Institute of Advanced Studies

2009 History Lecture Series


2009 History Public Lecture Series - Environment and History (all lectures will begin at 6.00pm)

July
22 July Andrea Gaynor (UWA):The environment in history; history in the environment
29 July Mark Edele (UWA): How muddy roads and small cows created autocracy: Environmental determinism in Russian history
August 
5 August Daniela Baratieri (UWA): Hunting and the appropriation of Africa in two Italian films: The Path of the Wild Beasts (1932) and Goodbye Africa (1966)
12 August Debra McDougall (UWA): Sacred and secularized landscapes in  twentieth-century Pacific Islands history and historiography
19 August  Susie Protschky (UWA): Tropical landscapes and colonial discourses of abundance: Dutch still lifes from the Netherlands Indies
26 August  Ethan Blue (UWA): Don’t fence me in: Barbed wire around the American West
September
2 September Richard White (Stanford University): Disney, deer, porpoises, penguins, and bears:  How nature films shape environmentalism and society
16 September Libby Robin (The Australian National University):  Deserts, prophets and savage scarlet hills: Ecology, resilience and global change
23 September Tom Griffiths (The Australian National University):  Discovering the continent of ice: Antarctica and world history
30 September Philippa Maddern (UWA): Against the grain: Reading the ‘Book of Nature’ in the European Middle Ages
October
7 October David Barrie (UWA): Dark, Dirty and Dangerous? Police and the Environment in Scotland 1800-1850
14 October   Pep Finaldi (UWA): Developmental dreams and dam disasters: The ‘economic miracle’ and the Italian environment, 1950s–1960s