Program Schedule Saturday & Sunday

SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2003

8:15- 9:50 a.m. Concurrent Session 7 (Panels 37-42)

Panel 37  Federal Intervention and the Environment in the Southeastern United States: Ironies
Organizer: Pamela Mack, Clemson University
Chair: Philip Pauly, Rutgers University

Location: Ballroom Foyer

Megan Kate Nelson, Harvard University
A Refuge for Birds: Preservation and Restriction in the Okefenokee Swamp, 1902-1940

Gerald Williams, USDA Forest Service
Private Property to Public Property: The Beginnings of the National Forests in the South

Susan Yarnell, Duke University.
The Forest Service, the Appalachian Society of American Foresters, and the Expansion of Forestry in the Appalachian States

Pamela Mack, Clemson University
The Atomic Energy Commission and the Forest Service: Federal Agencies and Environmental Protection at the Savannah River Site


Panel 38 The Intellectual History of Riverine Megaprojects
Organizer: Meredith McKittrick, Georgetown University
Chair: Daniel Klingensmith, Maryville College

Location:  State Suite A

Richard P. Tucker, University of Michigan
Cold-War Hydraulics: Major Dams on the Soviet Periphery, 1945-1960

David F. Duke, Acadia University
Confronting the Limits of Ideology: Environmental Degradation, Megaprojects, and the Soviet Scientific Community

Meredith McKittrick, Georgetown University
The ‘Curious River’ and the ‘Kalahari Problem’: 150 Years of Deciding What to Do with the Okavango

Paul Josephson, Colby College
There Are No Differences between Chinese, Russian, Brazilian and American Hydropower Stations


Panel 39 Environmental History and the Appalachian South
Organizer: Chad Montrie, Rhodes College
Chair: Kathleen Brosnan, University of Tennessee

Location:  Mezzanine B

Don Davis, Dalton State College
World Systems Theory and the Environmental Transformation of Appalachia

Chad Montrie, Rhodes College
Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia

Kathryn Newfont, Mars Hill College
The Forest Commons of Southern Appalachia


Panel 40 Women, Philanthropy and Environmental History, From the Margins to the Center
Organizer: Cynthia Ott, Rachel’s Network
Chair: Cynthia Ott, Rachel’s Network

Location:  Bacchante Room

Winsome McIntosh, Rachel’s Network
Women and the Family-Run Environmental Foundation: An Insider’s View

Caroline Gabel, Shared Earth Foundation
An American Woman’s Adventures in International Environmental Philanthropy

Kathy Borgen, Borgen Family Foundation
Women for Social Change: A Woman’s Philanthropist’s Perspective on Environmental History

Dane Nichols, The Natural Step
Chairwoman of the Board: Environmental Advocacy in the Board Room


Panel 41 Making and Remaking the Marginal: Perspectives on Development and the Environment in the United States and India
Organizer: Gregory Wilson, University of Akron
Chair: David Rich Lewis, Utah State University

Location:  State Suite B

Joseph Amato, Southwest State University
The Government Faces of Places: The Case of Southwest Minnesota

Daniel Klingensmith, Maryville College
Remaking a Watershed, 1946-2000: State Hubris, Local Destruction in an Indian River Valley Development Project

Diane Krahe, Washington State University
Carrying His Crusade onto American Indian Reservations: Bob Marshall’s Attempt to Preserve Wilderness, ‘Wherever Found’
Gregory Wilson, University of Akron
Land Use and Unemployment: The Area Redevelopment Administration and the Environment in the United States, 1961-1965


Panel 42 Colonizing African Frontiers
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: William Beinart, University of Oxford

Location:  State Suite C

Roger Levine, Yale University
Being in the Bush: Analyzing the Use of Metaphors Drawn from the Natural World by both Europeans and Africans during the Military Conflicts of the Nineteenth Century in Southern Africa

Jan-Bart Gewald, African Studies Centre, Leiden
Healthier and More Natural Living Conditions: The Herero and Reserves, Namibia 1920-1940

Kirk Hoppe, University of Illinois, Chicago
Double Margins: Overlapping African and Colonial Frontiers on Lake Victoria

Lance van Sittert, University of Cape Town
Making Game: The Domestication of Wild Animals in the Cape Colony/Province c. 1850 – 1950

9:50 - 10:20 a.m.  Morning Break

10:20 – 11:55 a.m.  Concurrent Session 8 (Panels 43-48)

Panel 43 Smoke and Mirrors: Urban and Industrial Contexts
Organizer: Melanie DuPuis, University of California, Santa Cruz
Chair: Sudhir Chella Rajan, Tellus Institute

