Panel: Histories and Futures of the Global Environment

These panels bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to consider the past, present, and future of the "global environment." The first panel will focus on histories of the environment in the shadow of climate change to discuss how we can meaningfully conceptualize climate's role on history and history's role in understanding climatic and planetary changes through different lenses. The second is on the question of capitalism. We hope to learn more about how markets and states interact with the environment, to what extent they are suitable vehicles for dealing with climate change or necessarily disruptive.

Agenda:

Opening Remarks — 1pm-1:15pm 

Marc Dorpema, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program, Harvard University

Tomás Bartoletti, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History; Senior Lecturer and SNSF-Ambizione Principal Investigator, University of Zurich

Panel 1. Histories: The Global Environment and the Shadow of Climate Change — 1:15pm-3pm 

Perrin Selcer, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan

Leah Aronowsky, Assistant Professor of Climate, Columbia Climate School, Columbia University) 

Xan Chako, Assistant Teaching Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Brown University

Moderator: Tomás Bartoletti (ETH Zürich/Harvard University) 

Coffee Break — 3pm-3:30pm

 Panel 2. Futures: Capitalism, States, and the Environment — 3:30pm-5:15pm 

Alyssa Battistoni, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Barnard College 

Stephen Macekura, Professor of International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington 

Boyd Ruamcharoen, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University 

Moderator: Marc Dorpema (Harvard University)