Program

 

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)