Friday, 26 June 2015
9.00-9.30:
Welcome and Introduction
Ulrike Kirchberger, University of Kassel
9.30-11.00: Panel 1
WHALES AND CROCODILES: BIG ACTORS AND THEIR FELLOW-TRAVELLERS
Chair: Mieke Roscher, University of Kassel
Felix Schürmann, University of Kassel
American Whalers in the Struggles for the Control of Anjouan, c. 1835–1890
Simon Pooley, Imperial College London
Shifting Perceptions of Crocodiles in Australia and South Africa, c.1900-2007
11.00-11.30: Coffee
11.30-13.00: Panel 2
SMALL ACTORS – MASSIVE IMPACT: MUDWORMS AND PHYTOPATHOGENS
Chair: André Krebber, University of Kassel
Jodi Frawley, Queensland University of Technology
The New Zealand Mudworm in the Australian Oyster: from Invasive Species to Agent of Adaptation
Samuel Eleazar Wendt, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder
Rubber, Cotton, Cocoa – Plantation Monoculture and Phytopathology in the German Colonies of Cameroon and Togo, 1884-1914
13.00-14.00: Lunch
14.00-15.30: Panel 3
“WILD ANIMALS”: COLONISERS AND COLONISED
Chair: Idir Ouahes, University of Exeter
Nicole Chalmer, University of Western Australia
Brumbies (Equus ferus caballus) as Colonisers of the Esperance Mallee–Recherche Bioregion, Western Australia (1860 to present)
Joseph Jules Sinang, University of Yaoundé
La gestion de la faune sauvage au Cameroun par les administrations coloniales allemandes et françaises (1884-1920)
15.30-16.00: Coffee
16.00-17.30: Panel 4
CONCEPTS AND CONTOURS
Chair: Ulrike Kirchberger
Jacob Bull, University of Uppsala
Animal Movements/Moving Animals – Questions of Scale, Direction and Velocity in Animal Studies
Brett Bennett, University of Western Sydney
Untangling Socio-Ecological Histories of Plant Exchange throughout the Indian Ocean Rim: Conceptualising the Processes of Introduction, Naturalisation, and Invasion
Saturday, 27 June 2015
9.00-10.30: Panel 5
TRANSFER OF IDEAS: AGRICULTURE
Chair: Brett Bennett, University of Western Sydney
Idir Ouahes, University of Exeter
Agricultural Experimentation in French Mandate Syria: the Civilizing Mission, Ecological Transfers and Anthropocentric Appropriation
Florian Wagner, University of Freiburg/European University Institute Florence
Planting Prosperity: Colonial Networks and the Transfer of Agronomic Techniques from the “Ancient” Colonies to the “New Territories” in Africa (1880s-1920s)
10.30-11.00: Coffee
11.00-12.30: Panel 6
TRANSFER OF IDEAS: SCIENCE
Chair: Julia Hauser, University of Kassel
Carey McCormack, Washington State University, Vancouver
Collection and Discovery: Joseph Hooker and the Exclusionary Act of “Discovery” in Northern India
Semih Çelik, European University Institute Florence
“Science, to Understand the Abundance of Plants and Trees”: Colonialism, Westernization and the First Ottoman Natural History Museum and Herbarium (1839-1848)
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.30-15.00: Panel 7
ACCLIMATISATION IN AUSTRALIA AND IN EUROPE
Chair: Jodi Frawley, Queensland University of Technology
Peter Minard, University of Melbourne
Animal Agency and Acclimatisation in colonial Australia
Alexander van Wickeren, University of Cologne
Cubanizing Tobacco Cultivation. Ecological and Interimperial Networks in the French State Tobacco Monopoly, ca. 1850-1870
15.00-15.15: Coffee
15.15-16.15:
FINAL DISCUSSION
Chair: Ulrike Kirchberger