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)