9:00 - 10:30am | Session 2: Technology sand Environment in Soviet/Post-Soviet Contexts
Moderator: Andy Bruno (Northern Illinois University)
- Elena Kochetkova (University of Bergen, Norway), The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology
- Julia Lajus (Columbia University), Use of Science and Technology for Increasing Biological Productivity of Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems in the Late Soviet Union
- Artemy Kalinovsky (Temple University), Maintenance and Markets: The Water Energy Nexus in Central Asia after Socialism
10:45am - 12:30pm | Roundtable: Land, Space, Scale and the Methodology of Environmental Humanities
Moderator: Catherine Evtuhov (Columbia University)
- Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University), Land as Method in Environmental History
- Mieka Erley (Colgate University), Reading Against the Grain: Film and the Natural Trace
- Jane Costlow (Bates College, ME), Messy reading and the unexpected [context, connection, collaboration]
- Jennifer Keating (University College Dublin, Ireland), Thinking environmentally about space and scale
1:15 - 2:45pm | Session 3: Environmental Transformations, Disasters, Ecocide
Moderator: Anna Mazanik (Max Weber Foundation/LMU Munich, Germany)
- Dmitry Arzyutov (Ohio State University), Thinking with Novaya Zemlya in the Anthropocene: A Palimpsest of Environmental Transformations of the Arctic Archipelago
- Sarah Cameron (University of Maryland), Aral: Life and Death of a Sea
- Anna Olenenko (University of Alberta, Canada), Kakhovka Dam Disaster: Cycles of Ecocide
3:00 - 4:30pm | Contributions of Our Field to Global Environmental History
Moderator: John McNeill (Georgetown University)
- David Moon (University College London, UK), Were the Steppe Rivers Drying Up? Debates over Environmental Change in the Russian Empire
- Taylor Zajicek (Columbia University), The Black Sea at the Cold War's End—Local Oddity or Global Catastrophe?
- Andy Bruno (Northern Illinois University), From Place-Based to the Planetary: The Tunguska Explosion in Global Environmental History
4:30 - 4:45pm | Closing
