'Environmental Histories: Pasts and futures' a talk by Prof. Michael Mann at Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 9am on 21st & 22nd March 2014
Time : 9:00 am
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Conference on ‘Environmental Histories: Pasts and futures’ in association with Prof. Michael Mann, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany and the German Research Foundation.
Concept Note : The epochal times we live in make the relations of histories and environments a major theme in studies of past ages and the more uncertain domains of the future. By asking when, why and how specific political, socio-economic or cultural choices reshaped the human environment, we can get a more rounded and holistic sense of our present dilemmas.
In any such endeavour, certain broad questions standout. How do perceptions of ecological change varies and contested as they often are intersect with the material changes themselves? How far are local knowledge and science based approaches more or less influential and why? How can long term or ‘deep’ histories interact with more conventional approaches focused on a few years or decades?
The conclave brings together scholars based mainly in India and Germany, countries with distinct if overlapping historical traditions. All are aware of the deep historic links of imperial forestry and natural history and the sciences in British imperial India with German science and administration. But well beyond this, the contrasts of an industrialized European major nation state and a former colony (and now emerging economy) throws up historical contrasts and similarities rich in insight. It aims to showcase specific and focused papers by engaged and active historians but in a manner that opens up dialogue and fresh enquiry. After all what we make of our environmental futures has a lot to do with rethinking our own histories.
Programme Schedule: Friday, 21 March 2014
9.00 a.m. – 9.15 a.m. Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, Welcome: New Delhi
Introduction: Prof. Michael Mann, Humboldt-University, Berlin
9.15 a.m. – 10.15 a.m. Prof. K. Sivaramakrishnan,Yale University, USA
Keynote: ‘Ethics, Attachments, & Nature:Reflections on environmental history from the Indian experience’
10.15 a.m. – 10.30 a.m. Tea Break
10.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. Session I:
Chair: Prof. Michael Mann, Humboldt-University, Berlin
Speakers: Mr. Stephan Beutner, Humboldt-University, Berlin
‘Transforming Nature, Developing People?: Environmental history of the Maikal hills’
Prof. Corinna R. Unger, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany ‘India’s Green Revolution: A transnational environmental history’
12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m. Lunch
1.30 p.m. -3.30 p.m. Session 2
Chair: Dr. Rohan D’Souza, Shiv Nadar University, Noida
Speakers: Prof. Franz-Josef Brueggemeier, University of Freiburg, Germany ‘History of Environment, 1750-2000:Germany in an international perspective’
Mr. Martin Bemmann,Technical University of Dresden Germany
‘”Damaged Vegetation” and “Dying Forests”:On the construction of an environmental problem in Germany between the 1890s and 1970s’
3:30 p.m. – 3.45 p.m. Tea Break
3.45 p.m. -4.45 p.m. Session 3
Chair: Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi
Speaker: Dr. Hanna Werner, Humboldt-University Berlin
‘Histories of Protest:Water Conflicts and the politics of resistance in a cross- cultural perspective’
Saturday, 22 March 2014
9.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m. Session 4
Chair: Dr. Ghazala Shahabuddin, Ambedkar University, Delhi
Speakers: Ms. Shibani Bose, University of Delhi, Delhi
‘Beyond the Glittering Eye: Tiger tales from the Harappan Civilization’
Dr. Divyabhanusinh Chavda,Independent Researcher,Jaipur
‘Emperor Jahangir and the Natural World’
11.00 a.m. – 11: 15 a.m. Tea Break
11.15 a.m. -12.30 p.m. Session 5
Chair: Dr. Tripta Wahi, Affiliate Fellow, NMML
Speaker: Dr. Vasudha Pande, NMML
‘Changing Landscapes: Terracing the Central Himalaya’
12.30 p.m.-1.30 p.m. Lunch
1.30 p.m. -3.30 p.m. Session 6
Chair: Dr. Vasudha Pande, NMML
Speakers: Dr. Rohan Arthur, Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore
‘Marine Resource Use, Ecosystem Responses and the Accidents of History: Narratives from Indian seas’
Dr. Rohan D’Souza, Shiv Nadar University, Noida
‘Drainage, River Erosion and Chaurs: An environmental history of land in colonial eastern India’
3.30 p.m. -3.45 p.m. Tea Break
3.45 p.m. Session 7
Concluding Debate
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Conference on ‘Environmental Histories: Pasts and futures’ in association with Prof. Michael Mann, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany and the German Research Foundation.
