ASEH Conference Program 2012

Ethics, Environmentalism, and Environmental History in an Interdependent World

From the Localto the Global

Madison, Wisconsin

Annual ConferenceMarch 28-31, 2012

Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center

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From the Local to the Globalethics, environmentalism, and environmental history in an Interdependent World

Madison, Wisconsin

AnnuAl ConferenCe

March 28-31, 2012


Welcome from the Local Arrangements Committee..........................................................................

Welcome from the Program Committee............................................................................................

Conference Information....................................................................................................................

Exhibits.............................................................................................................................................

Poster presentations.........................................................................................................................

2012 Travel grant recipients..........................................................................................................

Fellowship recipients......................................................................................................................

ASEH awards..................................................................................................................................

Special events................................................................................................................................

Workshops............................................................................................................................................

Opening reception................................................................................................................................

Plenary talk and reception...................................................................................................................

Film festival.........................................................................................................................................

Breakfasts............................................................................................................................................

Lunches...............................................................................................................................................

Graduate student reception.................................................................................................................

Hal Rothman Fun(d) Run....................................................................................................................

ASEH members/business meeting.......................................................................................................

Poster presentation..............................................................................................................................

Awards ceremony.................................................................................................................................

Dinner buffet party...............................................................................................................................

Field Trips.......................................................................................................................................

Pre-conference field trips.....................................................................................................................

Friday afternoon field trips...................................................................................................................

Conference at a glance...................................................................................................................

Concurrent Sessions.......................................................................................................................

ASEH committees..........................................................................................................................

Index..............................................................................................................................................

Advertisements...............................................................................................................................

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Welcome from the Local Arrangements Committee Welcome to Madison! The city of Madison, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, and the Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History and Environment are delighted to host the 2012 American Society for Environmental History conference. Madison’s engaged university community, political activism, and environmental traditions have all shaped Madison’s distinct character. Home to Frank Lloyd Wright, Aldo Leopold, John Muir, Gaylord Nelson, “Fighting Bob” La Follette, Lorine Niedecker, Sigurd Olson, and Frederick Jackson Turner, among many others, Wisconsin is a particularly significant location for environmental historians.

Frank Lloyd Wright bestowed Madison with a significant architectural legacy. During your stay in Madison, ASEH conference participants will have the opportunity to visit two Frank Lloyd Wright sites: the Monona Terrace and Taliesin. Most conference events take place in the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, a site designed by Wright in 1938. Six decades passed between design and completion, and the site opened to the public in 1997 as a community center and convention center. A Friday field trip will take participants to Wright’s masterpiece Taliesin, located along the Wisconsin River. Taliesin was built in the early 1900’s on land originally settled by Wright’s mother’s family during the Civil War. Positioned on the brow of a hill, Wright designed Taliesin to appear “not on the land, but of the land”.

Wright’s concept of organic architecture is embodied throughout Taliesin. He sourced many of the construction materials from the surrounding land, and incorporated sand from the Wisconsin River into the stucco walls. The chimneys were built from local limestone, mimicking shapes found in the surrounding driftless landscape. Another vision of construction attuned to local landscapes and local sources can be seen on the Friday field trip to the USDA Forest Service’s Forest Products Lab, which has become an international leader in green building.

Aldo Leopold’s legacy is evident throughout Wisconsin, and conference participants will have several opportunities to engage with his work. The Arboretum field trip takes participants to a Civilian Conservation Corps site at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum, where crew members worked from 1935 to 1941 to restore ecological communities that had flourished before European settlement. Aldo Leopold was involved in research at the Arboretum, which is now home to the oldest and most extensive restored prairie ecosystem in the world. While at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Leopold and his family became deeply engaged with the struggle to restore an abandoned farm north of the city. A pre-conference workshop and a Friday field trip will allow participants to explore Leopold’s Shack and the new Leopold Center. Another field trip explores restoration of oak savanna at the Pleasant Valley Conservancy, a former farmland and woodlot that has been in intensive ecological restoration for nearly 20 years.

Not all local farm fields are returned to native plant communities, of course. Agriculture in southern Wisconsin continues, and the region has become a leader in the organic agriculture, local foods, and slow foods movements. Madison is a town filled with people who love food and who want to share that love widely. From farmers’ markets to urban farmers to internationally famous chefs, a vivid community food scene thrives in the area. The food systems field trip on Friday allows participants to enjoy lunch at L’Etoile then get their boots muddy at Troy Gardens, an urban farm for community-based food production.

The 2012 ASEH Conference plenary celebrates the legacy of Rachel Carson, for the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring’s publication occurs this year. After Carson’s 1962 call to action, in 1970 Wisconsin became the first state in the nation to ban DDT—the same year that Wisconsin’s Senator Gaylord Nelson worked with local grassroots organizations to mobilize 20 million people on behalf of the environment. Earth Day’s success helped to place environmental protection on the national political agenda. During his Senate tenure, Gaylord Nelson contributed to the Clean Air Act of 1970, the Clean Water Act of 1972, and the Endangered Species Act of 1973. In 1970, the University of Wisconsin established the Institute for Environmental Studies, which later was renamed the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies in honor of Gaylord Nelson’s legacy.

When Gaylord Nelson served as governor of Wisconsin in the early 1960s, he granted collective bargaining rights to public employees. These rights were stripped last winter, when the actions of the newly-elected Governor Scott Walker sparked massive protests in Madison. Thousands, then tens of thousands, then well over a hundred thousand people filled the capitol and the surrounding streets. Protestors first came to defend the bargain-ing rights of public employees, and protests soon spread to encompass environmental protection, environmental justice, and labor rights for all workers. The urban walking tour on Friday afternoon will explore the recent and distant pasts of the city’s labor and environmental battles. Tour participants will hear from the legislators and activists at the center of the continuing protests, and they will chat with Tia Nelson (Gaylord Nelson’s daughter) and labor historians, uncovering the intertwined histories of the

labor, student, and modern environmental movements as they were forged on the streets of Madison.

The Local Arrangements Committee hopes that you enjoy Madison as much as we do. We would like to acknowledge the contributions of Lawrence Culver, Chair of the Program Committee, and Lisa Mighetto, whose attention to detail, unwavering service, and endless good sense were essential in organizing this conference.

Welcome from the Program CommitteeThe Program Committee is delighted to present the program for the 2012 meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, and to welcome you to Madison! The conference theme for 2012 is “From the Local to the Global: Ethics, Environmentalism, and Environmental History in an Interdependent World,” and this program is global in the truest sense. In both topics and in participants, it is the most international program ASEH has ever offered. It is also the largest, with more than ninety sessions, a plenary session, workshops, posters, and a film festival. Even with a program of such size, the committee could not include many excellent proposals, an unfortunate fact that nevertheless attests to the vitality and growth of environmental history.

The Madison conference is an opportunity to take stock of a maturing and evolving field. It takes place thirty years after the first ASEH con-ference in 1982, and thirty-five years after the founding of ASEH in 1977. The plenary session will focus on another anniversary, and a land-mark in environmental history and the environmental movement – the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. The plenary will feature a keynote address, as well as a roundtable with audience participation assessing Carson’s historical significance and her relevance to the environmental issues of the present. Other sessions will also explore Carson and her legacy, as well as Aldo Leopold, a Wisconsin resident whose “Land Ethic” demonstrated how environmentalism with global significance could begin at the most local level. There are also sessions examining the environmental histories of labor and politics, issues that have recently been the subject of much controversy in Wisconsin and elsewhere.

We believe that everyone will find sessions of interest, truly ranging from the global to the local. The 2012 program explores broad topics including war, famine, and pollution, and environmental history perceived through the lenses of culture, science, economics, and politics. It features histories both national and transnational in scope, alongside the histories of more specific places and topics. Together these comprise a multifaceted mosaic of environmental history and the state of our field in 2012. The program, though constructed by our committee, represents the individual and collaborative work of people across the nation and around the world, all bound together by their effort to understand and explicate the historical interconnectedness of human and natural worlds. Now the conference program is yours – to explore, enjoy, and make your own.

The 2012 program Committee:

Lawrence Culver, Utah State University, Chair Diana Davis, University of California, Davis Matthew Evenden, University of British Columbia Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin, Madison Frank Zelko, University of VermontFirefighters led the protest into the Wisconsin State Capitol on

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The 2012 local Arrangements Committee:

Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin-Madison, ChairGregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin-MadisonBill Cronon, University of Wisconsin-MadisonAndrew Case, University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduate student representative Brian Hamilton, University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduate student representative Peter Boger, University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduate student representative Curt Meine, Aldo Leopold Foundation and the International Crane Foundation

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Conference Information location

Most conference events, including sessions, will be held at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center located in down-town Madison, on the shore of Lake Monona. Address:

Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center One John Nolen Drive Madison, WI 53703

The pre-conference workshop will be held at the Aldo Leopold Center and the plenary session will be held at the Union South Theater at the University of Wisconsin. The film festival “Tales From Planet Earth” will be held at various locations in Madison. Film festival details will be available at the registration desk at the conference. See the maps at the back of this program for more information on locations.

Accommodations – conference hotel

The main conference hotel will be the Hilton Madison/Monona Terrace, connected by a covered walkway to the conference center. The Hilton has a free shuttle to the airport.

Staying at the conference hotel helps keep conference registration prices low. The Hilton is a certified hotel with Travel Green Wisconsin.

Rates for the conference block are $139 per night plus tax, single or double. This rate is valid until February 26, 2012. Click here for reservations:http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/M/MSNMHHF-SEH-20120327/index.jhtml

A block of graduate student rooms will be available at the UW Lowell Center (one mile away). The rate is $89 (one person); $12/night additional for two people. See: http://bit.ly/aseh27mar

registration

For online registration, see: http://www.asehmadison2012.com.During the conference, the registration desk will be located at coun-ters 3 and 4, level four of the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, and will be open the following hours:

Wednesday, March 28 - 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.Thursday, March 29 - 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Friday, March 30 - 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (break for field trips in the afternoon)Saturday, March 31 - 8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Cancellations

Cancellations must be e-mailed to [email protected]. Requests received by March 15, 2012 will receive a full refund, minus a $35 processing fee, following the conference. Requests received after March 15, 2012 will receive a refund of the registration fee only, minus a $35 processing fee. Fees for breakfasts, lunches, field trips, and other special events cannot be refunded after March 15, 2012. Cancellation of rooms must be made through the hotel and are sub-ject to its requirements for notification.

Transportation and directions

The airport is about 10 minutes from downtown. Detailed transportation information is available at the conference website:http://www.asehmadison2012.com/transportation.html

If you are a guest at the Hilton, you can call for a free airport shuttle pick-up once you arrive. A phone labeled “Hilton” is available in the airport arrival section; otherwise, call 608.255.5100.

Taxis from the airport to the Hilton cost about $15 and take about 10 minutes.

You can also take a city bus, which leaves once an hour at 45 min-utes after each hour, until 9:45 pm (10:45 on weeknights). The trip takes about 40 minutes and costs $2. Take bus #20 at arrivals gate 6. At the North Transfer point, take bus #4 and get off at the Hilton on E. Wilson St (ask the driver for help).

Weather

Spring in Madison can be beautiful, but the weather is unpredictable. The average temperature in late March is in the 40s during the day and in the 20s or 30s at night. Late March can be cold and snowy, wet and windy, mild and sunny - or all three on the same day. Dress warmly and bring comfortable shoes and a jacket, gloves, hat, and scarf for the field trips.

Child care

Greater Madison Convention Services provided this listing for child care:

Bright Star3240 University Ave., #3A Madison, WI 53705http://www.brightstarcare.com/dane-sauk-columbia-counties/

Commitment to sustainability

ASEH will ensure that waste at the conference hotel is recycled, and we will provide recycling containers on the field trip buses. We will be using name badges made from recycled paper, and when possible we will provide locally grown food for our events. We have requested a sustainability audit from the conference center and hotel tracking waste, water and energy consumption; the results will be available in a future issue of our newsletter. The Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center received the designation of Silver Level LEED-EB (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-Existing Building) green certified building in September of 2007 by the U.S. Green Building Council. This facility is one of the first convention centers in the U.S. to receive a certifica-tion, and the only silver level certified convention center in the U.S. The Monona Terrace currently recycles 49% of its solid waste stream.

For a description of carbon credits, see: http://aseh.net/about-aseh/aseh-sustainability/carbon-credits

Questions? Contact:

Program: Lawrence Culver – [email protected] arrangements: Nancy Langston – [email protected] and posters: Lisa Mighetto – [email protected] ASEH: Lisa Mighetto – [email protected]

ExhibitsThe displays will be available in the Grand Terrace, where the coffee, tea, and pastries will be provided during morning breaks, throughout the conference.

hours:

Thursday, March 29 – 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Friday, March 30 – 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon (break for field trips)Saturday, March 31 – 8:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m.

exhibitors (as of December 31, 2011):

American Society for Environmental HistoryForest History SocietyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyOregon State University PressOxford University PressPenguin GroupRachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU MunichSociety for Conservation BiologyThe Scholars ChoiceUniversity of Arizona PressUniversity of California PressUniversity of Georgia Press

University of Massachusetts PressUniversity of Nevada PressUniversity of North Carolina PressUniversity of Oklahoma PressUniversity of Pittsburgh PressUniversity of Utah PressUniversity of Virginia PressUniversity of Washington PressUniversity of Wisconsin PressUniversity Press of KansasYale University Press

http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/M/MSNMHHF-SEH-20120327/index.jhtml

http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/M/MSNMHHF-SEH-20120327/index.jhtml

mailto:[email protected]

http://aseh.net/about-aseh/aseh-sustainability/carbon-credits

http://aseh.net/about-aseh/aseh-sustainability/carbon-credits

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Poster presentationsPosters will be displayed throughout the conference in the Grand Terrace and authors will be available to discuss their research on Saturday, March 31 from 6:00 – 7:15 p.m. The posters reserved as of December 1, 2011 include the following:

Kenna Lang Archer, Texas Tech UniversityOils, Glees, Stanzas, and Cultural Continuity along the Brazos River

Baisakhi Bandyopadhyay, Indian National Science Academy, The Asiatic SocietyRole of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Sustainable Forest Management in South Asia

Susanna Bohme, Independent ScholarCircle of Poison? Contamination, Worker Health, and US Pesticide Policy in the 1970s and 80s

Marcus Burtner, University of ArizonaCrafting the American Sonoran Desert: Global Visions of a Local Place

Trey Crumpton, Baylor University Witnesses to the Texas Republic: Dendrochronology of Antebellum Oaks in Independence, Texas

Twyla Dell, Energy Transitions, LLC, Overland Park, KansasElements of Energy Transitions Jeff Durbin, Independent Scholar Ecological Restoration in Wisconsin’s Driftless Area

Sinead K. Earley, Queen’s University, Kingston Beetles, Forests and Climates: A History of Entomological Research and Forest Management in British Columbia, Canada

Justin Erickson, Independent Scholar Pollution and the Politics of Persuasion: The Paper Industry in Northeast Wisconsin

Lenny Z. Gannes, Cornell CollegeDoes Our “Relationship” with Species Affect if They Are Endangered?

