Environmental History and the Cold War

Environmental History and the Cold War

Veranstalter
John McNeill (Georgetown University) and Corinna Unger (German Historical Institute)
Veranstaltungsort
German Historical Institute
Ort
Washington, DC
Land
United States
Vom - Bis
22.03.2007 - 25.03.2007
Von
Corinna Unger, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute

The German Historical Institute in Washington is pleased to announce a conference on Environmental History and the Cold War, to be held in Washington, 22-25 March 2007.

The Cold War era coincided with decades of dramatic changes both in the natural environment and in the ways in which people, societies, and cultures understood nature, the environment, and ecology. What were the links between events and structures in geopolitical history and those in environmental history? The conference will explore answers to this question.

Programm

Thursday, March 22

6:30 – 8:30 pm
Reception at the GHI

Friday, March 23

8:30 am
Breakfast

9:00 am
Welcome

Panel I: Warfare and Environmental Degradation
Chair: John McNeill

9:15 am
Toshihiro Higuchi: “Green” and “Peace”: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Confluence of the Nuclear Disarmament and Environmental Movements in Cold War America

10:00 am
Mark D. Merlin: Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Testing in Remote Oceania, 1946-1996

10:45 am
Coffee break

11:15 am
Paul Josephson: Rivers as Enemies of the People: Nature, the USSR and the Cold War

12:00 pm
Holly High: Crucial Junctures: Nature and the American War in Laos

12:45 pm
Lunch break

Panel II: Visions, Conceptions, Planning
Chair: Bernd Schaefer

2:00 pm
Richard Tucker: American Strategic Interests and the Spread of High Dams in the Early Cold War, 1945-1960

2:45 pm
Scott Moranda: Mobilizing Germans for the Cold War: National Park Proposals along the Elbe River

3:30 pm
Coffee break

4:00 pm
Eagle Glassheim: Judging a Modern Landscape: Communist, Dissident, and German Expellee Visions of Modernity in Cold War Czechoslovakia

4:45 pm
Arvid Nelson: Cold War Landscapes: Archival Sources and Leading Indicators of Change in Postwar Germany

5:30 pm
Coffee break

Panel III: Animals
Chair: Uwe Lübken

5:45 pm
Greg Bankoff: A Curtain of Silence: The Fate of Asia’s Fauna in the Cold War

6:30 pm
Jenny Smith: The Sable Boom: The Effects of a Cold War Mentality in Transbaikal Siberia

Saturday, March 24

8:30 am
Breakfast

Panel IV: Science and Research
Chair: Corinna Unger

9:00 am
Jacob Darwin Hamblin: A Global Contamination Zone: Early Cold War Policies on Environmental Warfare

9:45 am
Matthew Farish: Simulating Survival: Environmental Laboratories of the American Cold War

10:30 am
Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu: The Cold War in East Asia and Ocean Resource Management, 1945-1960

11:15 am
Coffee break

11:45 am
R. Samuel Deese: A Dialogue on the Destiny of Species: Julian and Aldous Huxley in the Cold War Era

12:30 pm
Kristine Harper: Environmental Diplomacy in the Cold War: Weather Control, the United States, and India, 1966-1967

1:15 pm
Lunch break

Panel V: Social and Popular Experiences of Environmental Change
Chair: Paul Josephson

2:30 pm
Celia Donert: Between Industrialisation and Indifference: The Cold War in the Carpathians

3:15 pm
Han-Rog Kang: The Korean Green Movement during the Cold War and post-Cold War eras

4:00 pm
Coffee break

4:30 pm
Frank Uekötter: Peace with Nature and the World: Environmental and Anti-War Activism in the Two German States

5:15 pm
Joy Parr: Unsettled: Woods, Meadows and Memory of North Atlantic Alliances at Gagetown

7:00 pm
Conference Dinner

Sunday, March 25

8:30 am
Breakfast

Panel VI: International Policy and Politics
Chair: Joachim Radkau

9:00 am
Bao Maohong: The Evolution of Environmental Problems and Environmental Policy in China: Interaction of Internalization and Externalization

9:45 am
Ingo Heidbrink: Cod-Wars and Cold War: Armed Conflicts Between NATO Members on Maritime Environmental Issues, 1952-1976

10:30 am
Coffee break

11:00 am
David Zierler: Against Protocol: Ecocide, Détente, and the Question of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam, 1969-1975

11:45 am
Kai Hünemörder: Environmental Crisis and Soft Politics: The International Policy of Détente and the Global Environment, 1968-1975

12:30 pm
Erez Manela: Is Smallpox History? The Smallpox Eradication Program and Cold War Historiography

1:15 pm
Lunch break at the GHI

Panel VII: Comments and Final Discussion
Chair: Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu

Panelists: Sabine Höhler, John McNeill, Joachim Radkau

3:00 pm
End of Conference

Kontakt

Corinna Unger

GHI, 1607 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20009

unger@ghi-dc.org

http://www.ghi-dc.org/conferences/ehcw/