Conference Papers

Oldfield, J.D., ‘Conceptualisations of climate and climate change amongst Soviet geographers, 1945-1960s,’ 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. Download conference report: Frost, Ice, and Snow: Cold Climate in Russian History (PDF)

Oldfield, J.D., ‘Conceptualisations of Climate Change amongst Soviet geographers, circa 1945-1960s’, BASEES Annual Conference, Cambridge, April 2012

Shaw, D.J.B., ‘The Subarctic: a Classic Study of the Tundra’, BASEES Annual Conference, Cambridge, April 2012

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., ‘Understandings of climate and climate change amongst Soviet geographers, 1945-1960s,’ Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference, Edinburgh, July 2012

Shaw, D.J.B., ‘Soviet Geographers and the Great Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature’, 5th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science and Technology, Athens, November 2012. Abstract.
[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]

Oldfield, J.D., ‘Climate change as an issue of global environmental concern: Emerging debates amongst Soviet geographers, c.1945-1980s,’ Association for Slavonic, East European and Eurasian Studies, New Orleans, November 2012. Abstract.

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

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

Shaw, DJB, ‘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.