Madison, Wisconsin program 2012

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From the Local
to the Global
Ethics,
Environmentalism,
and Environmental
History in an
Interdependent
World
Annual Conference
March 28-31, 2012
Madison, Wisconsin
Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center
From the Local
to the Global
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
March 28-31, 2012
Madison, Wisconsin
Monona Terrace Community
and Convention Center
Ethics, Environmentalism, and Environmental History in an Interdependent World
Table of Contents
Welcome from the Local Arrangements Committee.......................................................................... 4
Welcome from the Program Committee............................................................................................ 5
Conference Information.................................................................................................................... 6
Exhibits............................................................................................................................................. 7
Poster presentations......................................................................................................................... 8
2012 Travel grant recipients.......................................................................................................... 10
Conference hosts
Fellowship recipients...................................................................................................................... 10
ASEH awards.................................................................................................................................. 10
Special events................................................................................................................................ 11
Workshops............................................................................................................................................ 11
Opening reception................................................................................................................................12
Plenary talk and reception................................................................................................................... 12
Film festival......................................................................................................................................... 13
Breakfasts............................................................................................................................................ 13
Lunches............................................................................................................................................... 13
Graduate student reception................................................................................................................. 13
Hal Rothman Fun(d) Run.................................................................................................................... 13
Conference sponsors
ASEH members/business meeting....................................................................................................... 14
Poster presentation.............................................................................................................................. 14
Awards ceremony................................................................................................................................. 14
Dinner buffet party...............................................................................................................................14
Field Trips.......................................................................................................................................14
Pre-conference field trips.....................................................................................................................14
Friday afternoon field trips................................................................................................................... 15
Nelson Institute
CHE Graduate Affiliates
Conference at a glance................................................................................................................... 18
Concurrent Sessions....................................................................................................................... 20
ASEH committees.......................................................................................................................... 40
Index.............................................................................................................................................. 42
Advertisements............................................................................................................................... 45
Program design: Danielle Lamberson Philipp
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Maps.............................................................................................................................................. 63
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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.
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 bargaining 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
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Photo: Marc Tasman
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.
Firefighters led the protest into the Wisconsin State Capitol on
February 16, 2011.
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.
The 2012 Local Arrangements Committee:
Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chair
Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bill Cronon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Andrew Case, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
graduate student representative
Brian Hamilton, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Peter Boger, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Curt Meine, Aldo Leopold Foundation and the
International Crane Foundation
Welcome from the Program Committee
The 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 conference in 1982, and thirty-five years after the founding of ASEH in 1977. The plenary session will focus on another anniversary, and a landmark 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 Vermont
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Conference Information
Location
Cancellations
Commitment to sustainability
Questions? Contact:
Most conference events, including sessions, will be held at the
Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center located in downtown Madison, on the shore of Lake Monona. Address:
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 subject to its requirements for notification.
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.
Program: Lawrence Culver – [email protected]
Local arrangements: Nancy Langston – [email protected]
Exhibits and posters: Lisa Mighetto – [email protected]
About ASEH: Lisa Mighetto – [email protected]
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/MSNMHHFSEH-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 counters 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.
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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 minutes 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).
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 certification, 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
Exhibits
The displays will be available in the Grand Terrace, where the coffee, tea, and pastries will be provided during morning breaks, throughout the
conference.
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.
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):
Child care
Greater Madison Convention Services provided this listing for child
care:
Bright Star
3240 University Ave., #3A
Madison, WI 53705
http://www.brightstarcare.com/dane-sauk-columbia-counties/
American Society for Environmental History
Forest History Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Oregon State University Press
Oxford University Press
Penguin Group
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich
Society for Conservation Biology
The Scholars Choice
University of Arizona Press
University of California Press
University of Georgia Press
University of Massachusetts Press
University of Nevada Press
University of North Carolina Press
University of Oklahoma Press
University of Pittsburgh Press
University of Utah Press
University of Virginia Press
University of Washington Press
University of Wisconsin Press
University Press of Kansas
Yale University Press
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Poster presentations
Posters 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:
Baisakhi Bandyopadhyay, Indian National Science Academy, The
Asiatic Society
Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Sustainable Forest
Management in South Asia
Susanna Bohme, Independent Scholar
Circle of Poison? Contamination, Worker Health, and US Pesticide
Policy in the 1970s and 80s
Marcus Burtner, University of Arizona
Crafting 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, Kansas
Elements 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 College
Does Our “Relationship” with Species Affect if They Are Endangered?
Andreas Grieger, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society,
LMU Munich
From 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
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Margot Higgins, University of California, Berkeley
From 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 Korea
Environmental Challenge of the Largest Industrial City in Korea
Jean-François Mouhot, Georgetown University
An Environmental History of Saint-Domingue/Haiti, 1492-Present
Edward Slavishak, Susquehanna University
Largely Inaccessible: Belonging in West Virginia White Water,
1965-1975
Jackie Mirandola Mullen, State University of New York at Albany
Apt for an Adventure: How Women Kept Pace with Men to Tackle the
Adirondack Forty-Six
Hari Tiwari, Social Welfare Council, Kathmandu, Nepal
Livelihoods and Forestry Programme in Nepal
Neall Pogue, Texas A&M University
How Conservative Protestants Imagined The Right Kind of Nature,
1970-1988
Franziska Torma, Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich
Germany’s Seven Seas: Marine Biology and Ecological Imperialism in
the Long 20th Century.
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
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 Michigan
King Corn’s “Soft Power” in an Era of Empire, Emporium, and
Environmental Transformation
Qi Feng Lin, McGill University
Leopold and Economics
Kimberly Little, University of Central Arkansas
From Playgrounds to Parkways: How the Private Transportation
Revolution Changed St. Louis Public Recreation, 1900-1940
Michelle Mart, Penn State University, Berks
Learning to Love Organics
Mary Richie McGuire, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University
Tobacco Cultures in the Age of Revolution: Migrations of Plants and
Peoples in the Early Modern Atlantic, 1750-1850
Photo: Bryce Richter
Kenna Lang Archer, Texas Tech University
Oils, Glees, Stanzas, and Cultural Continuity along the Brazos River
Elizabeth Mills, University of Vermont
Allen Chamberlain, the Appalachian Mountain Club, and the
Progressive Conservation Movement
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2012 Travel grant recipients
Special events
Congratulations to the following recipients of ASEH travel grants to this conference:
Workshops
ASEH minority travel grant: Steve Rodriguez
John D. Wirth travel grant: Timo Myllantaus
EV and Nancy Melosi travel grant: Giacomo Parrinello
Morgan and Jeannie Sherwood travel grants: Jonathan Clapperton and Lauren Wheeler
Ellen Swallow Richards travel grant: Henry Trim
Donald Worster travel grant: Baisakhi Bandyoapdhyay
J. Donald Hughes travel grant: Adama Pam
ASEH grants: Janette Bailey, Mark Leeming, and Mark McLaughlin
Moderators: Will Knight and Andrew Case
Friday, March 30 8:30-noon
Hall of Ideas E
8:30-9:00 Organized by ASEH’s Diversity Committee
6. Leif Fredrickson
7. Tim Johnson
8. Jongmin Lee
9. Philipp Lehmann
10. Max Liboiron
11. Raechel Lutz
12. Jackie Mullenn
13. Tamar Novick
14. Neall Pogue
15. Andrew Ramey
16. Bob Reinhardt
17. Gregory Rosenthal
18. Jennifer Thomson
19. Daniel Vandersommers
20. Amrys Williams
Sponsor: National Science Foundation, Grant SES-1058613
Fellowship recipients
Samuel 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”
ASEH awards
ASEH Distinguished Service Award 2012:
Thomas Dunlap, Texas A&M University
This session will include a screening of the film “Through Tribal Eyes”
Moderator: Patty Loew, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Discussants:
• 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”
Discussants:
• 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 noon
Hall 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 effective job application for federal government positions.
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9:00-9:30 9:30-1:00 a. Indigenous Media as Empowerment: A Case Study in
Climate Change
NSF travel grants recipients:
1. Sharon Adams
2. Jakobina Arch
3. Deanne Ashton
4. Kevin Brown
5. Bathsheba Demuth
Indigenous Media Workshop
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:15 11:15-12:00 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-Governmental
Organizations”
Coffee break Roundtable with Sean Kheraj, Todd Dresser,
Kieko Matteson, and Hannah Nyala West
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 organized 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 material 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 studies 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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Workshops continued
Moderator: Neil Maher, Rutgers University-Newark-NJIT
Discussants:
Finis Dunaway, Trent University
Alexa Weik von Mossner, University of Fribourg and the Rachel
Carson Center, LMU Munich
Cindy Ott, St. Louis University
Paul 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 application 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 University
Kimberly Coulter, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society,
LMU Munich
Fred Gibbs, George Mason University
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Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Rachel Carson Center for Environment
and Society, LMU Munich
Jan Oosthoek, Newcastle University, UK
Richard H. Ross, Claremont Graduate University
Finn Ryan, Wisconsin Educational Communications Board
Jessica Van Horssen, McGill University / Université du Québec à
Trois-Rivières/Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society,
LMU Munich
Opening reception
Sponsored by Oxford University Press
Wisconsin was the first state
to restrict DDT, seven years
after the 1962 publication
of Rachel Carson’s Silent
Spring.
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.
Plenary talk and reception
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 publication 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 session for the 2012 conference. Linking her life and work to the conference 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 connecting her to contemporary environmental issues.
The plenary will begin with a keynote address followed by a roundtable 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 environmental history and environmental
issues to a broader public.
Outreach and ASEH
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.
Climate history
Friday, March 30, 7:15-8:15 a.m.
Hall of Ideas I
Saturday, 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 I
Sponsored in part by Envirotech
Film festival
Lunches
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 conference. Always provocative and entertaining, this major outreach effort
uses narrative to bridge the themes and issues of environmental history with the efforts of local groups working on behalf of environmental 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 retrospective 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!
The lunches are open to anyone interested in discussing the
topic; sign up on the online conference registration form ahead
of time.
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 registration desk.
Breakfasts
The breakfasts are open to anyone interested in discussing the topic;
sign up on the online conference registration form ahead of time.
Forest History Society
Thursday, March 29, 12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
Ballroom A
War and Environment
Saturday, 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.
Energy
Hal Rothman Fun(d) Run
Thursday, March 29, 7:15-8:15 a.m.
Saturday, March 31, 6:30 – 7:30 a.m.
Ballroom A
Sponsored by the Center for Public History, University of Houston
Sustainability
Friday, March 30, 7:15-8:15 a.m.
Hall of Ideas H
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 threemile 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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Field Trips
Pre-conference field trips
John Muir’s Wisconsin
ASEH members/business meeting
Wednesday, March 28, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the Montello Historic Preservation Society and the
Marquette County Historical Society.
Hall of Ideas E
All members are welcome. President John McNeill will lead a discussion on the future of ASEH – this is your opportunity to contribute
your ideas about our organization.
Poster presentation
Grand Terrace
Join us at the cash bar as the poster presenters discuss their
research during this period.
Awards ceremony
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
This all-day preconference field trip will give participants the opportunity 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 second 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 landscapes, 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.
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 tradition 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, washboards, 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]
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and discussion, with lunch and a brief tour of the LEED-platinum
Leopold Center. In the afternoon field session we will explore landscape 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.
9:00 a.m.
9:15 a.m.
10:45 a.m.
11:45 a.m.
12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m.
3:15 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
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 environmental historians and practitioners of ecological restoration by connecting 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
Bus leaves Monona Terrace Hilton for Leopold
Center
Welcome to the Leopold Center
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 Change
Panel 2: Restoration Challenges
Susan Flader, University of Missouri, Aldo
Leopold and the Restoration of Working Lands,
Then and Now
Michelle Stevens, California State UniversitySacramento, Ecological and Cultural Restoration
in Indigenous Communities
Curt Meine and Rich Bielfuss, Restoration,
Wildlife, and Culture in Global Context: An
Introduction to the International Crane
Foundation
Catered Lunch
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).
Walking Tour of the International Crane
Foundation
Bus returns to Madison, arriving at the Hilton 5:30
or 6 pm
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-establishment of historic landscapes, particularly those that predated largescale 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 emphasize 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 camera, binoculars, a magnifying glass, etc.) as well as a pen and paper.
Thousands
gathered
inside
Madison
Wisconsin’s
capital rotunda to protest
Governor
Walker’s bill
on February
16, 2011.
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.
Photo: Joe Rowley
$20 for members and $10 for students. If you have questions, please
contact Jamie Lewis, event organizer, at [email protected].
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Friday afternoon field trips Continued
2. Ecological Restoration of Oak Savanna at
Pleasant Valley Conservancy
3. Madison Walking Tour: The History of Labor
and Environmental Activism
Leader: Emily Brock
Leader: Brian Hamilton
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 twentieth 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, reconverting 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.
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 addition, 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 public 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.
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 foundations, 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
Photo: Dan L. Perlman/EcoLibrary.org
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.)
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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 recommended. We will also try to have at least a few spotting scopes.
