STEP - Science and Technology in the European Periphery

Environmental History Seminar
Programme 2011-2012

All sessions are on Mondays, 16:00-18:30

The aims of this seminar are to help bring together British and French researchers working on the same topics or problematics, and to discuss recent research on environmental history. Therefore, the principle is to invite a French and a British colleague to each seminar, to present their own research and then discuss it.

7th November Introductory session
Venue: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road
Thomas Le Roux (CNRS-MFO), “Environmental History in France and Great Britain: Methodology, New Perspectives, Common Ground”

23rd January Resources (16th-18th c.)
Venue: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road
Grégory Quenet (Université de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), “Building the Palace of Versailles: Environmental Consequences”
Paul Warde (University of East Anglia), “Forests and Soil Regulation”

13th February Chemistry and Environment (18th-early 19th c.)
Venue: Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Imperial college, London), “Chemistry and the Transformation of Environment, 1750-1850”
John Perkins (Oxford Brookes University), “Chemical Expertise and Industrial Pollution in Rouen, 1770-1810”

5th March Landscape (19th-early 20th c.)
Venue: tbc (Faculty of History, University of Oxford or Maison Française d'Oxford)
Charles-François Mathis (University de Paris-Sorbonne), “Landscape and Preservation in England in the 19th c.”
Jeremy Burchardt (University of Reading), “Landscape, Preservationism and Local Interests, the Example of Berkshire, early 20th c.”

23rd April Workplaces environment (20th c.)
Venue: tbc (Faculty of History, University of Oxford or Maison Française d'Oxford)
Judith Rainhorn (Université de Lille-Valenciennes), “Lead Poisoning and the Way of the International Acknowledgment”
Peter Bartrip (University of Oxford), “Regulating Asbestos Hazards in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain”

21st May The Climate Question (18th-19th c.)
Venue: tbc (Faculty of History, University of Oxford or Maison Française d'Oxford)
Fabien Locher (CNRS/EHESS, Paris), “Climate and ‘Government’ (France, 18th-19th c.)”
Vladimir Jankovic (University of Manchester), “Climate as Agency”

11th June History of biodiversity (20th c.)
Venue: tbc (Faculty of History, University of Oxford or Maison Française d'Oxford)
Christophe Bonneuil (EHESS, Paris), “An Environmental History of Gene: Plant Breeding and Crop Biodiversity in France, 20th c.”
British colleague to be confirmed
ALL WELCOME

Convenor: Thomas Le Roux, CNRS-MFO