This is a day of papers and commentary about the nature and status of the Anthropocene, Wednesday 4 April, Rocque Lab, Rhetoric House, Maynooth University.
Preliminary Programme
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9.30-Introduction and Welcome
9.45-11.15. Historical droughts and societal responses
Chair: Helen Shaw, Department of Geography, Maynooth University
Francis Ludlow, School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin, ‘Tree-Ring Evidence of Historical Droughts as Triggers of Violent Conflict in Medieval Ireland.’
James Kelly, School of History and Geography, Dublin City University, ‘Climate, weather and food crises; the experience of the long eighteenth century.’
Conor Murphy, Department of Geography, Maynooth University, ‘New insights into historical droughts from the archives.’
11.15-11.30. Coffee
11.30-13.00. Geographical perspectives on environmental change
Ronan Foley, Department of Geography, Maynooth University, ‘Therapeutic Environments in 18th and 19th Century Ireland: Hybrid Spaces and Practices.’
Breandán Mac Suibhne, Department of History, Centenary University, Hacklestown NJ, USA, ‘Reduction: Life and Death in a Time of Famine.’
Diana C. Gildea, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Binghamton University, ‘From Plenty to Poverty: Women, Work, and Power in Binghamton’s Long Twentieth Century’
Alistair Fraser, Department of Geography, Maynooth University, ‘Land grab/data grab: precision agriculture and its new horizons.’
13.00-13.45. Lunch
13.45-14.45. Roundtable.
Discussion of: Raj Patel and Jason Moore, History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017). Panelists: Juliana Adelman, School of History and Geography, Dublin City University; Karen Till,Department of Geography, Maynooth University; Chandana Mathur, Department of Anthropology, Maynooth University; Susan Murphy, Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin.
14.45-16.15. Left Ecology Reading Group
Chair. Sinéad Kelly, Department of Geography, Maynooth University
Eoin Flaherty, Lecturer, School of Sociology, University College Dublin, ‘Marx’s Ecology and Method: An Applied Perspective.’ [not free 11-12]
Sharae Deckard, Lecturer, School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin, ‘“A Dream of Itself Shelved”: Irish Energy Futures and the World-Ecology.’
Michael Paye, Research Associate, UCD Humanities Institute, ‘Fish, Fuel, and the Collapse of Cheap Natures: Resource Nationalism in the Films of Risteard O’Domhnaill.’
Patrick Bresnihan, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin, ‘Re-materializing the Dublin docklands: World ecology and the infrastructuring of ports.’
16.15-16.30. Tea
16.30-18.00. Lecture.
Jason W. Moore, Department of Sociology, Binghamton University, ‘On the Origins of Planetary Crisis: Ecologies of Hope in the Capitalocene and Beyond.’
With the generous support of the President's Office, the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and the Department of Geography, Maynooth University.