Day 1
November 9, 2023
Welcome
9:00-9:30
Keynote
9:30-10:45
Stéphane Castonguay, “Scarcity and the timber frontier: forest extraction and timber consumption on a global scale,” Professor, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
10:45-11:00 Break
Panel 1: Timber Colonialism in Different Settler Colonial States
11:00-12:30
Jason Lee Newton, “Reexamining the Turner Thesis: Labor and the Limits of Timber Colonialism in North America, 1628-1955,” Assistant Teaching Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Samira Moretto, “Deforestation processes and reforestation practices in Southern Brazil, in the 20th and 21st centuries,” Associate Professor, Federal University of Fronteira Sul, Brazil
Commentator: Sabine Höhler, Professor, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm
12:30-14:00 Break
Panel 2 Timber Colonialism in Sub-Polar and Polar Regions
14:00-15:45
Michael Kraemer, “The Forests of Sheet’ká: Failed Timber Colonialism in Lingít Aaní,” PhD Candidate, Ohio State University, United States
Lars Östlund, “A timber frontier moving into indigenous Sami territory in the 19th century: colonialism and loss of the land tenure in Sapmi,” Professor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Vasily Borovoy, 'Forest economy in the European North of Russia, 1890s–1930s,' PhD Candidate, University College Dublin
Commentator: Dag Avango, Luleå University of Technology
15:45-16:15 Break
Panel 3 Timber Colonialism in Eastern Canada
16:15-18:00
Raymond Alexander Hunter, “Making Ruins, Producing Wilderness: Lumbering, Colonialism, and the Paradox of the “Wild” in Algonquin Park,” Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University, United States
Carolina Tytelman, “Forestry and colonialism in Labrador (Canada),” Adjunct Professor, Memorial University, Canada
Jim Clifford and Sam Huckerby, “The Timber Trade and Early Agricultural Settlement in the Upper Ottawa River Valley,” Associate Professor, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Commentator: Eleonor Marcusen
Day 2
November 10, 2023
Panel 6 Timber Colonialism in the European Periphery
09:00-10:45
Iva Lucic, “Timber Colonialism without Colonies: Forest Exploitation in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Era of Empires 1850-1918,” Associate Professor, Stockholm University
Toms Kokins, “Sweden’s Timber Empire: Resource driven colonization in Baltic Sea region,” Instructor, Umeå University
Jawad Daheur, “German and Austrian Timber Colonies in the Russian Empire: A Case of Extraction-Based Colonization?”, Researcher, Center for Russian, Caucasian and Central European Studies Paris, France
Commentator: Stephane Castonguay, Professor, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
10:45-11:00 Break
Panel 5 Exporting Timber to the Colonies
11:00-12:30
Tonje Haugland Sorensen, “From Scandinavia to Congo: Lumber, prefabricated houses, and colonial trade in Norway from 1880-1920,” Postdoc Fellow, University of Bergen, Norway
Paul Munro and Dr Greg van der Horst, “Timber Colonialism and Forest Reserve Imaginaries: colonial constructions, legal legacies and governance conflicts in Sierra Leone’s Kambui Hills,” Associate Professor, University of New South Wales,
Commentator: Margaret Hunt, Professor, Uppsala University
Break 12:30-14:00
Panel 4 Timber Colonialism in Asia
14:00-15:45
V Pumkhansiam, “Timber, Trade and Conservation in Colonial North-East Frontier India,” PhD Candidate, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Budhaditya Das, “In pursuit of ‘the most important timber tree’: Teak, science, and empire in 18th and 19th century India,” Assistant Professor, Ambedkar University Delhi, India
Thuy Linh Nguyen, “Pine trees in the tropics, the phi lao: from coal mine timber to coastal defender,” Associate Professor, Mount Saint Mary College, USA
Commentator: Gunnel Cederlöf, Professor, Linné University, Växjö
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
Closing Remarks
16:15-17:15
Graeme Wynn, Emeritus Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada