Program Schedule Friday

FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2003

8:15 – 9: 50 a.m. Concurrent Session 5 (Panels 25-30)

Panel 25  Environmental Health Wars
Organizer: Carla Keirns and Sylvia Hood Washington, Northwestern University
Chair: Jacqueline Corn, Johns Hopkins University

Location: Ballroom Foyer

Paul Burnett, University of Pennsylvania
Authoritative Agnosticism: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and the Boundary Maintenance of Medical Specialities, 1981 – 1999

Carla Keirns, University of Pennsylvania
Race, Space and Asthma: The Making of an Urban Epidemic

David Rosner; Gerald Markowitz, Columbia University
Creating an Environmental Disaster through Advertising: The Childhood Lead Paint Tragedy in the United States

Sylvia Hood Washington, Northwestern University
Tainted Harvest: An African American Struggle for Health and Environmental Justice in Chicago’s Altgeld Gardens, 1969 – 1999


Panel 26  Men, Women, Children and the Sea: Marginal Groups in the Environmental History of the Baltic Sea Region
Organizer: Simo Laakhonen, University of Helsinki
Chair: Richard Tucker, University of Michigan

Location:  Mezzanine B

Sari Laurila, University of Helsinki
Divided Knowledge: Society, Scientists and Environmental Problems

Tuomas Räsänen, University of Turku
The Sea Divided: Environmental Protection over the Iron Curtain?

Jorma Kivistö, University of Helsinki
Divided Generations: Children in the Margins of Environmental History

Simo Laakkonen, University of Helsinki
Dividing Lines Among Women: The Impact of Social Classes on the Environmental Activity of Women in the Early 20th Century


Panel 27 Second Nature
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: John Thomas, Brown University

Location:  State Suite A

Kent Ryden, University of Southern Maine
New England Lighthouses, Coastal Weather, and Regional Identity

C.J. Floyd, Villa Julie College
The Soldiers Delight Barrens: Changing Definitions of Natural Beauty

Kathy Mason, Southwest Missouri State University
North Dakota’s Accidental National Park

Carla Tengan, Brown University
Japanese American Gardeners: Greening Southern California


Panel 28  Exurbia and Nature: Past and Present Perspectives
Organizer: Richard Judd, University of Maine
Chair: John Cumbler, University of Louisville

Location:  State Suite B

Kristen Valentine Cadieux, University of Toronto
Amenity and Productive Relationships with ‘Nature’ in Exurban and Imagined Forests

Andrew Blum, University of Toronto
Exurbia, Airworld and the Necessary Coexistence of the Local and the Remote

Richard Judd, University of Maine
Nature and Exurbia: A View Across the Golf Links

Commentator: Lloyd Irland, Irland Associates


Panel 29  Our Fair City: Environmental Justice and Injustice in Twentieth Century America
Organizers: Kimberly Little; Julie Sze; Craig Colten
Chair: Matthew Klingle, Bowdoin College

Location:  Bacchante Room

Kimberly Little, Michigan State University
Saving the City: Working Class and the Minority People’s resistance to Urban Planning in St. Louis, 1900 – 1940

Julie Sze, New York University
Noxious New York: Zoning Environmental Racism, 1916 – 1961

Craig Colton, Lousiana State University
Flooding in New Orleans: Where Water Flows away from Money

Eileen McGurty, Johns Hopkins University
Identity Politics and Environmental Justice: The Maturation of the Environmental Justice Movement


Panel 30  Creativity in Personal and Environmental Histories, I: Autobiographies Drawn from and Projected onto the Landscape
Organizer: Cynthia Miller, Emerson College and Steven Holmes, Harvard University
Chair: Cynthia Watkins Richardson, University of Maine

Location:  State Suite C

Peter Quigley, Minnesota State University
Live the Life You Have Imagined: The Houses of Environmental Writers

Cynthia Miller, Emerson College
Ecological Identity and Homelessness: Chronicling the Ties between the Self and Surroundings

Elizabeth Sawin, Missouri Western State College
Interdisciplinary Strands: People and Spaces on the Great Plains

Alesia Maltz, Antioch New England Graduate School
Voices from the River: Undamming the Story of the Missouri River

9:55 - 10:20 a.m. Morning Break

10:20 – 11:55 a.m. Concurrent Session 6 (Panels 31-36)

Panel 31  Science, the State and the Environment in South Africa
Organizer: William Beinart, University of Oxford
Chair: Sumit Guha, Brown University

