Environmental History
Description: Environmental history investigates humans’ changing ecological entanglements over time. Its practitioners work over different time periods and geographical regions and draw on methodological ideas and practices from various scholarly traditions such as history, archaeology, geography, visual art and the natural sciences.

This interdisciplinary approach is what makes environmental history such an exhilarating field, yet it can also be what divides it. Environmental historians often belong to different departments and faculties, and at Oxford they are yet to share a sub-institutional affiliation. Hence, they are not always informed of relevant work done by their colleagues within the same University.

The Oxford Environmental History Network wishes to foster a virtual community of environmental historians in Oxford. The aim of the network is threefold:


To connect researchers confronting similar conceptual and methodological challenges, even if working across different regions and time periods
To showcase environmental history research being undertaken at Oxford and elsewhere
To publicise relevant events and opportunities occurring both at Oxford as well as internationally

Talks:

Monday 25 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

What’s in a table? Managing astronomical data in early modern Europe
Date: 25 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Florence Hsia (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Venue Details: Maison Francaise d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Singapore pineapples: catch-cropping, Chinese capitalists, and the colonial state, 1900s-1930s
Date: 2 December 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Michael Yeo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Venue Details: Maison Francaise d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Workshop in HSMTE: More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy
Date: 5 December 2024, 10:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (centre de recherches historiques)
Venue Details: Common Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment