9.0              Coffee and registration

 

9.15          Welcome address by Professor Robert Bickers

 

9.30          Professor Peter Perdue, “Asian Environmental History: The transnational perspective”

 

10.10  Dr Andrea Janku, “Productive Landscapes in Linfen: The Quest for a Sustainable Balance in a Precarious Environment

 

10.30   Dr Felix Wemheuer, “Making Sense of Failure: Natural Disaster and Famine in Maoist China”

 

10.50  Discussion: Chair, Professor Stephen Morgan

 

11.20   Coffee

 

11.30   Professor David Pietz, “Engineering Scarcity: The Yellow River and the Historical Roots of China's Water Crisis”

 

11.50   Dr Zhang Ling, “Too Little Water, Too Much Silt: A History of the Yellow River and Sandification of North China Plain”

 

12.10   Professor Iwo Amelung, “The Dynamics of River Control in Late Imperial China”

 

12.30   Discussion: Chair, Dr Carmen Meinhert

 

1.00-2.00         Lunch

 

2.00     Professor Zheng Yisheng, “China’s “environmental forces”：Their hard work, the predicament they are in, and their own reflections”

 

2.30     Professor Eduard Vermeer, “The benefits and costs of China’s hydropower: development or slow-down?”

 

2.50     Dr Alan Boland, “Consuming water in the productive city: Urban development, water supply, and pollution regulation in China, 1950-1965”

 

3.10     Discussion: Chair, Ms Isabel Hilton

 

3.40-4.00         Coffee

 

4.00     Dr Anna Lora-Wainwright, “Learning to live with pollution: how environmental protesters redefine their interests in a Chinese village”

 

4.20     Dr Karl Gerth, “The Ecological Implications of Chinese Consumerism”

 

4.40     Reut Barak, “Fighting transboundary water pollution in China: what can we learn from the past?”

 

5.00     Discussion: Chair, Dr Cui Shunji

 

5.30.    Closing Discussion, Chair Professor Robin Porter

 

6.00     Close

 

7.00     Dinner