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 – 11:30 AM: Coffee Break
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM: Session 2
Deforestation and Dispossession: Mapping the (Post)colonial Political Ecologies of Philippine Forests, 1850–Present (Angelo Galindo, Wageningen University)
History of Indonesian Deforestation since 1850: Colonialism, Commodities, Commons (Dea Iftina, Wageningen University)
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)
1.00 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)
Gender, Colonialism, and Labour in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia (Urvi Khaitan, Harvard University)
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Coffee Break
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Session 4
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)
5:00 PM – 5:15 PM: Break
5:15 PM – 6:45 PM: Keynote Address I – Prof. Stefania Galli (Gothenburg University)
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM: Session 5
The Legacy of the Guano Boom: Asian-Origin Migration and Coercive Labor Institutions in 19th-Century Peru (César A. Huaroto, independent scholar)
Lithium, the State and the Making of Uneven Geographies in Zimbabwe, c. 1950s to Present (Jabulani Shaba, University of Groningen)
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM: Coffee Break
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM: Session 6
Colonial Fuel Spatiality: Cement, Fossil Energy, and Institutional Power in Mandate Palestine (Hadar Porat, Technion Israel Institute of Technology)
Mapping the Institutional Architecture of Argentine Energy Policy: A Quantitative Approach to Regulatory History (1930s–Present) (Luca Bianchetti, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata)
Nuclear Energy between National Development and Local Resistance: The Case of Sessa Aurunca, Southern Italy (1950–1980) (Davide Paparcone, Università degli Studi della Campania)
12.15 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)
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM: Coffee Break
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM: Workshop 1 – Sarah Ferber (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Story Telling for Economic Historians
4:45 PM – 5:15 PM: Break
5:15 PM – 6:45 PM: Keynote Adress II – Prof. Ann Carlos (University of Colorado Boulder)
8:00 PM – Late: Conference Dinner
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM: Session 5
Unique Characteristics of New Zealand's Post-Colonial Experiences with Natural Resources and Sustainability (Les Oxley, University of Waikato)
When Water Becomes Infrastructure: Power, Institutions, and the Good Life in Indigenous Communities (Kimberly Montañez-Medina, Lund University)
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM: Coffee Break
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM: Session 6
Crops and Colonial Legacies: The Political Economy of British and French Cash Crop Commercialisation in Africa (Leoné Walters, University of Cape Town)
Who Controls the Seed? Cooperatives, Biodiversity Loss, and Unequal Power Relations in Dutch Agriculture, c. 1930–1990 (Harm Zwarts, University of Groningen)
Institutional Dimensions of Farm-Level Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from Smallholder Farmers in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan (Saba Kabir, Chiang Mai University)
12.15 PM – 1:15 PM: Lunch
1:15 PM – 2:45 PM: Workshop 2 – Louis Henderson (London School of Economics)
Conflict at Common Law: Constructing a Machine-Readable Database of Eighteenth-Century Plea Rolls
2.45 PM – 3:00 PM: Closing Remarks