Convened panels at the BASEES Annual Conference 2011

Published: 21 June 2011

Building on previous discussions and workshop events, two linked panels were developed for the BASEES Annual Conference (Cambridge, 2-4 March, 2011).

These explored the general theme of 'Managing resources and conceptualising nature during the late tsarist and early Soviet periods'. The following papers were delivered:BASEES Logo 

  • Alexandra Bekasova (St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute for the History of Science and Technology), "Conquering Nature": Land Road Communications, Resource Use and National Pride in Russian Public Discourse, 1800-1850.
  • Catherine Evtuhov (Georgetown University), Measuring the Weather: Local Meteorological Stations in Late 19th-Century Russia.
  • Julia Lajus (European University at St. Petersburg), Russian fish resources on display: representation of fish and fisheries at the international exhibitions, end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries.
  • David Moon (University of Durham), Russian Steppe Agronomy in the 19th and early 20th centuries: Conserving Moisture in the Soil.
  • Jonathan Oldfield (University of Glasgow), Geographical conceptualizations of the natural environment in the early Soviet period.
  • Denis Shaw (University of Birmingham), The rise of modern biogeographical studies in Russia: The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

First published: 21 June 2011