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

Date: 

Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 9:00am to 5:30pm

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

DiscussantWarwick 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

DiscussantHelen 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

DiscussantAlexis 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

DiscussantAnthony 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

DiscussantIan 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

DiscussantStefan 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

ModeratorsStefan 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), Stefan Huebner (arihust@nus.edu.sg), Anthony Medrano (anthony_medrano@fas.harvard.edu), and Jonas Ruegg (jonasruegg@g.harvard.edu)  

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