6. Taliesin: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wisconsin
trip will expose participants to a range of those people and scenes,
providing a glimpse into the innovative ways that local foods enthusiasts 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, vegetable 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
Leader: Anna Andrzejewski
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.
The Shack, where Aldo Leopold, his wife, and his five children
spent weekends and vacations.
5. Birding at Horicon Marsh
Learn about how features like solar power, geothermal, and sustainable 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.
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 foundation’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.”
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 leading 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 building designers about their visions for a sustainable future.
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
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Conference at a glance
Conference at a glance
March 28-31, 2012
Wednesday, March 28
7:15 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
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
Wisconsin
Meet in the lobby of the Hilton.
Registration
Counters 3 and 4
March 28-31, 2012
Thursday, March 29
Friday, March 30
Saturday, March 31
7:00 a.m.-8:15 a.m.
Special Interests breakfast: Energy
Ballroom A
7:10 a.m.-8:15 a.m.
6:30 a.m.-7:30 a.m
Hal Hothman Fun(d) Run
Hilton Hotel Lobby
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Registration and book exhibition
Counters 3 and 4, Grand Terrace
7:10 a.m.-8:15 a.m..
Special Interest breakfasts:
Climate History, Hall of Ideas H;
Envirotech, Hall of Ideas I
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions 5
8:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Registration and book exhibition
8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Workshop: Indigenous Media
Hall of Ideas E
8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Graduate Student Career Workshop
Hall of Ideas F
10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Morning coffee break
Grand Terrace
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Concurrent sessions 7
Special Interest breakfasts:
Sustainability, Hall of Ideas H;
Outreach and ASEH, Hall of Ideas I
8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Registration and book exhibition
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions 1
10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Morning Coffee Break
Grand Terrace
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 2
6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Opening reception
Ballroom A
8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Tales from Planet Earth film festival
screening of Semper Fi
Museum of Contemporary Art
12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Special Interests lunch: Forest History
Society
Ballroom A
1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions 3
3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Afternoon break
Grand Terrace
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
6:30 p.m.
Buses leave for the plenary at Union
South from in
front of the Hilton
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Conference Schedule
12:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Field trips. Meet buses outside on level
ONE of the Monona Terrace Convention
Center at 12:15 p.m.
5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Editorial board dinner
6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Graduate student reception,
Wisconsin Historical Museum
7:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m. Tales from Planet Earth film screenings
Multiple Locations
10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Morning coffee break
Grand Terrace
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Concurrent sessions 8
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
Special Interests lunch: War and Environment
Hall of Ideas H
12:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Executive Committee meeting
1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Workshop: Making Pictures Talk
Hall of Ideas J
3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Afternoon break
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Workshop: Digital Environmental History Tools
and Projects
Hall of Ideas J
5:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Business meeting
Hall of Ideas E
6:00 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
Poster exhibition and reception
Grand Terrace
7:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Awards ceremony
Ballroom A
8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
Dinner buffet and bluegrass music
Ballroom A and Grand Terrace
Plenary and reception
The Marquee at Union South
7:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m. Tales from Planet Earth film screenings,
Multiple Locations
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10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Concurrent sessions 6
Conference Schedule
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Thursday, March 29
Thursday, March 29
8:30-10:00 a.m.
8:30-10:00 a.m.
Session rooms are located on level four of the convention center.
Making Tires, Timber, and Turf: Labor and
Nature in Environmental History
Applying History to Ecological Conservation in
the Northern Great Lakes Region
The Land Ethic: The Evolution and Application
of Leopold’s Ideal
Panel 1-A: Meeting Room K
Panel 1-D: Meeting Room N
Panel 1-F: Meeting Room P
Chair: Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado-Boulder
Commentator: Neil Maher, NJIT/Rutgers University
Panelists:
Erik Loomis, University of Rhode Island, Radical Unions’
Conservationist Critique of the 20th Century Pacific Northwest Timber
Industry
Raechel Lutz, Rutgers University, Cutting the Grass: How Lawn
Labor Made Backyard Nature
Greg Wilson, University of Akron, Work and Nature: Akron and the
Worlds of Rubber
Chair: David Mladenoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Commentator: Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Panelists:
Curt Meine, Center for Humans and Nature/Aldo Leopold
Foundation, “It’s about Time: Conservation Biology and History”:
Retrospect and Prospect
Jeffrey 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
Chair: Julianne Warren, New York University
Panelists:
John Hausdoerffer, Western State College, The “Spiritual Danger”
of Alienation: The Urban Roots and Social Justice Future of Aldo
Leopold’s Land Ethic
Stephen 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 Ethic
Joshua Nygren, University of Kansas, “More Obligation to the Private
Landowner”: Aldo Leopold, the Soil Conservation Service, and
Evolving Ethics of Conservation
Famines, Fur Seals, and Fluvial Rerouting
Projects in the Far North
Panel 1-B: Meeting Room L
Chair: Kerwin Klein, University of California-Berkeley
Panelists:
Bathsheba Demuth, University of California-Berkeley, Composing the
Fur Seal: Globalization and Human Adaption in the North Pacific
Timo Myllyntaus, University of Turku, “Hunger is Always Our Guest”,
Great Harvest Failures and Famines in 19th Century Iceland and
Finland
Christopher 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
Technology
Panelists:
Michael Chiarappa, Quinnipiac University, The Fabricated Coastline:
Reckoning Architecture’s Place in Marine Environmental History
Matthew McKenzie, University of Connecticut, Trusts in Cod:
Waterfront Access and Colonizing Boston’s Marine Environment,
1890-1914
Brian Payne, Bridgewater State University, Cannery Factories and
Weir Fishermen: Production and Price Control in Maine’s Sardine
Industry, 1875-1903
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Concurrent Sessions
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”: African
American Environmental History
Panel 1-E: Meeting Room O
Chair and Commentator: Mart Stewart, Western Washington
University
Panelists:
Kevin Leonard, Western Washington University, “It Would Not Be
Tolerated in an All-White Neighborhood”: African Americans and
Weeds in Mid Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
Ellen Spears, University of Alabama, “Embodiments of a New
Knowledge of Nature”: Race, Chemistry, and the National Defense
Colin Fisher, University of San Diego, Dr. Wilberforce Williams, Racial
Segregation in Jazz Age Chicago, and Black Public Health
The Poisonous 1970s: Human Health and
Environmental Toxicity
Panel 1-G: Meeting Room Q
Chair: Jody Roberts, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Panelists:
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
Beyond the Book
Roundtable 1-I: Hall of Ideas F
Moderator: Marcus Hall, University of Zurich
Discussants:
Irene Klaver, University of North Texas
Anne Milne, University of Guelph
Tor Oriamo, University of Western Ontario
Joy Parr, University of Western Ontario
Giacomo 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 University
Discussants:
Ellen Arnold, Ohio Wesleyan University
Megan Jones, The Pingry School
Sara Jordan, University of California-Irvine
Cheryl Oakes, Forest History Society
David Salmanson, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy
Eric Steiger, University of California-Irvine
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, 1846-1939
Chris Otter, Ohio State University, Cattle, Energy and Germs:
Transforming Imperial Britain’s Meat System
Robyn Metcalfe, University of Texas-Austin, Urban Metabolism in
Victorian London
Alice Weinreb, Northwestern University, Food, Blood and Soil: The
Politics of Land, Race and Nutrition in Nazi Germany
Concurrent Sessions
21
Thursday, March 29
Thursday, March 29
10:30 a.m. to noon
10:30 a.m. to noon
In the Wake of Extraction: Neotropical
Landscapes and Natural Resource Depletion,
16th-19th Centuries
Northward Course of Empires: Cold Climate
and Other Limits
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 PostMining Landscapes in Mexico and Panama
Molly Warsh, Texas A & M University, Sustainable Destruction?
