9:00 AM – 9:30 AM: Registration & Welcome Coffee
9:45 AM – 11:15 AM: Session 1
The Roots of Innovation: Forest Cover, Sedentism, and Technological Development in the Upper Paleolithic (Evan Wigton-Jones, Husson University)
A Land of Timber? A Political-Ecological Reading of Persian Encroachment, Timber Extraction, and the Making of the Strategic Area in the Northern Aegean (Edward Tang, Stanford University)
Resource Management within Medieval Ifriqiya-Sahara: Towards a New Political Economy (Amel Bensalim, Princeton University)
11:15 AM – 11:45 AM: Coffee Break
11:45AM – 12.45PM: Session 2
Selective Persistence: Colonial Education, State Intervention and the Durability of School Quality in South Africa (Sarah Ferber, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Ruling the Commons: Colonial Forest Governance and Postcolonial Struggles of Forest-Dependent Communities for Access in India (Taniya Malik, Indian Law Institute (Deemed to be University), New Delhi)
12:45 PM – 2:00 PM: Lunch
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Session 3
Gendered Carbon: Women's Labour as Metabolic Subsidy in Colonial Extractive Economies (Shaonli Bhowmik, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Gendered Coping in a Degraded Ecosystem: Women's Livelihood Strategies in Nigeria (Ruth Oore-ofe Ogunnowo, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs)
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Coffee Break
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Session 4
Gender, Colonialism, and Labour in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia (Urvi Khaitan, Harvard University)
The Legacy of the Guano Boom: Asian-Origin Migration and Coercive Labor Institutions in 19th-Century Peru (César A. Huaroto, independent scholar)
5:00 PM – 5:15 PM: Break
5:15 PM – 6:45 PM: Keynote Address I – Prof. Stefania Galli (Gothenburg University)
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Session 5
Mapping the Institutional Architecture of Argentine Energy Policy: A Quantitative Approach to Regulatory History (1930s–Present) (Luca Bianchetti, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata)
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Coffee Break
10:30 AM – 11:30 PM: Session 6
Trout Fisheries and the Changing Politics of Water in Twentieth Century Southern India (Nilgiris) (Vaibhav Ramani, Ashoka University)
Unfixed Waters, Precarious Borders: Construction of the Land-Water Dichotomy and the Border Question in 20th Century Bengal Delta (Ananyo Chakraborty, Australian National University)
11:30 PM – 1:30 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM: Session 7
The Uneven Territorial Reach of the State: Subnational Variation in the Provision of the Early Police Force in Chile, 1850–1920 (Orr Yoeli Rimmer, University of Barcelona)
Forum-Shopping and the Evolution of Policy: Evidence from Groundwater Adjudications in California (Mark Kanazawa, Carleton College)
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM: Coffee Break
3:00 PM – 4:45 PM: Workshop 1 – Sarah Ferber (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Story Telling for Economic Historians
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM: Break
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM: Keynote Adress II – Prof. Ann Carlos (University of Colorado Boulder)
8:00 PM – Late: Conference Dinner
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Session 8
When Water Becomes Infrastructure: Power, Institutions, and the Good Life in Indigenous Communities (Kimberly Montañez-Medina, Lund University)
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: Coffee Break
11:30 PM – 1:00 PM: Workshop 2 – Louis Henderson (London School of Economics)
Conflict at Common Law: Constructing a Machine-Readable Database of Eighteenth-Century Plea Rolls
1.00 PM – 2:00 PM: Lunch
2.00 PM – 2:30 PM: Closing Remarks