Events

Past Event

Between the Black Sea and the Bering Strait (Day 1)

December 8, 2023
2:00 PM - 6:15 PM
America/New_York
Deutsches Haus, 420 W. 116 St., New York, NY 10027
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2:00 - 2:15pm | Opening

2:15 - 3:45pm | Session 1: Climate Histories Across a Subcontinent

Moderator: Julia Lajus (Columbia University)

  • Pey-Yi Chu (Pomona College, CA), Toward Crucial Climate Histories of Eurasia
  • Jonathan Oldfield (University of Birmingham, UK), Geoengineering the Climate: Soviet and Russian Perspectives
  • Ryan Jones (University of Oregon), The Russian Far East and the Shock Decarbonization of the 1990s

 

4:00 - 5:30pm | Presentation of the book Thinking Russia's History Environmentally

  • Catherine Evtuhov (Columbia University)
  • David Moon (University College London, UK)
  • Julia Lajus (Columbia University)
  • John McNeill (Georgetown University)
  • Jane Costlow (Bates College, ME)
  • Anna Olenenko (University of Alberta, Canada)
  • Anna Mazanik (Max Weber Foundation/LMU Munich, Germany)
  • Ronald Meyer (Columbia University)
  • Jennifer Goetz (Columbia University)

 

5:30 - 6:15pm | Screening of the Film Anarcadia

  • Ruth Maclennan, artist (Institute Associate, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK)

Contact Information

Eileen Huhn
(212) 854-6217
[email protected]