustainability and the problem of neighbours: re-assessing the purpose of the by-law in pre-industrial Europe.
Kenneth M. SYLVESTER, University of Michigan, USA, Ground Truthing: imprints of agrarian change in the American grasslands
Présidence de séance / Chair: Patrick FRIDENSON, EHESS/CRH Paris
Ute HASENÖHRL, Free University Berlin, Germany, Nature conservation and the German labour movement. The Touristenverein Die Naturfreunde as a bridge between social and environmental history.
Charles-Francois MATHIS, Université Sorbonne Paris IV, France, "One to sit among the dandelions, the other to organise the docks" (G.B. Shaw) : la question de l'union de l'environnemental et du social en Angleterre au XIXe siècle.
Lucienne NERAUD, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France, Workers' Mobilization against the Use of Toxic Chemicals in U.S. Agriculture: The case of the Mexican and Mexican-American Farmworkers in Texas (1966-1986)
12:45 - 14:00 Déjeuner / lunch
14:00-15:30 sessions parallèles 5 / parallel sessions 5 (90 minutes)
Présidence de séance / Chair : Simone NERI SERNERI, University of Sienna
Gene DESFOR, York University, Canada, Lucian VESALON, University of Timisoara, Romania, Institutionalizing Industrial Nature: The Formation of the Toronto Harbour Commissioners.
Stéphane FRIOUX, Université Lyon 2, France, Le rôle du social dans le développement de l’assainissement urbain en France (petites et moyennes villes de province, fin XIXe-milieu XXe siècles.
Ana Lucia BRITTO, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Urban infrastructure and environment in question: the different paradigms concerning sanitation that oriented the historical evolution of water supply and sewage services in Brazilian cities.
Angie GUMM, Iowa State University, USA, Sweetening the Pot or Colonizing the Countryside?: The dynamic exchanges over dumping urban trash in rural areas that have occurred since the 1970s.
Environmental sensibilities and perceptions of nature
Présidence de séance / Chair: Maric-Vic OZOUF-MARIGNIER, EHESS/CRH, Paris.
Grégory BERIET, Université de La Rochelle, France, Santé publique et sensibilités écologiques à Rochefort dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle.
Erin GILL, University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK, The British Organic Farming Movement and 'New Age' Spirituality.
Thomas ROBERTSON, Historian, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, UK, Are Human Beings Nature or Culture?: American Malthusians and Questions of Social Difference.
Philippe CRÉMIEU-ALCAN, Université e Bordeaux 3, France Le village et le bois. La perception de la nature et de la forêt à travers les délits forestiers en Guyenne au XVIIIe siècle.
Présidence de séance / Chair: Anne-Marie GRANET ABISSET, Université de Grenoble 2 , France.
Emanuela GUIDOBONI, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Bologna, Italy, Historical variations in the concept of dwelling safety in relation to earthquakes in Italy (16th-19th centuries).
Simon POOLEY, University of Oxford, UK, Histories of fire in South Africa’s Cape Floral Region.
Frédéric FESQUET, docteur de l'Université de Montpellier, France, Restauration de terrains de montagne et dynamique démographique en France au XIXe siècle. La gestion du risque a-t-elle désertifié la montagne ?
Greg BANKOFF, University of Hull, UK, Fire and Quake in the Construction of Old Manila.
15:30 – 16:00 Pause café / coffee break
16:00-17:30 Sessions parallèles 6 / Parallel sessions 6 (90 minutes)
Présidence de séance / Chair: John WALTON, Leeds Metropolitan University , UK.
Per ELIASSON, Malmö University, Sweden, ‘Islands of nature and recreation’ – recreational homes, summer camps and the recreational use of nature in Skåne 1890-1950
Michael B. SMITH, Ithaca College, Ithaca, USA, Naturalizing Childhood and Redeeming Society: Toward a History of Summer Camps
Jess DUNKIN, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, The Place of Nature in Ontario Private Girls’ Summer Camps, 1922-1945.
Terence YOUNG, California State Polytechnic University, USA, Going Home to Wilderness: Parks, Camping and A Sustainable American Society
Présidence de séance / Chair : Chloé DELIGNE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique.
Ivan MAROWA, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe, Socialised landscape and social memory: A social history of interrelationship between an African environment and its African society. A case study of the Dandawa Korekore, 1800-1958.
Alla BOLOTOVA, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia, Human-Nature Relations in the Russian North: The State Project and Experiences of Industrial Workers.
Anusa DAIMON, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe, Malawian Migrants and Sacrosanct Initiation Ritual Environments: A Socio-Environmental History of Ethnic Minority Migrants in Zimbabwe
Don GARDEN, University of Melbourne, Australia, The federation drought, El Niño and society in Australia.