Andreas Grieger, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU MunichFrom Stockholm to Rio: The Emergence and Change of US Environmental Diplomacy 1968-1995

Arielle Helmick, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich The Greening of American Music: Environmentalism in Song

Margot Higgins, University of California, BerkeleyFrom Copper to Conservation to Vacation Cabins, Mining for Nature and Culture in Wrangell Saint Elias National Park and Preserve

Samuel J. Imlay and Eric D. Carter, Grinnell College Drainage on the Grand Prairie: The Birth of a Hydraulic Society on the Midwestern Frontier

Agnes Kneitz, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich Raising the Wrong Awareness: The Failed Implications of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle

Byeong-Kyu Lee, University of Ulsan, South KoreaEnvironmental Challenge of the Largest Industrial City in Korea

Jongmin Lee, Virginia Tech and the Chemical Heritage Foundation Between Breakthrough Technology and Pollution Converter: EPA’s Automobile Emission Control in the 1970s

Kelly J. Sisson Lessens, University of MichiganKing Corn’s “Soft Power” in an Era of Empire, Emporium, and Environmental Transformation

Qi Feng Lin, McGill UniversityLeopold and Economics

Kimberly Little, University of Central ArkansasFrom Playgrounds to Parkways: How the Private Transportation Revolution Changed St. Louis Public Recreation, 1900-1940

Michelle Mart, Penn State University, BerksLearning to Love Organics

Mary Richie McGuire, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityTobacco Cultures in the Age of Revolution: Migrations of Plants and Peoples in the Early Modern Atlantic, 1750-1850

Elizabeth Mills, University of Vermont Allen Chamberlain, the Appalachian Mountain Club, and the Progressive Conservation Movement

Jean-François Mouhot, Georgetown University An Environmental History of Saint-Domingue/Haiti, 1492-Present

Jackie Mirandola Mullen, State University of New York at AlbanyApt for an Adventure: How Women Kept Pace with Men to Tackle the Adirondack Forty-Six

Neall Pogue, Texas A&M University How Conservative Protestants Imagined The Right Kind of Nature, 1970-1988

John Ringquist, United States Military Academy, West Point “The Land Bore the Wounds of our Hatred”: The Environmental Aftermath of Combat in the American Civil War

Edward Slavishak, Susquehanna University Largely Inaccessible: Belonging in West Virginia White Water, 1965-1975

Hari Tiwari, Social Welfare Council, Kathmandu, Nepal Livelihoods and Forestry Programme in Nepal

Franziska Torma, Rachel Carson Center, LMU MunichGermany’s Seven Seas: Marine Biology and Ecological Imperialism in the Long 20th Century.

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ASEH awardsAseh distinguished service Award 2012:

Thomas Dunlap, Texas A&M University

2012 Travel grant recipientsCongratulations to the following recipients of ASEH travel grants to this conference:

ASEH minority travel grant: Steve RodriguezJohn D. Wirth travel grant: Timo MyllantausEV and Nancy Melosi travel grant: Giacomo ParrinelloMorgan and Jeannie Sherwood travel grants: Jonathan Clapperton and Lauren Wheeler Ellen Swallow Richards travel grant: Henry TrimDonald Worster travel grant: Baisakhi BandyoapdhyayJ. Donald Hughes travel grant: Adama PamASEH grants: Janette Bailey, Mark Leeming, and Mark McLaughlin

NSF travel grants recipients:

1. Sharon Adams2. Jakobina Arch3. Deanne Ashton4. Kevin Brown5. Bathsheba Demuth

6. Leif Fredrickson7. Tim Johnson8. Jongmin Lee9. Philipp Lehmann10. Max Liboiron

11. Raechel Lutz12. Jackie Mullenn13. Tamar Novick14. Neall Pogue15. Andrew Ramey

16. Bob Reinhardt17. Gregory Rosenthal18. Jennifer Thomson19. Daniel Vandersommers20. Amrys Williams

Sponsor: National Science Foundation, Grant SES-1058613

Fellowship recipientssamuel p. hays fellowship:

Linda Ivey, California State University-East Bay, for her project titled “Poetic Industrialism: Race, Class, Environment, and Evolving Notions of Sustainable Agriculture in 20th Century California”

hal rothman research fellowship:

Haley Michaels Pollack, University of Wisconsin-Madison for project titled “Theaters of Memory: Place, Space, and Remembrance on the San Francisco Bay”

Special eventsWorkshops

Indigenous Media Workshop

Friday, March 30 8:30-noon Hall of Ideas E

Organized by ASEH’s Diversity Committee

a. Indigenous Media as empowerment: A Case study in

Climate Change

This session will include a screening of the film “Through Tribal Eyes”

Moderator: Patty Loew, University of Wisconsin-MadisonDiscussants:• Melissa Cook, College of Menominee Nation• Mike Dockry, USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Lab• Tribal College Students TBA

b. Media as historical Artifact: reflections on Menominee

Termination – past, present, and future This session will include a screening of the film “The Last

Menominee”

Moderator: Patty Loew, University of Wisconsin-MadisonDiscussants:• Melissa Cook, College of Menominee Nation• Mike Dockry, USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Lab• Menominee Tribal Members TBA

navigating Career Challenges in difficult Times: professional development Workshop for environmental history Graduate students

Saturday, March 31 8:30-12 noonHall of Ideas F

Graduate students have unique skills and knowledge – but they sometimes don’t know how to leverage or showcase them. This workshop will provide ABDs with skills and support as they prepare for careers in and out of academia. The workshop is presented in two parts. Part one looks at skills development and assessment: Sean Kheraj will provide guidance on developing an online presence; Todd Dresser will outline the value of graduate training for careers outside of academia; and Hannah Nyala West and Kieko Matteson will discuss the unique skillsets for government and non-government careers.

In part two, the discussants will engage workshop participants in a roundtable discussion on the multiple paths available for a post-PhD career. The workshop wraps up with US Parks historian Hannah Nyala West conducting a practical workshop on preparing an effec-tive job application for federal government positions.

Moderators: Will Knight and Andrew Case

8:30-9:00 Sean Kheraj “The Academic and the Internet: Navigating Professional Development Online”9:00-9:30 Todd Dresser “Graduate skills in non-academic careers”9:30-1:00 Kieko Matteson and Hannah Nyala West, “Skillsets for Government and Non-Governmental Organizations”10:00-10:30 Coffee break 10:30-11:15 Roundtable with Sean Kheraj, Todd Dresser, Kieko Matteson, and Hannah Nyala West11:15-12:00 Hannah Nyala West, “The Nuts and Bolts: Federal Job Applications for Historians”

Making pictures Talk: An environmental history Visual Culture Jam

Saturday, March 31 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm. Hall of Ideas J

The graphics co-editors of the journal Environmental History orga-nized this workshop devoted to visual cultural analysis in order to promote its use as a research methodology among environmental historians. As graphic editors for our field’s main scholarly journal, we have found that many environmental historians refrain from using visual culture to its fullest potential. The point of the workshop is to encourage historians to use visual resources as primary source mate-rial in their own right instead of merely as illustrations of arguments made with more mainstream source materials. To that end, we have invited five environmental historians practiced in visual culture stud-ies to participate in an informal workshop that will offer the audience a variety of theories and methods for incorporating images in their research projects. We have designed the session to be a lively forum where the panelists will critique a diverse group of images– from paintings to photographs to advertisements to film clips -- that are presented to them on the spot.

Audience participation will be encouraged. The session will open with panelists offering a very brief statement (3 minutes each) about their approach to visual culture in environmental history. The goal here is to provide the audience with some theoretical and methodological frameworks for how one can read visual culture. During the visual culture “jam session,” the panelists will be presented with images they have not seen before and will put their theories and methods to work ”reading” the images. For the last portion of the session, the commentator, who is an expert in the field of visual culture studies, will offer her own vision of this exciting field and then also critique the environmental historians’ ”readings.” This alternative panel format is designed to be more fast-paced and to focus more on the critiquing process than a traditional session.

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Moderator: Neil Maher, Rutgers University-Newark-NJIT

Discussants: Finis Dunaway, Trent University Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin-Madison Alexa Weik von Mossner, University of Fribourg and the Rachel Carson Center, LMU MunichCindy Ott, St. Louis UniversityPaul Sutter, University of Colorado, Boulder Martha Sandweiss, Princeton University – Commentator

digital environmental history: Tools and projects

Saturday, March 31 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. Hall of Ideas J

Digital access to sources, new analysis techniques, and digital publishing formats are changing the way the historical profession is performed. Environmental history stands to benefit greatly from these new ways of connecting contemporary issues, researchers, and the public, potentially increasing the visibility of research and enhancing its impact.

This workshop focuses on digital tools and projects that foster such connections. Presenters will discuss innovative audio and visual media projects, the effective creation and curation of online scholarly networks, the role of digital tools in outreach, and the adaptation of environmental historical content for easy data mining, visualization, exploration, and discovery.

In the context of these tools and projects, we will consider how digital technologies may enhance the environmental historians’ research, teaching, and outreach while maintaining (or transforming) academic standards and expectations. Further questions include: How can digital projects represent environmental histories and engage broader publics in their interpretation? How can digital tools and projects strengthen collaborative networks among not only environmental historians, but also involving public and private institutions such as libraries, broadcasters, publishers, and the media? What structural, methodological, and representational challenges and opportunities do digital tools and projects present? The workshop aims to spark discussion on these topics and stimulate new ideas for the applica-tion of digital tools and projects in environmental history.

Moderators: Finn Arne Jørgensen, Umeå University and Christof Mauch, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich

Commentator: Sean Kheraj, York University

Discussants: Jon Christensen, Stanford UniversityKimberly Coulter, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU MunichFred Gibbs, George Mason University

Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU MunichJan Oosthoek, Newcastle University, UKRichard H. Ross, Claremont Graduate UniversityFinn Ryan, Wisconsin Educational Communications BoardJessica Van Horssen, McGill University / Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières/Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich

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Sponsored by Oxford University Press

Wednesday, March 28, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.Ballroom A, Monona Terrace

Welcome remarks by Bill Cronon. Light appetizers and a cash bar will be provided.

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Sponsored by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Thursday, March 29, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.Union South Theater, University of Wisconsin

This location is 1.6 miles from the convention center and conference hotel (see map at the back of this program). For those who do not wish to walk, a bus will leave the conference hotel at 6:30 p.m.; meet in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel by 6:20 p.m.

Keynote Speaker: Jenny Price Stop Saving the Planet, Already!--and Other Tips from Rachel Carson for 21st-Century Environmentalists

Followed by a panel discussion with Lisa Sideris, Christof Mauch, and Nancy Langston The 2012 meeting of the American Society of Environmental History coincides with a momentous date – the fiftieth anniversary of the pub-lication of Rachel Carson’s landmark book, Silent Spring, in 1962. Her book, credited with launching a new era in environmentalism in the U.S. and around the world, will be the focus of the plenary ses-sion for the 2012 conference. Linking her life and work to the confer-ence theme, “From the Local to the Global: Ethics, Environmentalism, and Environmental History in an Interdependent World,” the plenary will examine Carson and her historical significance, while also con-necting her to contemporary environmental issues. The plenary will begin with a keynote address followed by a round-table panel discussion with active audience participation. Our keynote speaker will be Jenny Price, an environmental historian, author, and environmental advocate who is uniquely equipped to address Carson as a historical figure, while placing her legacy within the context of current environmental movements. Price’s career, like Carson’s,

has been focused on using her academic training to bring environ-mental history and environmental issues to a broader public.

The panel discussion following the keynote address will focus on perspectives of Carson alongside current environmental issues and debates, and the debates that marked her own career. We hope that this plenary session will be an incisive, illuminating, and lively conversation of interest to all members of ASEH.

fIlM fesTIVAl

Grab some popcorn and settle into your seat – “Tales from Planet Earth” is here! This biennial free environmental film festival, founded in 2007 by the Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE), runs concurrent with this year’s ASEH confer-ence. Always provocative and entertaining, this major outreach effort uses narrative to bridge the themes and issues of environmental his-tory with the efforts of local groups working on behalf of environmen-tal and social justice – on the belief that “issues don’t move people; stories do!” To date, almost 7,500 festival-goers have attended more than 80 film screenings. This year’s highlights will include Semper Fi, about contaminated military landscapes, on Wednesday; a retro-spective of films on pesticides, on Thursday; and The City Dark, a contemplation on light pollution on Friday. Other films will feature the history of the cubicle, spit-training a dog on the banks of the Mississippi, and graffiti cartoons run amok across urban landscapes!

Check out all the fun (all events free and open to the public) in the program insert or at http://www.talesfromplanetearth.com. A list of films and a schedule will also be available at the conference registra-tion desk.

BreAkfAsTs

The breakfasts are open to anyone interested in discussing the topic; sign up on the online conference registration form ahead of time.

energyThursday, March 29, 7:15-8:15 a.m.Ballroom ASponsored by the Center for Public History, University of Houston

sustainabilityFriday, March 30, 7:15-8:15 a.m.Hall of Ideas H

outreach and AsehFriday, March 30, 7:15-8:15 a.m.Hall of Ideas I

Climate historySaturday, March 31, 7:15-8:15 a.m.Hall of Ideas H

envirotech Saturday, March 31, 7:15-8:15 a.m.Hall of Ideas ISponsored in part by Envirotech

lunChes

The lunches are open to anyone interested in discussing the topic; sign up on the online conference registration form ahead of time.

forest history societyThursday, March 29, 12:00 – 1:15 p.m.Ballroom A

War and environmentSaturday, March 31, 12:00 – 1:15 p.m.Hall of Ideas H

GrAduATe sTudenT reCepTIon

Friday, March 30, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.Cosponsored by ASEH and CHE Graduate Affiliates.Wisconsin Historical Museum, 30 North Carroll Street, Madison

Located within walking distance of the hotel, this is a great way to renew friendships and welcome new students. Includes free book raffle, appetizers, and local brews.

hAl roThMAn fun(d) run

Saturday, March 31, 6:30 – 7:30 a.m.Hilton Hotel Lobby

Join us for the 3rd annual “Run for the Hal of It” Fun(d) Run to benefit the Hal Rothman Research Fellowship for students. Participants will meet in the conference hotel lobby for a three-mile walk/run, which will return to the hotel. Although there will be same-day registration, advanced sign-up on the online conference registration form is strongly encouraged. Entry is

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$20 for members and $10 for students. If you have questions, please contact Jamie Lewis, event organizer, at [email protected].

Aseh MeMBers/BusIness MeeTInG

Saturday, March 31, 5:30 – 6:00 p.m.Hall of Ideas E

All members are welcome. President John McNeill will lead a discus-sion on the future of ASEH – this is your opportunity to contribute your ideas about our organization.

posTer presenTATIon

Saturday, March 31, 6:00 – 7:15 p.m.Grand Terrace

Join us at the cash bar as the poster presenters discuss their research during this period.

AWArds CereMony

Saturday, March 31, 7:30 – 8:00 p.m.Ballroom A

President John McNeill will preside, honoring ASEH’s awards for best book, articles, and dissertation. He will also present the Distinguished Service Award to Thomas Dunlap.

dInner BuffeT pArTy

Saturday, March 31, 8:00 – 10:00 p.m.Grand Terrace

This final event promises to be a highlight of the conference. Join your colleagues for a dinner buffet and live bluegrass music.

