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Workshop – Ocean, Island, Shore: Placing the Global Pacific in the Age of Climate Change
May 8, 2019 @ 9:00 am - 5:30 pm
9:00-9:05 opening remarks by organizers
Chair: Xiaofei Gao (Fung Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center)
9:05-9:50 John Huth (Donner Professor of Science, Department of Physics, Harvard University)
Discussant: Christina Thompson (Editor, Harvard Review, Harvard University)
9:50-10:35 John Hayashi (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University)
Writing the History of Japanese Transoceanic Migration and Disease Prevention
Discussant: Warwick Anderson (Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University)
COFFEE BREAK
Chair: Sugata Bose (Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History, Harvard University)
10:50-11:35 Jonas Ruegg (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)
Mapping the Kuroshio Frontier: Japan’s Discovery of the Black Current
Discussant: Helen Rozwadowski (Director of the Maritime Studies Program and Associate Professor of History, Department of History, University of Connecticut, Avery Point)
11:35-12:20 Michaela Thompson (Preceptor of Environmental Science and Public Policy and Giorgio Ruffolo Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability Science, Kennedy School of Goverment, Harvard University)
Red Fish, Green Fish: A History of the Bristol Bay Sockeye Fishery
Discussant: Alexis Dudden (Professor of History, Department of History, University of Connecticut)
LUNCH BREAK
Chair: Stefan Huebner (SSRC Transregional Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center)
1:10-1:55 Jason O. Chang (Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies, Department of History, University of Connecticut)
The Maritime Racial Form of the Indo-Pacific: Lascar and Danjia Sailors in the Long Nineteenth Century
Discussant: Anthony D. Medrano (Ziff Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment)
1:55-2:40 Edward (Ted) Melillo (Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Department of Environmental Studies, Amherst College)
‘Oiwi (Native) History of Kona Coffee in a Global Perspective
Discussant: Ian J. Miller (Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University)
BREAK
Chair: Anthony D. Medrano (Ziff Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment)
3:00-3:45 Bathsheba Demuth (Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society, Departments of Environmental Studies and History, Brown University)
Writing North Pacific History Through its Ecosystems: Russia, the United States, and Trophic Change
Discussant: Stefan Huebner (SSRC Transregional Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center)
3:45-4:30 Wenjiao Cai (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)
At the Littoral Edge: Tideland Reclamation and Borderland Development in Late Choson Korea, 1600-1910
Discussant: Peter C. Perdue (Professor of History, Department of History, Yale University)
4:30-5:30 Closing Session
Moderators: Stefan Huebner (SSRC Transregional Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center); Anthony D. Medrano (Ziff Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment); Jonas Ruegg (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)
This workshop is supported by: Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Pacific Circle.
For more information, visit https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/envihist/workshop-ocean-island-shore-placing-global-pacific-age-climate-change