Centre for World Environmental History
Workshop on the East India Company and the Natural World
18th June 2008 in Arts A 155
11:00 Introductory Talk - Vinita Damodaran, Rohan D'Souza
11:20 Panel One - Botany and Empire: Ideas, Journeys and Locations
11:20 - 11:40 Alan Lester (Sussex), Conceiving of Imperial Connection: Networks, Trajectories and Repertoires
11:40 - 12:00 Mark Harrison (Oxford), Medical botany and the British Empire
12:00 - 12:20 Mark Nesbitt (Kew), The establishment of cinchona plantations in India: historical sources at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
12:20 - 12:30 Discussant Saul Dubow (Sussex)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Transformative Currents: The Shaping of Water Before and During the Age of the East India Company
14:00 - 14:20 E. Shah,(IDS) history of pre-modern water technologies in south India
14:20 - 14:40 R. D'souza (JNU) Mischievous Rivers and Evil Shoals : The English East India Company and the Making of the Bengal Delta
14:40 - 14:50 Discussant Rob Iliffe (Sussex)
15:00 - 15:15 Tea Break
The Wider Nature of Empire in the 18th Century
15:15 - 15:30 Dick Grove, (Cambridge) The Environmental history of St Helena seen as a global analogy
15:30 - 15:45 Kate Showers,(Sussex) Tree Planting in Southern Africa: Dutch East India Company Origins and Subsequent Expansion
15:45 - 16:00 Lowell Woodcock,(Sussex) William Young's Church of Sugar: Nature and the Performance of Capitalist Morality in the Age of Slavery and Abolition
16:00 - 16:20 Discussant Mark Elvin (ANU)
16.20-17.00 Open discussion