Saturday night’s entertainment will feature an assembly of bluegrass musicians (led by ASEH member Sarah Mittlefehldt) gathering to honor the tradition known as Whiskey Friday. From New England to the Midwest to the South and back again, the Whiskey Friday tradi-tion evokes the hootenannies of the Progressive Era, but is flavored with the contemporary sounds of bluegrass and alt-country. Bring your banjos, mandolins, guitars, fiddles, hands, feet, voice, wash-boards, etc. (no drums or electric instruments, please!) because Whiskey Friday is not just for listening—audience participation is highly encouraged! For more information, please contact Sarah Mittlefehldt at [email protected]

Field Tripspre-ConferenCe fIeld TrIps

John Muir’s WisconsinWednesday, March 28, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.Sponsored by the Montello Historic Preservation Society and the Marquette County Historical Society.

This all-day preconference field trip will give participants the opportu-nity to join Nancy Langston, Fritz Davis, and local historian Kathleen McGwin in an exporation of John Muir’s boyhood sites. We will leave from the Monona Terrace Hilton at 9 a.m. and drive to the site of John Muir’s first home in Wisconsin, now a Wisconsin State Natural Area and County Park. There we will hike 2.3 miles of the Ice Age Trail around the lake, joined by a prairie restorationist and other local experts. We will then tour the outside of Hickory Hill, the Muir’s sec-ond home (now a private residence), and visit the barn that the Muirs built and the well where the young Muir almost died. We will hike up Observatory Hill, one of Muir’s favorite rhyolite outcroppings. On Observatory Hill, we may see a 5000 year old petroglyph and glacial striations, the kind of signs that Muir would later use to argue his case about glaciers. We will have our boxed lunches inside the Wee White Kirk, where Muir’s father preached. The road it sits on is the road that young John helped build---a corduroy road over what the young boys in the neighborhood called the “weird swamp”. If time allows, we will visit the Fox River refuge as well, and possibly the lake were Daniel Muir re-baptized his children and the pioneer cemetery where a brother-in-law and two nephews of John Muir are buried.

If you have never had a chance to visit John Muir’s boyhood land-scapes, this trip will be a moving experience. Bring very warm clothes, good hiking boots, rain gear, and binoculars if you have them. If you have a chance to read Muir’s The Story of My Boyhood and Youth before the tour, please do. We will also have copies with us. Expect about four miles of walking over rough, muddy trails.

The leopold Center and International Crane foundation: ecosystem restoration history and Challenges

Wednesday, March 28, 7:15 a.m. to 6 p.m.Co-sponsored by ASEH, the Aldo Leopold Foundation, the International Crane Foundation, and the Center for Humans and Nature

The aim of this workshop is to foster engagement between environ-mental historians and practitioners of ecological restoration by con-necting historical analysis and contemporary practice. The workshop will examine the origins, development, and current challenges of ecological restoration, with a special focus on Aldo Leopold’s critical role in shaping the field. We will explore the relevance of Leopold’s core concepts of land health and land ethics as restoration responds to landscape and climate change in varied ecological and cultural contexts, and at various temporal and spatial scales. The workshop will begin with a morning session of interdisciplinary presentations

and discussion, with lunch and a brief tour of the LEED-platinum Leopold Center. In the afternoon field session we will explore land-scape change and restoration activities at the Leopold Shack and Farm, with participants joining in a demonstration prairie burn or other stewardship activity (weather permitting). We will then visit the nearby International Crane Foundation to learn about ICF’s restoration and wildlife conservation activities in communities around the world.

7:30 a.m. Bus leaves Monona Terrace Hilton for Leopold Center9:00 a.m. Welcome to the Leopold Center9:15 a.m. Panel 1: Restoration History Bill Jordan, New Academy for Nature and Culture, Historical origins and development of ecological restoration Don Waller, UW-Madison, Wisconsin as a Microcosm for the Study of Ecological Change10:45 a.m. Panel 2: Restoration Challenges Susan Flader, University of Missouri, Aldo Leopold and the Restoration of Working Lands, Then and Now Michelle Stevens, California State University- Sacramento, Ecological and Cultural Restoration in Indigenous Communities11:45 a.m. Curt Meine and Rich Bielfuss, Restoration, Wildlife, and Culture in Global Context: An Introduction to the International Crane Foundation12:00 p.m. Catered Lunch1:00 p.m. Tour of the Leopold Shack. Discuss landscape change, phenology, and restoration challenges on Leopold’s farm with Steve Swenson & Stan Temple; participate in prairie burn (weather permitting).3:15 p.m. Walking Tour of the International Crane Foundation4:30 p.m. Bus returns to Madison, arriving at the Hilton 5:30

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frIdAy AfTernoon fIeld TrIps

March 30, 12:15 – 5:00 p.m.All buses leave promptly at 12:30 p.m.

Eight options for Friday afternoon field trips are described below. Field trips fill up quickly at ASEH conferences; sign up early on the online conference registration form. Dress warmly and wear comfortable shoes. All trips except for #3 include bus transportation. Meet buses in level one of the Monona Terrace Convention Center at 12:15 p.m. Lunch and all fees are included. Field trip #3 will begin in Hall of Ideas E.

1. environmental literature and Writing at the Arboretum

Leader: Michelle Niemann

In the tradition of Aldo Leopold, participants will immerse themselves in the UW-Arboretum’s varied environments and in Aldo Leopold’s writings, exploring ways to integrate writing and place. Recognized as the birthplace of restoration ecology, the UW-Arboretum strives to heal the land and restore native species. In focusing on the re-establish-ment of historic landscapes, particularly those that predated large-scale European settlement, the UW-Arboretum Committee in the 1930s introduced a new concept in ecology: ecological restoration. Aldo Leopold was closely involved with the Arboretum during his time in Wisconsin, so the site offers an excellent location for place-based analysis of literature and the environment.

The field trip will begin with a brief talk by and discussion with Julianne Lutz Warren, author of Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey (2006); then participants will divide into small groups, each led by an experienced environmental writer, for a chance to explore the Arboretum and do writing activities based on observation. Arboretum tour guides will introduce participants to three key ecological communities—prairie, forest, and wetland—during an hour-and-a-half-long walking tour. After our return to the Visitor’s Center, the small group leaders will guide participants in playful, exploratory writing activities that empha-size recording observations and returning to the senses. Participants should dress for walking outdoors in late-March Wisconsin weather—i.e., closed-toed shoes, warm clothing, and a raincoat in case—and should bring any equipment that would aid them in observing (a cam-era, binoculars, a magnifying glass, etc.) as well as a pen and paper.

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2. ecological restoration of oak savanna at pleasant Valley Conservancy

Leader: Emily Brock

Midwestern oak savanna, a dynamic landscape of grasses and bur oak, is one of the most endangered ecosystems in North America. The joint effect of farmland conversion and fire suppression led to a nearly complete loss of this ecosystem by the turn of the twenti-eth century. The 140-acre Pleasant Valley Conservancy is an oak savanna consisting of former farmland and woodlot that has been in intensive ecological restoration for close to twenty years. Through reintroducing wildland fire, thinning and modifying timber lots, recon-verting farm fields, and removing invasive species, the land managers have coaxed the native oak savanna back to health. Pleasant Valley is located in the unglaciated Driftless Area, with the steep-sided hills, narrow fields, and marshlands characteristic of this picturesque region. Under its wide-spreading oaks, Pleasant Valley hosts many rare and endangered plant species and a variety of interesting birds. The conservancy has received many accolades for the rigor and success of its restoration process, including recent designation as a Wisconsin State Natural Area.

Visitors should be able to see various springtime restoration activities, including controlled burning and invasive species removal. We will trace the remnants of the agricultural past by locating house founda-tions, decayed roadbeds, and an old sandstone quarry. For more information on the location see http://pleasantvalleyconservancy.org. Driving time from downtown Madison: 45 minutes each way. Wear

appropriate clothes and hiking shoes to walk about two miles on well-tended hiking trails through a hilly landscape. (Participants who feel they might not be able to hike may ride the Conservancy truck, contact [email protected] to arrange that option.)

3. Madison Walking Tour: The history of labor and environmental Activism

Leader: Brian Hamilton

note: this field trip will begin in hall of Ideas e, where lunches will be available, along with a pre-walk discussion. Last spring Madison made headlines across the country as tens of thousands of protestors descended upon to Capitol. They came to defend the rights of public employees--rights Wisconsin led the nation in establishing. This tour will explore the recent and distant past of the city’s labor and environmental battles. We will hear from the legislators and activists at the center of the 2011 protests and recall elections, who will help us reconstruct the occupation of the Capitol as we tour its halls. In addi-tion, we will chat with the daughter and the biographer of Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, who as governor made Wisconsin the first state in the nation to recognize the collective bargaining rights of pub-lic employees and, as a U.S. senator, championed legislation aimed simultaneously at protecting workers and the environment. Then we will walk a mile through the downtown to the University of Wisconsin campus, along the way uncovering the histories of the labor, student, and modern environmental movements as they were forged on the streets of Madison.

4. leopold shack and Center

Leaders: Curt Meine and Susan Flader

This tour to Leopold’s Shack and the new Leopold Legacy Center will be an abbreviated version of the pre-conference workshop; please do not sign up for both. The Shack is a re-built chicken coop along the Wisconsin River where Aldo Leopold and his family stayed during weekend retreats. The land surrounding the Shack and farm provided the inspiration for the essays in the conservation classic A Sand County Almanac. A mile away, the Leopold Center is an educational and interpretive facility located on the very land where Aldo Leopold died in 1948 fighting a brush fire. The Aldo Leopold Legacy Center embodies the philosophy of one of the nation’s great thinkers, the late conservationist and author of A Sand County Almanac.

Learn about how features like solar power, geothermal, and sustain-able building materials make this one of the “greenest” buildings in the world. It has not only received the US Green Building Council’s LEED® platinum certification, the highest possible level, but it was more highly rated than any other building yet rated in the United States. It is also the first building ever to be certified “carbon neutral.” Walk through the greenest building in the country with one of our tour guides to get in-depth information about how solar power, geothermal, and sustainable building materials help this facility produce more energy than it consumes. The Aldo Leopold Legacy Center replicates the respectful relationship to land demonstrated by Leopold at the Shack, but through the prism of the 21st century.

5. Birding at horicon Marsh

Leader: Fritz Davis

Our annual birding tour will visit Horicon Marsh in 2012. 50 miles from Madison, Horicon Marsh is the largest cattail marsh in the US. Ditched and drained for agriculture in the early 1900’s, Horicon Marsh is one of the great wetlands restoration projects in the world. The spring Canada geese migration often numbers over 200,000 birds, and the timing of the conference should be perfect for viewing the geese. Nesting colonies for great blue herons are also active. In addition to common marshland birds, Horicon Marsh is a lure for some of the rarest bird sightings in Wisconsin. We will focus on the southern portion of the marsh, visiting Bachhuber Flowage, where the Horicon Marsh International Education Center and miles of trails offers access to many different habitats. We will hike to Quick’s Point and Indermuehle Island also. High temperatures will likely be in the high 40s or low 50s. Please wear warm clothing and plan to be outside for 2.5 hours, rain or shine! Binoculars are strongly recom-mended. We will also try to have at least a few spotting scopes.

6. Taliesin: frank lloyd Wright’s Wisconsin

Leader: Anna Andrzejewski

We will visit Taliesin for a two-hour exterior tour, with one hour on a shuttle touring the outside of Taliesin, and one hour walking around the exterior of Wright’s house, with a brief stop inside the studio. Please note that it’s critical to dress for the weather, as much of this tour will be outside (the house itself does not open for interior tours until the end of April each year). As the Taliesin Preservation founda-tion’s website notes: “This two-hour primarily exterior tour offers visitors a unique overview of the serene valley in which Frank Lloyd Wright spent his youth and to which he returned as an adult to build his home.

During the first hour of the tour, visitors will ride by and view the exteriors of Unity Chapel, Hillside Home School, Romeo and Juliet Windmill, Tan-y-deri House, Midway Farm, and, of course, Taliesin itself. An experienced guide provides historical and architectural interpretations of each structure. During the tour’s second hour, visitors take an intimate walk though Taliesin’s Upper and Lower Courtyards and Orchard, concluding with a special walk-through of Wright’s personal studio.”

7. local food and Agriculture in Madison

Leader: Anna Zeide

note: Meet in the lobby of the hilton hotel at 12:15 p.m. Madison is a town filled with people who love food and who want to share that love widely. From farmers’ market shoppers to restaurateurs to urban farmers, there is a vivid community food scene in the area. This field

trip will expose participants to a range of those people and scenes, providing a glimpse into the innovative ways that local foods enthu-siasts are creating connections from field to plate, and are trying to make good food accessible to all.

The tour will begin with lunch at famed local restaurant L’Etoile, where we’ll hear about the restaurant’s commitment to sourcing locally and seasonally, and to sharing their knowledge through education outreach. From there, we’ll travel to the Goodman Community Center, to learn about how they are supplying their food pantry with fresh produce from a high school youth farm, and about how they are teaching food production skills through a community kitchen, veg-etable garden, and student-run café. Finally, our tour will culminate at Troy Gardens, a site that is managed by a local nonprofit, Community GroundWorks. Troy Gardens features Madison’s only urban farm on 26 acres of open space land for community-based food production and natural areas restoration management. We will be outside for this stop, so bring appropriate outdoor warm clothing, walking shoes, and rain gear.

8. Green Building and The forest products lab

Leader: Lincoln Bramwell

Once again, the USDA Forest Service will generously sponsor a forest history field trip. This trip will visit the Forest Products Laboratory on the University of Wisconsin campus, where Aldo Leopold once worked. The Forest Products Laboratory in Madison WI has played a key role in researching and promoting sustainable uses of wood since the second chief of the Forest Service established the lab in 1910. The Forest Products Laboratory is now one of the world’s lead-ing wood research institutes for the development of environmentally friendly technologies, recycling, and forest management.

We will tour the “Research Demonstration House” and the Carriage House, two full-scale structures that allow researchers to conduct housing-related studies in a real-world setting. We’ll have a chance to explore the FPL’s new 87,000 square foot Centennial Research Facility as well. We’ll speak with scientists, planners, and green build-ing designers about their visions for a sustainable future.

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Thursday, March 29

Conference at a glanceMArCh 28-31, 2012

Conference at a glanceMArCh 28-31, 2012

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Conference Schedule Conference Schedule

Pre-conference field trip to Aldo Leopold Shack and International Crane Foundation Meet in the lobby of the hilton

Pre-conference field trip, John Muir’s WisconsinMeet in the lobby of the hilton.

RegistrationCounters 3 and 4

Opening receptionBallroom A

Tales from Planet Earth film festival screening of Semper FiMuseum of Contemporary Art

7:00 a.m.-8:15 a.m.

8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

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6:30 p.m.

7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

7:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.

Special Interests breakfast: EnergyBallroom A

Registration and book exhibitionCounters 3 and 4, Grand Terrace

Concurrent Sessions 1

Morning Coffee BreakGrand Terrace


Special Interests lunch: Forest History SocietyBallroom A


Afternoon breakGrand Terrace


Buses leave for the plenary at Union South from in front of the hilton

Plenary and receptionThe Marquee at union south

Tales from Planet Earth film screenings, Multiple locations

7:10 a.m.-8:15 a.m.

8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

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5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

7:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.

Special Interest breakfasts: Sustainability, hall of Ideas h; Outreach and ASEH, hall of Ideas I



Workshop: Indigenous Mediahall of Ideas e

Morning coffee breakGrand Terrace

Concurrent sessions 6

Field trips. Meet buses outside on level one of the Monona Terrace Convention Center at 12:15 p.m.

