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Environmental History Seminar

Maison Française d'Oxford

Programme 2012-2013

Organized by the Maison Française d’Oxford, in partnership with the Research Cluster in History of Science, Medicine and Technology of the University of Oxford, with Oxford Brookes University and with the RUCHE (Réseau Universitaire de Chercheurs en Histoire Environnementale)

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

15^th October Air pollution (18^th-19^th centuries)

Venue: Maison Française d'Oxford, Norham Road

Thomas Le Roux (CNRS-MFO), “Between Public Health and Technology: Regulating Industrial Smoke, France 1750-1850”

Stephen Mosley (Leeds Metropolitan University), “A Process of Compromise: Regulating Smoke in Urban-Industrial Britain”

19^th November Water needs (19^th-21^th centuries)

Venue: Faculty of History, George Street

Frédéric Graber (CRH/CNRS-EHESS, Paris), “Natural Satisfaction or Race for Consumption: the Definition of Water Needs, Paris, 19^th century”

Tony Allan (King’s College London), “Water Embedded in Food : Changes and Evolution over the Last Two Hundred Years“

14^th January The Climate of Moral Science (18^th-19^th centuries)

Venue: Faculty of History, George Street

Julien Vincent (University Paris-Panthéon Sorbonne), “Disembedded Weather: Labour, Free Trade, and the Political Economy of Climate in the British Empire (mid-19^th century)"

Discussant : Mark Harrison (Welcome Unit for the History of Medicine).

4^th February Biosphere and the Environmental Sciences (20^th century)

Venue: Maison Française d'Oxford, Norham Road

Marc Elie (CERCEC/CNRS-EHESS, Paris), “Desertification and Biosphere: Soviet Earth Scientists, Internationalization of Science, and Land Degradation in the Eurasian Steppes, 1968-1992"

Jonathan Oldfield (Glasgow University), “Understanding of Natural Physical systems and Natural Resources amongst Soviet Geographers post-1945”

4^th March Waste, Water and Urban Engineering (19^th-early 20^th centuries)

Venue: Maison Française d'Oxford, Norham Road

Stéphane Frioux (University of Lyon II), “Water and Urban Waste Treatment in France (from the 1890s to the mid-20^th century) : a Comparative Approach on the Diffusion of Innovations Designed for Environmental Improvements”

John Clark (University of St Andrews), “Managing Britain’s Waste, 1870-1950”

22^nd April Nuclear Industry (20^th century)

Venue: tbc

Soraya Boudia (University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée), “Transnational Regulation of Nuclear Hazards”

Jeff Hughes (University of Manchester), “Moderating Modernity: The British Nuclear Industry and the Environment”

May and June sessions : forthcoming

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.

Convener: Thomas Le Roux (CNRS-MFO)

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