Event

Day 2: Sustainable Pasts and Resilient Futures Workshop

Date
25 Oct 2022
Time
09:00 UK time
Where
Worcester College, Nash Room, Nash Building, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Series
Sustainable Pasts and Resilient Futures Workshop
Audience
Members of the University only
Booking
Required
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*