Day 2: Sustainable Pasts and Resilient Futures Workshop
Chair: Madeleine Dungy
Session I: 09:00-10:00
1. Patricia Clavin, “Winston Thinks there’s Pots of Money in it”. Artificial Nitrates and the Management of Future Shocks.
2. Michael Drolet, The Logic of Industrialisation: Uniformalisation and the Imperative of Efficiency, or La Fin du Monde par la Science.
10:00-10:30 Coffee and Tea Break
Session II: 10:30-11:30
3. Laurent Brassart, State, Market and Sustainability: how Agronomic Innovations failed during the Napoleonic Empire. A tale about cattle, trees and dye plants.
4. Judith Rainhorn, Innovation, Toxicity and Sustainability: How Scientific Knowledge and the Market Interact in a Regime of Uncertainty – A Tale About Lead, 19th-21st Centuries.
Discussion
11:45-12:30 Future Directions Meeting – Invitation only meeting for network members
The workshop is to be followed on the same day at 17:15 by Dr Omer Aloni’s Massada Lecture on The League of Nations, International Law, and the Current Ecological Crisis. Venue: Auditorium, Sultan Nazrin Shah centre, Worcester College
Date:
25 October 2022, 9:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2022)
Venue:
Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details:
Nash Room, Nash Building
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organiser contact email address:
benjamin.gladstone@history.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Sustainable Pasts and Resilient Futures Workshop
Booking required?:
Required
Booking email:
benjamin.gladstone@history.ox.ac.uk
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editors:
Laura Spence,
Belinda Clark