Editorial board dinner

Graduate student reception, Wisconsin historical Museum

Tales from Planet Earth film screeningsMultiple locations

6:30 a.m.-7:30 a.m

7:10 a.m.-8:15 a.m..

8:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

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Hal Hothman Fun(d) Runhilton hotel lobby

Special Interest breakfasts: Climate History, hall of Ideas h; Envirotech, hall of Ideas I


Graduate Student Career Workshophall of Ideas f


Morning coffee breakGrand Terrace


Special Interests lunch: War and Environmenthall of Ideas h

Executive Committee meeting


Workshop: Making Pictures Talkhall of Ideas J

Afternoon break


Workshop: Digital Environmental History Tools and Projectshall of Ideas J

Business meetinghall of Ideas e

Poster exhibition and receptionGrand Terrace

Awards ceremonyBallroom A

Dinner buffet and bluegrass musicBallroom A and Grand Terrace

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Thursday, March 29 ConCurrenT sessIons 1


8:30-10:00 A.M.

Making Tires, Timber, and Turf: labor and nature in environmental history

Panel 1-A: Meeting Room K

Chair: Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado-BoulderCommentator: Neil Maher, NJIT/Rutgers UniversityPanelists: Erik Loomis, University of Rhode Island, Radical Unions’ Conservationist Critique of the 20th Century Pacific Northwest Timber IndustryRaechel Lutz, Rutgers University, Cutting the Grass: How Lawn Labor Made Backyard NatureGreg Wilson, University of Akron, Work and Nature: Akron and the Worlds of Rubber

famines, fur seals, and fluvial rerouting projects in the far north

Panel 1-B: Meeting Room L

Chair: Kerwin Klein, University of California-BerkeleyPanelists:Bathsheba Demuth, University of California-Berkeley, Composing the Fur Seal: Globalization and Human Adaption in the North PacificTimo Myllyntaus, University of Turku, “Hunger is Always Our Guest”, Great Harvest Failures and Famines in 19th Century Iceland and FinlandChristopher Ward, Clayton State University, Rerouting the Siberian Rivers: A Lifeline for the Aral Sea?

reifying the exploited seas: The Built environment and the Marine environmental history of the northeast fisheries 1890-1950

Panel 1-C: Meeting Room M

Chair and Commentator: Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of TechnologyPanelists: Michael Chiarappa, Quinnipiac University, The Fabricated Coastline: Reckoning Architecture’s Place in Marine Environmental HistoryMatthew McKenzie, University of Connecticut, Trusts in Cod: Waterfront Access and Colonizing Boston’s Marine Environment, 1890-1914Brian Payne, Bridgewater State University, Cannery Factories and Weir Fishermen: Production and Price Control in Maine’s Sardine Industry, 1875-1903

Applying history to ecological Conservation in the northern Great lakes region

Panel 1-D: Meeting Room N

Chair: David Mladenoff, University of Wisconsin-MadisonCommentator: Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin-MadisonPanelists: Curt Meine, Center for Humans and Nature/Aldo Leopold Foundation, “It’s about Time: Conservation Biology and History”: Retrospect and ProspectJeffrey Niese, Senior Forester, Wisconsin Board of Commissioners of Public Lands and Randy Bixby, Land Records Archivist, Wisconsin Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, Can History Encourage More “intelligent Tinkering” by Today’s Forest Land Managers?Michelle Steen-Adams, University of New England, How to Promote Collaboration among Historians and Ecologists?: A Boreal Forest Conservation Example Using Historic Surveys, Ecological Models, and Narratives

“The negro speaks of rivers”: African American environmental history

Panel 1-E: Meeting Room O

Chair and Commentator: Mart Stewart, Western Washington UniversityPanelists: Kevin Leonard, Western Washington University, “It Would Not Be Tolerated in an All-White Neighborhood”: African Americans and Weeds in Mid Twentieth-Century Los AngelesEllen Spears, University of Alabama, “Embodiments of a New Knowledge of Nature”: Race, Chemistry, and the National DefenseColin Fisher, University of San Diego, Dr. Wilberforce Williams, Racial Segregation in Jazz Age Chicago, and Black Public Health

The land ethic: The evolution and Application of leopold’s Ideal

Panel 1-F: Meeting Room P

Chair: Julianne Warren, New York UniversityPanelists: John Hausdoerffer, Western State College, The “Spiritual Danger” of Alienation: The Urban Roots and Social Justice Future of Aldo Leopold’s Land EthicStephen Laubach, University of Wisconsin-Madison, The “Landless Anonymities”: The Farmers Who Preceded Aldo Leopold on His Sand County Farm and How They Shaped His Land Ethic Greg Summers, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Thinking like a Home Owner: Reconsidering Aldo Leopold’s Land EthicJoshua Nygren, University of Kansas, “More Obligation to the PrivateLandowner”: Aldo Leopold, the Soil Conservation Service, and Evolving Ethics of Conservation

The poisonous 1970s: human health and environmental Toxicity

Panel 1-G: Meeting Room Q

Chair: Jody Roberts, Chemical Heritage FoundationPanelists: Michael Egan, McMaster University, The Numbers Game: Mercury and the Quantification of Risk on Lake St. Clair Christopher Sellers, SUNY Stonybrook, Dueling Legacies: Local, National and Transnational Impacts of Lead Poisoning in El Paso Jennifer Thomson, Harvard University, The Emergence of ‘Public’ Health: Love Canal and Popular Epidemiology

Imperial food ecologies: feeding Britain and Germany 1850-1945

Panel 1-H: Hall of Ideas E

Chair: Kelly Sisson Lessens, University of Michigan, Panelists: David Fouser, University of California-Irvine, Wheat, Flour, Bread: The British Food Chain, 1846-1939Chris Otter, Ohio State University, Cattle, Energy and Germs: Transforming Imperial Britain’s Meat SystemRobyn Metcalfe, University of Texas-Austin, Urban Metabolism in Victorian LondonAlice Weinreb, Northwestern University, Food, Blood and Soil: The Politics of Land, Race and Nutrition in Nazi Germany

Beyond the Book

Roundtable 1-I: Hall of Ideas F

Moderator: Marcus Hall, University of ZurichDiscussants: Irene Klaver, University of North TexasAnne Milne, University of GuelphTor Oriamo, University of Western OntarioJoy Parr, University of Western OntarioGiacomo Parrinello, University of Siena

Teaching environmental history from a u.s. and World perspective

Workshop 1-J: Hall of Ideas J

Moderator: Aaron Shapiro, Auburn UniversityDiscussants: Ellen Arnold, Ohio Wesleyan University Megan Jones, The Pingry SchoolSara Jordan, University of California-Irvine Cheryl Oakes, Forest History Society David Salmanson, Springside Chestnut Hill AcademyEric Steiger, University of California-Irvine

Concurrent Sessions Concurrent Sessions

Session rooms are located on level four of the convention center.

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Thursday, March 29ConCurrenT sessIons 2 10:30 A.M. To noon

Thursday, March 29ConCurrenT sessIons 2

10:30 A.M. To noon

In the Wake of extraction: neotropical landscapes and natural resource depletion, 16th-19th Centuries


Chair: Jennifer Anderson, Stony Brook University Panelists: Jennifer Anderson, Stony Brook University, “Cut Out”: Mapping Mahogany Depletion in Belize Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, McGill University, The Ecologies of Post-Mining Landscapes in Mexico and Panama Molly Warsh, Texas A & M University, Sustainable Destruction? Management Challenges of Venezuelan Pearl Fisheries

Measuring and Valuing nature: fisheries, forests and energy


Chair: Brian Black, Pennsylvania State University-AltoonaCommentator: Kathryn Morse, Middlebury College Panelists: Kevin Brown, Carnegie Mellon University, The Labor of Valuing the Forest: Timber Estimating and the American Lumber Industry, 1890-1920 Hugh Gorman, Michigan Technological University, Hydro, Fossil, and Solar: Environmental Change and the Political Economy of Energy in Panama Jeff Johnson, Georgia State University, “Uniform and of Good Size for Canning:” Culture, Economics, and Environmental Change in the Gulf of Mexico”Nathan Roberts, University of Washington, The Philippine Log Rule: American Empire, Economic Development and Conservation in the Early 20th Century

northward Course of empires: Cold Climate and other limits


Chair: Christof Mauch, Rachel Carson Center, LMU MunichCommentator: Karen Oslund, Towson University Panelists: Ingo Heidbrink, Old Dominion University, Societal Change in a Marginal Society: Environmental and Economic Dimensions of Greenlandic History between ca. 1700 and 1900 Julia Herzberg, Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich, The Domestication of Ice and Cold. The Ice Palace in Saint Petersburg 1739-40 Anya Zilberstein, Concordia University-Montreal, The Discomfort Zone: Jamaicans in and out of Nova Scotia, 1796-1798

This panel is sponsored by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society

Building Borders, Crossing Borders: Animals in the Making of Modern political order in east Asia


Chair: Lisa Brady, Boise State University Panelists: Akihisa Setoguchi, Osaka City University, Hunting, Bird Watching, and Garden Cities: The Origin of Nature Conservation in JapanToshihiro Higuchi, Stanford University, Before Whale Wars: Modern Japan and the Conservation of North Pacific Fur SealsJakobina Arch, Harvard University, The Early 20th Century Race to the Antarctic: Differences in Japanese and British Antarctic Whaling EmpiresYubin Shen, Georgetown University, International Fur Trade, Pneumonic Plague, and Imperial Environment: The Retreat of the Tarbagan from Northern Manchuria, 1900’s-1930’s

Conflict and Consensus: The public reaction to “the peaceful Atom” in the united states, 1955-1980


Chair and Commentator: Martin Melosi, University of Houston Panelists: Andrew Ramey, Carnegie Mellon University, Cliffhanger: The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the Calvert Cliffs Controversy, 1968-1971 Thomas Wellock, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, The China Syndrome: Regulating Against CatastropheBrittany Fremion, Purdue University, “A Constituency of Concerned Citizens”: Antinuclear Protest in the American MidwestHelen Anne Curry, Yale University, Radiation and Restoration: The Use of Atomic Energy in Efforts to Save the American Chestnut Tree, 1955-1980

eradicable diseases and Their environments


Chair: James Webb, Colby CollegePanelists: Mary Louise Swanson, University of Notre Dame, Maintaining a Healthy State: Colorado and Tuberculosis Eradication, 1900-1950 Amanda Kay McVety, Miami University, Improving Cattle—Rinderpest Eradication in EthiopiaBob H. Reinhardt, University of California-Davis, How Smallpox Became a “Suitable Candidate Disease for Global Eradication”

Thinking like an ecosystem: searching for a holistic Approach to federal land Management


Chair and Commentator: Patricia Nelson Limerick, University of Colorado Panelists: Jamie Skillen, Calvin College, The Promise and Peril of Ecosystem Management: The Northwest Forest Plan and the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project Dale Goble, University of Idaho College of Law, Ecosystem Management and the Endangered Species Act: Grizzlies, Wolves, and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem John Nagle, Notre Dame Law School, Scenic Landscapes in a World of Ecosystem Management

John nolen & Aldo leopold: progenitors of urban sustainability in Wisconsin and florida


Chair: Lee Lines, Rollins CollegeCommentator: Jack Davis, University of Florida Panelists: Bruce Stephenson, Rollins College, John Nolen, Aldo Leopold and the University of Wisconsin ArboretumLeslie Poole, University of Florida, Women Reformers and the Campaign for the Urban EdenStacey Matrazzo, Rollins College, Aldo Leopold and the UWA, Inspiration for Ecological Restoration

Wildlands & Woodlands: Transformed landscapes and large-scale forest Conservation


Moderator: Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin-MadisonDiscussants: Brian Donahue, Brandeis University Susan Flader, University of Missouri, ColumbiaDavid Foster, Harvard Forest, Harvard University Ted Gragson, University of Georgia David Mladenoff, University of Wisconsin-MadisonJonathan Thompson, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

historical perspectives on Invasive species

Roundtable 2-J: Hall of Ideas J

Moderator: Matthew Chew, Arizona State UniversityDiscussants: Ryan Fischer, University of WisconsinLeif Fredrickson, University of VirginiaDaniel Lewis, Huntington LibraryJordan Marché, Independent Scholar Laura Martin, Cornell University



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Thursday, March 29ConCurrenT sessIons 3 1:30 pM To 3:00 pM

Thursday, March 29ConCurrenT sessIons 3

1:30 pM To 3:00 pM

When local and Global Collide: responses to Warfare in an Interdependent World


Chair: William Tsutsui, Southern Methodist University Panelists: Thomas Jundt, Bryant University, Imagining a Better World: The UN, UNESCO, and the Origins of Environmentalism in the Aftermath of the Second World War Eric G Dinmore, Hampden-Sydney College, Landscaping the ‘Cultural Nation:’ Reconstructing Built and Natural Environments in Post-World War II JapanLisa M. Brady, Boise State University, Reconstructing a New Nation: Postwar Projects and Environmental Change in South Korea

environmental Ideas of the 20th Century: Ideological and national Border-Crossings


Chair: Barry Muchnick, Yale University Panelists: David Schorr, Tel Aviv University, Water Law in Mandate Palestine: New-World Law in an Old-World Legal Environment Janette Susan Bailey, University of New South Wales, Dust Bowl Australia – Transnational Reception and Interpretation of an Environmental Idea James Nash, University of Central Arkansas, Deadly Media: The Global Popularization of Pesticides by the American Press

extreme Work environments


Chair and Commentator: Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado-Boulder Panelists: Gregory Rosenthal, Stony Brook University, Birdland: Hawaiian Migrant Workers and Nesting Seabirds on a Guano Island Thaddeus Sunseri, Colorado State University, Slaughterhouses, Hide Processors and Changing Urban and Rural Environments in Tanzania Edward Melillo, Amherst College, The Stench of Productivity: Nutrient Miners in the Pacific World

fit for food? Meat and species in Global livestock history


Chair: Anya Zilberstein, Concordia UniversityCommentator: Sterling Evans, University of Oklahoma Panelists: Joshua Specht, Harvard University, ”The Most Efficient Instrumentality”: Cattle Ranching, Indian War, and the Ecology of the Plains Michael Wise, Lewis & Clark College, Predation and Production: The History of Fraud and Finance in Montana Wolf Bounties Rebecca Woods, MIT, “Destined to be the food of man”: Breed, Ecology and Frozen Meat in Colonial New Zealand

struggles for sovereignty: Indigenous resources, rights and the Global Implications of the local


Chair: Michael Dorsey, Dartmouth College Panelists: Stephen Macekura, University of Virginia, Crisis and Opportunity: Debt-for-Nature Swaps, “People-Centered” Conservation, and the Question of SovereigntyAl Gedicks, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, The Midwest Mining Rush and Conflicts over Tribal Sovereignty: The Mole Lake and Bad River Ojibwe of Lake Superior Willis Okech Oyugi, University of California Los Angeles, Human-Wildlife Conflicts, Wildlife Conservation, and Maasai Group Ranches in Kenya, 1890-2000Jaime Allison, University of Virginia, From Survival to Sovereignty: 1970s Energy Development and Indian Self-Determination in Montana’s Powder River Basin

from rivers to oceans: Wilderness, hazards, and resilience in Watery Worlds


Chair: Craig Colten, Louisiana State University Panelists: Ryan Orgera, Louisiana State University, The Wilderness Act and the OceanAdam Mandelman, University of Wisconsin–Madison, The Porous Plantation: Water Management on Nineteenth-Century Louisiana PlantationsCraig Colten, Louisiana State University, Tradition and Resilience in Coastal Louisiana