Management Challenges of Venezuelan Pearl Fisheries
Chair: Christof Mauch, Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich
Commentator: 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
Measuring and Valuing Nature: Fisheries,
Forests and Energy
This panel is sponsored by the Rachel Carson Center for
Environment and Society
Chair: Brian Black, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona
Commentator: Kathryn Morse, Middlebury College
Panelists:
Kevin Brown, Carnegie Mellon University, The Labor of Valuing the
Forest: Timber Estimating and the American Lumber Industry, 18901920
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
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 Japan
Toshihiro Higuchi, Stanford University, Before Whale Wars: Modern
Japan and the Conservation of North Pacific Fur Seals
Jakobina Arch, Harvard University, The Early 20th Century Race to
the Antarctic: Differences in Japanese and British Antarctic Whaling
Empires
Yubin 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 Catastrophe
Brittany Fremion, Purdue University, “A Constituency of Concerned
Citizens”: Antinuclear Protest in the American Midwest
Helen 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 College
Panelists:
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 Ethiopia
Bob H. Reinhardt, University of California-Davis, How Smallpox
Became a “Suitable Candidate Disease for Global Eradication”
Concurrent Sessions
Chair: Lee Lines, Rollins College
Commentator: Jack Davis, University of Florida
Panelists:
Bruce Stephenson, Rollins College, John Nolen, Aldo Leopold and
the University of Wisconsin Arboretum
Leslie Poole, University of Florida, Women Reformers and the
Campaign for the Urban Eden
Stacey 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-Madison
Discussants:
Brian Donahue, Brandeis University
Susan Flader, University of Missouri, Columbia
David Foster, Harvard Forest, Harvard University
Ted Gragson, University of Georgia
David Mladenoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jonathan Thompson, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Historical Perspectives on Invasive Species
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
22
John Nolen & Aldo Leopold: Progenitors of
Urban Sustainability in Wisconsin and Florida
Roundtable 2-J: Hall of Ideas J
Moderator: Matthew Chew, Arizona State University
Discussants:
Ryan Fischer, University of Wisconsin
Leif Fredrickson, University of Virginia
Daniel Lewis, Huntington Library
Jordan Marché, Independent Scholar
Laura Martin, Cornell University
Concurrent Sessions
23
Thursday, March 29
Thursday, March 29
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
When Local and Global Collide: Responses to
Warfare in an Interdependent World
Fit for Food? Meat and Species in Global
Livestock History
From Rivers to Oceans: Wilderness, Hazards,
and Resilience in Watery Worlds
Paradigms of Change: Why Some Concepts
are More Useful than Others
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 Japan
Lisa M. Brady, Boise State University, Reconstructing a New Nation:
Postwar Projects and Environmental Change in South Korea
Chair: Anya Zilberstein, Concordia University
Commentator: 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
Chair: Craig Colten, Louisiana State University
Panelists:
Ryan Orgera, Louisiana State University, The Wilderness Act and the
Ocean
Adam Mandelman, University of Wisconsin–Madison, The Porous
Plantation: Water Management on Nineteenth-Century Louisiana
Plantations
Craig Colten, Louisiana State University, Tradition and Resilience in
Coastal Louisiana
Moderator: Richard Hoffmann, York University
Discussants:
Stephen Carpenter, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thomas Princen, University of Michigan
Edmund P. Russell, University of Virginia
Verena Winiwarter, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt -Graz-Wien
Environmental Ideas of the 20th Century:
Ideological and National Border-Crossings
Struggles for Sovereignty: Indigenous
Resources, Rights and the Global Implications
of the Local
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 ColoradoBoulder
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
24
Concurrent Sessions
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 Sovereignty
Al 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, HumanWildlife Conflicts, Wildlife Conservation, and Maasai Group Ranches
in Kenya, 1890-2000
Jaime Allison, University of Virginia, From Survival to Sovereignty:
1970s Energy Development and Indian Self-Determination in
Montana’s Powder River Basin
Before Modern Forestry: Trees and Woodlands
in Premodern Europe
Chair: Jamie Lewis, Forest History Society
Commentator: 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
New Places for Stories: Ecocriticism and the
Environmental Humanities
Moderator: Ursula Heise, Stanford University
Discussants:
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
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 Estuary
Martin 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
Concurrent Sessions
25
Thursday, March 29
Thursday, March 29
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 University
Panelists:
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 Mexico
Mark 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 Species
Jonathan 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 University
Commentator: 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 1970s
Andrew Dribin, University of Illinois-Chicago, The Race for Open
Space and other Moods of Environmentalism
Mark Finlay, Armstrong Atlantic State University, The Counterculture
Meets Practical Politics: Ecology, Human Ecology, and the Battles to
Save Georgia’s Barrier Islands
Henry Trim, University of British Columbia, A New Alchemy on the
Land: Scientists, Hippies, and an Ecological Society
26
Concurrent Sessions
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 Reconsidered
Peter 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 Michigan
Commentator: 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 Enclosure
Thomas 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 Vietnam
Emily Wakild, Wake Forest University, Historicizing Conservation in
Bio-Regions: National Parks in Patagonia and Amazonia
Nature by Numbers: Natural Hazard Insurance
in Historical Perspective
Farms, Fields, and Foods in the Progressive
Era: What’s the Big Idea?
