NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS,
CENTRE FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH
ST. PETERSBURG
International Conference
“Natural Resources, Landscape and Climate
in History of Russia and Neighbouring Countries”
26- 28 NOVEMBER 2015
PROGRAMME
26 November
Higher School of Economics, 16 Soyuza Pechatnikov, room 218
10:00 – 11:15 Opening of the conference.
Roundtable on Environmental History in Russia and about Russia
Participants: David Moon (University of York), Julia Lajus (HSE), Catherine Evtuhov (Georgetown University), Denis Shaw (University of Birmingham).
11:15 – 12:30 Lunch and transfer to Russian Geographical Society, 10 Grivtsova.
12:30 – 17:30 Seminar for the 200 years anniversary of Alexander von Middendorf (in Russian)
St. Petersburg building of Russian Geographic Society
Presenters: Natalia Sukhova (Institute for the History of Science and Technology RAS), Erki Tammiksaar (University of Tartu), Ekaterina Basargina (St. Petersburg Archives RAS), Alexei Kouprianov (HSE), Maksim Vinarsky (Omsk State Pedagogical University), Dmitry Bolshiyanov (Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute), Vladimir Davydov (Kunstkamera RAS), Nadezhda Matveeva (Botanical Institute RAS).
27 November
Higher School of Economics, 3 Kantemirovskaia , room 247
10:00 – 11:45 Session 1.Animals as natural resources in history
Chair and discussant: Julia Lajus (HSE).
Erki Tammiksaar(University of Tartu). Karl Ernst von Baer on Chudsko-Pskovskoe Ozero in 1851–1852 – the birth of systematic fishery studies in the Russian empire“.
Anastasia Fedotova(Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences), Tomasz Samojlik (Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences).Bialowieza primeval forest under Russian administration: Forest exploitation or protection of bisons?
Maksim Mostovenko and Evgenii Gololobov (Surgut Pedagogical University). The biological resources of the North of Western Siberia in the context of industrial developing: evolution or degradation?
11:45 - 12:15 Coffee-break
12:15- 14:30 Session 2. Soils, forests, agriculture.
Chair and discussant: Catherine Evtuhov (Georgetown University).
David Moon (University of York), Empire, exploration and scientific innovation in the Russian Empire: The case of genetic soil science.
Marina Loskutova (HSE), Russian forest management, environmental problems and early conservationist ideas between 1800 and 1855.
Irina Chernyakova (Petrozavodsk State University), Olli-Pekka Tikkanen (University of Eastern Finland), Raimo Heikkilya (Finnish Environment Institute). The fates of Northern Karelian village and its inhabitants in the harsh nature and disaster policy (19—20th centuries).
Elena Kochetkova (HSE). Forests, timber and wood wastes in the Soviet Union, 1950s-1960s.
14:30 – 15:30 Lunch
15:30 – 16:30. Plenary session: Catherine Evtuhov (Georgetown University). Philosophy and Environment.
16.30 – 18.45. Session 3. Politics of natural resources, landscape and heritage.
Chair and discussant: Dag Avango (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).
Andrei Vinogradov (Kazan Federal University, Elabuga). Exploitation, overexploitation, industry: environmental problems of economic development in the Middle Volga Region (1700-1917)
Anna Klikacheva, Oleg Chernyakov (Petrozavodsk State University). Salt production at the end of the 18th century in Olonets Karelia and its impact on nature (in revue of enlightened contemporaries).
Urban Wrakberg (Arctic University of Norway). The loss of built heritage in Northern Norway during WWII and the failing interest to restore it in the official post-war rebuilding policy.
Doubravka Olsakova (Institute for Contemporary History, Prague). The Ideology behind the use of natural resources in communist Czechoslovakia (between neo-malthusianism and its political denial).
Jack Sharples (European University at St. Petersburg). Changing geography of natural gas extraction in Russia.
19:00 Dinner (Art-Café, ul. Bolshaya Morskaya 38).
28 November
Higher School of Economics, 16 Soyuza Pechatnikov, room 301
10:00 – 11:45.Session 4. Spitsbergen and other Arctic places in history
Chair and discussant Urban Wrakberg (Arctic University of Norway).
Alexei Kraikovski (European University at St. Petersburg), Margaret Dadykina (HSE).Natural resources of Spitsbergen as constructed image.
Dag Avango (Royal Institute of Technology). Constructing the pasts of competing Spitsbergen futures: Russian Arctic heritage in action
Vassily Borovoy (HSE). Planned economy in the Arctic conditions: Soviet coal mining on Spitsbergen in 1930.
11:45 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 15:00 Session 5. Resources of the City.
Chair and discussant: Alexandra Bekasova
Anna Mazanik (Herder Institute, Marburg).Animal bodies for the human good? The reform of meat supply in late-imperial Moscow.
Ekaterina Kalemeneva (HSE). Climate as an enemy and as a resource: Soviet northern urbanism of the 1960s
Roman Khandozhko (RANEPA, Moscow and University of Bremen). From “Ecopolis” to the Noosphere movement: Environmental utopianism in the science cities of the late Soviet Union.
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:30 Session 6. Climate in History
Nikolai Dronin (Moscow State University). Ongoing aridization in the forest-steppe and steppe zones of the former Soviet Union countries in 1982-2010.
Jonathan Oldfield (University of Birmingham).M.I. Budyko (1920-2001): Conceptualising climate change and global ecology.
Denis Shaw (University of Birmingham).Soviet meteorology's international links during the Cold War period.
17:30 – 18:00 Summing-up
David Moon, Julia Lajus, Catherine Evtuhov