Session Schedule ASEH Toronto Conference 2013

Between Conservation and Development: Indigenous Rights and the State in East Africa Panel 1-H: New Brunswick Chair: John Soluri, Carnegie Mellon University Panelists:  Guluma Gemeda, University of Michigan-Flint Coffee Farmers, the State, Conservationists and 'Wild' Coffee in Ethiopia  Guillaume Blanc, University of Trois-Rivieres When Unesco decides to save Ethiopian's wildlife  Willis Okech Oyugi, University of California Los Angeles International NGOs, Indigenous Rights, Development, and Human-Wildlife Contestations in and around Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve, 1980-2000 Abstract: "History of conservation revisited” This panel would like to challenge thrice the borders of the history of conservation: chronologically, geographically and ontologically. The history of conservation was supposed to have begun in the United States in the 19th century, until Richard Grove argued for the birth of environmental consciousness in the european colonial empire, French in particular, at the end of the 18th century. Gregory Quenet, professor of environmental history at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines is proposing there to analyze the Grand park of the Versailles' casttle as a laboratory for animals conservation from 1682 to the French revolution.

Since William McKenzie works on hunting and Empire, the story of conservation in Africa is well known. Thanks to fascinating archives, Guillaume Blanc, doctoral student at the University of Trois Rivieres (CND), is revealing the late story of conservation in Ethiopia, the only African country which has been so briefly colonized. The story of conservation in general is mainly a story of human agency. Julien Alleau, post-doctoral student at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, is using wolves attacks in Europe to analyze contacts and co-existence between human beings and non-human beings, crossing then well-established borders.