Histories of a Future Environmental Catastrophe
כנס בנושא משבר האקלים של בית הספר להיסטוריה
12 בינואר 2020, 9:30
Gilman Building, 496
Day one: 12 January, 2020
9:30 - 10:30 - Opening Session: Greetings and Opening Remarks
- Prof. Leo Corry - Dean, Faculty of Humanities
- Prof. Miri Shefer-Mossensohn - Head of the Zvi
Framing the Discussion
- Dr. Avner Wishnitzer - Tel Aviv University
- Dr. On Barak - Tel Aviv University
11:00 - 12:30 - Antropocene, Capitalocen and Other Scenes
- Prof. Michael Zakim - Tel Aviv University
The Problem of Plenty - Dr. Ofri Ilany - Van Leer Institute
The Search for a (Deep-) Historical Agent
14:00 - 15:30 - Renewables: Paths Not Taken
- Dr. Shira Wilkof - University of Haifa
“A New Aim for the Man-Environment Relationship:” How Modernist Architects Failed to Shape an Ecological Path for the Postwar World - Prof. Dan Rabinowitz - Tel Aviv University
The Rise (and Fall?) of Fossil Fuels: a Speculative History of Energy in the Arabian (Persian) Gulf
16:00 - 17:30 - Industrial Agriculture: Pasts, Pests and Futures
- Prof. Fredrik Meiton - University of New Hampshire
The (Un)Making of the Global Energy Deficit - Dr. Natalia Gutkowski - Harvard University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Controlling the Weevil: A Self-defeating Warfare?
Day two: 13 January, 2020
10:00 - 12:00 - Gendered Bodies and Bodies of Knowledge
- Prof. Gülhan Balsoy - İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
Ottoman Reproductive Policies, Female Agency, and Reproductive Rights in the Future - Prof. Liat Kozma - Hebrew University of Jerusalem
In a World of Rats and Lice - Dr. Reut Harari - Tel Aviv University
Disease, Military Medicine, and Public Health in the Absence of Empire: Thoughts from Meiji Japan
13:00 - 14:00 - Alternatives at Arm’s Reach: A Short Tour in Tel Aviv University’s First “Green” Building
14:30 - 16:00 - Deep Shit: Excrement Management and Modern Sensibilities
- Prof. Christopher Otter - Ohio State University
The Sensory Anthropocene: Disgust, Cleanliness, and the Fate of the Earth - Dr. Tamar Novik - The Max Planck
Flushed: Anosmic History on the Seat of Modernity
16:30 - Concluding Discussion
- Dr. Avner Wishnitzer - Tel Aviv University
- Dr. On Barak - Tel Aviv University
Histories of a Future Environmental Catastrophe
Free Admission
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