Venue: Maison Française d'Oxford, Norham Road

• Thomas Le Roux (CNRS-MFO), “Environmental History in France and Great Britain: Methodology, New Perspectives, Common Ground”

23rd January               

Resources (16th-18th c.)

Venue: Maison Française d'Oxford, Norham Road

• Grégory Quenet (Université de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), “Building the Palace of Versailles: Environmental Consequences”
• Paul Warde (University of East Anglia), 'Life, land and limits in the "organic economy", c.1670-1840'

13th February               

Chemistry and Environment (18th-early 19th c.)

Venue: Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington

• Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Imperial college, London), “Chemistry and the Transformation of Environment, 1750-1850”
• John Perkins (Oxford Brookes University), “Chemical Expertise and Industrial Pollution in Rouen, 1770-1810”

5th March                     

Landscape (19th-early 20th c.)

Venue: tbc

• Charles-François Mathis (University de Paris-Sorbonne), “Landscape and Preservation in England in the 19th c.”
• Jeremy Burchardt (University of Reading), “Landscape, Preservationism and Local Interests, the Example of Berkshire, early 20th c.”

23rd April                     

Workplace environment (20th c.)

Venue: tbc

• Judith Rainhorn (Université de Lille-Valenciennes), “Lead Poisoning and the Way of the International Acknowledgment”
• Peter Bartrip (University of Oxford), “Regulating Asbestos Hazards in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain”

21st May                      

The Climate Question (18th-19th c.)

Venue: tbc

• Fabien Locher (CNRS/EHESS, Paris), “Climate and ‘Government’ (France, 18th-19th c.)”
• Vladimir Jankovic (University of Manchester), “Climate as Agency”

11th June                     

History of biodiversity (20th c.)

Venue: tbc

• Christophe Bonneuil (EHESS, Paris), “An Environmental History of Gene: Plant Breeding and Crop Biodiversity in France, 20th c.”
• British colleague to be confirmed

Convener: Thomas Le Roux (CNRS-MFO)

For further information: reception@mfo.ac.uk, website: http://www.mfo.ac.uk/