Présidence de séance / Chair: Isabelle BACKOUCHE, EHESS/CRH Paris
Marzia MACCAFERRI, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy, From Rationalisation of the Territory to the Limits of Development: Osvaldo Piacentini’s Social and Environmental Urban Development
Richard A. WALKER, University of California at Berkeley, USA, The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Celia DONERT, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, ‘Pictures of the Old World’, Ecological Activism and the Politics of Place in Socialist Eastern Europe
Barry A. JACKISCH, University of St. Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana, “Green Germania?: Green Space, Urban Planning, and Racial Hygiene in Hitler’s Berlin, 1933-1945”.
17:30 Fin de la deuxième journée du colloque / End of the conference second day
19:00 Croisière sur la Seine / Cruse on the river Seine
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19:30 Dîner-croisière sur la Seine / Cruse-diner on the river Seine
9:00-10:30 sessions parallèles 7 / parallel sessions 7 (90 minutes)
Présidence de séance / Chair: Jean-Paul GAUDILLIERE, Centre Alexandre Koÿré, CNRS, Paris.
Dominik HUENNIGER, University of Göttingen, Germany, Epizootics in 181h century Germany. Integrating the history of early modern State formation and Environmental history.
Karen BROWN, University of Oxford, UK, Livestock Diseases, Racial Politics and Veterinary Medicine in South Africa.
Sandra SWART, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. A socio-environmental history of equine mortality in the South African War, 1899-1902.
Présidence de séance / Chair: Per ELIASSON, University of Malmö, Sweden.
Richard COOPEY, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK, Tim SHAKESHEFF, University of Worcester, UK, Angling and Nature: Environment, Leisure, Class and Culture in Britain 1750 - 1975.
Jean-François MALANGE, Université de Toulouse le Mirail, France, Pour une histoire « socio-environnementale » : étude des pratiques de pêche à la ligne en France des années 1870 aux années 1930.
John WALTON, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, Seaside tourism and environmental history.
Jakob CALICE, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK,Tourism and (its) Rubbish in History. Critical Tourism Studies and Environmental.History.
Présidence de séance / Chair : Geneviève MASSARD-GUILBAUD CRH/EHESS Paris.
François JARRIGE, Université d'Angers, France, La guerre du rouissage. Environnement, économie et société dans la France rurale du XIXe siècle.
Elena ORLOVA, Tver State University, Russia, Manufacture, water and health of people: pollution of water by waste products of the textile industry in the Russian cities - second half XIX - beginning of XX centuries.
Jean-Baptiste FRESSOZ, European Institute Florence, Italy and EHESS, France, The alkali manufacture, the judge and the prefect: a comparison of administrative and judiciary regulations of industrial pollution in the Marseille region, 1815-1850.
Thomas LE ROUX, Docteur en histoire de l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, La régulation des nuisances artisanales et industrielles à Paris sous l’Ancien Régime.
10:30 - 11:00 pause café / coffee break
11:00-12:15 sessions parallèles 8 / parallel sessions 8 (75 minutes)
Présidence de séance / Chair : Paul WARDE, University of East Anglia, UK.
Nicolas KRAUTBERGER, Université Grenoble 2, France, Forêt et risque dans les Alpes occidentales, XVIIe-XIXe siècles.
Nadia Beatriz MARTÍNEZ ESPINAR, University of Granada, Spain, “The Inanimate Forest”. Commercial Management and Environmental Degradation of the Andalusian forests.
Arupjyoti SAIKIA, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, Colonial State, Peasants and Regime of Forest Conservation: Re-examining the Environmental History of Colonial Assam.
Présidence de séance / Chair : à préciser / tba
José A. NIETO SÁNCHEZ, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, José U. BERNARDOS SANZ, Universidad Nacional a Distancia, Spain, Energy consumption, living conditions and social classes in early modern Madrid
Santos MADRAZO MADRAZO, Javier Hernando ORTEGO GONZALO and Madrazo GARCÍA DE LOMANA, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, Energy supply, and socio-economic transformation of the territory. The case study of early modern Madrid.
Présidence de séance / Chair : Nancy GREEN, CRH/EHESS, Paris.
Michèle DAGENAIS, Université de Montréal, Québec, Chloé DELIGNE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique, Geneviève MASSARD-GUILBAUD, EHESS Paris, France "Comparer l’incomparable" ? Retour sur la comparaison en histoire autour du thème de la perception et de la gestion de la pollution dans les pays industrialisés au XIXe siècle.
Jean CANTELAUBE, Docteur en histoire, Eric FABRE, Université de Provence Aix-Marseille I, France, La forge, la métairie et le loup (XVIIe – XXe siècles), Dialogue entre un historien et un écologue.
Nancy Lee PELUSO, University of California, Berkeley, Marco ARMIERO, CNR Naples and University of California, Berkeley, USA, Conflict! The potential contributions of a conflict-centred approach to blending social and environmental history.
12:15-12:30 courte pause /short break
12:30-12:50 Remarques conclusives / concluding remarks
John MCNEILL, Georgetown University, USA, auteur de Something New under the Sun, Winner of the Word History Association Book Award.
12:50 –13:00 conclusions et fin de la conférence / conclusions and end of the conference
13:00 fin du colloque / end of the conference
15:30 programme optionnel / optional social programme : vist of the sewage museum