January 23rd, 2013
14:00 Opening (OCCR member, TBA)
Christian Rohr (Bern, CH) and Andrea Westermann (Zurich, CH): Introduction
Session 1 Coping with Tectonic and Climatic Hazards
Chair: Stefan Brönnimann (Bern, CH)
14:20 Erhard Oeser (Vienna, A): The Development of the Wave Theory and its Application to Earthquakes. The Paradigm Shift at the end of the 19th century
14:55 Kerry Smith (Providence, USA) : Making Disasters Natural: Seismology and Prediction Regimes in Modern Japan
15:30 Conevery Bolton Valencius (Boston, USA) : Fracking and Seismic History in the Contemporary United States
16:05 Coffee break
16:20 Brian Rumsey (Lawrence, USA) : The Application of Methods of Probability to the Prediction of Floods in the USA (late 19th c. to the 1970s)
16:55 Anna Carlsson-Hyslop (Lancaster, UK) : Knowledge Production about Coastal Flooding in Britain, 1919–1959: How and why
17:30 End of Session 1
19:00 Public keynote lecture and Apéro
Joachim Radkau (Bielefeld, D): Historiker und Hockeyschläger – Geschichte als Geheimwaffe im Klimadiskurs (45 min)
Apéro
January 24th, 2013
Session 2 Global Resources and Knowledge Production
Chair: Gunter Stephan (Bern, CH)
09:00 Andrea Westermann (Zurich, CH) : Supplying the 20th century: How a steady flow of industrial raw materials was developed and how geologists helped create it
09:35 Perrin Selcer (Austin, USA) : Fabricating Unity: The FAO-UNESCO Soil Map of the World
10:10 Christian Kehrt (Hamburg, D) : Gondwana's Promises. German Geologists in Antarctica between Basic Science and Resource Exploration in the Late 1970s
10:45 Coffee break
Session 3 Arctic Research: Scientific, Economic and Social impact
Chair: TBA
11:00 Alexandra M. Avdonina (Vladimir, RUS) : Social Transformation in the Russian Far North in Connection with Discoveries in Geosciences
11:35 Ronald E. Doel (Tallahassee, USA) : What Really Mattered in the Arctic? Military Patronage and the Pursuit of Environmental Knowledge during the Early Cold War
12:10 Matthias Heymann (Aarhus, DK) : Investigating Arctic Environments: The Role of Greenland in the Early Cold War
12:45 Lunch
Session 4 Earth and Climate Governance
Chair: TBA
14:15 Naomi Oreskes (San Diego, USA): How the Earth Sciences Became a Social Science (and Why It Matters)
14:50 Ola Uhrqvist (Linköping, S) : Mentalities enabling Earth System modelling in GAIM and AIMES
15:25 Elena Aronova (Berlin, Germany; Fribourg, CH) : Knowledge of the Globe and Global Politics: The "Global Network for Environmental Monitoring" Project in the 1960s–1970s
16:00 Coffee break
16:15 Matthias Dörries (Strasbourg, F) : Politics, deep time, and the future
16:50 Christoph Rosol (Berlin, D) : Extremely Noisy and Incredibly Close. Reconstructing Deep-time Climate Change as a Means to Define the Present
17:25 Geoffrey I. Nwaka (Uturu, NG) : Indigenous Knowledge as Local Response to Globalization and Climate Change in Nigeria
18:00 End of Session 4
19:30 h Conference Dinner
January 25th, 2013
Session 5 Empires, European Experts and the Sciences of the Earth
Chair: Iris Schröder (Braunschweig, D)
09:00 Ryan Tucker Jones (Pocatello, USA) : Empire and Revolution in Peter Simon Pallas's Betrachtungen über die Beschaffenheit der Gebürge
09:35 Lorena B. Valderrama (Valencia, E) : European Experts, Earthquake Knowledge Transfer and the Institutionalization of Seismology. The Case of Chile
10:10 Coffee break
10:25 Bernhard C. Schär (Bern, CH) : Earth Scientists as Time Travellers and Agents of Social Change in the Colonial Era: An Example from Basel
11:00 Philipp N. Lehmann (Cambridge, USA) : The Threat of the Desert: Debates on Climate Change in the Late Nineteenth Century
Conclusions
11:35 Christian Rohr (Bern, CH): Synthesis
12:05 Final discussion
13:00 Snack buffet
14:30 City of Bern guided tour