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Wednesday, June 14

7:00: Registration Opens

7:00 – 8:30: Breakfast

8:30: Welcome

8:45-10:15: Plenary Session

Welcome

Northern Lakes in the Anthropocene

Nancy Langston

Lake Superior, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene

Nicholas Breyfogle

The People’s Lake: Baikal in the Socialist Anthropocene

Andy Bruno

A Polluted Pearl of the North: The Story of Lake Imandra

Chair: Daniel Macfarlane

Commentator: Stephen Bocking

10:15-10:45: Coffee and Tea Break

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10:45-12:30: Session One

Parallel Session 1.1: Seeing Underwater

Whitney Barlow Robles, Harvard University Mixed Media: Flattening Sea Life in Eighteenth-Century Natural History Dolly Jørgensen, Luleå University of Technology Bringing the Water to Land: Public Aquariums as Places for Visualising the Sea Carmel Finley, Oregon State University Fish Finders and the Global Transformation of Fishing Chair: Daniel Macfarlane

Parallel Session 1.2: China

Xiangli Ding “The Yellow River Coming from Our Hands !”: A Study of the Sanmenxia Hydropower Project You Wang To Cooperate for Water Control: The Chinese State, City, and Countryside in an 1833-34 Hydraulic Project Ming Yang, Li Yong, Lai Rui Xun Yu: the first hero of flood control in Ancient China Chair: TBD

Parallel Session 1.3: Irrigation

Henning Bjornlund, Vibeke Bjornlund Exploring the factors facilitating the emergence, scale, spread and contraction of irrigation using a socioeconomic and biophysical framework Themis-Dimitra Xanthopoulou, Bleda S. Düring, Maurits Ertsen, Jan Kolen Reconstructing Historical Agencies in an Omani Irrigation System Ansari Taha Foggara a traditional system of groundwater exploitation in south-west of Algeria Chair: TBD

12:30-13:45: Lunch

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13:45-15:30: Session Two

Parallel Session 2.1 Middle East

Cristina Violante Valve World: Crane Co. Pipes in Saudi Arabia and Yemen

Michael Low Saltwater Kingdom: Desalination and the Origins of the Saudi Hydro-State

Segev Zohar Between the Tennessee Valley and the Jordan Valley: Water, Politics and Economy in the Middle East

Parallel Session 2.2 Water and Health

Carolyn G. Shapiro-Shapin Venetian Gondolas on the Illinois River: Promoting Health and Economic Well-being through Local Control and Water Analysis, 1890-1910

Jared Taber Using an Ague Epidemic to Refinance and Rebuild the South Hadley Canal, 1790-1845 Julien Knebusch "A notorious swimmer": Paul Morand, cosmopolitanism, health and literature

Parallel Session 2.3 Transnational Expertise

Ruth Morgan Irrigation and Gender: Exchanging engineering expertise between British India and the Australian colonies

Ben Li The history and review of the Columbia River Treaty and its enlightenment to the development and utilization of international rivers in southwest China

Sara Porterfield Creating an American Nile: The International Origins of Colorado River Development

Chair: Rina Faletti

15:30-16:00: Coffee and Tea Break

16:00-17:15: Great Lakes and Grand Rapids

Daniel Macfarlane -Water History of the Great Lakes

Matthew Daley

City, Field, and Factory: The Grand River and Grand Rapids, Michigan

17:15 – Walking Tour: Grand River

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Thursday, June 15

7:00 – 8:30: Breakfast

8:30 – 10:15: Session 3

Parallel Session 3.1 Working the River: The Detroit River in the 20th Century

Lisa M. Fine, ‘The Workingman’s Fishing Grounds:’ Water and Workers in the downriver Detroit Region in the Twentieth Century Ramya Swayamprakash ‘DredgeChannel’: Re-making the Detroit River for shipping John Hartig le detroit - From a working river that supported commerce and industry to an internationally-recognized resource that provides ecosystem services, enhances communities, and supports the economy Jen Maigret & María Arquero de Alarcón Detroit, City of Streams Chair/Commentator: Daniel Macfarlane, Western Michigan University

Parallel Session 3.2 India

Delphin Prema Dhanaseeli, Joseph Thatheyus The Cauvery River Dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu States in India: A Historical Perspective Joseph Thatheyus Water Dispute between Kerala and Tamil Nadu States over Mullaperiyar River Waters Ricki Levi The Water Traditions of Rajasthan: Anupam Mishra's Water Philosophy and the Historical debate

Parallel Session 3.3 UK Waters

Peter Coates Biophysical flows and commercial flows: The mixing of eels and people and the convergence of the local, national and the global on Britain’s River Severn. Jules Gehrke Water, Canals, and the Countryside Ideal in Britain, 1945-1965

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Kathryn Lang Caledonian Coast: A History of Sustainability in Scottish Waters Chair: Philip Brown

10:15-10:45: Coffee and Tea Break

10:45-12:30: Session Four

Parallel Session 4.1 Traditional Practices in Water Resources Management in Southern Africa

Chair: Egline Tawuya Egline Tawuya Incorporating Indigenous knowledge systems in water resources management. The case of the Zambezi River Basin Neto Nengomasha The Integration of Traditional Practices in Management of Ground Water in Southern Africa Admire Ndhlovu Traditional Forecasting in Southern Africa: The Case of the Zambezi Basin Jin Zhang Evolution of Water Spirits in China and Africa: A Comparative Study Chair: Egline Tawuya

