Program
November 17, 2011
Keynote Lecture
Paul Warde (University of East Anglia)
Life, Land and Limits in the 'Organic Economy’, c. 1670-1840”
4.15 pm, HUCE Seminar Room
Harvard University Center for the Environment
24 Oxford Street - 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
Lecture Poster »
November 18, 2011
Workshop
Center for History and Economics
CGIS, 61 Kirkland Street, Room 202
Cambridge, MA
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Opening Remarks: 9.00 am- 9.15 am
Panel 1: 9.15 am - 10.45 am
Power of the State: The Political Economy of Energy Projects
Discussant: Alison Frank (Harvard University)
Lisa J. Powell (University of Texas at Austin)
Coal Mining and Corn Farming: Evolution of Energy Landscapes in Western Kentucky
Marc Landry (Georgetown University)
'White Coal': Alpine Water and Power at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Casey P. Cater (Georgia State University)
Regenerating Mastery: Depictions of Electric Power in the Early Twentieth-Century American South
Panel 2: 11.00 am - 12.30 pm
Coping with Crises: Scarcity, Meltdowns, and the Promise of Renewable Energy
Discussant: Ian Miller (Harvard University)
Finis Dunaway (Trent University)
Power Struggles: Energy Crises, Environmentalism, and the Limits of Visual Democracy in 1970s America
Daniel A. Barber (Columbia University)
Visualizing Renewable Resources: Architecture and Alternative Energy at Mid-Century
Victor Seow (Harvard University)
Fuel Famine: The Spectre of Scarcity in Interwar Japan
12.30 pm -2.00 pm Lunch at CGIS S-422
Panel 3: 2.00 pm - 3.30 pm
Measuring the Immeasurable?: Units and the Quantification of Energy
Discussant: Paul Warde (University of East Anglia)
David Zylberberg (York University)
Dozens or Chaldrons: Units of Sale and Fuel Relationships in England, 1750-1830
Joe Lawson (Academica Sinica, Taiwan)
The Man-Equivalent Day in China: An Intercultural History of a Unit in Agricultural Economics
Jeffrey Womack (University of Houston)
Measuring Uncertainty: Radiation Terminology in the 20th Century
3.45 pm -4.45 pm Roundtable
Emma Rothschild (Harvard University)
Paul Warde (University of East Anglia)
Philipp Lehmann (Harvard University)