Global Histories of Environmental Transformation and Economic Development

(Hybrid)

Date: Friday 28th February,  13：30-17：30
In person: 509 Seminar room, 5F Law/Econ Research Building, Toyonaka Campus,Osaka University

​（Co-Organaize by Economic and Business History Workshop, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University）         Program

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Chair: Chiaki Yamamoto (Osaka)

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1.30 - 2.30 Keynote

John McNeill (Georgetown), “Global Environmental History of the Industrial Revolution”

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2.30 - 3.00 Paper 1

Hideaki Sato (Osaka), “Between the Metropolis and the Countryside: Demographic and Environmental Changes in Small Towns of Industrializing Japan”

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3.00 - 3.30 Paper 2

Shoko Mizuno (Komazawa), “Eco-Development’: Colonial Scientists in Africa and International Technical Assistance”

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3.30 - 3. 45 Coffee

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3.45 - 4.00 Discussant 1: Michinori Uwasu (Osaka), Development Economics

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4.00 - 4.15 Discussant 2: Satoru Kobori (Kyoto), Energy history of Japan

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4.15 - 4.30 Discussant 3: Bao Maohong (Peking), Environmental history

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4.30 - 5.00 Reply from speakers

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5.00 - 5.30 Open Q&A

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Global History Seminar No.132

(Hybrid) 

Date: Thursday 20th February,  17：00-18：30
In person: 605 Seminar room, 6F Law/Econ Research Building, Toyonaka Campus,Osaka University

（Co-Organaize by Economic and Business History Workshop, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University）

 

Professor Bao Maohong (Peking University / Osaka University)

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”The environmental history of petrochemical industry in post WWII East Asia”

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