University of Birmingham Environmental History Seminars 2009-2010

University of Birmingham

Environmental History Seminar 2009-2010

Autumn Term 2009

 (Directions to the University can be found at the bottom of the programme)

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1.    Wednesday 21 October, 4.15 pm, Rodney Hilton Library (Room 335, 3^rd floor, Arts Building)

Julia Lajus, Director of the Centre for Environmental and Technological History, European University at St. Petersburg

"Expertise, governance and the marginalisation of local users: change in practices of natural resource use in Russia / Soviet Union"

(Organised jointly with the Modern History Seminars)

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2.    Wednesday 11 November, 4.15pm, Arts building, Rodney Hilton Library (Room 335, 3^rd floor, Arts Building)

James McKay, University of Birmingham

"Environmentalism in Britain since 1945"

(Organised jointly with the Modern History Seminars)

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3.    Wednesday 18 November (12:30-1.50pm) (Arts building, Lecture theatre 5)

Jonathan Reinarz (University of Birmingham, School for Health and Population Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences)

"Shock, stench, filth: smell and historians of the urban environment".

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4.    Wednesday 2 December (12:30 – 13:50) (Arts building, Lecture theatre 5)

Simon Pooley (St Antony's College, Oxford)

'Cape of Flames: grappling with wild fire in South Africa's Cape Floral Kingdom, c.1900-2000'.

Spring Term 2010:

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5.    Wednesday 27 January 2010 (12:30-1:50 pm) (Strathcona building, SR9)

Mark Levene (University of Southampton)

'The Elephant in the Room: How we integrate climate change into our teaching: some views from the Rescue! History's network"

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6.    Wednesday 10 February (4.15 pm), Arts building, Rodney Hilton Library

Paul Warde (University of East Anglia)

The forests and the future: figuring the welfare of posterity in Europe, 1500-1850'

(joint session with Early Modern Seminar)

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7.    Wednesday 17 March (4.15 pm) (Arts building, Room 119)

Peter Coates (University of Bristol)

'Going swimmingly: rivers of rebirth and re-creation'

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8.    Monday 22 March (5 pm) (venue tbc)

John R. McNeill (Georgetown University, author of Something New under the Sun)

'An Environmental History of the Cold War'

Annual Lecture: Joint event with the Centre for Contemporary History, Birmingham University.

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9.    Wednesday 14 April (12:30-1.50 pm) (Arts building, Room 119)

Adriana Aguilar (University of Manchester)

"NGOs and local environmental activists and communities in Mexico"

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The University of Birmingham can easily be reached by bus or train from Birmingham city Centre. The University has its own train station ('University')

Directions to the university can be found at: http://www.bham.ac.uk/visitors.shtml

A map of the campus can be found at:

http://www.about.bham.ac.uk/maps/pdfs/edgbaston-map-red-09.pdf

The seminars will take place in buildings marked R16 or R18 on the map.