2012 Conference                         

Opening Remarks

Paul Sabin, Yale University

Eric Rutkow, Yale University

Panel 1: Resource Conservation

Chair: Peter Perdue, Yale University

John Lee (Harvard): "Protect the Pines, Punish the People: The Social Implications of Forest Conservation in Pre-Industrial Korea, 1600-1876"

Rebecca Woods (MIT): "The Return of the Native Breed: Place, Belonging and Hereford Cattle in Britain"

Kristoffer Whitney (University of Pennsylvania): "Domesticating Nature?: Surveillance and Conservation of Migratory Shorebirds in the 20th Century"

Commentator: James McCann, Boston University

Coffee Break

Panel 2: Wildlife, Humans and Environmental Change

Chair: Alan Mikhail, Yale University

Thomas Wickman (Harvard): "Great Snows and Big Animals: Moose and Other Ungulates on the Contested Maritime Peninsula in the Little Ice Age, 1675-1700"

Radhika Govindrajan (Yale): "Pigs Gone Wild: The Production of Wildness and Human-Wildlife Conflict in Modern India"

Nadia Berenstein (University of Pennsylvania): "They Rush Blindly at the Light at the Expense of Their Lives”: Bird Collisions, Urban Illumination, and ‘Tragedies of Migration’ in New York City and Philadelphia, 1887-1915"

Commentator: Shafqat Hussain, Trinity College

1:45-3:35

Panel 3: Scientific Experimentation and Technology

Chair: Daniel Kevles, Yale University

Tamar Novick (University of Pennsylvanis): "Holy Cow! On Milk Yield, Fertility and the Creation of Plenty in Palestine/Israel"

Helen Curry (Yale): "King-sized Cabbages and Miracle Marigolds: Creating Crops and Flowers with a Chemical, 1937-1950"

Sarah Sutton (Brandeis): "Rethinking Land and Labor: Shifting Family Values and the Transition to Industrialized Dairy Farming in New England"

Shira Shmu'ely (MIT): "'The Flying Death': Curare Travels From American Jungles to the British Laboratories"

Commentator: Sarah Phillips, Boston University

Afternoon Refreshments

Faculty panel

Nancy Jacobs, Brown University

Aaron Sachs, Cornell University

Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, MIT

Moderator: Rachel Rothschild, Yale University