All events to take place in the Charles B. Wang Center on Stony Brook University campus.
THURSDAY, DEC. 13 |
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12:15 pm |
Conference Registration begins in Wang Center Theater Lobby | |
1:00 pm |
Introductions |
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1:30 pm–3:30 pm |
Contemporary Industrial Hazards in the Developing World
David Ferguson, Technology and Society, Moderator, Lecture Hall 1
Co-organized by the Departments of History and Preventive Medicine. Preregistration not required. |
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| • | Fenda Akiwumi and Foday Jaward, (University of South Florida, US) “World System Processes and Mine Waste Generation in Sierra Leone, Africa” | |
| • | Daniel Renfrew (Towson University, Maryland), “New Hazards and Old Disease: Lead Contamination and the Uruguayan Battery Industry” | |
| • | Susanna Bohme (Brown University, US), “Toxic Trade and the Fate of the Nation-State in an Era of Globalization: The Case of Dibromochloropropane | |
| • | Wajdy Hailoo (CUNY, US) “Iraq 's Oil Industry and its Health Dilemmas” | |
4:00 pm |
Provost's Lecture:
Barry Castleman, “Globalization and the Export of Hazards”
Lecture Hall 1 |
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5:30 pm |
Conference Reception, Zodiac Gallery, Wang Center |
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| The remainder of the conference will consist of discussions of pre-circulated papers. Registration is required for access to these papers. | ||
FRIDAY, DEC. 14 |
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8:15 am |
Registration, Wang Center, Room 201 |
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9:00 am–11:00 am |
Papers, Room 201 Moderator: Fenda Akiwumi (University of South Florida, US) |
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| • | Gavin Bridge and Tomas Fredericksen (University of Manchester, UK) “To the Ends of the Earth: Risk, Hazard and the Production of an Extractive (Tin Mining) Economy in Nigeria in the Early 20th Century” Comment: Leslie Hannah (University of Tokyo, Japan) |
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| • | Alfredo Menendez-Navarro (University of Grenada, Spain), “Global Markets and Local Conflicts in Mercury Mining: Industrial Restructuring and Workplace Hazards at Almaden Mines in the Early 20th Century” Comment: Anna Zalik (York University, Canada) |
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| • | Amarjit Kaur (University of New England, Austr.) “Migrant Labour, Work, Environment and Health in Colonial Malaya, 1880-1940" Comment: Joseph Melling (University of Exeter, UK) |
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11:00 am–11:30 am |
Coffee Break | |
11:30 am–12:50 pm |
Papers, Room 201 Moderator: Donna Rilling (History, Stony Brook University, US) |
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| • | Tim Carter (with Jo Melling) (University of Birmingham, UK) “Anthrax 1880-1920: National and International Responses to a Contaminant of Global Trade” Comment: Geoffrey Tweedale (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) |
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| • | Genevieve Massard-Guilbaud (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France) “What is a Risk? What is a Pollutant? The Nineteenth-Century French State Definition; Rationale and Evolution” Comment: Constance Perin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US) |
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12:50 pm–1: 45 pm |
Lunch (pre-registration required), Wang Chapel | |
1:45 pm–3:45 pm |
Papers, Room 201 |
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| • | Paul Blanc (University of California, San Francisco, US) “Rayon, Carbon Disulfide, and the Emergence of the Multinational Corporation in Occupational Disease” Comment: Stephen Zavestoski (University of San Francisco, US) |
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| • | Leslie Hannah (University of Tokyo, Japan) “European versus American Approaches to Rail Safety” Comment: Genevieve Massard-Guilbaud (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France) |
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Myrna Santiago (St. Mary’s College, US), “Health, Safety and Class War in the Mexican Oil Industry, 1900-38”
Comment: Barbara Allen (Virginia Tech, US) |
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| 3:45 pm–4:00 pm | Coffee Break | |
| 4:00 pm–5:20 pm | Papers, Room 201 Moderator: Susanna Bohme (Brown University, US) |
