12.00 - Introduction by Harriet Ritvo and Emma Rothschild
12.15 - Technologies of Energy
i. Jeremy Zallen (Harvard)
"Vessels of Airy Death: Assembling Men, Bombers, and Bombs into Weapons of Mass Destruction"ii. Philipp Lehmann (Harvard)
"Rain, Sun, and Explosions: Engineering Schemes for the Transformation of Desert Environments"iii. Shi-Lin Loh (Harvard)
"Cold War Japan: A Tale of Two Atoms"Commentator: Alison Frank (Harvard)
1.30
Lunch
2.15 - Herding and Harvesting: Animals and Energy
i. Josh Specht (Harvard)
"Grassroots of Dependency: Buffalo, Cattle, and the Ecology of the Plains"ii. Rebecca Woods (MIT)
"Frozen Out: The Problem of Markets for Colonial Mutton"iii. Jacobina Arch (Harvard)
"Whale Oil and Rice Production: Combining Animal and Agricultural Resources in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan"Commentator: Ian Miller (Harvard)
3.30
Coffee
3.45 - Empires, States, and Energy Resources
i. John Lee (Harvard)
"The Origins and Implications of Fuel Wood Scarcities in Early Modern Korea, 1600-1876"ii. David Singerman (MIT)
"An Empire of Purity: Making the Modern Sugar Economy, 1875-1925"iii. Victor Seow (Harvard)
"Looking at Empire through Energy: The View from Fushun, Manchuria"Commentator: Ling Zhang (HUCE)
5.00
Coffee
5.15 - Roundtable Discussion
David Blackbourn (Harvard)
Richard Hornbeck (Harvard)
Christopher Jones (HUCE)
Harriet Ritvo (MIT)Chair: Emma Rothschild (Harvard)