Extraction, Sovereignty and Resources in the Long Great Acceleration: Writing Global Economic and Environmental Histories, 1800-2000

Archived Veranstaltung
28. August 2023 bis 29. August 2023
Conference

Internationale Konferenz im Rahmen des SNF-Ambizione Projekts von Dr. Moritz von Brescius, durchgeführt an der Universität Bern.

 

Day 1

Monday, August 28, 2023

Mittelstrasse 43, Seminar Room 120

9:00–9:10 Welcome and Introduction: Moritz von Brescius (Bern/Harvard) & Christof Dejung (Bern)

9:10–10:30 KEYNOTE LECTURE

Corey Ross (Birmingham/Basel): Water Resources, Empire, and After: Reflections from the Water Faucet and Irrigation Canal

Chair: Sebastian de Pretto (Bern)

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45–12:15 SCIENCE, MARKETING AND THE CONSUMPTION OF “NATURAL” RESOURCES

Chair: nn

Moritz von Brescius (Bern/Harvard): “Invading the World: Commodity ‘Research & Propaganda’ and the Global Expansion of Rubber Consumption, 1900–1980”

Robrecht Declercq (Ghent): “Material Worlds. Resource Institutes and the Making of Consumer Markets for Metals (1920-1970)”

Commentary: Heinzpeter Znoj (Bern)

12:15–13:30 LUNCH

13:30–15:00 LAND REGULATIONS AND TRADING INSURANCES

Chair: nn

Martin Lengwiler (Basel): “Global and Local Cultures of Risk: Non-Life Insurance and Natural Resources in a Global and Transepochal Perspective”

Tobias Haller (Bern): “Colonial Legacies of the Sustainable Development Goals: Why the SDGs could become the abbreviation of Sanctioning Disciplined Grabs”

Commentary: Judith Vitale (Zurich)

15:00–15:20 Coffee Break

15:20–16:50 MINING AND MINERALS

Chair: nn

Iva Pesa (Groningen): “Resource Extraction, Commodity Cycles, and Environmentalism in Africa”

Florence Hachez-Leroy (Université d'Artois): A Material History of Aluminum

Commentator: Martin Dusinberre (Zurich)

17:00 Mid-Conference Commentary & Discussion

Richard Drayton (King’s College)

18:30 Conference Dinner for Speakers

(Casa d’Italia, Bühlstrasse 57, 3012 Bern, joint walk from Hotel)

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Day 2

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Mittelstrasse 43, Seminar Room 324

9:00-10.25: ECONOMIC BOTANY

Chair: Rea Vogt (Bern)

Marine Bellégo (Paris): “‘Economic Botany in the Late-Nineteenth Century British Empire”

Arupjyoti Saikia (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati): “Hardwoods and the British Empire in Assam: The Imperial Life of Sal and Teak, 1850s–1940s”

Commentator: Thomas Bartoletti (Zurich)

10:25-10:35 COFFEE BREAK

10:35-12:00 MARKETS AND COMMODITIES

Chair: David Rentsch

Marc Palen (Exeter): “Free Markets, Natural Resources, National Sovereignty, and Supranational Regulation: The Left-Wing Anti-Imperial Imagination and its Contradictions”

David Bell (HU Berlin): “Ralli Brothers – ‘The Golden Fibre,’ Portrait of a Specialist Commodity Trader”

Commentary: Christian Büschges (Bern)

12:00-13:15 LUNCH

13:15-14:30 FRONTIERS

Chair: nn

Gunnel Cederlöf (Linnaeus University): “Exceptional, Pragmatic and Provisional: Formation of British Imperial Governance in Asian Frontier Tracts”

Gareth Austin (Cambridge): “Ghana’s Cocoa Frontier and the Concept of ‘Forest Rent’”

Commentator: Christian Gerlach (Bern)

14:30-14:45 Coffee Break

14:45-16:00: LABOUR

Chair: Agnes Gehbald (Bern)

Anna Sailer (Göttingen): “Labor processes related to the production of timber and the associated appropriation and conversion of forests (primary to commercial) in colonial India in the late 19th/early 20th century”

Jelmer Vos (Glasgow): “The Labour of Coffee: Angolan Forced Labour in Comparative Perspective”

Commentary: Julia Tischler (Basel)

16:00-16:15 Coffee Break

16:15-17:30 COMMODITY FRONTIERS

Chair: Marius Fellinger (Bern)

David Rentsch (Bern): “Afterlives of a Colonial Concession: Cash Crops and Agronomic Research in Yangambi, DRC”

Ernst Langthaler (Linz): “Soy Frontier Expansions: Regional Arenas of Agro-Food Globalization in the Long Twentieth Century”

Commentator: Antoine Acker (Geneva)

17:30 Concluding Roundtable & Discussion

Sebastian Haumann (Salzburg) & Friedrich Lenger (Gießen)

Moderation: Christof Dejung

END OF CONFERENCE

Dinner for Speakers (Haus der Universität, Schlösslistrasse 5, 3008 Bern; joint walk from Hotel at 19:00)

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