Location: Ballroom Foyer

William Beinart, University of Oxford
Conservationism, Nationalism and the Rhetoric of Science in South Africa, 1900 – 1930

Karen Brown, University of Oxford
Science, the Agricultural Environment and the Evolution of Economic Entomology in the Cape Colony, 1895 – 1910

Daniel Gilfoyle, University of Oxford
Explaining ‘Lamziekte’: Stock Disease, Environment and Veterinary Science in Southern Africa, c. 1880 – 1920

Belinda Dodson, University of Western Ontario
A Soil Conservation Safari: Hugh Bennett’s 1944 Visit to South Africa


Panel 32 Drawing Boundaries with Wilderness
Organizer: Richard Lindstrom, Binghamton University
Chair: Nick Kaldis, Binghamton University

Location:  State Suite A

Sarah Fleisher Trainor, University of Chicago
The Wild Savage and the Ecological Indian: Examining Cultural Boundaries of Wild and Civilized

James Feldman, University of Wisconsin
Beyond the Wilderness Boundary: Nature and History at the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore

Brigid Hains, University of Melbourne
The Ice and the Inland: Australian Perspectives on Frontier and Wilderness

Richard Lindstrom, Binghamton University
Working on the Line: Class, the Past and the Meaning of Wilderness


Panel 33  Leafs vs. Flames: Fire in Canada
Organizer: Alan MacEachern, University of Western Ontario
Chair: Colin Duncan, McGill University

Location:  Bacchante Room

Anthony Gulig, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Fire in the North: Prospectors, Caribou and the Denésuline in Northern Saskatchewan, 1900-1940

Alan MacEachern, University of Western Ontario
Rekindling an Old Flame: Public Memory of Canada’s Largest (?) Recorded Forest Fire

Stephen Pyne, Arizona State University
Burning Banff

Catriona Sandilands, York University
Where the Mountain Men Meet the Lesbian Rangers: Contesting Gender in Banff National Park *


Panel 34  Northern Resources, Native Rights: Dimensions of Indigenous Environmental Politics in Alaska, Northern Canada and the North Atlantic, 1940 – 2000
Organizer: Brad Martin, Northwestern University
Chair: John Wunder, University of Nebraska

Location:  Mezzanine B

Stephen Bocking, Trent University
Scientists and Evolving Perceptions of Indigenous Knowledge in Northern Canada

David Neufeld, Parks Canada
Our Land Is Our History Book: A Tr’ondeck Hwech’in Perspective on the Environment

Karen Oslund, University of Maryland
The Protection of Carnivorous Humans: Whaling and Indigenous Rights in the North Atlantic

Brad Martin, Northwestern University
Landscapes of Power: Native Peoples, National Parks and the Politics of Wilderness Preservation in the Hinterlands of North America, 1940 – 1990


Panel 35  Wilderness on the Margins: Parks, Politics, Wildlife and Zoning
Organizer: Kevin Marsh, Boise State University
Chair: Paul Hirt, Washington State University

Location:  State Suite B

Helen Jane Macdonald, University of Cambridge
Rock Birds and Beach Blondes: Falcon trapping, Falconry and Bird Banding on the American East Coast, 1933 – 1969

John Miles, Western Washington University
Wilderness in National Parks: A Comparative Global Assessment

Kevin Marsh, Boise State University
Pushing the Boundaries of Wilderness: The Wilderness Act as Zoning Ordinance

James Morton Turner, Princeton University
Wilderness Fragmentation: Wilderness and American Environmental Politics in the Early 1980s


Panel 36  Nature, Culture and Politics Around the Globe
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Kristin Bright, Prevention Research Center, University of California, Berkeley

Location:  State Suite C

Eunice Blavascunas, University of California, Santa Cruz
Remembering More than Trees: Historical Politics in Poland’s Bialowieza Forest

Charles Closmann, Independent Scholar
The Currency of Contamination: Industrial Wastewater and the German Hyperinflation in Hamburg, Germany

Fredrik Bjork
Not a Sweet Story: The Beet-Sugar Conquest of Sweden, 1875 – 1940

Maohong Bao , Peking University
The Formation and Implementation of Environmental Policy in P.R. China

12:30 - 5:30 p.m. Field Trips

Boxed lunches included.  See page field trips on special events page for descriptions.  All transportation for field trips will leave from the main entrance of the Biltmore Hotel

8:00 - 10:30 p.m. Evening Reception

Location:  L’Apogee Room