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
Moderator: Jess Gilbert, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Discussants:
Ben Cohen, Lafayette College
Sara Gregg, University of Kansas
James McWilliams, Texas State University-San Marcos
Steven Stoll, Fordham University
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, 1940-1964
Greta 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
Nature and National Narratives
Panel 4-J: Hall of Ideas J
Chair: Donald Worster, University of Kansas
Panelists:
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
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
Devices
Melanie Kiechle, Rutgers and Chemical Heritage Foundation, Fresh
Air Infrastructures in the Sanitary City
Barry Muchnick, Yale University, “Change is in the Air”: Science,
Sentiment, and the City
Concurrent Sessions
27
Friday, March 30
Friday, March 30
8:30-10:00 a.m.
8:30-10:00 a.m.
Insects in Environmental History I:
“Beneficial” Insects
Global Expertise and Local Knowledge about
Nature: A Materialist Approach
The Human Ecology of Vector-borne Disease
in Africa: Part I
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 Narratives
Heather Swan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Industrious
Hive: Mapping the Evolution of the Beehive Metaphor
Jennifer Bonnell, University of Guelph, “Archaic” Economies on the
Urban Fringe: Toronto Beekeepers and Suburbanization, 1950-1970
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
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 Wadis
Chau Johnsen Kelly, University of North Florida, Farm and Fly:
Village Concentrations Against Human Sleeping Sickness in East
Africa, 1930-1943
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,
1920-1955
Jeff 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
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 Munich
Commentator: 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 Identity
Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted, Eastern Washington University, The Volga
River in Russian National Narratives
Victoria Penziner Hightower, North Georgia College and State
University, Making the Natural National: The UAE and the Creation of
Identity
Energy Capitals: Local Impact, Global
Influence
Roundtable 5-G: Meeting Room Q
Moderator: Joseph Pratt, University of Houston
Discussants:
Craig Colten, Louisiana State University,
Matthew Eisler, University of California- Santa Barbara
Sarah Elkind, San Diego State University
Martin Melosi, University of Houston
Gunnar Nerheim, University of Stavanger
Myrna Santiago, St. Mary’s College of California
Joel Tarr, Carnegie Mellon University
Moderator: Thomas Dunlap, Texas A&M University
Discussants:
Peter Alagona, University of California-Santa Barbara
Kelly Enright, Independent Scholar
Dolly Jørgensen, Umeå University
David Nesheim, Northern Arizona University
Tamar Novick, University of Pennsylvania
Travis Tennessen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Elaine Turney, University of Texas-San Antonio
Robert Wilson, Syracuse University
Environmentalism in Canada: Scientific
Knowledge and The Exercise of Power
Chair: Claire Campbell, Dalhousie University
Panelists:
Mark McLaughlin, University of New Brunswick, New Brunswick’s
Silent Springs: A Canadian Province’s Influence on Rachel Carson
Lauren Wheeler, University of Alberta, Academic Activism: The Case
of the Alberta Tar Sands and the University of Alberta
Philip 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
Workshop 5-H: Hall of Ideas E
This session will include a screening of the film “Through Tribal Eyes”
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 Canal
Jeffrey Brideau, University of Maryland, Imagining the Seaway: ProtoEnvironmental Diplomacy and the Construction of Bi-national Interest
Dagomar Degroot, York University, Evolving Relationships between
Climate, Environment, and the Biophysical Arteries of the Dutch
Republic
Discussants:
Melissa Cook, College of Menominee Nation
Mike Dockry, USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Lab
Tribal College Students TBA
Concurrent Sessions
Indigenous Media as Empowerment: A Case
Study in Climate Change
28
Animals as Place-Makers
Organized by ASEH’s Diversity Committee
Concurrent Sessions
29
Friday, March 30
Friday, March 30
10:30 a.m. to noon
10:30 a.m. to noon
Insects in Environmental History II: Pests and
the Role of the State
From the Atlantic and the Pacific: Perspectives
on Coastal Environmental Histories
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 Narratives
Kayla Griffis, University of Central Arkansas, This Ain’t My First
Rodeo: U.S. Government Control of Insect-spread Diseases in Equine
Populations
Brandon Luedtke, University of Kansas, An Oily Solution: Whale Oil
as Insecticide, 1841-1914 Chair: Lynne Heasley, Western Michigan University
Commentator: Tyler Priest, University of Houston
Panelists:
Stephen Bocking, Trent University, Salmon Aquaculture and Sea
Trout: A Controversial Chapter in European Marine Environmental
History
Christopher Pastore, University of Montana, Guns, Grids, and Natural
Knowledge: Coastal Space and the Culture of Improvement on
Narragansett Bay, 1723-1783
Howard Stewart, University of British Columbia, A Contested
Playground: The Strait of Georgia, 1849 – 1980
Teresa Spezio, University of California-Davis, Oil + Water: Santa
Barbara Residents Struggle to Stop Federal Offshore Oil Platforms
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
30
Concurrent Sessions
Towards an Intellectual History of Energy
Chair: John R. McNeill, Georgetown University
Commentator: Harriet Ritvo, Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Panelists:
Jonathan Wlasiuk, Case Western Reserve University, A River Burns
Through It: Ideology in the Kerosene Age
Victor Seow, Harvard University, Fuel Famine: The Spectre of
Scarcity in Interwar Japan
Philipp 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
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 Canada
Karen 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, 1874-1885
Robert Gee, University of Maine, International Intrigue: Exhibitions,
Gentleman Scholars, and the Collaborative Origins of Modern Marine
Science
Chair: Diana Davis, University of California-Davis
Panelists:
James C. McCann, Boston University, Deposing the Malevolent Spirit:
A Historical Cultural Ecology of Malaria in Northwest Ethiopia
James L. Webb, Colby College, Ecological Perspectives on Malaria
Control and Lapse in Africa
Melissa 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 College
Discussants:
Tarabeih Hussein, Towns Association for Environmental Quality
Daniel Orenstein, Technion
David 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”
Discussants:
Melissa Cook, College of Menominee Nation
Mike Dockry, USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Lab
Menominee Tribal Members TBA
Organized by ASEH’s Diversity Committee
Reading Aldo Leopold Across Disciplines:
Problems and Potentials
Moderator: Valerie Carroll, Kansas State University
Discussants:
Sharon Wilcox Adams, University of Texas
Jason Coomes, Berea College
Mary Foltz, Lehigh University
Sinisa Golub, Mura-Drava Regional Park, Croatia
Julie Lester, Macon State College
The Limits of Abundance: The Limits to Growth
at Forty
Chair: Christof Mauch, Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig-Maximilian
University Munich
Panelists:
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 Growth
Paul Sabin, Yale University, The Conservative Response to Limits to
Growth and 1970s Environmentalism
Concurrent Sessions
31
Saturday, March 31
Saturday, March 31
8:30-10:00 a.m.
8:30-10:00 a.m.
