Sunday Evening, July 20
7:00-9:00 PM Reception
and opening of the conference: music by the Reel World String Band & food
Three Gorges Dam
Monday, July 21
Morning
Welcome
from the University: Dr. Kumble Subbaswamy, Provost,
University of Kentucky
Introduction: Co-organizers: Brunn and Wood “The Concept of Engineering Earth”
First
Session: 8:30-10:00
Transformations
of Nature: Transdisciplinary Knowledge,
Planetary Divides, and the Military
Joni
Seager (Hunter College) “Comprehending the Incomprehensible:
Military Environmental Agency”
Philip
Steinberg (Florida State University) “Engineering Beyond the
Land-Sea Divide: Three Case Studies from the Outer Limits of the
Possible”
Maria
Paradiso (University of Sannio, Italy) “Earth Engineering and
the Impacts of Megaprojects: Information Geography as an
Interface Between Engineering and Geography”
Break
10:00-10:30
Second
Session: 10:30-Noon
Transformations
of Nature: Touristscapes, Greening, and Global Warming
Joseph
Scarpaci, Korine Kolivras, and William Galloway (Virginia Tech
University) “Engineering Paradise: Making Claim in the Dominican
Republic’s Last Tourist Frontier”
Pernilla
Ouis (Malmo University, Sweden) “”Engineering the Emirates:
The Evolution of a New Environment (United Arab Emirates)”
Ernest
Yanarella and Christopher Rice (University of Kentucky) “Modernist
Hubris, Ecological Apocalypse and Scientific- Technological
Salvation in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Global Warming Trilogy: The
Specter of Terraforming”
Lunch:
Noon- 1:30
Monday Afternoon
First
Session: 1:30-3:00
Transformations
of Nature: Parks, Fairs, etc..
Ray
Bromley (SUNY Albany) “Linking Local Projects into Regional Schemes:
The Grand-Scale Landscape Architecture of Fredrick Law Olmsted,
Sr. and Benton MacKaye”
Mark
Wilson (Michigan State University) “Event Engineering: Urban
Planning for Olympics and World’s Fairs”
Peter J.
Hugill (Texas A and M University) “Re-Making America, Soil
Science, Earth Moving, Highways and Dams,”
Break:
3:00-3:30
Second
Session: 3:30-5:00
New
Capital Locations
Shonin
Anacker (U.S. Bureau of the Census) “Hiding the Public in Plain
Sight: State Construction and the Astana [Kazakhstan] Project”
Kenneth
Corey (Michigan State University) “Planning and Implementing
Capital Cities: Lessons and Prospects for Intelligent
Development” (Korea)
Monday Dinner
& Evening: On Your Own
Evening
Presentation: Video and Discussion by film
producer and citizen activist Michael O’Connell on “Mountain
Top Removal”
in Kentucky.
Burj Dubai
Tuesday, July 22
Morning
First
Session: 8:30-10:00
Megaprojects:
Development Projects, Highways etc.
