Schedule

*This is a closed-door workshop.Non workshop participants can attend the workshop via zoom.

Zoom Registration Link: https://bit.ly/duke2023workshop

Schedule: Histories & Society in the Hydrosphere | April 28-30, 2023

Friday, April 28, 2023 | 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Saturday, April 29, 2023 | 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Sunday, April 30, 2023 | 9:30 am – 1:00 pm

Friday, April 28, 2023

Introduction | Friday, 9:30 am-10:00 am 

  • Prasenjit Duara, Reflections on abstracts, workshop aims, and overall vision
  • Initial thought from participants

Part I: Oceans | Friday, 10:00 am-11:30 am

  • Nadin Heé, Oceanic Temporalities and Terraqueous Work
  • Jonas Rüegg, Geological Time and Deep-Blue Visions in the Drafting of Pacific Offshore Geographies

Lunch | Friday, 11:30 – 12:30 pm

Continued after lunch | Friday, 12.30 pm-2.00 pm

  • Clark Alejandrino, Typhoons Between Time: Experiencing and Understanding the Hydrosphere Through Storms
  • Sunil Amrith, Port Cities, the Ocean, and the Hydrosphere

Part II: Coastal and Terrestrial Waters | Friday, 2.00 pm—4.30 pm

i) River Basin Regions

  • Ruth Mostern and Raorao Su, A Shatterzone on an Ecotone- Spatial and Political Ecologies of Erosion in the Jing River Basin
  • G Mathias Kondolf, Sediment Continuity and Developing ‘Whole Basin’ Measures to Address Mekong Delta Subsidence
  • Arunabh Ghosh, Small Hydropower and Region Formation in Jinhua County, Zhejiang, 1950s-1970s

Saturday, April 29, 2023

Part II: Coastal and Terrestrial Waters | Contd. | Saturday, 10:00 am-12.30 pm

ii) Living with Waters:

  • Jerome Whitington, Mind the Cut- Volumetric Sovereignty, Large Hydropower Dams and the Reimagination of River Environments
  • Yan Gao, Wetlands and Military Power in the Central Yangzi Valley of Late Imperial China
  • Chandana Anusha, Livestock and Coastal Waters: Mega-Port Development in the Gulf of Kutch, Western India

Lunch | Saturday, 12:30- 2:00 pm

Part III: Embodied Waters | Saturday 2:00 pm-4:30 pm

  • Jim Wescoat, Hydrologies of the Human Body- From Euro-American Medical Hydrology to Indo-Gandhian Hydrotherapeutics (1830-1950)
  • Martha Kaplan, Trust in science, trust in nature: Drinking water’s meanings in Singapore and the US.
  • Chris Courtney, From Pathogenic Dampness to Air Conditioning Disease- Humidity and Health in Chinese History

Sunday, April 30, 2023

Part IV: Water, Cosmology and Power | Sunday, 9:30 am-12 pm:

  • Chris Coggins, Knowing the Moods of the Gods- Spectral Flows and Moral Hydro-ecology in Village Sacred Groves of Monsoon Asia
  • David Gilmartin, Sovereignty, the Hydrosphere, and the Modern Cosmopolis
  • Rohan D’Souza, Fins in the inland Ocean: How modern rivers discovered their pulse in British India

Concluding discussion over Lunch | Sunday, 12 pm-1 pm.
All, concluding thoughts from editors and each participant