School of Social & Political Sciences

Conference Papers

Oldfield, J.D., ‘The Dokuchaev soil science tradition and the emergence of landscape science in Russia,’ 1^st World Congress of Environmental History, Copenhagen, 2009

Oldfield, J.D., ‘Practical and theoretical contributions of V.V. Dokuchaev to the emergence of landscape science in Russia,’ Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference, London, 2010

Shaw, D.J.B., ‘Utility in Natural History: Some Eighteenth-Century Russian Perceptions of the Living Environment’, Annual Meeting of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia, Hoddesdon, January 2011. Abstract/overview.

Shaw, D.J.B., ‘The Rise of Modern Biogeographical Studies in Russia: the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries’, BASEES Annual Conference, Cambridge, April 2011

Oldfield, J.D., ‘Russian natural science and society: explorations of the links between scientific conception, practice and the state during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries’, 6^th Conference of the European Society for Environmental History, Turku, June-July, 2011

Shaw, D.J.B., ‘The Subarctic: a Classic Study of the Tundra’, Workshop sponsored by the Rachel Carson Centre (Munich) and German Institute, Frost, Ice, and Snow: Cold Climate in Russian History, German Historical Institute, Moscow, February 2012. Abstract.

Shaw, D.J.B., ‘Soviet Geographers and the Great Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature: Issues in Using Published Sources from the Stalin Era’, CRCEES Research Forum, University of Glasgow, May 2012

Oldfield, J.D., ‘Conceptualisations of natural physical systems and natural resources amongst Russian physical geographers during the late tsarist and early Soviet period, European Society for the History of Science Congress, Athens, November 2012 [For a linked conference report see: Oldfield, J.D., Conceptualising the natural environment: Critical reflections from Russia, Istoriko-biologicheskie issledovaniya [Studies in the History of Biology], 5(3), 2013, pp. 166-170]

Shaw, D.J.B., ‘Soviet Geographers and the Great Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature’, 5^th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science and Technology, Athens, November 2012 [For a linked conference report see: Oldfield, J.D., Conceptualising the natural environment: Critical reflections from Russia, Istoriko-biologicheskie issledovaniya [Studies in the History of Biology], 5(3), 2013, pp. 166-170]

Shaw, D.J.B., ‘Science and Environmental Control: Soviet Geographers and the Great Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature, BASEES/ICSEES International Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, April 2013

Oldfield, J.D., ‘Russian geography and the Commission for the Study of the Natural Productive Forces of Russia (KEPS)’, 24^th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, 21-28 July, 2013

Shaw, D.J.B., ‘The Science behind the Great Stalin Plan, 1948-1953: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Precedents’, 24^th International Conference for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, July 21-28, 2013

Shaw, D.J.B., ‘Science and Environmental Control in the USSR: the Great Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature, 1948-1953’, Biennial Conference of the European Society for Environmental History, Munich, August 20-24, 2013