Conference Presentations and Lectures

Franz-Josef Brüggemeier gave a lecture at the University of Thübingen in December 2012. His talk was entitled “Im Bauch der Stadt: Kanalisation und Bürgerstolz im 19. Jahrhundert” (In the Belly of the City: Sewage Systems and Civic Pride in the Nineteenth Century).

Stefan Dorondel and Diana Mincyte presented papers at the October 2012 European Agricultural Policy Conference on “‘Land Sharing vs. Land Grabbing’: New Ownership Models for Sustainable Land Use.” Dorondel’s paper was entitled “Romanian Agriculture between Subsistence, Large Associations, and Land Grabbing” and Mincyte spoke on“Land Grabbing and Alternatives in Post-Socialist Lithuania and North Eastern Europe.”

Carmel Finley and Ingo Heidbrink gave papers on a panel, “The Historian’s Perspective,” at the November 2012 History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP) conference in Perth, Australia.

Siddhartha Krishnan gave a seminar and lecture in October 2012 at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Both Krishnan’s seminar talk and lecture dealt with his RCC research project on the political ecology and cultural politics in the Nilgris, South India.

Gary Martin gave his annual ethnobotany lecture at Kew Gardens in October 2012. Martin spoke on “Medicinal Plant Trade, Conservation and Local Livelihoods in Southern Morocco,” which draws on the research that he conducted while a fellow at the RCC.

In 2012, Bron Taylor gave lectures on religion, spirituality, and radical environmentalism (among others) at the Fourth International Disaster and Risk Conference (Davos, Switzerland); the Religion and Society Research Day (Leeds University), the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden), at the University of Copenhagen, the Centre for Human Ecology (Glasgow, Scotland), Edinburgh University, and at the One Health—One Planet—One Future: International Perspectives Conference (Davos).