Before Modern forestry: Trees and Woodlands in premodern europe


Chair: Jamie Lewis, Forest History SocietyCommentator: Karl Appuhn, New York University Panelists: Paolo Squatriti, University of Michigan, Advent and Conquests of the Chestnut in Italy Richard Keyser, Western Kentucky University, The Peasant and Customary Basis of Traditional Woodland Management in Europe’s Deciduous Forest Zone Sara Morrison, University of Western Ontario-Brescia, Planting versus Natural Regeneration? Managing the Royal Forests of Stuart England

london’s West ham, Montreal and Vienna: river Cities as sites of environmental extraction, Trade and Transformation


Chair: Lawrence Culver, Utah State University Panelists: Heather Braiden, McGill University, Raw Urbanism: Urban Geological Formations Jim Clifford, York University, Supplying West Ham’s Industry: A Global Environmental History of Industry in the Thames EstuaryMartin Schmid, Center for Environmental History, Alpen-Adria University, Vienna, From the Local to the Global … and Back: An Environmental History of the Danube 1500-1900

paradigms of Change: Why some Concepts are More useful than others


Moderator: Richard Hoffmann, York UniversityDiscussants: Stephen Carpenter, University of Wisconsin-Madison Thomas Princen, University of MichiganEdmund P. Russell, University of Virginia Verena Winiwarter, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt -Graz-Wien

new places for stories: ecocriticism and the environmental humanities


Moderator: Ursula Heise, Stanford UniversityDiscussants: Monique Allewaert, University of Wisconsin-Madison Lynn Keller, University of Wisconsin-Madison Rob Nixon, University of Wisconsin-Madison Patsy Yaeger, University of Michigan Molly Wallace, Queen’s University



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Thursday, March 29 ConCurrenT sessIons 4 3:30 pM To 5:00 pM


3:30 pM To 5:00 pM

naturally exceptional?: place, Identity, and Manifest destiny in the American south


Chair: Albert Way, Kennesaw State UniversityPanelists: Drew Swanson, Millsaps College, Terroir in Tobacco Country: Soil and a Sense of Place in the American South Jack Davis, University of Florida, A Home! A Home! Where the Pelican Roam--and Steal: Fish, Birds, and the Idea of Manifest Destiny on the Gulf of MexicoMark Hersey, Mississippi State University, From Cotton to Camo: Nature and Southern Identity in Alabama’s Black Prairies

The social life of plants: healing Communities and Writing histories


Chair: Mitch Aso, National University of Singapore Panelists: Mitch Aso, National University of Singapore, Azolla in the Creation of Rice Farming Communities in Northern Vietnam David Biggs, University of California-Riverside, Recovery in Central Vietnam’s Wastelands: A Story Told in Three Acts and Four SpeciesJonathan Padwe, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, The Social Lives of Seeds: The Re-Introduction of Swidden Agriculture Following War and Revolution in Upland Cambodia

Countercultural environmentalism: A search for Balance and permanence


Chair: Colin Coates, York UniversityCommentator: Frank Zelko, University of Vermont Panelists: Jeffrey Filipiak, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, “The Power of Positive Conservation”: The Popular Impact of the Environmentalist Counterculture in the United States in the 1970sAndrew Dribin, University of Illinois-Chicago, The Race for Open Space and other Moods of EnvironmentalismMark Finlay, Armstrong Atlantic State University, The Counterculture Meets Practical Politics: Ecology, Human Ecology, and the Battles to Save Georgia’s Barrier IslandsHenry Trim, University of British Columbia, A New Alchemy on the Land: Scientists, Hippies, and an Ecological Society

energy flows and social power


Chair and Commentator: Paul Sabin, Yale University Panelists: Thomas Finger, University of Virginia, “We are the slave of those whom we created”: Energy, Capital, and Society in the Granger Movement, 1868-1900 Christopher Jones, University of California-Berkeley, Pathways of Power: 19th Century Oil Pipelines ReconsideredPeter Shulman, Case-Western Reserve University, The Conservation of Power: Teapot Dome, Oil, and the Landscape of War, 1920-1950

national parks in the Global south: legacies of Colonialism and Conservation


Chair: Richard Tucker, University of MichiganCommentator: Adrian Howkins, Colorado State University Panelists: Diana K. Davis, University of California-Davis, National Parks in French Colonial North Africa: Environmental History and the Politics of EnclosureThomas Lekan, University of South Carolina, “Rhinos Belong to Everybody”: Bernhard Grzimek, Julius Nyerere, and the Legacy of German Colonialism in Tanzania’s National Parks Steve Rodriguez, University of California-Los Angeles, National Parks and the Civilizing Mission in French Colonial VietnamEmily Wakild, Wake Forest University, Historicizing Conservation in Bio-Regions: National Parks in Patagonia and Amazonia

nature by numbers: natural hazard Insurance in historical perspective


Chair: Uwe Luebken, Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich, Germany Panelists: Alexander Hall, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, A Unique Agreement: The Creation and Breakdown of the “Gentleman’s Agreement” for Flood Insurance in the UK Eleonora Rohland, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, Disaster and Insurance: The Development of the National Flood Insurance Program in the Wake of Hurricane Betsy 1965 Franz Mauelshagen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen, Germany, Insurance, Risk and Uncertainty: Climate Change and the Historical Experience

Global environmental politics and the new deal


Chair: Sarah Phillips, Boston University Panelists: Eve Buckley, University of Delaware, The TVA as a Model for Social Reform: Regional Planners in northeast Brazil, 1940-1964Greta Marchesi, University of California-Berkeley, The New Deal-era Soil Conservation Service and Mexican Agrarian Reform April Merleaux, Florida International University, Land Use, Sugar, and Puerto Rican Reconstruction in the 1930s

Can nature Cure us? science, Technology, and Invisible Agents of urban health in progressive America


Chair: Marty Melosi, University of Houston Panelists: Meghan Crnic, University of Pennsylvania, From Heliotherapy to UV Lamps: Capturing Environment Therapeutics in Technological DevicesMelanie Kiechle, Rutgers and Chemical Heritage Foundation, Fresh Air Infrastructures in the Sanitary CityBarry Muchnick, Yale University, “Change is in the Air”: Science, Sentiment, and the City

farms, fields, and foods in the progressive era: What’s the Big Idea?


Moderator: Jess Gilbert, University of Wisconsin-Madison Discussants: Ben Cohen, Lafayette CollegeSara Gregg, University of KansasJames McWilliams, Texas State University-San MarcosSteven Stoll, Fordham University

nature and national narratives

Panel 4-J: Hall of Ideas J

Chair: Donald Worster, University of KansasPanelists: Robin Schulze, University of Delaware , Degeneration, Nature, and Nation: The Old American Story in WALL-E Julia Thomas, University of Notre Dame, Using Japan to Think Globally: The Natural Subject of History Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Home on the Moors: Wildness and Nation in 19th-Century Britain



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friday, March 30ConCurrenT sessIons 5 8:30-10:00 A.M.

friday, March 30ConCurrenT sessIons 5

8:30-10:00 A.M.

Insects in environmental history I: “Beneficial” Insects


Chair: Stuart McCook, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada Panelists: Sheila Wille, University of Chicago, James Anderson’s Insects and the Improvement of India, 1786-1796 Royce Earnest, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: Fire Ant Wars and Environmental NarrativesHeather Swan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Industrious Hive: Mapping the Evolution of the Beehive MetaphorJennifer Bonnell, University of Guelph, “Archaic” Economies on the Urban Fringe: Toronto Beekeepers and Suburbanization, 1950-1970

Making Alternative power: Considering local examples on a Global scale


Chair: Brian Black, Penn State Altoona Panelists: Paul Hirt, Arizona State University & Eve Vogel, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Environmental and Democratic Influences on the Pacific Northwest’s Electric Power System Martin Kalb, Northern Arizona University, Winning the Battle? The End of Nuclear Power in Germany Marc Landry, Georgetown University, Storing “Superpower”: Austria’s Hohe Tauern Works and the Making of the European Electricity Grid, 1920-1955Jeff Flagg, Sienna College and Sagamore Institute of the Adirondacks, Reconciling Hydro-development and Preservation: Defending the Adirondack Park, 1940-1950

“roads which Move”: environmental histories of Waterways as Capitalist resources


Chair and Commentator: Thomas Lekan, University of South Carolina Panelists: Marion Gray, Western Michigan University, Trading a River for a Canal: The Bäke River of Steglitz and the Teltow CanalJeffrey Brideau, University of Maryland, Imagining the Seaway: Proto-Environmental Diplomacy and the Construction of Bi-national InterestDagomar Degroot, York University, Evolving Relationships between Climate, Environment, and the Biophysical Arteries of the Dutch Republic

Global expertise and local knowledge about nature: A Materialist Approach


Chair: Mark Barrow, Virginia Tech Panelists: Lukas Rieppel, Harvard University, Prospecting for Dinosaurs on the Mining Frontier Jeremy Vetter, University of Arizona, Expertise, Epistemic Rift, and Environmental Knowledge in Mining and Agriculture in the U.S. Great Plains and Rocky Mountains Amrys Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Forging the Chain of Knowledge: Learning by Doing in 4-H Clubs

natural symbols and national Identity in russia, Britain and the united Arab emirates


Chair: Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU MunichCommentator: Marco Armiero, Marie Curie Fellow, ICTA UAB, Barcelona, and Institute for the Study of the Mediterranean Societies Panelists: Charles-François Mathis, University of Paris-Sorbonne, Nature and English National IdentityDorothy Zeisler-Vralsted, Eastern Washington University, The Volga River in Russian National NarrativesVictoria Penziner Hightower, North Georgia College and State University, Making the Natural National: The UAE and the Creation of Identity

The human ecology of Vector-borne disease in Africa: part I


Chair: James McCann, Boston University Panelists: Urmi Engineer, University of California-Santa Cruz, A Disease Sui Generis: The Emergence of Epidemic Yellow Fever in West Africa and Louisiana Adama Aly Pam, Cheikh Anta Diop University, French Doctors, Natives, and Yellow Fever in Senegal from 1816 to 1960 Benjamin Reilly, Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar, Muwalideen and Malaria: African Slavery in Arabian WadisChau Johnsen Kelly, University of North Florida, Farm and Fly: Village Concentrations Against Human Sleeping Sickness in East Africa, 1930-1943

energy Capitals: local Impact, Global Influence

Roundtable 5-G: Meeting Room Q

Moderator: Joseph Pratt, University of HoustonDiscussants: Craig Colten, Louisiana State University, Matthew Eisler, University of California- Santa Barbara Sarah Elkind, San Diego State UniversityMartin Melosi, University of HoustonGunnar Nerheim, University of StavangerMyrna Santiago, St. Mary’s College of CaliforniaJoel Tarr, Carnegie Mellon University

Indigenous Media as empowerment: A Case study in Climate Change

Workshop 5-H: Hall of Ideas E

This session will include a screening of the film “Through Tribal Eyes”

Moderator: Patty Loew, University of Wisconsin-MadisonDiscussants:Melissa Cook, College of Menominee NationMike Dockry, USDA Forest Service, Forest Products LabTribal College Students TBA


Animals as place-Makers


Moderator: Thomas Dunlap, Texas A&M UniversityDiscussants: Peter Alagona, University of California-Santa Barbara Kelly Enright, Independent Scholar Dolly Jørgensen, Umeå UniversityDavid Nesheim, Northern Arizona UniversityTamar Novick, University of PennsylvaniaTravis Tennessen, University of Wisconsin-MadisonElaine Turney, University of Texas-San AntonioRobert Wilson, Syracuse University

environmentalism in Canada: scientific knowledge and The exercise of power


Chair: Claire Campbell, Dalhousie UniversityPanelists: Mark McLaughlin, University of New Brunswick, New Brunswick’s Silent Springs: A Canadian Province’s Influence on Rachel CarsonLauren Wheeler, University of Alberta, Academic Activism: The Case of the Alberta Tar Sands and the University of AlbertaPhilip Van Huizen, University of British Columbia, Engineers as Environmentalists: The Case of the Canadian-American High Ross Dam Controversy Mark Leeming, Dalhousie University, An Environmental Calling: The United Church in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick



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friday, March 30ConCurrenT sessIons 6 10:30 A.M. To noon

friday, March 30ConCurrenT sessIons 6

10:30 A.M. To noon

Insects in environmental history II: pests and the role of the state


Chair: Edmund Russell, University of Virginia Panelists: Kathleen Brosnan, University of Houston, Phylloxera and the State: Together in the Vineyard Royce Earnest, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: Fire Ant Wars and Environmental NarrativesKayla Griffis, University of Central Arkansas, This Ain’t My First Rodeo: U.S. Government Control of Insect-spread Diseases in Equine PopulationsBrandon Luedtke, University of Kansas, An Oily Solution: Whale Oil as Insecticide, 1841-1914

In pursuit of the natural: nature and Bodies in American environmental history


Chair: Ellen Stroud, Bryn Mawr College Panelists: Jen Seltz, Western Washington University, African Clawed Frogs and the Nature of Pregnancy, 1939-1960 Jessica Martucci, Mississippi State University, Protecting the Nature Within: Breast Milk Contamination and Environmental Degradation in the mid-20th century Kristoffer Whitney, University of Pennsylvania, Embodied Ethics: the Balance of Nature as Lived Experience in the Delaware Bay Jody Roberts, Chemical Heritage Foundation, All Mixed Up: Food, Politics, and Disability

from the Atlantic and the pacific: perspectives on Coastal environmental histories


Chair: Lynne Heasley, Western Michigan UniversityCommentator: Tyler Priest, University of Houston Panelists: Stephen Bocking, Trent University, Salmon Aquaculture and Sea Trout: A Controversial Chapter in European Marine Environmental HistoryChristopher Pastore, University of Montana, Guns, Grids, and Natural Knowledge: Coastal Space and the Culture of Improvement on Narragansett Bay, 1723-1783Howard Stewart, University of British Columbia, A Contested Playground: The Strait of Georgia, 1849 – 1980Teresa Spezio, University of California-Davis, Oil + Water: Santa Barbara Residents Struggle to Stop Federal Offshore Oil Platforms

exhibiting nature: seeking the Wet, the Wild, and the dead


Chair: Tina Loo, University of British Columbia Panelists: William Knight, Carleton University, Modeling a National Nature: the Wood Bison Habitat Group at the National Museum of CanadaKaren J. Lloyd, University of Colorado at Boulder, Viewing the World behind a Glass Screen: An Investigation of the South American Natural History Expeditions and Displays at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, 1922-1936 Dan Vandersommers, Ohio State University, Prairie Dogs and Popularizing Zoology in the Philadelphia Zoo, 1874-1885Robert Gee, University of Maine, International Intrigue: Exhibitions, Gentleman Scholars, and the Collaborative Origins of Modern Marine Science

