Wednesday, June 14, 2023

09:00–09:15
Welcome and Introduction: Charles Maier (Harvard) & Moritz von Brescius (Harvard / Bern)

09:15–10:30
KEYNOTE I
Jason W. Moore (Binghamton): Imperialism’s Ecologies: Climate, Capital & the Geopolitics of Cheap Nature
Chair: Joyce Chaplin (Harvard)

10:30–10:45
Coffee Break

10:45–12:15
Panel: MINERALS
Chair: Hagar Gal (Harvard)

Ping-hsiu Alice Lin (Harvard): After Exploratory Geology: Making Gems Resources in Global Afghanistan

Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College): Global Goldbugs: Auripatriotism, Survival Investments and the Far Right

Commentator: Christof Dejung (Bern)

12:15–13:30
Lunch Break

13:30–15:15
Panel: Biotic Resources and their Management
Chair: N.N.

Chris Otter (Ohio State University): Large-Planet Thinking and its Critics in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Moritz von Brescius (Harvard / Bern): Empire of Scarcity: A Global History of Assam Rubber

Ian Kumekawa (Harvard): Seeds of Empire; British Forests

Commentator: Jessica Wang (University of British Columbia)

15:15–15:30
Coffee Break

15:30–17:00
TEMPORALITIES
Chair: N.N.

Carolyn Biltoft (Geneva): Natural Resources and “Time Magic” in Nineteenth Century Economic Thought

Gregory T. Cushman (University of Arizona): A Metabolic Rift?: The Geo-Industrial History of Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potassium (NPK) and the Onset of the Anthropocene, ca. 1830–2020

Commentator: Heidi Tworek (University of British Columbia)

17:00–17:05
Short Break

17:05
Mitch Aso (University at Albany): Mid-Conference Commentary

Thursday, June 15, 2023

09:00–10:20
Keynote II
Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College, Columbia University) & Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (Chicago): Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis
Chair: Sugata Bose (Harvard)

10:20–10:30
Coffee Break

10:30–12:00
Panel: ANIMAL RESOURCES
Chair: Eleanor Wikstrom (Harvard)

Nadin Heé (Osaka): Transimperial Capitalism and Moving Ecologies

David Arnold (Warwick): The Making of the Modern Cow: India, c. 1850–1930

Commentator: Mindi Schneider

12:00–13:00
Lunch Break

13:00–14:30
Panel: FOSSIL FUEL EXTRACTION
Chair: Marten Dondorp (Harvard)

Matthew Shutzer (Harvard / Duke): Capital, Earth, and Image in the Planetary Mine

David Joseph Baillargeon (University of Texas at Arlington): Mining the Empire: The Burma Corporation and British Imperial Policymaking in the Late Colonial Period

Commentator: Judith Ellen Brunton (Harvard/Toronto)

14:30–14:45
Coffee Break

14:45–16:15
Panel: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
Chair: Meike von Brescius (Basel)

Eric Helleiner (University of Waterloo): Pioneers of Environmental International Political Economy: Natural Resources, Sustainability and International Economic Relations in Pre-1945 Thought

Erika Rappaport (University of California, Santa Barbara): “‘Aims of Industry’: Big Sugar, Public Relations, and the Fight against Nationalization in Britain and the Commonwealth, 1940s–1960s

Commentator: Sannoy Das (Harvard / Jindal Global Law School)

16:15–16:30
Coffee Break

16:30–17:00
Panel: RESOURCES AND THE STATE

R. Bin Wong (UCLA): Between Public (Sovereign) and Private (Market) – Water as a Common Pool Resource

Chair/Commentator: Charles Maier (Harvard)

17:00
Concluding Roundtable:
- Vanessa Ogle (Yale)
- Giuliana Chamedes (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Jamie Martin (Harvard)

Chair: Sannoy Das (Harvard / Jindal Global Law School)