Parallel Session 4.2 American Engineers

Gerard Fitgerald The Delicate Stomach of the Iron Horse: Water Supply, Purification, and Engineering Practice on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, 1918-1948. Jonah Bea-Taylor Flood Control, Engineering and Vulnerable Metropolitan Development in Houston, Miami and Tampa, 1935-1985 Max Fefer The Untold Story of Taggart Aston’s Fight for Hetch Hetchy Chair: Matthew Bender

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Parallel Session 4.3 Moving Water I

Saeid Gharehhassanloo, Mahdi Arabi Application and Comparison of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Network Methods in Routing of Pipeline Water Transmission System, from Taleghan Dam to Hashtgerd New City, Tehran, Iran Matthew P. Johnson "Thirsty Sugar Lands”: Dam Building and Irrigation in Southeastern Puerto Rico, 1898-1934

12:30-13:45: Lunch

13:45-15:30: Session Five

Parallel Session 5.1 Coastal Interactions

Christopher Pastore Constructing the Atlantic Shore: Early Modern Encounters and Imaginaries at the Edge of the Sea Jack Bouchard Creating 'Terra Nova:' Maritime Space in the Sixteenth Century Atlantic Stefan Huebner Escaping Natural Disasters and State Authority: Ideas for Floating Cities and City Extensions since the 20th Century

Parallel Session 5.2 US Water Governance

Stephen Mumme Constructing Equity during the Salinity Crisis, 1961-1973: Mexico, the United States, and the Politics of Sharing on the Colorado River Stephen Gasteyer The Political Ecology of Water Governance in the High Plains Aquifer, USA Lynn Nelson Alternative Narratives of Twentieth-Century Southern River Management Chair: Daniel Macfarlane

Parallel Session 5.3 Moving Water II

Martin Ginster, Johann Tempelhoff Water storage, transfers and emergency measures supporting energy generation in the South African interior 1960-2016

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Wessel Visser Water as agent for social change: Dam-building and irrigation case studies of poor relief projects in early twentieth century South Africa Assaf Selzer Jerusalem's water project in the mid-30’s – High Technology infrastructure for the capital city – is this the only story?

Chair: Philip Brown

15:30-16:00: Coffee and Tea Break

16:00-17:45: Session Six

Parallel Session 6.1 Water Methodologies

Peter Neill The Once and Future Ocean – Toward a Hydraulic Society Sara Fingal Water Pedagogy Across Disciplines: Can we analyze tap water as a historical object? Matthew Herbst Integrating Water and the Humanities: Social Studies and World History Teacher Trainings in Secondary and Higher Education Chair: Rina Faletti

Parallel Session 6.2 Germany

Marion Gray From Marshland to Agriculture: Eight Centuries of Anthropogenic Change in the Nuthe-Nieplitz Watershed (Brandenburg, Germany) Fabian Lieke Governing nature, expending power, increasing vulnerability: Flood prevention at the Bavarian Danube between 1882 and 1910 Sophie Lange Salty Drops: German-German River Politics During the Cold War

Parallel Session 6.3

Film Viewing: Aghbalou – The Source of Water

18:00-18:30: IWHA Business Meeting – Meet Your Council

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Friday, June 16

7:00 – 8:30: Breakfast

8:30-10:15: Session Seven

Parallel Session 7.1 American Rivers

Barry Johnson Waste Water Treatment Comes To Detroit Michael Burns Routes and Roadblocks: A Comparison of Rivers in Tennessee and Virginia in the American Civil War Lynne Heasley and Daniel Macfarlane The Chicago River and Submerged Second Nature

Parallel Session 7.2 Urban Waters

Eva Jakobsson Stockholm – beauty on water: writing urban water history in a long time perspective Marjolaine Carles Rivers, Gold and Fountains: Water policy in Vila Rica during the 18th century (Minas Gerais, Brazil) Kerry Ross Tokyo’s Water Supply System: Changes in Public and Private Bathing in the Early Twentieth-Century

Parallel Session 7.3 Coping with Water

Janine Lange, Thomas Meier, Bertil Machtle, Arjan Conijn Early floods and early dikes – combining geoarchaeological sources in the upper Rhine valley Steffen Nijhuis Exploring the Dutch polder landscape Patricia Rettig Water power: exploring archival documentation of floods

10:15-10:45: Coffee and Tea Break

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10:45-12:30: Session Eight

Parallel Session 8.1 Cultural Waterscapes

Eva Stolberg Lake Baikal: From Indigenous Sacred Place to Soviet Commons Hieu Phung Realizing the Red River in Northern Vietnam Kefei Qian The Cultural History of the Danube from 1740 to 1875 Chair: Philip Brown

Parallel Session 8.2 Fluid Architectures

Rina Faletti Cultural, Social and Political Messages Embedded in Waterworks Architecture and Iconography Jasmine Armstrong The Water is Wide: Masculinity in American Dams and Bridges of the Great Depression Ana Alho The superior hydraulic system in the Gothic sacred architecture. Case studies in Lisbon Chair: Rina Faletti

Parallel Session 8.3 Roundtable on Teaching Water History

Participants TBD

12:30-13:45: Lunch

13:45-15:15: Plenary Talk and Conference Closing Plenary Talk Noah Hall Flint Water Crisis Closing Remarks

15:15-15:45: Coffee and Tea

16:15 : Bus Leaves for Conference Dinner

Evening – Conference Dinner and Boat Tour at Muskegon

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Saturday, June 17

Saturday Excursion – SW Michigan Beer Tour