H2: Panel - Imperial Natures: Environment, Science, and Power in Global Perspective
2025-06-27 , Mezzanine B

Chair: Malcolm Purinton, Northeastern University

“Aligning the Canal with the Aqueduct: Water Infrastructure, Protest, and Imperialism in Urban Panama, 1903-1931”
Francisco Javier Bonilla, Carnegie Mellon University

“On Golden Ground: Chemistry and the Comparative Political Ecologies of Soil in Early Modern Empires”
Justin Niermeier-Dohoney, Florida Institute of Technology