“Stories in the Snow”: Telling Tales of UnExtinction
Science in Place: 20th Century Ecology and
Conservation
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 Extinction
Julianne Lutz Warren, New York University, “To cultivate the awareness”: Listening for Dead Birdsong
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 Ecology
Samantha Muka, University of Pennsylvania, Understanding and
Preserving Aquatic Environments: Research and Conservation at First
Generation American Public Aquariums
Mark 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
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 China
Johannes 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
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Concurrent Sessions
Cities and Sustainability
Wetlands and Militarized Landscapes In
Environmental History: Ecosystems, Marshes,
and Wars in Historical and Contemporary
Contexts
Times: Professional Development for
Environmental History Graduate Students,
Part 1
Workshop 7-I: Hall of Ideas F
Chair: Jack Hayes, Norwich University
Commentator: David Biggs, University of California Riverside
Panelists:
Jack Hayes, Norwich University, From Great Green Walls to Deadly
Mires: China’s Western and Northeastern Wetlands as Military
Environments and Ecosystems
Dylan Cyr, Huron University College, University of Western Ontario,
Campaigning in a Wet Land: Water, Militarized Landscapes, and the
Battle of Guadalcanal
Richard Wojtowicz, Montana State University Bozeman, Southeast
Asia Wetlands and the Vietnam Conflict: Ecocide, Rehabilitation, and
Restoration
Michelle Stevens, California State University-Sacramento, Ecological
and Cultural Restoration of Marshes: Life Before and After War
Moderator: Will Knight
Discussants:
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”
Chair: Aaron Sachs, Cornell University
Panelists:
Adam Rome, University of Delaware, Frederick Law Olmsted and the
Nature of Sustainable Communities
Susan Rimby, Shippensburg University, Making Harrisburg Beautiful:
The Conservation Vision of Mira Lloyd Dock
Robert 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
Peninsula
Daniel Rueck, University of Western Ontario, When Good Fences
Make Bad Neighbours: Enclosure of Kahnawá:ke Mohawk Territory
1850-1900
Matthew Todd, University of Saskatchewan, The Climate is Perfect? A
Cross Border Analysis of 19th Century Environmental Misperception Fire as a Way of Knowing: A Trans-Atlantic
Perspective
Interpreting Images: Tips for Working with
Visual Sources
Moderator: Kathy Morse, Middlebury College
Discussants:
Alan MacEachern, University of Western Ontario
David Hsiung, Juniata College
Kathryn Meier, University of Scranton
Chair: David Tomblin, Virginia Tech
Commentator: 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 Germany
David Tomblin, Virginia Tech, Where Were the Apaches? The Legacy
of Harold Weaver’s Prescribed Burn Experiments on the Fort Apache
Indian Reservation
Michael R. Coughlan, University of Georgia, Concernant l’incineration
de Vegetaux sur Pied: A History of Pastoral Fire and its Regulation in
the French Western Pyrenees
Monica A. Farfan, University of Illinois-Chicago, Restoration by Fire:
The History of Fire in Chicago
Concurrent Sessions
33
Saturday, March 31
Saturday, March 31
10:30 a.m. to noon
10:30 a.m. to noon
Ballroom A
Moderator: Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Discussants/Filmmakers:
Ian Cheney, Greening of Southie, King Corn, and The City Dark
Judith Helfand, A Healthy Baby Girl, Blue Vinyl, and Everything’s
Cool
Alex 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 City
Summer 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 1750
Ansgar 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 - 1920s
Jennifer Derr, Bard College, The Management of Soil, Sweat, and
Crops in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Shohei Sato, Waseda University, Tokyo, Mapping Water and Oil:
Changing Conceptions of Territoriality in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Arabian Peninsula
Molly 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
Times: Professional Development for
Environmental History Graduate Students,
Part 2
Workshop 8-I: Hall of Ideas F
Moderator: Andrew Case, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Discussants:
Sean Kheraj
Todd Dresser
Kieko Matteson
Hannah Nyala West
Fiftieth Anniversary of Silent Spring: Teaching
Strategies
Moderator: Fritz Davis, Florida State University
Discussants:
Ruth Alexander, Colorado State University
Charles Closmann, University of North Florida
Joanna Dean, Carleton University
Mark Madison, National Conservation Training Center
George Vrtis, Carleton College
Oh, that glorious
Wisconsin wilderness!
Everything new and pure
in the very prime of the
spring when Nature’s
pulses were beating highest
and mysteriously keeping
time with our own! Young
hearts, young leaves, flowers,
animals, the winds and the
streams and the sparkling
lake, all wildly, gladly
Photo: CC Chicago Man
Special Film Roundtable. The New
Green Wave: A Conversation on Film and
Environmental Change
rejoicing together!
-John Muir, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
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Concurrent Sessions
Concurrent Sessions
35
Saturday, March 31
Saturday, March 31
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 Dwellers
Meg Mott, Marlboro College, Cultivating Vitality in the Inner City
Frank 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
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 Ohio
Tai Johnson, University of Arizona, The Local Price of “Clean Coal”
Technology: The Black Mesa Pipeline, Hopi Agriculture and the
Question of Ecological Poverty
Cody 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
Chair: Jacob Hamblin, Oregon State University
Panelists:
Gina Rumore, University of Minnesota, Ecology and Environmental
History: Integrating the Social Sciences and Humanities into the LongTerm Ecological Research Network
John Magnuson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Challenges of an
evolving LTER Site: the First 20 Years of the North Temperate Lakes
Program
Adrian Howkins, Colorado State University, From “Valley of the Dead”
to Ecological Paradise: An Environmental History of the McMurdo Dry
Valleys, Antarctica
Anita Guerrini, Oregon State University, Nature and Culture on the
California Coast
36
Concurrent Sessions
Digital Urban Environmental Histories: New
Visualizations and Models
Fifty Years Since Silent Spring: Perspectives
on Pesticides
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
Environments
Matthew Booker, North Carolina State University, Visualizing the
Organic City: Spatial History in San Francisco Bay
Bradley Cantrell, Louisiana State University, Illustrating Dynamic
Urban Ecologies
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, 1945–1985
Karen Hoffman, University of Puerto Rico, On Doing the History of
Pollution Control Efforts: The Cases of Air and Water Toxics
Transnational Labor and the Environment
Against the Tide: Using Rivers to Explore
Community and Government
Chair: Christof Mauch, Rachel Carson Center, LMU
Commentator: 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 Mexico
Deanne Morgan Ashton, University of Houston, Prosperity vs.
Pollution: Preston, Lancashire, and the Rivers Pollution Prevention
Act of 1876
Randall S. Dills, University of Louisville, Contested Ground: State,
Society and Flood Zone Regulation at Galernaia Harbor in St.
