[SydPhil] Updated: HPS Research Seminar, Monday 7th August 2023 at 5.30pm (date corrected)

2023-08-01 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil 

School of History and Philosophy of Science
RESEARCH SEMINAR
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 Silvicultural Systems, Harold Swain (1883-1970), and the role of history
Berris Charnley (University of Queensland)
Dates: Monday, 07/08/2023
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: F09, Madsen Building, Level 3, Room 331
How to register: Free, no registration required
Zoom Link: 
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85722285732

Abstract: Around the turn of the twentieth century, a number of large and 
enduring systems were set in place. These systems were concerned with 
connecting and developing the global empires of Europe and America. 
Communication and energy are two obvious examples, but water, food, transport, 
manufacturing, bureaucracy and law were also sites of self-conscious 
systematizing work. Aside from their imperial purposes, several features 
distinguished these new systems. They were, their builders claimed, scientific. 
They often involved a new negotiation between the public good and private 
interests. And new laws were frequently a part of their operation.

This paper explores the new systems of the twentieth century through the 
archives of Harold Swain, an Australian forestry commissioner who sought to 
develop the timber industry and Australian society. Swain devised new taxonomic 
systems and new systems of tree-felling taxation. With these tools he hoped to 
get people out of unsustainable agriculture and into Australia's forests, along 
with the right trees. This paper's first task is to consider what Swain's 
system work tells us about science, ownership, and sustainable development in 
the twentieth century? In answering this question, by locating and analysing 
Swain's archive, it becomes obvious that he sought to use another tool in his 
work, history. The encounter with Swain the historian prompts the paper's 
second task, which is to analyse Swain's use of history and what this might 
mean for our work as historians in a climate emergency.


Bio: Berris Charnley is a historian of law and science. He is interested in 
seeds, genes, farms and food. How are these resources studied, measured, 
weighed, owned or shared? And what can the history of human relations with such 
resources tell us about their management in the future? More generally, he is 
interested in issues of participation and communication around knowledge 
production. He is also co-founder of the Intellectual Property and the 
Biosciences network, IPBio.
.

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[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 23, May 2023 at 5:30pm

2023-08-01 Thread HPS Admin via SydPhil 

School of History and Philosophy of Science
RESEARCH SEMINAR
[The University of Sydney]
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 Silvicultural Systems, Harold Swain (1883-1970), and the role of history

Berris Charnley (University of Queensland)


Dates: Monday, 07/08/2023
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: F09, Madsen Building, Level 3, Room 331
How to register: Free, no registration required
Zoom Link: 
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85722285732<https://t.e2ma.net/click/09s17u/gqotwlab/8nln9ve>

Abstract: Around the turn of the twentieth century, a number of large and 
enduring systems were set in place. These systems were concerned with 
connecting and developing the global empires of Europe and America. 
Communication and energy are two obvious examples, but water, food, transport, 
manufacturing, bureaucracy and law were also sites of self-conscious 
systematizing work. Aside from their imperial purposes, several features 
distinguished these new systems. They were, their builders claimed, scientific. 
They often involved a new negotiation between the public good and private 
interests. And new laws were frequently a part of their operation.

This paper explores the new systems of the twentieth century through the 
archives of Harold Swain, an Australian forestry commissioner who sought to 
develop the timber industry and Australian society. Swain devised new taxonomic 
systems and new systems of tree-felling taxation. With these tools he hoped to 
get people out of unsustainable agriculture and into Australia’s forests, along 
with the right trees. This paper’s first task is to consider what Swain’s 
system work tells us about science, ownership, and sustainable development in 
the twentieth century? In answering this question, by locating and analysing 
Swain’s archive, it becomes obvious that he sought to use another tool in his 
work, history. The encounter with Swain the historian prompts the paper’s 
second task, which is to analyse Swain’s use of history and what this might 
mean for our work as historians in a climate emergency.


Bio: Berris Charnley is a historian of law and science. He is interested in 
seeds, genes, farms and food. How are these resources studied, measured, 
weighed, owned or shared? And what can the history of human relations with such 
resources tell us about their management in the future? More generally, he is 
interested in issues of participation and communication around knowledge 
production. He is also co-founder of the Intellectual Property and the 
Biosciences network, IPBio<https://t.e2ma.net/click/09s17u/gqotwlab/ogmn9ve>.
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