[nativestudies-l] Fwd: Yale Conference on "Resources: Endowment or Curse, Better or Worse?" February 24-25--All are invited, but please register

[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

Next month the conference ?Resources:  Endowment or Curse, Better or 
Worse?? will be held at Yale University on February 24-25, 2012.  The 
conference is free and open to the public. Richard White will give the 
keynote lecture on Friday 2/24 early evening.

If you are able to participate, please register your attendance at the 
conference website http://www.econ.yale.edu/~egcenter/EHindex.htm 
<http://www.econ.yale.edu/%7Eegcenter/EHindex.htm> .  The conference 
schedule is below and the poster is attached.  Papers will be posted on 
the website as they come in.  The website also has links to a campus map 
and information about travel to New Haven.
** * *     All Are Invited      * * **
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*?RESOURCES: ENDOWMENT OR CURSE, BETTER OR WORSE??*
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*FEBRUARY 24-25, 2012*
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*Luce Auditorium
Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Yale University*
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/Co-Sponsored by the Yale Program in Economic History and Yale 
Environmental History/
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The conference is free and open to the public.  Please register at:
http://www.econ.yale.edu/~egcenter/EHindex.htm 
<http://www.econ.yale.edu/%7Eegcenter/EHindex.htm>
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*CONFERENCE OVERVIEW*
How do the characteristics and availability of natural resources shape 
political institutions?  How have states mobilized resources to bolster 
their legitimacy and extend their influence?  How have economic and 
environmental historians, political scientists, and others approached 
the concept of resources in the past and what are some directions for 
future work?
This two-day conference at Yale University will engage an 
interdisciplinary group of scholars to examine these questions and 
others at the intersection of environmental change, economics, and 
political development.
As scholarship has become more transnational, the management and 
movement of human and natural resources, and the circulation of 
commodities and ideas, have all emerged as exigent research questions.  
Such broad empirical and methodological investigations invite 
comparative approaches across social science and humanistic disciplines 
and geographic and temporal distinctions.  This conference therefore 
engages the Ancient Mediterranean to imperial China and the modern 
United States to understand the economics and histories of such problems 
and to provide perspective on current conflicts over natural resources 
and their implications for state development and geopolitical struggles.
*CONFERENCE SCHEDULE*
*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24*
1:15PM  INTRODUCTION: Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale University)
1:30-2:45pm   PANEL 1: Resources and State-building I
Chair: Seven Agir (Yale University)
Joe Manning (Yale University)
?Water, Irrigation and their Connection to State Power in Egypt?
Bin Wong (UCLA)
?Historical and Comparative Perspectives on Resource Management in 
Chinese Empires?
Respondent: Daniel Headrick (Roosevelt University)
COFFEE BREAK
3:15-4:30pm  PANEL 2: Resources and State-building II
Chair: Peter Perdue (Yale University)
Alan Mikhail (Yale University)
?Domestic Animals and Economic Transformation in Ottoman Egypt?
Anne McCants (MIT)
?Building in Stone: Clerical and Lay Political Struggle in the High 
Middle Ages?
Respondent: Ken Pomeranz (UC Irvine)
5:00PM   KEYNOTE LECTURE: Richard White (Stanford University)
?Incommensurate Measures: Nature, History, and Economics?
Introduced and moderated by John Mack Faragher (Yale University)
*SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25*
8:15 BREAKFAST
9:00-10:15AM PANEL 3: Empire and Resources in the Ancient Mediterranean
Chair: Francesca Trivellato (Yale University)
R. Bruce Hitchner, (Tufts University)
?Too Many Men: Population, Resources, and the Origins of Roman Expansionism"
John Haldon (Princeton University)
?Resources, Markets and the State: The Case of Byzantium?
Respondent: Peter Temin (MIT)
COFFEE BREAK
10:45-12:00PM PANEL 4: Water
Chair: K. (Shivi) Sivaramakrishnan (Yale University)
Ling Zhang (Yale Agrarian Studies Fellow/Boston College)
?From ?Controlling Floods? to ?Managing a River?: The Chinese State and 
the Political History of the Yellow River?
Arupjyoti Saikia (Yale Agrarian Studies Fellow/ IIT Guwahati)
?Jute or Flood: Exploring the fate of certain schemes in the Brahmaputra 
River Valley?
Respondent: Richard Hornbeck (Harvard University)
12:00-1:00PM BUFFET LUNCH
1:00-2:30 PANEL 5  Comparative Perspectives on Resources and Governance
Moderator: Paul Sabin (Yale University)
Nancy Langston (University of Wisconsin)
John McNeill (Georgetown University)
Timothy Mitchell (Columbia University)

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