Towards an Intellectual history of energy


Chair: John R. McNeill, Georgetown UniversityCommentator: Harriet Ritvo, Massachussetts Institute of Technology Panelists: Jonathan Wlasiuk, Case Western Reserve University, A River Burns Through It: Ideology in the Kerosene AgeVictor Seow, Harvard University, Fuel Famine: The Spectre of Scarcity in Interwar JapanPhilipp N. Lehmann, Harvard University, Water as the Key to Everything: The Atlantropa Project in the Age of Hydropower

The human ecology of Vector-borne disease in Africa, part II


Chair: Diana Davis, University of California-DavisPanelists: James C. McCann, Boston University, Deposing the Malevolent Spirit: A Historical Cultural Ecology of Malaria in Northwest EthiopiaJames L. Webb, Colby College, Ecological Perspectives on Malaria Control and Lapse in AfricaMelissa Graboyes, University of Oregon, The Ethics of Endings: Failed Malaria Eradication in East Africa, c. 1960 Alfredo Burlando, University of Oregon, The Effects of Malaria on Schooling: Evidence from the Ethiopian Highlands

roundtable: Towards an environmental history of Israel

Roundtable 6-G: Meeting Room Q

Moderator: Char Miller, Pomona CollegeDiscussants: Tarabeih Hussein, Towns Association for Environmental Quality Daniel Orenstein, TechnionDavid Schorr, Tel Aviv University

Media as historical Artifact: reflections on Menominee Termination – past, present, and future

Roundtable 6-H: Hall of Ideas E

This session will include a screening of the film “The Last Menominee”

Moderator: Patty Loew, University of Wisconsin-MadisonDiscussants:Melissa Cook, College of Menominee NationMike Dockry, USDA Forest Service, Forest Products LabMenominee Tribal Members TBA


reading Aldo leopold Across disciplines: problems and potentials


Moderator: Valerie Carroll, Kansas State UniversityDiscussants: Sharon Wilcox Adams, University of Texas Jason Coomes, Berea CollegeMary Foltz, Lehigh UniversitySinisa Golub, Mura-Drava Regional Park, CroatiaJulie Lester, Macon State College

The limits of Abundance: The limits to Growth at forty


Chair: Christof Mauch, Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig-Maximilian University MunichPanelists: Donald Worster, University of Kansas, The Making of The Limits to Growth and its Significance for Modern Environmentalism Elke Seefried, Augsburg University, Questioning Growth, Re-Conceptualizing Progress: West European Reactions to The Limits to GrowthPaul Sabin, Yale University, The Conservative Response to Limits to Growth and 1970s Environmentalism



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saturday, March 31ConCurrenT sessIons 7 8:30-10:00 A.M.

saturday, March 31ConCurrenT sessIons 7

8:30-10:00 A.M.

“stories in the snow”: Telling Tales of un-extinction


Chair: Curt Meine, The Aldo Leopold Foundation / The International Crane Foundation Panelists: Ursula Heise, Stanford University, Red Lists and the Poetics of Disappearance Daniel Lewis, Huntington Library, A Bird in the Hand: Lessons from Hawaiian Bird Study Collections in Moving Forward from ExtinctionJulianne Lutz Warren, New York University, “To cultivate the aware-ness”: Listening for Dead Birdsong

forests and deforestation in Athens, China and Germany


Chair: J. Donald Hughes, University of Denver Panelists: J. Donald Hughes, University of Denver, The Ravenous Owls: Silver, Deforestation, and Power in Athens Ling Zhang, Yale University and Boston College, Trees on Mountains Are Exhausted!’ – The Yellow River Flood Control and The Wood Consumption in Eleventh-Century ChinaJohannes Zechner, Freie Universität Berlin, The Nature of the Nation: Imagined Landscapes of the ‘German Forest’ 1800-1945

Gaining Ground: Comparing Colonizations through objects and species, I


Chair: John Soluri, Carnegie Mellon University Panelists:Hugh Cagle, University of Utah, Consumed by Water: Wetland Catastrophe in Portuguese Goa and the Existential Crisis of an Empire Vera Candiani, Princeton University, Fixing a Fluid Landscape: Water and Soil as Ecosystems in the Basin of Mexico Marcy Norton, George Washington University, Animal Predation and Adoption in Amazonia and Mesoamerica before European Acculturation Cynthia Radding, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Planting the Despoblados: Human-Agave Symbiosis in the Arid Lands of Northern New Spain

science in place: 20th Century ecology and Conservation


Chair: Jeremy Vetter, University of Arizona Panelists: Megan Raby, University of Wisconsin-Madison, A Place for “Pure Botany”: The Cinchona Station, Jamaica, and the Origins of American Tropical EcologySamantha Muka, University of Pennsylvania, Understanding and Preserving Aquatic Environments: Research and Conservation at First Generation American Public AquariumsMark Barrow, Virginia Tech, Hunting, Local Knowledge, and the Conservation of the American Alligator Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology, The Panama Sea-Level Canal Debate as a Forum for the Emergence of Invasion Biology, 1965-77

Cities and sustainability


Chair: Aaron Sachs, Cornell University Panelists: Adam Rome, University of Delaware, Frederick Law Olmsted and the Nature of Sustainable CommunitiesSusan Rimby, Shippensburg University, Making Harrisburg Beautiful: The Conservation Vision of Mira Lloyd DockRobert Fishman, University of Michigan, Jane Jacobs and Rachel Carson: Towards a New Environmentalism

reading and Misreading environments: Three studies of local Versus non-local ecological knowledge and practice


Chair: Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, McGill University Panelists: Jonathan Clapperton, University of Saskatchewan, “You call it game fish, but we call it salmon”: Environmental (De)Colonization, Science, and the Ethos of Conservation in Washington State’s Olympic PeninsulaDaniel Rueck, University of Western Ontario, When Good Fences Make Bad Neighbours: Enclosure of Kahnawá:ke Mohawk Territory 1850-1900Matthew Todd, University of Saskatchewan, The Climate is Perfect? A Cross Border Analysis of 19th Century Environmental Misperception

Wetlands and Militarized landscapes In environmental history: ecosystems, Marshes, and Wars in historical and Contemporary Contexts


Chair: Jack Hayes, Norwich UniversityCommentator: David Biggs, University of California RiversidePanelists: Jack Hayes, Norwich University, From Great Green Walls to Deadly Mires: China’s Western and Northeastern Wetlands as Military Environments and EcosystemsDylan Cyr, Huron University College, University of Western Ontario, Campaigning in a Wet Land: Water, Militarized Landscapes, and the Battle of GuadalcanalRichard Wojtowicz, Montana State University Bozeman, Southeast Asia Wetlands and the Vietnam Conflict: Ecocide, Rehabilitation, and RestorationMichelle Stevens, California State University-Sacramento, Ecological and Cultural Restoration of Marshes: Life Before and After War

fire as a Way of knowing: A Trans-Atlantic perspective


Chair: David Tomblin, Virginia TechCommentator: Albert Way, Kennesaw State University Panelists:

Elizabeth B. Jones, Colorado State University, No Smoke without Fire: Moor Burning, the Environment and Agricultural Reform in Nineteenth-Century GermanyDavid Tomblin, Virginia Tech, Where Were the Apaches? The Legacy of Harold Weaver’s Prescribed Burn Experiments on the Fort Apache Indian ReservationMichael R. Coughlan, University of Georgia, Concernant l’incineration de Vegetaux sur Pied: A History of Pastoral Fire and its Regulation in the French Western PyreneesMonica A. Farfan, University of Illinois-Chicago, Restoration by Fire: The History of Fire in Chicago

navigating Career Challenges in difficult Times: professional development for environmental history Graduate students, part 1

Workshop 7-I: Hall of Ideas F

Moderator: Will KnightDiscussants:Sean Kheraj “The Academic and the Internet: Navigating Professional Development Online”Todd Dresser “Graduate skills in non-academic careers”Kieko Matteson and Hannah Nyala West, “Skillsets for Government and Non-Govermental Organizations”

Interpreting Images: Tips for Working with Visual sources


Moderator: Kathy Morse, Middlebury CollegeDiscussants: Matthew Evenden, University of British ColumbiaAlan MacEachern, University of Western OntarioDavid Hsiung, Juniata CollegeKathryn Meier, University of Scranton



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saturday, March 31ConCurrenT sessIons 8 10:30 A.M. To noon


10:30 A.M. To noon

special film roundtable. The new Green Wave: A Conversation on film and environmental Change

Ballroom A

Moderator: Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin-Madison Discussants/Filmmakers: Ian Cheney, Greening of Southie, King Corn, and The City DarkJudith Helfand, A Healthy Baby Girl, Blue Vinyl, and Everything’s CoolAlex Rivera, Sleep Dealer and The Sixth Section

The political economy of urban Infrastructure: kansas City, Galveston, los Angeles


Chair: Martin Melosi, University of Houston Panelists: Julia Barnard, University of Kansas, Perpetually Downstream: Sewer Conflicts in Kansas CitySummer Shafer, Harvard University, The Galveston Spirit: The Hurricane that Remade American Politics Steve Duncan, University of California-Riverside, Cities and Floods: Drainage Infrastructure in Los Angeles

hunger: The Challenges of historical famines


Chair: Christof Mauch, Rachel Carson Center, LMU, Germany Panelists: Thore Lassen, Goettingen University, Germany, Determining Factors for Local Famines in Lower Saxony between 1690 and 1750Ansgar Schanbacher, Goettingen University, Germany, Great Famine in Lower Saxony? Spread and Consequences of the Potato Blight in 19th Century’s Northwest Germany Philipp Riesmeyer, Goettingen University, Germany, Famine as a Consequence of Low-Tide Events in modern Northwestern Germany

Gaining Ground: Comparing Colonizations through objects and species, part II


Chair: Vera S. Candiani, Princeton University Panelists: John Soluri, Carnegie Mellon University, A Dog-Eat-Dog World: Canines and Colonizing Tierra del Fuego, 1880s - 1920sJennifer Derr, Bard College, The Management of Soil, Sweat, and Crops in Nineteenth-Century EgyptShohei Sato, Waseda University, Tokyo, Mapping Water and Oil: Changing Conceptions of Territoriality in the Mid-Twentieth Century Arabian PeninsulaMolly McCullers, Emory University, Lines in the Sand: Water and the Making of an Kalahari Bantustan in Apartheid Namibia

from dissertation to Book: Author and publisher perspectives

Roundtable 8-H: Hall of Ideas E

Moderator: Jay Turner, Wellesley College Discussants: Laura Barraclough, Kalamazoo College Jean Black, Yale University Press Jim Feldman, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Phil Garone, California State University-Stanislaus



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navigating Career Challenges in difficult Times: professional development for environmental history Graduate students, part 2

Workshop 8-I: Hall of Ideas F

Moderator: Andrew Case, University of Wisconsin-MadisonDiscussants: Sean KherajTodd DresserKieko MattesonHannah Nyala West

fiftieth Anniversary of silent spring: Teaching strategies


Moderator: Fritz Davis, Florida State UniversityDiscussants: Ruth Alexander, Colorado State UniversityCharles Closmann, University of North Florida Joanna Dean, Carleton University Mark Madison, National Conservation Training CenterGeorge Vrtis, Carleton College

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saturday, March 31ConCurrenT sessIons 9 1:30 pM To 3:00 pM


1:30 pM To 3:00 pM

A land ethic for the landless: refiguring Aldo leopold for the urban Age


Chair and Commentator: Michael J. Rawson, Brooklyn College Panelists: Gesa Kirsch, Bentley University, A Land Ethic for Urban DwellersMeg Mott, Marlboro College, Cultivating Vitality in the Inner CityFrank Gaughan, Hofstra University, Messengers in the City: Media Representation and Wildlife Encounters in New York City

Integrating environment, history, and ecology: opportunities for environmental history in the long Term ecological research network


Chair: Jacob Hamblin, Oregon State University Panelists: Gina Rumore, University of Minnesota, Ecology and Environmental History: Integrating the Social Sciences and Humanities into the Long-Term Ecological Research NetworkJohn Magnuson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Challenges of an evolving LTER Site: the First 20 Years of the North Temperate Lakes ProgramAdrian Howkins, Colorado State University, From “Valley of the Dead” to Ecological Paradise: An Environmental History of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, AntarcticaAnita Guerrini, Oregon State University, Nature and Culture on the California Coast

Clean Coal and Green nukes?: The local effects of the Alternatives to Alternative energy


Chair: Michael Amundson, Northern Arizona University Panelists: Megan Chew, Ohio State University, A Tale of Two Power Plants: The Local Economic, Social, and Environmental Impacts of Coal and Nuclear Power Production in OhioTai Johnson, University of Arizona, The Local Price of “Clean Coal” Technology: The Black Mesa Pipeline, Hopi Agriculture and the Question of Ecological PovertyCody Ferguson, Arizona State University, “You are now entering a national sacrifice zone”: Local Reactions to and Consequences of the North Central Power Study in the northern Great Plains, 1970-1980

Against the Tide: using rivers to explore Community and Government


Chair: Christof Mauch, Rachel Carson Center, LMUCommentator: Charles E. Closmann, University of North Florida Panelists: Edward N. O’Rourke, California State University-East Bay, Who’s in Charge? Early Development of the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta Denise Holladay Damico, Saint Francis University, Pennsylvania,“To trace the history of a river”: Community, Culture, and the Rio Grande in Central New MexicoDeanne Morgan Ashton, University of Houston, Prosperity vs. Pollution: Preston, Lancashire, and the Rivers Pollution Prevention Act of 1876Randall S. Dills, University of Louisville, Contested Ground: State, Society and Flood Zone Regulation at Galernaia Harbor in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1824-1862

digital urban environmental histories: new Visualizations and Models


Chair and Commentator: Ari Kelman, University of California Davis Panelists: Thaisa Way and Margaret O’Mara, University of Washington, The Lake Union Project: Visualizing Histories of Seattle’s Urban EnvironmentsMatthew Booker, North Carolina State University, Visualizing the Organic City: Spatial History in San Francisco Bay Bradley Cantrell, Louisiana State University, Illustrating Dynamic Urban Ecologies

Transnational labor and the environment


Chair: Brinda Sarathy, Pitzer CollegeCommentator: Char Miller, Pomona College Panelists: Lissa Wadewitz, Linfield College, Labor on the High Seas: Fishing the Commons in a Trans-Pacific World Melinda Herrold-Menzies, Pitzer College, Sea Otters, Russians, Missionaries and Mandarins: California in the 18th and 19th CenturiesBrinda Sarathy, Pitzer College, Invisible Workers: Transnational Labor and National Forests

proving Grounds: Weapons, land, and the Global Impact of permanent War


Chair: Edwin Martini, Western Michigan University Panelists: Leisl Childers, Northern Arizona University, Bombing Practice, Mushroom Clouds, and Cattle Production: Understanding the Intersection of the Las Vegas Bombing Range, the Nevada Proving Ground, and Floyd Lamb Brandon Davis, University of British Columbia, Land, Security, and Military Expropriation in Mid-20th Century Western North America

fifty years since silent spring: perspectives on pesticides


Chair: Karen Hoffman, University of Puerto Rico Panelists: Fritz Davis, Florida State University, The Chemical Century: How Scientists and Regulators Grappled with Pesticides in the Twentieth Century Dawn Biehler, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, The Domestic Career of an Unruly Pesticide: Hydrocyanic Acid Gas in the Home Environment David Vail, Kansas State University, Toxic Fables: The Advertising and Marketing of Agricultural Chemicals in the Great Plains, 1945–1985Karen Hoffman, University of Puerto Rico, On Doing the History of Pollution Control Efforts: The Cases of Air and Water Toxics

nature and knowledge: Conversations at the Interface of environmental history and science studies