Concept Note : The epochal times we live in make the relations of histories and environments a major theme in studies of past ages and the more uncertain domains of the future. By asking when, why and how specific political, socio-economic or cultural choices reshaped the human environment, we can get a more rounded and holistic sense of our present dilemmas.
In any such endeavour, certain broad questions standout. How do perceptions of ecological change varies and contested as they often are intersect with the material changes themselves? How far are local knowledge and science based approaches more or less influential and why? How can long term or ‘deep’ histories interact with more conventional approaches focused on a few years or decades?
The conclave brings together scholars based mainly in India and Germany, countries with distinct if overlapping historical traditions. All are aware of the deep historic links of imperial forestry and natural history and the sciences in British imperial India with German science and administration. But well beyond this, the contrasts of an industrialized European major nation state and a former colony (and now emerging economy) throws up historical contrasts and similarities rich in insight. It aims to showcase specific and focused papers by engaged and active historians but in a manner that opens up dialogue and fresh enquiry. After all what we make of our environmental futures has a lot to do with rethinking our own histories.
Programme Schedule: Friday, 21 March 2014
9.00 a.m. – 9.15 a.m. Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, Welcome: New Delhi
Introduction: Prof. Michael Mann, Humboldt-University, Berlin
9.15 a.m. – 10.15 a.m. Prof. K. Sivaramakrishnan,Yale University, USA
Keynote: ‘Ethics, Attachments, & Nature:Reflections on environmental history from the Indian experience’
10.15 a.m. – 10.30 a.m. Tea Break
10.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. Session I:
Chair: Prof. Michael Mann, Humboldt-University, Berlin
Speakers: Mr. Stephan Beutner, Humboldt-University, Berlin
‘Transforming Nature, Developing People?: Environmental history of the Maikal hills’
Prof. Corinna R. Unger, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany ‘India’s Green Revolution: A transnational environmental history’
12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m. Lunch
1.30 p.m. -3.30 p.m. Session 2
Chair: Dr. Rohan D’Souza, Shiv Nadar University, Noida
Speakers: Prof. Franz-Josef Brueggemeier, University of Freiburg, Germany ‘History of Environment, 1750-2000:Germany in an international perspective’
Mr. Martin Bemmann,Technical University of Dresden Germany
‘”Damaged Vegetation” and “Dying Forests”:On the construction of an environmental problem in Germany between the 1890s and 1970s’
3:30 p.m. – 3.45 p.m. Tea Break
3.45 p.m. -4.45 p.m. Session 3
Chair: Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi
Speaker: Dr. Hanna Werner, Humboldt-University Berlin
‘Histories of Protest:Water Conflicts and the politics of resistance in a cross- cultural perspective’
Saturday, 22 March 2014
9.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m. Session 4
Chair: Dr. Ghazala Shahabuddin, Ambedkar University, Delhi
Speakers: Ms. Shibani Bose, University of Delhi, Delhi
‘Beyond the Glittering Eye: Tiger tales from the Harappan Civilization’
Dr. Divyabhanusinh Chavda,Independent Researcher,Jaipur
‘Emperor Jahangir and the Natural World’
11.00 a.m. – 11: 15 a.m. Tea Break
11.15 a.m. -12.30 p.m. Session 5
Chair: Dr. Tripta Wahi, Affiliate Fellow, NMML
Speaker: Dr. Vasudha Pande, NMML
‘Changing Landscapes: Terracing the Central Himalaya’
12.30 p.m.-1.30 p.m. Lunch
1.30 p.m. -3.30 p.m. Session 6
Chair: Dr. Vasudha Pande, NMML
Speakers: Dr. Rohan Arthur, Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore
‘Marine Resource Use, Ecosystem Responses and the Accidents of History: Narratives from Indian seas’
Dr. Rohan D’Souza, Shiv Nadar University, Noida
‘Drainage, River Erosion and Chaurs: An environmental history of land in colonial eastern India’
3.30 p.m. -3.45 p.m. Tea Break
3.45 p.m. Session 7
Concluding Debate
'Environmental Histories: Pasts and futures' a talk by Prof. Michael Mann at Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 9am on 21st & 22nd March 2014
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