Davis Seminar Schedule

Davis Center Seminar
Environment and Climate

Fridays at 10:15 am - 12:00 pm ET
211 Dickinson

The Shelby Cullom Davis Center Seminars present weekly programming on a variety of topics related to the Center's current theme. Visiting Fellows from academic institutions near and far help to create a rich understanding of the topic from diverse yet overlapping perspectives. The theme for the academic years 2022-23 and 2023-24 is “Environment and Climate."

The papers are pre-circulated and can be accessed one-week prior to the date of the seminar. Email David Bell ([email protected]) for a copy of the paper. 

If you have access to Princeton University credentials, please access through SharePoint (university login required).

Events

Concrete Liquidity: Unmeetings of Labor and Capital in a Chinese Canadian Offshore
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Tempestarius Rex: Weather and Political Climate in the Carolingian World
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A Bittersweet Record: Climate and Cuba’s 1970 Sugar Harvest
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Pumps and Protosystems: Water Before the Waterworks in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
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The French Nobility and Its Gardens in the Eighteenth Century
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The Sharpest Turn: From Holocene Histories to Anthropocene Histories
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History and the Paleosciences: Challenges with Causality
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Environmental Justice Histories of Newark, New Jersey: An Introduction
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Constructing "The Worst Year to Be Alive" (536 CE): Interdisciplinary Tensions, Academic Boundaries and the Premodern Environment
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The Avian in Aerial Seeing
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Reconstructing Climate and Gender History on the Swahili Coast: Some Preliminary Words
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On Their Terms: Black Agrarian Relations to the Environment in Jim Crow Alabama
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The Nature of War: Environcide in Indochina and Algeria
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(Post)Colonial Environments: The Politics of Visibility
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