Moderator: Dolly Jørgensen, Umeå UniversityDiscussants: Benjamin Cohen, Lafayette College Michael Egan, McMaster University Finn Arne Jørgensen, Umeå UniversitySara Pritchard, Cornell University

Making pictures Talk: An environmental history Visual Culture Jam


Moderator: Neil Maher, Rutgers University-NewarkCommentator: Martha Sandweiss, Princeton UniversityDiscussants: Finis Dunaway, Trent University Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin-MadisonAlexa Weik von Mossner, University of Fribourg and the Rachel Carson Center, LMU MunichCindy Ott, St. Louis UniversityPaul Sutter, University of Colorado



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saturday, March 31ConCurrenT sessIons 10 3:30 pM To 5:00 pM


3:30 pM To 5:00 pM

Acclimatization: Animal Introductions and Their ecological and political Consequences


Chair and Commentator: Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa Panelists: Peter Minard, University of Melbourne, Australia’s First “Ferals”? The Acclimatisation Society of Victoria and the Introduction of SparrowsAnders Halverson, University of Colorado, “A Dominant Consideration”: Silent Spring, the Green River, and the Origins of the Endangered Species ActLibby Robin, Australian National University, Fear of Ferals: Questions of Alien and Native in Old and New Europes

The Matter with plastic: plastic Waste in the oceans


Chair: Steven Corey, Worster State University Panelists: Kim De Wolff, University of California- San Diego, Plastic Witnesses: Algalita Marine Research Foundation and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Max Liboiron, New York University, Twentieth Century Models of Pollution Meet Twenty-first Century Plastic David Kinkela, SUNY-Fredonia, Plastic Yokes, Ocean Pollution and the Making of a Global Environmental Problem

“dead Zones” and the legacies of Mining in Canada and the united states


Chair: James Turner, Wellesley CollegeCommentator: Brett Walker, Montana State University Panelists: Brian Leech, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Pit Nostalgia: Remembering Industrial Hazards and Neighborhoods Lost to Open-Pit Mining in Butte, Montana John Sandlos, Memorial University of Newfoundland, The Giant Mine’s Long Shadow: Arsenic Pollution and Native People in Yellowknife, NWTJames Turner, Wellesley College, Starter Batteries and the Legacies of Mining in the Tri-State Mining District

Waste scavenging in london, Berlin, and Cairo


Chair and Commentator: Susan Strasser, University of Delaware Panelists: Peter Thorsheim, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Scavengers vs. Salvage Collectors in Wartime London Djahane Salehabadi, Cornell University, Scrap in the City: The Changing Role of Urban Scavengers in BerlinJamie Furniss, Oxford University, The Shift Toward Scavenging of Cairo’s Informal Sector Waste Collectors

Making nature strategic: landscapes of Modern Warfare


Chair: Kathryn Meier, University of Scranton Panelists: Meredith McKittrick, Georgetown University, War by Other Means: Rivers as Strategic Resources in the Namibian and Angolan Wars of IndependenceTom Arnold, University of Kansas, A City Without Limits: The Impact of WWII on Urban Life in Munich Tim Johnson, University of Georgia, Dirty War: Arms, Farms, and Nitrogen in World War IBrian Hamilton, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “To Make Another New England”: White Northern Reformers and the Sea Islands Landscape during the Civil War

environmental Impacts of Wars’ refugees


Chair: Richard Tucker, University of Michigan Panelists: Stephen Gasteyer, Michigan State University, An Historical Exploration of the Environmental Stresses for Palestinians, post 1948Emmanuel Kreike, Princeton University, Ethnocide or Ecocide? Environmental Warfare, Refugees and Humanitarian and Environmental Disasters: Comparing Aceh (Sumatra) and the Ovambo Floodplain (Angola/Namibia)Micah Muscolino, Georgetown University, The Ecology of Displacement in World War II China: Henan Province, 1937-1945Richard Tucker, University of Michigan, Environmental Impacts of Refugee Movements in India and Pakistan, 1942-1949

Indigenous perspectives on Territory, natural resources, and sustainability


Chair and Commentator: Larry Nesper, University Wisconsin-Madison Panelists: David Overstreet, College of Menominee Nation, Revisiting Certain Mounds & Village Sites: Intensive Agriculture from A.D. 1000 to ca. A.D. 1650 and Linkages to the Menominee Territorial Estate Valoree Gagnon, Michigan Technological University, Fish Contaminants through the Tribal Perspective: An Ethnography of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community’s Tribal Fish HarvestMichael Dockry, University Wisconsin-Madison & US Forest Service, Indigenous Perspectives on Forest Management, Territorial Control, and Tribal Identity in Wisconsin and BoliviaPatricia Richards, University of Georgia, Conflicts over Indigenous Rights, Territory, and Racism in the Chilean South

Aldo leopold and the land ethic in International perspective


Chair: Donald Worster, University of Kansas Panelists: Susan Flader, University of Missouri-Columbia, A View from Germany Gregory Cushman, University of Kansas, A View from Latin AmericaShen Hou, Renmin University, A View from China

digital environmental history: Tools and projects


Moderators: Finn Arne Jørgensen, Umeå University and Christof Mauch, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU MunichCommentator: Sean Kheraj, York UniversityDiscussants: Jon Christensen, Stanford UniversityKimberly Coulter, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU MunichFred Gibbs, George Mason University Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU MunichJan Oosthoek, Newcastle University, UKRichard H. Ross, Claremont Graduate UniversityFinn Ryan, Wisconsin Educational Communications BoardJessica Van Horssen, McGill University / Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières/Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich



“The time has come for science to busy itself with the earth itself. The first step is to reconstruct a sample of what we had to start with. That in a nutshell is the Arboretum.”

-Aldo Leopold, The Arboretum and the University (1934)

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ASEH committees Aseh CoMMITTees 2011-2012

If you are interested in volunteering on an ASEH committee, contact [email protected]

officers:

John McNeill, Georgetown University, PresidentGregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vice President/President ElectEllen Stroud, Bryn Mawr College, SecretaryMark Madison, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Treasurer

executive Committee:

Sterling Evans, University of OklahomaSara Gregg, University of KansasMarcus Hall, University of ZurichTina Loo, University of British ColumbiaLinda Nash, University of Washington-SeattleGregg Mitman, University of Madison-WisconsinLouis Warren, University of California-DavisGraeme Wynn, University of British Columbia

executive Committee, ex officio:

Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Past President and editor of Environmental HistoryLisa Mighetto, University of Washington-Tacoma, Executive DirectorStephen Pyne, Arizona State University, Past PresidentHarriet Ritvo, MIT, Past PresidentKara Schlichting, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Graduate Student Liaison

nominating Committee:

Alan Maceachern, University of Western Ontario, co-chairKathryn Morse, Middlebury College, co-chairConnie Chiang, Bowdoin CollegeLynne Heasley, Western Michigan University

sustainability Committee:

Michael Egan, McMaster University, ChairVandana Baweja, University of FloridaClaire Campbell, Dalhausie UniversityJim Feldman, University of Wisconsin-OshkoshLynne Heasley, Western Michigan UniversityPaul Hirt, Arizona State UniversityMichael Smith, Ithaca CollegeRichard Tucker, University of Michigan

diversity Committee:

Garrit Voggesser, National Wildlife Federation, ChairMike Dockry, USDA Forest ServiceLinda Richards, Oregon State UniversityWilliam Tsutsui, University of Kansas

outreach Committee:

Ravi Rajan, chair, University of California-Santa CruzKate Christen, Smithsonian InstitutionJames McCann, Boston UniversityLise Sedrez, California State University-Long BeachJames Webb, Colby College

Conference site selection Committee:

Sarah Elkind, San Diego State University, ChairKathleen Brosnan, University of HoustonMark Harvey, North Dakota State UniversityAri Kelman, University of California – DavisJames Murton, Nipissing University

2012 Conference program Committee:

Lawrence Culver, Utah State University, ChairDiana K. Davis, University of California, DavisMatthew Evenden, University of British ColumbiaNancy Langston, University of WisconsinFrank Zelko, University of Vermont

2012 Conference local Arrangements Committee:

Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin-Madison, ChairGregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin-MadisonBill Cronon, University of Wisconsin-MadisonAndrew Case, University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduate student representative Brian Hamilton, University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduate student representative Marian Weidner, University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduate student project assistant Curt Meine, Aldo Leopold Foundation and the International Crane Foundation

digital Communications Committee:

Sean Kheraj, York University, ChairMark Hersey, Mississippi State UniversityLisa Mighetto, University of Washington-Tacoma

education Committee:

Aaron Shapiro, Auburn University, ChairThomas Andrews, University of Colorado-DenverMegan Jones, University of Delaware

George perkins Marsh prize Committee (best book in environmental history):

Colin Duncan, Queens University, chair Emily Greenwald, Historical Research Associates Brett Walker, Montana State University

Alice hamilton prize Committee (best article published outside environmental history):

Stephen Brain, Mississippi State University, chair Paul Sutter, University of Colorado Marsha Weisiger, University of Oregon

rachel Carson prize Committee (best dissertation in environmental history):

Annie Coleman, University of Notre Dame, chair Christopher Manganiello, University of Georgia Jay Turner, Wellesley College

leopold-hidy prize Committee (best article in environmental history):

Editorial Board of Environmental History

samuel hays fellowship Committee:

Philip Garone, California State University - Stanislaus, ChairBarry Muchnick, Yale UniversityGregory Rosenthal, Thomas Cole National Historic Site

hal rothman research fellowship Committee:

Kim Little, University of Arkansas, ChairDavid Biggs, University of California - RiversideDolly Jorgensen, Umea University, Sweden

Journal Management Group:

ASEH Representatives:Jay Taylor, Simon Fraser University, Co-ChairWilliam Cronon, University of Wisconsin-MadisonMark Madison, US Fish and Wildlife Service

Forest History Society Representatives:Thomas Dunlap, Texas A&M University, Co-ChairMichael Clutter, University of Georgia-AthensSara Gregg, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library

h-environment list editors:

Greg Dehler, Front Range Community CollegeMara Drogan, SUNY AlbanyAdam Sowards, University of IdahoThomas Wellock, Central Washington University

h-environment Web page editor:

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h-environment Book review editor:

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IndexAAdams, Sharon Wilcox 31Alagona, Peter 29Alexander, Ruth 35Allewaert, Monique 25Allison, Jaime 24Amundson, Michael 36Anderson, Jennifer 22Andrews, Thomas 20, 24Andrzejewski, Anna 17Appuhn, Karl 25Arch, Jakobina 22Archer, Kenna Lang 8Armiero, Marco 28Arnold, Ellen 21Arnold, Tom 38Ashton, Deanne Morgan 36Aso, Mitch 26

BBailey, Janette Susan 24Bandyopadhyay, Baisakhi 8Barnard, Julia 34Barraclough, Laura 34Barrow, Mark 28, 32Biehler, Dawn 37Bielfuss, Rich 15Biggs, David 26, 33Bixby, Randy 20Black, Brian 22, 28Black, Jean 34Bocking, Stephen 30Bohme, Susanna 8Bonnell, Jennifer 28Booker, Matthew 37Brady, Lisa 22, 24Braiden, Heather 25Bramwell, Lincoln 17Brideau, Jeffrey 28Brock, Emily 16Brosnan, Kathleen 30Brown, Kevin 22Buckley, Eve 27Burlando, Alfredo 31Burtner, Marcus 8

CCagle, Hugh 32Campbell, Claire 29Candiani, Vera 32, 34Cantrell, Bradley 37Carpenter, Stephen 25Carroll, Valerie 31Carruthers, Jane 38Carter, Eric D. 8Case, Andrew 11, 35Cheney, Ian 34

Chew, Matthew 23Chew, Megan 36Chiarappa, Michael 20Childers, Leisl 37Christensen, Jon 12, 39Clapperton, Jonathan 32Clifford, Jim 25Closmann, Charles 35, 36Coates, Colin 26Cohen, Ben 27, 37Colten, Craig 25, 29Cook, Melissa 11, 29, 31Coomes, Jason 31Corey, Steven 38Coughlan, Michael R. 33Coulter,Kimberly 12, 39Crnic, Meghan 27Cronon, Bill 12Crumpton, Trey 8Culver, Lawrence 25Curry, Helen Anne 23Cushman, Gregory 39Cyr, Dylan 33

DDamico, Denise Holladay 36Davis, Brandon 37Davis, Diana K. 26, 31Davis, Fritz 14, 17, 35, 37Davis, Jack 23, 26 Dean, Joanna 35Degroot, Dagomar 28Dell, Twyla 8Demuth, Bathsheba 20Derr, Jennifer 34Dills, Randall S. 36Dinmore, Eric G 24Dockry, Mike 11, 29, 31, 39Donahue, Brian 23Dorsey, Michael 24Dresser, Todd 11, 33, 35Dribin, Andrew 26Dunaway, Finis 12, 37Duncan, Steve 34Dunlap, Thomas 29Durbin, Jeff 8

EEarley, Sinead K. 8Earnest, Royce 28, 30Egan, Michael 21, 37Eisler, Matthew 29Erickson, Justin 8Elkind, Sarah 29Engineer, Urmi 29Enright, Kelly 29Evans, Sterling 24Evenden, Matthew 33

Higgins, Margot 8Hightower, Victoria Penziner 28Higuchi, Toshihiro 22Hirt, Paul 28Hoffman, Karen 37Hoffmann, Richard 25Hou, Shen 39Howkins, Adrian 26, 36Hsiung, David 33Hughes, J. Donald 32Hussein, Tarabeih 31

IImlay, Samuel J. 8

JJohnson, Jeff 22Johnson, Tai 36Johnson, Tim 38Jones, Christopher 26Jones, Megan 21 Jordan, Bill 15Jordan, Sara 21Jørgensen, Dolly 29, 37Jørgensen, Finn Arne 12, 37, 39Jundt, Thomas 24

KKalb, Martin 28Keiner, Christine 20, 32Keller, Lynn 25Kelly, Chau Johnsen 29Kelman, Ari 37Keyser, Richard 25Kheraj, Sean 11, 12, 33, 35, 39Kirsch, Gesa 36Klaver, Irene 21Klein, Kerwin 20Kiechle, Melanie 27Kinkela, David 38Kneitz, Agnes 8Knight, Will 11, 30, 33Kreike, Emmanuel 38

LLandry, Marc 28Langston, Nancy 12, 14, 20, 23Lassen, Thore 34Laubach, Stephen 21Lee, Byeong-Kyu 8Lee, Jongmin 8Leeming, Mark 29Lehmann, Philipp N. 31Lekan, Thomas 26, 28Leonard, Kevin 20Lester, Julie 31Lewis, Daniel 23, 32

FFarfan, Monica A. 33Feldman, Jim 34Ferguson, Cody 36Filipiak, Jeffrey 26Finger, Thomas 26Finlay, Mark 26Fischer, Ryan 23Fisher, Colin 20Fishman, Robert 32Flader, Susan 15, 16, 23, 39Flagg, Jeff 28Foltz, Mary 31Foster, David 23Fouser, David 21Fredrickson, Leif 23Fremion, Brittany 23Furniss, Jamie 38