Petersburg, Russia, 1824-1862
Chair: Brinda Sarathy, Pitzer College
Commentator: 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 Centuries
Brinda 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
Nature and Knowledge: Conversations at
the Interface of Environmental History and
Science Studies
Moderator: Dolly Jørgensen, Umeå University
Discussants:
Benjamin Cohen, Lafayette College
Michael Egan, McMaster University
Finn Arne Jørgensen, Umeå University
Sara Pritchard, Cornell University
Making Pictures Talk: An Environmental
History Visual Culture Jam
Moderator: Neil Maher, Rutgers University-Newark
Commentator: Martha Sandweiss, Princeton University
Discussants:
Finis Dunaway, Trent University
Alexa Weik von Mossner, University of Fribourg and the Rachel
Carson Center, LMU Munich
Cindy Ott, St. Louis University
Paul Sutter, University of Colorado
Concurrent Sessions
37
Saturday, March 31
Saturday, March 31
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Acclimatization: Animal Introductions and
Their Ecological and Political Consequences
Waste Scavenging in London, Berlin, and
Cairo
Indigenous Perspectives on Territory, Natural
Resources, and Sustainability
Digital Environmental History: Tools and
Projects
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 Sparrows
Anders Halverson, University of Colorado, “A Dominant
Consideration”: Silent Spring, the Green River, and the Origins of the
Endangered Species Act
Libby Robin, Australian National University, Fear of Ferals: Questions
of Alien and Native in Old and New Europes
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 Berlin
Jamie Furniss, Oxford University, The Shift Toward Scavenging of
Cairo’s Informal Sector Waste Collectors
Chair and Commentator: Larry Nesper, University WisconsinMadison
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 Harvest
Michael Dockry, University Wisconsin-Madison & US Forest Service,
Indigenous Perspectives on Forest Management, Territorial Control,
and Tribal Identity in Wisconsin and Bolivia
Patricia Richards, University of Georgia, Conflicts over Indigenous
Rights, Territory, and Racism in the Chilean South
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 University
Kimberly Coulter, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society,
LMU Munich
Fred Gibbs, George Mason University
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Rachel Carson Center for Environment
and Society, LMU Munich
Jan Oosthoek, Newcastle University, UK
Richard H. Ross, Claremont Graduate University
Finn Ryan, Wisconsin Educational Communications Board
Jessica Van Horssen, McGill University / Université du Québec à
Trois-Rivières/Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society,
LMU Munich
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 College
Commentator: Brett Walker, Montana State University
Panelists:
Brian Leech, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Pit Nostalgia:
Remembering Industrial Hazards and Neighborhoods Lost to OpenPit Mining in Butte, Montana
John Sandlos, Memorial University of Newfoundland, The Giant
Mine’s Long Shadow: Arsenic Pollution and Native People in
Yellowknife, NWT
James Turner, Wellesley College, Starter Batteries and the Legacies of
Mining in the Tri-State Mining District
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Concurrent Sessions
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
Independence
Tom 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 I
Brian 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 1948
Emmanuel 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, 1937-1945
Richard Tucker, University of Michigan, Environmental Impacts of
Refugee Movements in India and Pakistan, 1942-1949
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 America
Shen Hou, Renmin University, A View from China
“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)
Concurrent Sessions
39
ASEH committees
ASEH Committees 2011-2012
If you are interested in volunteering on an ASEH committee, contact [email protected]
Officers:
Diversity Committee:
John McNeill, Georgetown University, President
Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vice President/
President Elect
Ellen Stroud, Bryn Mawr College, Secretary
Mark Madison, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Treasurer
Garrit Voggesser, National Wildlife Federation, Chair
Mike Dockry, USDA Forest Service
Linda Richards, Oregon State University
William Tsutsui, University of Kansas
Executive Committee:
Sterling Evans, University of Oklahoma
Sara Gregg, University of Kansas
Marcus Hall, University of Zurich
Tina Loo, University of British Columbia
Linda Nash, University of Washington-Seattle
Gregg Mitman, University of Madison-Wisconsin
Louis Warren, University of California-Davis
Graeme Wynn, University of British Columbia
Executive Committee, Ex Officio:
Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Past President
and editor of Environmental History
Lisa Mighetto, University of Washington-Tacoma, Executive Director
Stephen Pyne, Arizona State University, Past President
Harriet Ritvo, MIT, Past President
Kara Schlichting, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Graduate
Student Liaison
Nominating Committee:
Alan Maceachern, University of Western Ontario, co-chair
Kathryn Morse, Middlebury College, co-chair
Connie Chiang, Bowdoin College
Lynne Heasley, Western Michigan University
Sustainability Committee:
Michael Egan, McMaster University, Chair
Vandana Baweja, University of Florida
Claire Campbell, Dalhausie University
Jim Feldman, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Lynne Heasley, Western Michigan University
Paul Hirt, Arizona State University
Michael Smith, Ithaca College
Richard Tucker, University of Michigan
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Outreach Committee:
Ravi Rajan, chair, University of California-Santa Cruz
Kate Christen, Smithsonian Institution
James McCann, Boston University
Lise Sedrez, California State University-Long Beach
James Webb, Colby College
Conference Site Selection Committee:
Sarah Elkind, San Diego State University, Chair
Kathleen Brosnan, University of Houston
Mark Harvey, North Dakota State University
Ari Kelman, University of California – Davis
James Murton, Nipissing University
2012 Conference Program Committee:
