ICHG-2015-Programme-Book

Mon
Timeslot 1 Timeslot 2 Lunch Timeslot 3 Plenary Evening
09:15 – 11:00 11:30 – 13:15 13:15 – 14:15 14:15 – 16:00 16:30 – 18:00 18:00 – 19:30
5 Mau Mau, National Parks, and colonial ideas of African nature - Wairimũ Njambi
(Florida Atlantic University, USA), William O'Brien (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
10 Distributed landscapes: centres and edges in American
planning (1)
M1 | RSM-G05 Related sessions: 21
View abstracts online: http://conference.rgs.org/ICHG/10
Convenors
Chair
Garrett Dash Nelson (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA), Peter
Ekman (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Garrett Dash Nelson (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA)
1 “Armed with crowbars and axes”: the Broad Street Associates and the contested
design of the Boston Waterfront - Kathryn Lasdow (Columbia University, USA)
2 Edging into the bay: Artificial islands and a New Port of Miami, 1920–1968 - Jesse
Smith (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
3 The force of example: the city scientific, the suburb productive, and the matter of the
object lesson - Peter Ekman (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
11 Scythia: history of a geographical image (Antiquity and the
Middle Ages)
M1 | RSM-G06 View abstracts online: http://conference.rgs.org/ICHG/11
Convenor
Chair
Irina Konovalova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Tatjana Jackson (Institute of World History, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Russia)
1 The place of Scythia in the geographical world picture of the ancient Greeks -
Alexandr Podossinov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
2 Scythia in Medieval Muslim geography - Irina Konovalova (Russian Academy of
Sciences, Russia)
3 From antiquity to the middle ages: Scythia on the mental map of Adam of Bremen -
Tatjana Jackson (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
4 The image of Scythia/Svíþjóð in mikla in Old Norse-Icelandic religious literature -
Galina Glazyrina (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
12 Geographical knowledge, books and instruments
M1 | RSM-LT131
View abstracts online: http://conference.rgs.org/ICHG/12
Chair
Charles W. J. Withers (The University of Edinburgh, UK)
1 Scientific instruments within the socio-economic geographies of early modern
London - Alexi Baker (University of Cambridge, UK)
2 The geography of the early printed book - Greg Prickman (University of Iowa, USA)