London Group of Historical Geographers Seminar Programme, Autumn 2014
This years seminars focus on the topic of 'Scarcity and Plenty'
Seminars will be held on Tuesdays at 17:15 in the Large Conference Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London (except on 25 November, when it will be held in the Bloomsbury Room (G35) on the ground floor, South Block, Senate House)
The seminar programme is as follows:
SCARCITY AND PLENTY
| Date | Seminar details |
14 October | Hybrid corn and endangered maize: agricultural modernization and the conservation of genetic diversity in crop plants, 1935-1970 Helen Anne Curry (University of Cambridge) |
| 27 October | The South Asian monsoon: a history for the Anthropocene Sunil Amrith (Birkbeck, University of London) |
| 11 November | The publication bomb: publishing Malthus and the birth of modern environmentalism Robert Mayhew (University of Bristol) |
| 25 November | Philanthropic power: lessons from the agricultural strategies of the Rockefeller Foundation David Nally (University of Cambridge)
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| 9 December | By the bye, is it summer? It is raining as hard as it can pour: historical geographies and cultural memories of deluge, dearth and extraordinary weather in the UK Georgina Endfield and Lucy Veale (University of Nottingha |
For further details please visit the LGHG homepage or the seminar listing on the IRH website.