Davis Seminar 2022-2023 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 Jennifer Houle (jhoule@princeton.edu) for a copy of the paper.
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Fall Semester:
September 9
Laura Martin, Williams College
The War Against Weeds: How Auxinic Herbicides Reshaped Life on Earth
Commentator: Erika Milam, Princeton University
September 16
Alexandra Hui, Mississippi State University
Listening to Nature: Imagining Past and Future Ecologies at the End of the Holocene
Commentator: Emily Thompson, Princeton University
September 23
John McNeill, Georgetown University
Ingredients of the Industrial Revolution: Elephants, Whales, and Bison, ca. 1820-1900
Commentator: D. Graham Burnett, Princeton University
September 30
Deborah Coen, Yale University
How the Atmosphere Lost its Virtue
Commentator: Angela Creager, Princeton University
October 7
Gabrielle Hecht, Stanford University
Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures
Commentator: Jacob Dlamini, Princeton University
October 14
François Furstenberg, Johns Hopkins University.
American Palimpsest
Commentator: Elizabeth Ellis, Princeton University
October 28
Sarah Cameron, Davis Fellow/University of Maryland
The Aral Sea: Environment, Society, and State Power in Central Asia
Commentator: Asif Siddiqi, Fordham University
November 4
Jo Guldi, Southern Methodist University
The limits and promise of text mining as a historical method: the case of 'environmentalism' in Congress, 1970-2010
Commentator: Lawrence Glickman, Cornell University
November 11
Anne Berg, Davis Fellow / University of Pennsylvania
Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany
Commentator: Yair Mintzker, Princeton University
November 18
Andrew Needham, Davis Fellow / New York University
Teapot: Scandal and the Remaking of the Domestic Oil Industry
Commentator: Kevin Kruse, Princeton University
December 2
Dagomar Degroot, Georgetown University
Ripples in the Cosmic Ocean: Towards an Environmental History of the Solar System
Commentator: Michael Gordin, Princeton University
December 9
William Cavert, Davis Center Fellow/St. Thomas UniversityVermin Eradication and Agrarian Improvement in Early Modern England
Commentator: Jack Bouchard, Rutgers University
Spring Semester
CANCELLED: February 3
Bathsheba Demuth, Brown University
February 10
Nicole Barnes, Davis Fellow / Duke University
Waste Cycles: A Social and Ecological History of Toilets in Modern China
Commentator: Janet Chen, Princeton University
February 17
Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
The Franklin Stove: Forging the Climate in the Little Ice Age
Commentator: Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
February 24
Benjamin Cohen, Davis Fellow / Lafayette College
How Not to Feed the World: Our Century-long Quest to Produce More Food and Where It’s Led Us Astray
Commentator: Keith Wailoo, Princeton University
March 3
Nancy Jacobs, Brown University
Parrots and Plantations: The More-than-Human Early Modern Atlantic and Its Aftermath
Commentator: Robyn d’Avignon, New York University
March 10
Lydia Barnett, Northwestern University
Eco-Prospecting in Italy's Little Ice Age
Commentator: David Bell, Princeton University
March 24
Reinaldo Funes-Monzote, Davis Fellow / University of Havana
From Slavery Plantations to Mass Tourism: Caribbean Environmental History and the Challenges of Climate Change
Commentator: Stuart Schwartz, Yale University
March 31
David Singerman, University of Virginia
The Purity Machine
Commentator: Julie Greene, University of Maryland
April 7
Rosie Bsheer, Davis Fellow / Harvard University
A Return to Land: Private Property, Corporatization, and Agro-Imperialism in Saudi Arabia
Commentator: Bernard Haykel, Princeton University
April 14
Albert Park, Claremont McKenna College
Noticing Nature in Colonial Korea: Integrative Mapping and Energy Extraction through Agricultural Science
Commentator: Sheldon Garon, Princeton University
April 21
No seminar this week. Stone Lecture Series with Gregg Mitman, April 18, 19, and 20
April 28
José Augusto Padua, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
The Causal Links between Slavery, Deforestation, and Climate Deterioration: Voices from Nineteenth-century Brazil
Commentator: Vera Candiani, Princeton University