12:30pm-1:45pm: Registration and Opening Lunch

Dudley House, Fireside Room

Session I: Resources and Political Challenges (2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.)

Chair: Alison Frank (Harvard University)

Ross Newton (Northeastern University)

Dyewoods in International Perspective: the Imperial and Local Politics of the Honduran Logwood Trade

Commentary: Charles Maier (Harvard University)

Mara Drogan (State University of New York at Albany)

Natural Resources and Geopolitics: U.S. Foreign Policy and African Uranium in the Cold War Era

Commentary: Ernest May (Harvard University)

Brian McCammack (Harvard University)

The Environmental Justice Movement's Lost Legacy: Recovering Participatory Environmentalism at the 1972 UN Stockholm Conference

Commentary: Thomas Jundt (Brown University)

Coffee Break (4:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.)

Session 2: International Health (4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.)

Chair: Rachel St. John (Harvard University)

Cornelia Knab (University of Heidelberg)

Dangerous Animals: International Co-operation Efforts Against Animal Diseases in the Interwar Years

Commentary: Patricia Hynes (Boston University)

Tal Arbel (Harvard University)

The Properest Means: Preparing for Disaster in Early Eighteenth Century England

Commentary: Brian Ogilvie (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

Reception (6:30 p.m. to 7:15 p.m.)

Harvard Faculty Club

(By invitation only)

Dinner (7:15 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.)

Harvard Faculty Club

(By invitation only)

Keynote Speaker: Richard Drayton (University of Cambridge)

 

Saturday, March 14

Breakfast (9:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m)

Session 3: Colonial Visions (10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.)

Chair: Akira Iriye (Harvard University)

Sarah Osterhoudt (Yale University)

The Richest and Most Fruitful Island in the World: Colonial Narratives of Nature in Madagascar, 1638-1646

Commentary: Jill Payne (Amherst College)

Nurfadzilah Yahaya (Princeton University)

The Swamp in the Straits of Malacca During the Nineteenth Century

Commentary: Niall Ferguson (Harvard University)

Philipp Lehmann (Harvard University)

Water and War: German Colonialism in the Southwest African Desert

Commentary: George R. Trumbull IV (Dartmouth College)

Lunch (12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.)

Session 4: Laws of the Sea (1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.)

Chair: Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University)

Robert Deal (Temple University)

By the Laws of Honor: Ice, Custom, and the Litigation of Whaling Disputes, 1780-1880

Commentary: David Armitage (Harvard University)

Sven Mesinovic (European University Institute)

The United Nations Debate on the Ownership of the Seabed and the German Underwater Laboratory "Helgoland" (1964-1969)

Commentary: Paul Josephson (Colby College)

Kathleen Davidson (University of Sydney)

Connected Accounts: the representation of British, American, and Australian coral reef expeditions in official and popular photography of the late nineteenth century

Commentary: Jimena Canales (Harvard University)

Coffee Break (3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.)

Plenary Session (3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.)

Chair: David Armitage (Harvard University)

Jimena Canales (Harvard University)

Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University)

Brian Ogilvie (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

Paul Josephson (Colby College)

Closing Reception (5:45 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.)

Dudley House, Fireside Room