
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 ([email protected]) for a copy of the paper.
If you have access to Princeton University credentials, please access through SharePoint (university login required).
Events
Glacial Progress: Inventing the Ice Age and Climate Change in Nineteenth-Century America
Speakers
- AffiliationStanford University
- AffiliationPrinceton University
Concrete Liquidity: Unmeetings of Labor and Capital in a Chinese Canadian Offshore
Speakers
- AffiliationPrinceton University - Department of Anthropology
- AffiliationPrinceton University
Tempestarius Rex: Weather and Political Climate in the Carolingian World
Speakers
- AffiliationShelby Cullom Davis Center, Princeton University
- AffiliationPrinceton University
A Bittersweet Record: Climate and Cuba’s 1970 Sugar Harvest
Speakers
- AffiliationStanford University
- Sara Kozameh, commentatorAffiliationUC San Diego
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Pumps and Protosystems: Water Before the Waterworks in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow and Illinois State University
- AffiliationPrinceton University
A Blue Plantationocene: Premodern Fishwork and Global Ecological Upheaval
Speakers
- AffiliationRutgers University
- AffiliationBarnard
The French Nobility and Its Gardens in the Eighteenth Century
Speakers
- AffiliationUniversity at Buffalo
- AffiliationPrinceton University
The Sharpest Turn: From Holocene Histories to Anthropocene Histories
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow and University of Notre Dame
- AffiliationPrinceton University
History and the Paleosciences: Challenges with Causality
Speakers
- AffiliationPrinceton University
- AffiliationGeorgetown University
Environmental Justice Histories of Newark, New Jersey: An Introduction
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow, Rutgers University-Newark, and New Jersey Institute of Technology
- AffiliationPrinceton University
Refuge Areas in the Mid-Holocene Sahara: Re-Modelling the Climate-Driven Evolution
Speakers
- AffiliationParis Sorbonne
- AffiliationYale University
Seeking Stillness: Landscape Laboratories and the Early History of Site Selection of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, 1983–1987
Speakers
- AffiliationPrinceton University
- AffiliationNew York University
A Thermal History of Enterprise in Modern Egypt: Small Acceleration, Sugar Machines, and the Making of the Daira Sanieh, 1863–1879
Speakers
- AffiliationDuke University / Institute for Advanced Study
- AffiliationPrinceton University
An American Colony in Eighteenth-Century France: The Nantuckois of Dunkirk and the Global Struggle for Resources to Illuminate the World
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow and Dartmouth
- AffiliationHarvard
Constructing "The Worst Year to Be Alive" (536 CE): Interdisciplinary Tensions, Academic Boundaries and the Premodern Environment
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- AffiliationPrinceton University
The Avian in Aerial Seeing
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow and University of Pennsylvania
- AffiliationPrinceton University - Department of Art and Archaeology
Reconstructing Climate and Gender History on the Swahili Coast: Some Preliminary Words
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow and Columbia University
- AffiliationBucknell University
On Their Terms: Black Agrarian Relations to the Environment in Jim Crow Alabama
Speakers
- AffiliationShelby Cullom Davis Center, Princeton University
- AffiliationPrinceton University
Fish Between Science and Nations: The Making of Aquacultural Science in China and Japan, 1900–1937
Speakers
- AffiliationJohns Hopkins University
- AffiliationHarvard University
"Climate Does Not Necessitate; It Inclines": An Intellectual History of Climate Theories in the Longue Durée
Speakers
- AffiliationThe Warburg Institute
- AffiliationPrinceton University
The Nature of War: Environcide in Indochina and Algeria
Speakers
- AffiliationPrinceton University
- AffiliationRutgers University
(Post)Colonial Environments: The Politics of Visibility
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow and Paul Mellon Centre (London)
- AffiliationPrinceton University - Department of African American Studies
Knowledge in a Crisis: Dust Bowl Liberalism and the Sciences of Wind, Water, and Land
Speakers
- AffiliationMax Planck Berlin
- AffiliationPrinceton University