Lawrence Culver, Utah State University, Chair
Diana K. Davis, University of California, Davis
Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin
Frank Zelko, University of Vermont
2012 Conference Local Arrangements
Committee:
Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chair
Bill Cronon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Andrew 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:
Samuel Hays Fellowship Committee:
Sean Kheraj, York University, Chair
Mark Hersey, Mississippi State University
Lisa Mighetto, University of Washington-Tacoma
Philip Garone, California State University - Stanislaus, Chair
Barry Muchnick, Yale University
Gregory Rosenthal, Thomas Cole National Historic Site
Education Committee:
Hal Rothman Research Fellowship Committee:
Aaron Shapiro, Auburn University, Chair
Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado-Denver
Megan Jones, University of Delaware
Kim Little, University of Arkansas, Chair
David Biggs, University of California - Riverside
Dolly Jorgensen, Umea University, Sweden
George Perkins Marsh Prize Committee (best
book in environmental history):
Journal Management Group:
Colin Duncan, Queens University, chair
Emily Greenwald, Historical Research Associates
Brett Walker, Montana State University
ASEH Representatives:
Jay Taylor, Simon Fraser University, Co-Chair
William Cronon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mark Madison, US Fish and Wildlife Service
Alice Hamilton Prize Committee (best article
published outside Environmental History):
Forest History Society Representatives:
Thomas Dunlap, Texas A&M University, Co-Chair
Michael Clutter, University of Georgia-Athens
Sara Gregg, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
Stephen Brain, Mississippi State University, chair
Paul Sutter, University of Colorado
Marsha Weisiger, University of Oregon
H-Environment List Editors:
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
Greg Dehler, Front Range Community College
Mara Drogan, SUNY Albany
Adam Sowards, University of Idaho
Thomas Wellock, Central Washington University
H-Environment Web Page Editor:
Alix Cooper, SUNY Stony Brook
Leopold-Hidy Prize Committee (best article in
Environmental History):
Editorial Board of Environmental History
H-Environment Book Review Editor:
David Benac, Southeastern Louisiana University
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Index
A
Adams, Sharon Wilcox 31
Alagona, Peter 29
Alexander, Ruth 35
Allewaert, Monique 25
Allison, Jaime 24
Amundson, Michael 36
Anderson, Jennifer 22
Andrews, Thomas 20, 24
Andrzejewski, Anna 17
Appuhn, Karl 25
Arch, Jakobina 22
Archer, Kenna Lang 8
Armiero, Marco 28
Arnold, Ellen 21
Arnold, Tom 38
Ashton, Deanne Morgan 36
Aso, Mitch 26
B
Bailey, Janette Susan 24
Bandyopadhyay, Baisakhi 8
Barnard, Julia 34
Barraclough, Laura 34
Barrow, Mark 28, 32
Biehler, Dawn 37
Bielfuss, Rich 15
Biggs, David 26, 33
Bixby, Randy 20
Black, Brian 22, 28
Black, Jean 34
Bocking, Stephen 30
Bohme, Susanna 8
Bonnell, Jennifer 28
Booker, Matthew 37
Brady, Lisa 22, 24
Braiden, Heather 25
Bramwell, Lincoln 17
Brideau, Jeffrey 28
Brock, Emily 16
Brosnan, Kathleen 30
Brown, Kevin 22
Buckley, Eve 27
Burlando, Alfredo 31
Burtner, Marcus 8
C
Cagle, Hugh 32
Campbell, Claire 29
Candiani, Vera 32, 34
Cantrell, Bradley 37
Carpenter, Stephen 25
Carroll, Valerie 31
Carruthers, Jane 38
Carter, Eric D. 8
Case, Andrew 11, 35
Cheney, Ian 34
42
Chew, Matthew 23
Chew, Megan 36
Chiarappa, Michael 20
Childers, Leisl 37
Christensen, Jon 12, 39
Clapperton, Jonathan 32
Clifford, Jim 25
Closmann, Charles 35, 36
Coates, Colin 26
Cohen, Ben 27, 37
Colten, Craig 25, 29
Cook, Melissa 11, 29, 31
Coomes, Jason 31
Corey, Steven 38
Coughlan, Michael R. 33
Coulter,Kimberly 12, 39
Crnic, Meghan 27
Cronon, Bill 12
Crumpton, Trey 8
Culver, Lawrence 25
Curry, Helen Anne 23
Cushman, Gregory 39
Cyr, Dylan 33
D
Damico, Denise Holladay 36
Davis, Brandon 37
Davis, Diana K. 26, 31
Davis, Fritz 14, 17, 35, 37
Davis, Jack 23, 26
Dean, Joanna 35
Degroot, Dagomar 28
Dell, Twyla 8
Demuth, Bathsheba 20
Derr, Jennifer 34
Dills, Randall S. 36
Dinmore, Eric G 24
Dockry, Mike 11, 29, 31, 39
Donahue, Brian 23
Dorsey, Michael 24
Dresser, Todd 11, 33, 35
Dribin, Andrew 26
Dunaway, Finis 12, 37
Duncan, Steve 34
Dunlap, Thomas 29
Durbin, Jeff 8
E
Earley, Sinead K. 8
Earnest, Royce 28, 30
Egan, Michael 21, 37
Eisler, Matthew 29
Erickson, Justin 8
Elkind, Sarah 29
Engineer, Urmi 29
Enright, Kelly 29
Evans, Sterling 24
Evenden, Matthew 33
F
Farfan, Monica A. 33
Feldman, Jim 34
Ferguson, Cody 36
Filipiak, Jeffrey 26
Finger, Thomas 26
Finlay, Mark 26
Fischer, Ryan 23
Fisher, Colin 20
Fishman, Robert 32
Flader, Susan 15, 16, 23, 39
Flagg, Jeff 28
Foltz, Mary 31
Foster, David 23
Fouser, David 21
Fredrickson, Leif 23
Fremion, Brittany 23
Furniss, Jamie 38
G
Gagnon, Valoree 39
Gannes, Lenny Z. 8
Garone, Phil 34
Gasteyer, Stephen 38
Gaughan, Frank 36
Gedicks, Al 24
Gee, Robert 30
Gibbs, Fred 12, 39
Gilbert, Jess 27
Goble, Dale 23
Golub, Sinisa 31
Gorman, Hugh 22
Graboyes, Melissa 31
Graf von Hardenberg, Wilko 12, 28, 39
Gragson, Ted 23
Gray, Marion 28
Gregg, Sara 27
Grieger, Andreas 8
Griffis, Kayla 30
Guerrini, Anita 36
H
Hall, Alexander 27
Hall, Marcus 21
Halverson, Anders 38
Hamblin, Jacob 36
Hamilton, Brian 16, 38
Hausdoerffer, John 21
Hayes, Jack 33
Heasley, Lynne 30
Heidbrink, Ingo 22
Heise, Ursula 25, 32
Helfand, Judith 34
Helmick, Arielle 8
Herrold-Menzies, Melinda 37
Hersey, Mark 26
Herzberg, Julia 22
Higgins, Margot 8
Hightower, Victoria Penziner 28
Higuchi, Toshihiro 22
Hirt, Paul 28
Hoffman, Karen 37
Hoffmann, Richard 25
Hou, Shen 39
Howkins, Adrian 26, 36
Hsiung, David 33
Hughes, J. Donald 32
Hussein, Tarabeih 31
I
Imlay, Samuel J. 8
J
Johnson, Jeff 22
Johnson, Tai 36
Johnson, Tim 38
Jones, Christopher 26
Jones, Megan 21
Jordan, Bill 15
Jordan, Sara 21
Jørgensen, Dolly 29, 37
Jørgensen, Finn Arne 12, 37, 39
Jundt, Thomas 24
K
Kalb, Martin 28
Keiner, Christine 20, 32
Keller, Lynn 25
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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 HEnvironment 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:
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John Soluri, Carnegie Mellon University, Chair, [email protected]
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