Edward
Malecki and Michael Ewers (Ohio State University) “Megaproject:
A Four Decade Perspective on the Arab Gulf Development Model”
Izhak
Schnell (Tel Aviv University) “We Shall Dress You in a Robe of
Cement and Concrete: Comparisons Between Environmental Discourses
in Israel on the National Water Carrier (1950s) and the
Cross-Israel Highway (1990s)”
Alexander
Diener (Pepperdine University) “Trans-State Road Construction
as a Catalyst of Ecological and Social Change: The Case of
Mongolia”
Anton
Gosar (University of Primorska, Slovenia) “National and
Transnational Development Projects in South Central Europe:
Implications in EU’s Slovenia and the Western Balkans”
Break:
10:00-10:30
Second
Session: 10:30-Noon
Megaprojects:
Hotels, Fiber Optics and Airports
Ben Smith
(Florida International University) “Engineering New Geographies
with Burj Dubai”
Barney
Warf (University of Kansas) “Engineering Time and Space with the
Global Fiber Optics Network”
Aharon
Kellerman (University of Haifa, Israel) “Geographical Aspects
of International Airports: Passengers in an Authoritative
Environment”
Lunch
Break: Noon - 1:30
Tuesday Afternoon
First
Session: 1:30 – 3:00
Megaprojects:
Water Diversion and Irrigation
Philip
Micklin (Western Michigan University) “”Siberian Water
Transfers: Project of the Century”
Adamu
Tanko (Bayero University, Nigeria) “Mega Dams for Irrigation in
Nigeria: Nature, Dimensions and Geographies of Impacts”
Mohammad
Eskandari (Clark University) “Sweet for Whom: Sugar Cane
Plantation in Southern Iran and the Experience of Development
from Above”
Break:
3:00- 3:30
Second
Session: 3:30-5:00
River
Diversion and Resource Extraction
Alina
Newkirk (Moscow State University) “Character and Scale of the
Violations of the Environment as a Result of Man-Caused Influence
of a Mining Complex of the Largest Iron Ore Deposition of Russia”
Markku
Tykkylianen and Olii Lehtonen (University of Joensuu, Finland)
“Transition to High-End Wood Processing and Wood Energy
Production and Its Socio-spatial Implications in Rural Resource
Based Economics”
Martin
Reuss (Army Corps of Engineers, Retired Senior Historian) “The
Lower Mississippi as a Technological System”
Tuesday Dinner:
5:00 - 7:00
Beijing-Lhasa Railroad, photo by Fanghong
Wednesday, July 23
Morning
First
Session: 8:30-10:00
Construction
and Management Decisions
Jian Zao
and George Zellante (University of South Australia) “Chinese
Construction Industry: Governance Structure, Procurement Systems
and Culture”
Daniel J.
Brass, Joe Labianca, and Ajay Mehra (University of Kentucky) “A
Network Approach to Mega Engineering Projects”
Break:
10:00-10:30
Second
Session: 10:30-Noon
Sustainability
and Conservation Issues
Richard
S. Levine, Michael Hughes, and Casey Ryan Mather (University
of Kentucky) “Sustainable City-Regions: MegaProjects in a
Balance with the Earth’s Carrying Capacity”
Ganesan
Raghuram (Indian Institute of Management) “Infrastructure Development
in India: Environmental Issues”
Robert
Dahlstrom (University of Kentucky) “On the Marketing of Sustainability”
Stanley
Trimble (University of California, Los Angeles) “Megaengineering
of the Environment: Effects of Modern Soil Conservation Measures
on Two Regions of the Humid United States”
Lunch:
Noon – 1:30
Wednesday Afternoon:
First Session: 1:30-3:00
Social
Impacts of Megaengineering
Kuntala
Lahiri-Dutt (Australian National University, Canberra) “The
Mega-project of Mining: A Feminist Critique”
Graeme
Hugo (University of Adelaide, Australia), Yan Tan (Flinders
University, Australia), and Yong Chen (Sichuan University,
Samuel Otterstrom and Richard Jackson (Brigham Young University)
“The State of Deseret: The Creation of the Mormon Landscape
in the Western United States”
Milan
Bufon (University of Primorska, Slovenia) and Rado Genorio
(Government of Slovenia) “Engineering Borders and Border
Landscapes: Effects of the Introduction of the Schengen Regime
on the Slovenian Internal and External Boundaries”
Break:
3:00-3:30
Wednesday Afternoon:
Second Session: 3:30-5:00
Social
Impacts, cont.
Derek
Alderman (East Carolina University) and Robert Brown (Appalachian
State University) “”When a New Deal Is Actually an Old Deal:
The Role of the TVA in Engineering a Jim Crow Southern Landscape”
William
Holden and Dan Jacobson (University of Calgary) “Ecclesial
Opposition to Nonferrous Metals Mining in Guatemala and the
Philippines: Neoliberalism Encounters the Church of the Poor”
Stanley
D. Brunn (University of Kentucky) “Soviet Nuclear Testing in
Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: Being Blind-Sited and Blind-sided”
Final
Remarks: Conference Co-Organizers
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