Day 2: Sustainable Pasts and Resilient Futures Workshop

Chair: Madeleine Dungy
Session I: 09:00-10:00
1. Patricia Clavin, “Winston Thinks there’s Pots of Money in it”. Artificial Nitrates and the Management of Future Shocks.
2. Michael Drolet, The Logic of Industrialisation: Uniformalisation and the Imperative of Efficiency, or La Fin du Monde par la Science.

10:00-10:30 Coffee and Tea Break

Session II: 10:30-11:30
3. Laurent Brassart, State, Market and Sustainability: how Agronomic Innovations failed during the Napoleonic Empire. A tale about cattle, trees and dye plants.
4. Judith Rainhorn, Innovation, Toxicity and Sustainability: How Scientific Knowledge and the Market Interact in a Regime of Uncertainty – A Tale About Lead, 19th-21st Centuries.
Discussion

11:45-12:30 Future Directions Meeting – Invitation only meeting for network members

The workshop is to be followed on the same day at 17:15 by Dr Omer Aloni’s Massada Lecture on The League of Nations, International Law, and the Current Ecological Crisis. Venue: Auditorium, Sultan Nazrin Shah centre, Worcester College