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DESCRIPTION:In 2000\, Mike Davis published the now classic work\, Late Vict
 orian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World. The 
 book’s main argument\, that colonial policies exacerbated the effects of
  global climate patterns and led to the excess death of millions of people
  in late nineteenth century famines\, stirred debate and ultimately led to
  the reassessment of colonialism’s lasting impact on the Global South. R
 uth Mostern\, Raja Adal (University of Pittsburgh )\, Nadin Heé\, Daniel 
 Hedinger (Leipzig University)\, and Shellen Wu (Lehigh University) will co
 nduct a roundtable panel on the use of AI to read nineteenth century larg
 e-scale weather data and archival materials at scale to reexamine the fami
 nes that arose from the 1877 El Niño. We would like to revisit Mike Davi
 s’ arguments in Victorian Holocaust with empirical evidence that new t
 echnological developments now make possible. Focusing on a crucial period 
 in the late nineteenth century - for the rise of meteorological sciences\,
  instrumentation\, and global networks for the collection of data\, we wil
 l share strategies\, methodologies\, and tools for using AI and other digi
 tal tools for large scale historical research. This panel brings together 
 a range of fields that are rarely articulated at once: world history and t
 he history of empire\, environmental history\, the history of science and
  technology\, and digital methods for history.
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LOCATION:Room 403 PC Desk (Seats 30)
SUMMARY:Late Victorian Holocausts Revisited - Ruth Mostern\, Raja Adal\, Sh
 ellen Xiao Wu\, Nadin Heé
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/B8TUGB/
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DESCRIPTION:This panel uses a transimperial (Hedinger and Née) framework t
 o analyze the relationship between the British and Qing empires across dis
 tinct frontiers over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth cent
 uries. The bilateral framing of the topic may seem to obviate the analytic
 al purchase of “transimperial\,” which draws attention to networks of 
 multiple imperial formations and actors who operated at the interstices of
  empire. In fact\, the papers illustrate that this relationship was never 
 purely bilateral. Rather\, it was conditioned by a diverse range of Qing\,
  British\, and other subjects acting on a complex range of localized inter
 ests that never neatly aligned with metropolitan concerns. Moreover\, inte
 ractions with other imperial rivals\, like Japan and Germany\, and local p
 olities shaped the Anglo-Qing relationship in different ways across these 
 various “contact zones” (Pratt). Exploring this relationship across tr
 ans-Himalayan\, littoral\, and inland Chinese frontiers using disparate\, 
 multilingual archives underscores the fragmentary nature of this bilateral
  relationship. However\, it also provides opportunities to observe how the
  inter-regional circulation of personnel and information shaped imperial a
 gents’ negotiation of challenges that were simultaneously local and embe
 dded in broader dynamics. Our papers pay particular attention to the devel
 opment of strategies to\, in turns\, limit\, harness\, and stimulate comme
 rcial activity and assert jurisdictional claims over subjects. Rather than
  abandoning the bilateral framing of Anglo-Qing relations\, we use a trans
 imperial and multi-frontier framework to develop an understanding of this 
 relationship rooted in these localities as opposed to London\, Beijing\, o
 r the better-studied treaty ports.
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LOCATION:Room 105 (Seats 84)
SUMMARY:Frontiers of Anglo-Qing Relations in Transimperial Perspective - Da
 niel Knorr\, Shellen Xiao Wu\, Gary Chi-hung Luk\, Lei Lin\, James Gerien-
 Chen
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/LAZLVP/
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