#  Ocean, Island, Shore: Placing the Global Pacific in the Age of Climate Change 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 8, 2019** 

 09:00AM - 05:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **HUCE 440, 4th floor, Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford Street**  



 

 



 

 **SPRING WORKSHOP:** *Ocean, Island, Shore: Placing the Global Pacific in the Age of Climate Change*

 9:00-9:05 opening remarks by organizers

 Chair: Xiaofei Gao** (Fung Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center)

 9:05-9:50 **John Huth** (Donner Professor of Science, Department of Physics, Harvard University)

 *TBA*

 *Discussant:* **Christina Thompson** (Editor, *Harvard Review*, Harvard University)

 9:50-10:35 **John Hayashi** (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University)

 *Writing the History of Japanese Transoceanic Migration and Disease Prevention*

 *Discussant*: **Warwick Anderson** (Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University)

 COFFEE BREAK

 Chair: **Sugata Bose** (Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History, Harvard University)

 10:50-11:35 **Jonas Ruegg** (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)

 *Mapping the Kuroshio Frontier: Japan's Discovery of the Black Current*

 *Discussant*: **Helen Rozwadowski** (Director of the Maritime Studies Program and Associate Professor of History, Department of History, University of Connecticut, Avery Point)

 11:35-12:20 **Michaela Thompson** (Preceptor of Environmental Science and Public Policy and Giorgio Ruffolo Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability Science, Kennedy School of Goverment, Harvard University)

 *Red Fish, Green Fish: A History of the Bristol Bay Sockeye Fishery*

 *Discussant*: **Alexis Dudden** (Professor of History, Department of History, University of Connecticut)

 LUNCH BREAK

 Chair: **Stefan Huebner** (SSRC Transregional Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center)

 1:10-1:55 **Jason O. Chang** (Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies, Department of History, University of Connecticut)

 *The Maritime Racial Form of the Indo-Pacific: Lascar and Danjia Sailors in the Long Nineteenth Century*

 *Discussant*: **Anthony D. Medrano** (Ziff Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment)

 1:55-2:40 **Edward (Ted) Melillo** (Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Department of Environmental Studies, Amherst College)

 *'Oiwi (Native) History of Kona Coffee in a Global Perspective*

 *Discussant*: **Ian J. Miller** (Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University)

 LUNCH BREAK

 Chair: **Anthony D. Medrano** (Ziff Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment)

 3:00-3:45 **Bathsheba Demuth** (Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society, Departments of Environmental Studies and History, Brown University)

 *Writing North Pacific History Through its Ecosystems: Russia, the United States, and Trophic Change*

 *Discussant*: **Stefan Huebner** (SSRC Transregional Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center)

 3:45-4:30 **Wenjiao Cai** (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)

 *At the Littoral Edge: Tideland Reclamation and Borderland Development in Late Choson Korea, 1600-1910*

 *Discussant*: **Peter C. Perdue** (Professor of History, Department of History, Yale University)

 4:30-5:30 **Closing Session**

 *Moderators*: **Stefan Huebner** (SSRC Transregional Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center); **Anthony D. Medrano** (Ziff Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment); **Jonas Ruegg** (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)

 This workshop is supported by: Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Pacific Circle.

 For more information, please contact the organizers: **Xiaofei Gao** ([xiaofei\_gao@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:xiaofei_gao@fas.harvard.edu)), **Stefan Huebner** (<arihust@nus.edu.sg>), **Anthony Medrano** ([anthony\_medrano@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:anthony_medrano@fas.harvard.edu)), and **Jonas Ruegg** (<jonasruegg@g.harvard.edu>)

 (Click [here](https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/envihist/workshop-ocean-island-shore-placing-global-pacific-age-climate-change) for the event website)  
(Workshop program attached below)



 

 

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