Photos from The National Agricultural
Library, ARS, USDA
2008 Workshop: Empires and Science
Contact, Authority,
Collaboration
Faculty Workshop
Joukowsky Forum Watson Institute for
International Studies
Brown University, 111 Thayer Street. Providence,
R I
March 28, 29, 30, 2008
The workshop has been funded by a
grant from the Science and Society Program of
The National Science Foundation;
The Hill Center for World Studies;
The Joukowsky Family Foundation;
and Brown University:
The Watson Institute for International Studies, The
John Carter Brown Library, The Department of History,
The Cogut Center for the Humanities, The Department
of Africana Studies, and The Science and Technology
Studies Program.
Breakfast (1st Floor, Watson
Institute) Breakfast for Research Team,
with Professors Saiba, Elman, Pollock and Wey-Gomez,
Birkelund Board Room
9:00-11:30
Session 2: Authority (A): Western
Institutions Joukowsky Forum
“The Spanish American Empire, Nature,
and the Emergence of Empiricism in the 16th
Century Atlantic World,” Antonio Barrera,
Colgate University
“Science as Imperial Bio-Power: Taxonomy
and Toxicology in India’s Colonial Encounter,”
David Arnold (Warwick University)
Discussant: Joan Richards, Brown University
11:30-2:00
Lunch
(3rd Floor library, Watson Institute)
Research Team meets with Professors
Barrera, Arnold and Richards, Birkelund Board
Room
2:00-4:30
Session 3: Authority (B): Local Knowledge
Systems (Joukowsky Forum)
“Navigating the Brown Pacific: Indigenous
Knowledge, Colonialism, and Mobility,”
Damon Salesa, University of Michigan
“Integrating Indigenous Ecological Knowledge
in the design of Marine Protected Areas in Oceania,”
Shankar Aswani, University of California, Santa
Barbara
Discussant: Matt Matsuda (Rutgers University)
4:30-6:00
Research Team meeting with
Professors Salesa, Aswani and Matsuda, Birkelund
Board Room
