The Maison Française d’Oxford

Faculty of History, University of Oxford

Oxford Brookes University

RUCHE (Réseau Universitaire de Chercheurs en Histoire Environnementale)





Environmental History Seminar - Programme 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.


13th February        Chemistry and Environment (18th-early 19th c.)
Venue: Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington (Board Room 1)
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Imperial College, London), “Chemistry and the Transformation of the 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: Faculty of History, George Street (Room Colin Matthew)
Charles-François Mathis (Université de Paris-Sorbonne), “Landscape and Preservation in England in the 19th century”
Jeremy Burchardt (University of Reading), “Landscape, Preservationism and Local Interests, the Example of Berkshire, early 20th century”


23rd April        Workplace environment (20th c.)
Venue: Maison Française d'Oxford, Norham Road
Judith Rainhorn (Université de Lille-Valenciennes), “Regulating White Lead Use in Early 20th Century France”
Peter Bartrip (University of Oxford), “Regulating Asbestos Hazards in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain”


21st May        The Climate Question (18th-19th c.)
Venue: Faculty of History, George Street (Rees Davies room)
Fabien Locher (CNRS/EHESS, Paris), “Climate and ‘Government’ (France, 18th-19th centuries)”
Vladimir Jankovic (University of Manchester), “Climate as Agency”


11th June        History of biodiversity (20th c.)
Venue: Maison Française d'Oxford, Norham Road
Christophe Bonneuil (EHESS, Paris), “An Environmental History of Genes: Plant Breeding and Crop Biodiversity in France, 20th century”
William Beinart (University of Oxford), “Plant Transfers, Bio-invasions, and Biodiversity:  An African Historical Perspective”


Convener: Thomas Le Roux (CNRS-MFO)

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