Jeff Schauer (History) organized a panel on converging and competing knowledge systems and conservation in southern Africa at the meeting of the American Society for Environmental History in Denver. Schauer's own paper was titled "Tracking Puku: Traditional knowledge, skills, and the crafting of Zambian wildlife science." The paper used the Zambian scientific journal The Puku to explore how traditional skills and knowledge underpinned the construction of Zambian wildlife science, but how the wildlife sector decoupled skills from knowledge, appropriating the former and discarding the latter. The paper then explored a wider archive to examine moments where more creative readings and uses of traditional ecological knowledge surfaced in public and institutional debates.

Schauer also served as chair for a panel titled "Extraction, Nutrition, and the Challenges of Environmental Control in Southern Africa."