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| • | Joseph Melling (University of Exeter, UK) and Christopher Sellers (SUNY, Stony Brook, US), “Objective Collectives: Transnationalism and ‘Invisible Colleges’ from Collis to Selikoff” Comment: Paul Blanc (University of California, San Francisco, US) |
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| • | Emmanuel Henry (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Strasbourg, France), “Occupational versus Environmental Hazards: Is There a Second Environmental Turn?” Comment: Stephanie Barca (University of California, Berkeley, US) |
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| 5:20 pm–6:15 pm | Discussion: Globalization and Industrial Hazards in late 19th-early 20th century Moderator: Joseph Melling (University of Exeter, UK) Introduction: Barry Castleman’s proposed “Code of Practice in Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety for Transnational Corporations” |
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| SATURDAY, DEC. 15 | ||
8:15 am |
Registration, Wang Center, Room 201 |
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| 9:00 am–10:20 am | Papers, Room 201 Moderator: Alix Cooper (History, Stony Brook University, US) |
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| • | Gabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan, US) “African Bodies and Nuclear Things:
Scenes from the Transnational Production of Uranium” (in absentia) Comment: Ronnie Johnston (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK) |
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| • | Constance Perin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US), "'Safety Culture' in the U.S. Nuclear Power Industry" (US) Comment: Allison Hepler (University of Maine at Farmington, US) |
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| 10:20 am–10:45 am | Coffee Break. Posters available for viewing in Room 201 | |
| 10:45 am–12:45 pm | Papers, Room 201 Moderator: Themis Chronopoulos (History, Stony Brook University, US) |
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| • | Ronnie Johnston and Arthur McIvor (Glasgow Caledonian and Strathclyde Universities, UK) “Men, Mines, Masculinity and Dust Disease: Globalizing Workers’ Perceptions of Risk at Work, c. 1945-80s” (Presentation) | |
| • | Allison Hepler (University of Maine at Farmington, US) “Your Job or Your Life: U.S. Workplace Advocacy in the Wake of OSHA and Earth Day” Comment: Emmanuel Henry (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Strasbourg, France) |
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| • | Stefania Barca (University of California-Berkeley, US/Italy), “Italy 1958-78: The Rise and Fall of a 'Labor Environmentalism'” Comment: Alfredo Menendez-Navarro (University of Grenada, Spain) |
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| 12:45 pm–1:45 pm | Lunch (pre-registration required), Wang Chapel. Poster Showings in Room 201. | |
| 1:45 pm–3:00 pm | Papers, Room 201 Moderator: Daniel Renfrew (Towson University, US) |
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| • | Barbara Allen (Virginia Tech, US) “A Tale of Two Lawsuits: Making Environmental Knowledge in Italian and US Chemical Regions” Comment: Tim Carter (University of Birmingham, UK) |
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| • | Geoffrey Tweedale (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), “Compensation Claims Against Multinational Asbestos Companies: Pursuing a Lost Cause?” Comment: Gavin Bridge (University of Manchester, UK) |
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| 3:00 pm–3:15 pm | Coffee Break. Poster showings in Room 201 | |
| 3:15 pm–4:45 pm | Papers, Room 201 Moderator: Foday Jaward (University of South Florida, US) |
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| • | Anna Zalik (York University, Canada), “Shipping the ‘Next Prize’: The Trade in Liquefied Natural Gas from Nigeria to Mexico” Comment: Amarjit Kaur (University of New England, Australia) |
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| • | Stephen Zavestoski (University of San Francisco, US), "The Petrochemical Industry, the Bhopal Disaster, and the Global Anti-toxics Movement: A Tale of Two Globalizations" Comment: Myrna Santiago (St. Mary’s College, US) |
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| 4:45 pm–6:00 pm | Discussion: Summation and Castleman, “Code of Practice in Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety for Transnational Corporations” Moderator: Chris Sellers (Stony Brook University, US) |
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