GGagnon, Valoree 39Gannes, Lenny Z. 8Garone, Phil 34Gasteyer, Stephen 38Gaughan, Frank 36Gedicks, Al 24Gee, Robert 30Gibbs, Fred 12, 39Gilbert, Jess 27Goble, Dale 23Golub, Sinisa 31Gorman, Hugh 22Graboyes, Melissa 31Graf von Hardenberg, Wilko 12, 28, 39Gragson, Ted 23Gray, Marion 28Gregg, Sara 27Grieger, Andreas 8Griffis, Kayla 30Guerrini, Anita 36

HHall, Alexander 27Hall, Marcus 21Halverson, Anders 38Hamblin, Jacob 36Hamilton, Brian 16, 38Hausdoerffer, John 21Hayes, Jack 33Heasley, Lynne 30Heidbrink, Ingo 22Heise, Ursula 25, 32Helfand, Judith 34Helmick, Arielle 8Herrold-Menzies, Melinda 37Hersey, Mark 26Herzberg, Julia 22

Lewis, Jamie 25Liboiron, Max 38Limerick, Patricia Nelson 23Lin, Qi Feng 8Lines, Lee 23Little, Kimberly 8Lloyd, Karen J. 30Loew, Patty 11, 29Loo, Tina 30Loomis, Erik 20Luebken, Uwe 27Luedtke, Brandon 30Lutz, Raechel 20

MMacEachern, Alan 33Macekura, Stephen 24Madison, Mark 35Magnuson, John 36Maher, Neil 11, 20, 37Mandelman, Adam 25Marché, Jordan 23Marchesi, Greta 27Mart, Michelle 8Martin, Laura 23Martini, Edwin 37Martucci, Jessica 30Matrazzo, Stacey 23Mathis, Charles-François 28Matteson, Kieko 11, 33, 35Mauch, Christof 12, 22, 31, 34, 36, 39Mauelshagen, Franz 27McCann, James 29, 31McCook, Stuart 28McCullers, Molly 34McGwin, Kathleen 14McKenzie, Matthew 20McKittrick, Meredith 38McLaughlin, Mark 29McNeill, John 31McVety, Amanda Kay 23McWilliams, James 27Meier, Kathryn 33, 38Meine, Curt 15, 16, 20, 32Melillo, Edward 24Melosi, Martin 23, 27, 29, 34Merleaux, April 27Metcalfe, Robyn 21Miller, Char 31, 37Mills, Elizabeth 8Milne, Anne 21Minard, Peter 38Mitman, Gregg 12, 34, 37Mladenoff, David 20, 23Morrison, Sara 25Morse, Kathryn 22, 33Mott, Meg 36

Mouhot, Jean-François 9Muchnick, Barry 24, 27Muka, Samantha 32Mullen, Jackie Mirandola 9Muscolino, Micah 38Myllyntaus, Timo 20

NNagle, John 23Nash, James 24Nerheim, Gunnar 29Nesheim, David 29Nesper, Larry 39Niemann, Michelle 15Niese, Jeffrey 20Nixon, Rob 25Norton, Marcy 32Novick, Tamar 29 Nygren, Joshua 21

OOakes, Cheryl 21O’Mara, Margaret 37Oosthoek, Jan 12, 39Orenstein, Daniel 31Orgera, Ryan 25Oriamo, Tor 21O’Rourke, Edward N. 36Oslund, Karen 22Ott, Cindy 12, 37Otter, Chris 21Overstreet, David 39Oyugi, Willis Okech 24

PPadwe, Jonathan 26Pam, Adama Aly 29Parr,Joy 21Parrinello, Giacomo 21Pastore, Christopher 30Payne, Brian 20Phillips, Sarah 27Pogue, Neall 9Poole, Leslie 23Pratt, Joseph 29Price, Jenny 12Priest, Tyler 30Princen, Thomas 25Pritchard, Sara 37

RRaby, Megan 32Radding, Cynthia 32Ramey, Andrew 23Rawson, Michael J. 36Reinhardt, Bob H. 23Reilly, Benjamin 29Richards, Patricia 39

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Richie McGuire, Mary 8Rieppel, Lukas 28Riesmeyer, Philipp 34Rimby, Susan 32Ringquist, John 9Ritvo, Harriet 27, 31Rivera, Alex 34Roberts, Jody 21, 30Roberts, Nathan 22Robin, Libby 38Rodriguez, Steve 26Rohland, Eleonora 27Rome, Adam 32Rosenthal, Gregory 24Ross, Richard H. 12, 39Rueck, Daniel 32Rumore, Gina 36Russell, Edmund P. 25, 30Ryan, Finn 12, 39

SSabin, Paul 26, 31Sachs, Aaron 32Salehabadi, Djahane 38Salmanson, David 21Sandweiss, Martha 12, 37Santiago, Myrna 29Sarathy, Brinda 37Sato, Shohei 34Schanbacher, Ansgar 34Schmid, Martin 25Schorr, David 24, 31Schulze, Robin 27Seefried, Elke 31Sellers, Christopher 21Seltz, Jen 30Seow, Victor 31Setoguchi, Akihisa 22Shafer, Summer 34Shapiro, Aaron 21Shen, Yubin 22Shulman, Peter 26Sideris, Lisa 12Sisson Lessens, Kelly J. 8, 21Skillen, Jamie 23Slavishak, Edward 9Soluri, John 32, 34Spears, Ellen 20Specht, Joshua 24Spezio, Teresa 30Squatriti, Paolo 25Steen-Adams, Michelle 20Steiger, Eric 21Stephenson, Bruce 23Stevens, Michelle 15, 33Stewart, Howard 30Stewart, Mart 20Stoll, Steven 27

Strasser, Susan 38Stroud, Ellen 30Studnicki-Gizbert, Daviken 22, 32Summers, Greg 21Sunseri, Thaddeus 24Sutter, Paul 12, 37Swan, Heather 28Swanson, Drew 26Swanson, Mary Louise 23Swenson, Steve 15

TTarr, Joel 29Temple, Stan 15Tennessen, Travis 29Thomas, Julia 27Thompson, Jonathan 23Thomson, Jennifer 21Thorsheim, Peter 38Tiwari, Hari 9Todd, Matthew 32Tomblin, David 33Torma, Franziska 9Trim, Henry 26Tsutsui, William 24Tucker, Richard 26, 38Turner, Jay 34, 38Turney, Elaine 29

VVail, David 37Vandersommers, Dan 30Van Horssen, Jessica 12, 39Van Huizen, Philip 29Vetter, Jeremy 28, 32Vrtis, George 35

WWadewitz, Lissa 37Wakild, Emily 26Wallace, Molly 25Waller, Don 15Ward, Christopher 20Warren, Julianne Lutz 15, 21, 32Warsh, Molly 22Way, Albert 26Way, Thaisa 37Webb, James 23, 31Weik von Mossner, Alexa 12, 37Weinreb, Alice 21Wellock, Thomas 23West, Hannah Nyala 11, 33, 35Wheeler, Lauren 29White, Richard 14Whitney, Kristoffer 30Wille, Sheila 28Williams, Amrys 28 Wilson, Greg 20

Wilson, Robert 29Winiwarter, Verena 25Wise, Michael 24Wlasiuk, Jonathan 31Wojtowicz, Richard 33Wolff, Kim De 38Woods, Rebecca 24Worster, Donald 27, 31, 39

YYaeger, Patsy 25

ZZechner, Johannes 32Zeide, Anna 17 Zeisler-Vralsted, Dorothy 28Zelko, Frank 26Zhang, Ling 32Zilberstein, Anya 22, 24

Semper Fi: Always Faithful (2011)Rachel Libert and Tony Hardmon Wednesday, March 28, 8 pmMMoCAFILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO BE IN ATTENDANCE

“Silent Spring Remembered”– A 50th Anniversary RetrospectiveThursday, March 29, 9 pmThe Marquee at Union South

If a Tree Falls (2011)

Marshall Curry and Sam CullmanFriday, March 30, 7 pmMonona Terrace

The City Dark (2010)

Ian CheneyFriday, March 30, 9 pmMMoCAFILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO BE IN ATTENDANCE

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: CONFLUENCES, CROSSINGS, AND POWER Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2012 The ASEH invites proposals for its 2013 conference that will convene 3-6 April in Toronto, Canada—North America’s fourth largest city and one of the fastest growing and most ethnically and linguistically diverse places on the continent. Toronto’s location, amid lakes and rivers, has long made it a site of confluences and crossings. An important aboriginal fishing site, a key portage during the fur trade, and now a “global city,” the Toronto region has at different moments been a nodal point for flows of fish, furs, peoples, and capital. Environmental history challenges many familiar boundaries. Our theme, “Confluences, Crossings, and Power” calls attention to flows and boundary-crossings, while also highlighting the role of power in shaping movements and their direction. We seek papers and panel proposals that engage with this theme in many different guises: political borders and the flows across them; the interactions of water and land; the crossings of peoples, species, and cultures; movements of pollutants across landscapes and bodies; resource and commodity flows; urban-hinterland relationships; the flows and frictions that constitute “globalization”; the crossing of intellectual boundaries; and the emergence of transdisciplinary collaborations. We also see the conference’s location in Toronto as an opportunity to encourage non-US topics, transnational and comparative perspectives, and presentations focused on the Great Lakes and high-latitude regions. Submission Guidelines The program committee invites panel, roundtable, individual paper, and poster proposals for the conference on these and other topics. We aim to include sessions that cover the globe, all eras of history, and that engage with other important historical themes including race, gender, imperialism, and diaspora histories. We welcome teaching sessions, non-traditional formats, and sessions that encourage active audience participation. We encourage panels that include historians at different career stages and different types of institutions (academic and public) and that are gender and racially diverse. We strongly prefer to receive complete session proposals, although we will endeavor to construct sessions from proposals for individual presentations. To find possible presenters for your panel, consider posting an idea on H-Environment at least one month before the CFP deadline of June 15, 2012. Sessions will be scheduled for 1.5 hours. Please note that it is ASEH policy to allow at least 30 minutes for discussion in every session. No single presentation should exceed 15 minutes, and each roundtable presentation should be less than ten minutes since roundtables are designed to maximize discussion. Commentators are allowed but not required. Please note that individuals can present or comment on only one panel, roundtable, or poster session in addition to chairing a second session. All conference participants are expected to register for the annual meeting. If you have any questions, please contact a member of the 2013 program committee:

John Soluri, Carnegie Mellon University, Chair, [email protected] Colin M Coates, York University, [email protected] Linda Nash, University of Washington, [email protected] Graeme Wynn, University of British Columbia, [email protected] Michelle Murphy, University of Toronto, [email protected]

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Scarcity and FrontiersHow Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation

Edward B. Barbier

Africa in the Time of CholeraA History of Pandemics from 1817 to the Present

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Nature and Empirein Ottoman EgyptAn Environmental History

Alan Mikhail

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Books on Environmental History from The White Horse Press

Recent monographs from The White Horse Press include the Turku Prize-winning Enclosing Water (July 2010) by Stefania Barca, an environmental history of the Industrial Revolution as it affected Italy’s Liri Valley; Marco Armiero’s A Rugged Nation: Mountains and the Making of Modern Italy (July 2011); Wapulumuka Mulwafu’s Conservation Song: A History of Peasant–State Relations and the Environment in Malawi, 1860–2000 (July 2011); and Jon Mathieu’s The Third Dimension: A Comparative History of Mountains in the Modern Era (August 2011). John Dargavel and Elisa-beth Johann’s Science and Hope: A Forest History is due in 2012. New collections include Environmental and Social Justice in the City, edited by Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud and Richard Rodger (January 2011) and Thinking Through the Environment, edited by Timo Myllyntaus (June 2011). The collection, Changing Deserts: Integrating People and their Environment, edited by Troy Sternberg and Lisa Mol, will appear in 2012.

Our series of environmental history readers is suitable for students. Comprising essays selected from our journals, Environment and History and Environmental Values, each inexpensive paperback volume addresses an important theme in environmental history, combining underlying theory and specific case-studies. The first two volumes are Bio-invaders, (August 2010) and Landscapes (September 2010) and volumes on Indigenous Knowledge and Animals are due in 2012.

Rolf Sieferle’s pioneering and enduringly relevant The Subterranean Forest is now available as a paperbook and ebook.

International Refereed Journal from The White Horse Press

Environment and HistoryEDITORStephen Mosley Leeds Metropolitan [email protected]

ENVIRON MENT AND HISTORY aims to bring scholars in the humanities and biological sciences closer together, with the intention of constructing long and well-founded perspectives on present day environmental problems. The journal carries a section on current activities in environmental history, including the European Society for Environmental History’s ‘Notepad’. The journal is also available in an electronic format at attractive prices. Sample articles may be viewed free of charge on our website, and past abstracts are all available, sortable by theme, historical period and geographical coverage.

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CRABGRASS CRUCIBLESuburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century AmericaChristopher C. Sellers384 pages $42.00 cloth

DDT AND THE AMERICAN CENTURYGlobal Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the WorldDavid Kinkela272 pages $39.95 cloth

HOW LOCAL POLITICS SHAPE FEDERAL POLICYBusiness, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los AngelesSarah S. Elkind288 pages $45.00 cloth

CLIMATE AND CATASTROPHE IN CUBA AND THE ATLANTIC WORLD IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONSherry Johnson328 pages $39.95 cloth

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN CELEBRATIONIn Praise of Ancient Mountains, Old-Growth Forests, and WildernessJames ValentineWith text by Chris BolgianoForeword by William Meadows, The Wilderness Society152 pages $35.00 cloth

THE NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOUTHERN CULTUREVolume 8: EnvironmentVolume Edited by Martin Melosi Charles Reagan Wilson, General Editor320 pages $42.95 cloth / $20.95 paper

DUCKTOWN SMOKEThe Fight over One of the South’s Greatest Environmental DisastersDuncan Maysilles416 pages $39.95 cloth

ENGINEERING NATUREWater, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental ExpertiseJessica B. Teisch272 pages $65.00 cloth / $27.50 paper

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SMELTERTOWNMaking and Remembering a Southwest Border CommunityMonica Perales352 pages $65.00 cloth / $22.95 paper

MOUNTAIN NATUREA Seasonal Natural History of the Southern AppalachiansJennifer Frick-Ruppert256 pages $45.00 cloth / $20.00 paper

LOOKING FOR LONGLEAFThe Fall and Rise of an American ForestLawrence S. Earley336 pages $20.95 paper

WINDS OF CHANGEHurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century CubaLouis A. Pérez Jr.224 pages $24.95 paper

HAZARDS OF THE JOBFrom Industrial Disease to Environmental Health ScienceChristopher Sellers350 pages $29.95 paper

FROM RAINFOREST TO CANE FIELD IN CUBAAn Environmental History since 1492Reinaldo Funes MonzoteTranslated by Alex Martin384 pages $25.95 paper

THE DEEPEST WOUNDSA Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast BrazilThomas D. Rogers320 pages $65.00 cloth / $25.95 paper

ECOLOGICAL REVOLUTIONSNature, Gender, and Science in New EnglandCarolyn MerchantSecond EditionWith a new preface and epilogue by the author424 pages $29.95 paper

THE BATTLE FOR NORTH CAROLINA’S COASTPast History, Present Crisis, and Future VisionStanley R. Riggs, Dorothea V. Ames, Stephen J. Culver, and David J. Mallinson160 pages $25.00 cloth


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