[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Monday 23, May 2023 at 5:30pm

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School of History and Philosophy of Science
RESEARCH SEMINAR
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 Silvicultural Systems, Harold Swain (1883-1970), and the role of history

Berris Charnley (University of Queensland)


Dates: Monday, 07/08/2023
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: F09, Madsen Building, Level 3, Room 331
How to register: Free, no registration required
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Abstract: Around the turn of the twentieth century, a number of large and enduring systems were set in place. These systems were concerned with connecting and developing the global empires of Europe and America. Communication and energy are two obvious examples, but water, food, transport, manufacturing, bureaucracy and law were also sites of self-conscious systematizing work. Aside from their imperial purposes, several features distinguished these new systems. They were, their builders claimed, scientific. They often involved a new negotiation between the public good and private interests. And new laws were frequently a part of their operation.

This paper explores the new systems of the twentieth century through the archives of Harold Swain, an Australian forestry commissioner who sought to develop the timber industry and Australian society. Swain devised new taxonomic systems and new systems of tree-felling taxation. With these tools he hoped to get people out of unsustainable agriculture and into Australia’s forests, along with the right trees. This paper’s first task is to consider what Swain’s system work tells us about science, ownership, and sustainable development in the twentieth century? In answering this question, by locating and analysing Swain’s archive, it becomes obvious that he sought to use another tool in his work, history. The encounter with Swain the historian prompts the paper’s second task, which is to analyse Swain’s use of history and what this might mean for our work as historians in a climate emergency.


Bio: Berris Charnley is a historian of law and science. He is interested in seeds, genes, farms and food. How are these resources studied, measured, weighed, owned or shared? And what can the history of human relations with such resources tell us about their management in the future? More generally, he is interested in issues of participation and communication around knowledge production. He is also co-founder of the Intellectual Property and the Biosciences network, IPBio<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/y53hCE8wmrtlMxqY1fplSJ-?domain=t.e2ma.net>.
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