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25 Apr 2019
Seminar: The History of Energy and the Environment in the Anthropocene
Seminar: The History of Energy and the Environment in the Anthropocene
2019-04-25
HMW Seminar:
The History of Energy and the Environment in the Anthropocene
Date: 25 April (Thursday) 2019
Time: 3-5pm
Venue: RRS 628, 6/F, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, HSH Campus
Speakers:
Dr. Niccolò Pianciola, Associate Professor, Department of History, Lingnan University
Dr. Jenny Leigh Smith, Associate Professor, Division of Humanities, The University of Science and Technology
Dr. Oscar Sanchez-Sibony, Assistant Professor, Department of History, The University of Hong Kong
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Dr. Niccolò Pianciola’s research focuses on the social and environmental history of Tsarist and Soviet Asia.
Dr. Jenny Leigh Smith is an environmental historian and a historian of science and technology, she researches famines and refugee camps, and she has a book on the environmental impact of agricultural industrialization in the Soviet Union, and has co-edited a book on the environmental legacy of international development.
Dr. Oscar Sanchez-Sibony is author of Red Globalization. The Political Economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Khrushchev (2015), winner of the Marshall Shulman Book Prize in International Relations.
