Manufacturing Landscapes:

Nature and Technology

in Environmental History

28-31 May 2015, Renmin University of China

Meeting Room 1, Yifu Conference Center

Co-sponsored by the Center for Ecological History, Renmin University of China,

and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich

THURSDAY, MAY 28

3:30-4:00 pm Opening Ceremony

4:15-5:00 pm Keynote address

Edmund Russell, “Spinning their Way into History: Silkworms, Mulberries, and Manufacturing Landscapes”

FRIDAY, MAY 29 and SATURDAY, MAY 30

8:30 am-5:30 pm Sessions

SUNDAY, MAY 31

8:00 am-6:00 pm Field Trip

Nuclear power plants, bullet trains, factory farms, and ancient rice paddies are all forms of landscapes transformed by technology.

They express a relationship between humans and the natural world. Like all technologies, they have been shaped by their

environmental conditions and in turn have reshaped the earth into new environments.

Convenors: Mingfang Xia (Renmin University of China), Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Museum, Rachel Carson Center), and Donald Worster

(University of Kansas, Renmin University of China).