Location:  State Suite A

Christine Meisner Rosen, University of California, Berkeley
Early Industrial Pollution Litigation: The Challenge of Applying Precedent-Based Legal Principles to Problems Lacking Legal Precedent

Angela Gugliotta, University of Chicago
The ‘Smoky City’ Between the Wars

Peter Thorsheim, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Interpreting the London Smog Disaster of 1952

Matthew Osborn, University of California, Santa Cruz
Acidity, Reclamation, and Community: The Post-Industrial Legacy of Air Pollution in Southeast Lancashire, England

Commentator on all Smoke and Mirrors panels: Joel Tarr, Carnegie Mellon University


Panel 44 Putting Weather into Environmental History: From Margins to Mainstreams
Organizer: Bernard Mergen, George Washington University
Chair: Matt Klingle, Bowdoin College

Location:  State Suite B

James Fleming, Colby College
The Callendar Effect: Global Warming and Global Weather

Kristine Harper, Oregon State University
Controlling the Environment: From Marginal Science to Mainstream Research

Mark Monmonier, Syracuse University
Maps in Meteorology: Historical Roots and Cartographically Exceptional Map-Use Environment

Bernard Mergen, George Washington University
Sky Awareness: Jack Borden, Eric Sloane, John Day and the Discovery of the Atmosphere


Panel 45  Historical Contexts of the Forest and Wildlife Conservation Movement in Asia and Africa
Organizer: Richard Tucker, University of Michigan
Chair: Mahesh Rangarajan, Cornell University

Location:  State Suite C

Nina Bhatt, Yale University
King of the Jungle: Power, Identity and Politics among Nepali National Park Staff since 1962

Brian Maguranyanga, University of Michigan
Conservation Challenges in Post-Apartheid South Africa and Post-Colonial Zimbabwe: A Sociopolitical Analysis

Ashwini Chhatre, Duke University
Community as the Last Resort: Property Rights and Coercive Conservation in the Western Himalayas, 1846-1947

Jacob Tropp, Middlebury College
Accessing the Special Powers of Trees: Colonial Forest Reservation and Contested Social and Cultural Resources in the Transkei, South Africa


Panel 46  Cold War and Its Sequelae
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Mark Cioc, University of California, Santa Cruz

Location: Ballroom Foyer

Mansel Blackford, Ohio State University
Environmentalism and Native Hawaiian Rights in the Restoration of Kahoolawe, Hawaii, 1969-2002

Hal Friedman, Henry Ford Community College
Facelift: American Plans for Changes to the Physical Landscape of Micronesia, 1945-1947

Thomas Jundt, Brown University
The Creation of the Green Middle Class

Frederick Schoemehl, University of California, Irvine
Laboratories in the Landscape: National Security Imperatives and the Intermountain West in the 1950s


Panel 47 Family Farms, Wild Birds and Town Festivals: Thinking with Flora and Fauna in Modern North America
Organizer: Cynthia Ott, University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Jennifer Price, Freelance Writer

Location:  Bacchante Room

Cynthia Ott, University of Pennsylvania
Pumpkin Festivals: Celebrating Nature in Small Town America

Lisa Davidson, National Park Service
Family Identity in the Jersey Pines

Leila Philip, Colgate University
A Family Place: A Hudson Valley Farm, Three Centuries, Five Wars, One Family

David Gessner, Harvard University
The Rebirth of Osprey: Species Protection, Environmental Law and Regional Identity


Panel 48 A Sense of Wonder: The Nature Study Frontier in American Education
Organizer: Cynthia Watkins Richardson, University of Maine
Chair: Ralph Lutts, Independent Scholar

Location:  Mezzanine B

Kevin Armitage, University of Kansas
A Consciousness for Conservation: Nature Study and Conservation Impulse

Cynthia Watkins Richardson, University of Maine
Art that is Nature: Nature Study and the Manual Arts in the Early Twentieth Century

Amy Green, Denison University
The Good Citizens’ Factory: Americanization through School Gardening, 1890-1915

Dawn Chavez, Antioch New England Graduate School
A Naturalist in New York City: The Story of Alice Rich Northrup


12:00 - 5:30 p.m. ASEH Executive Committee Meeting

Location:  L’Apogee Room, Salon 3


12:30 - 1:45 p.m.Roundtable
“Environmental Justice Activism and History after Love Canal,” chaired by Byron Pearson, West Texas A&M University

Panelists: Lois Gibbs, Center for Health, Environment and Justice; Sylvia Washington, Northwestern University

Location:  Grand Ballroom

2:00 - 3:35 p.m.  Concurrent Session 9 (Panels 49-54)

Panel 49 Landscapes, Taskscapes, and Power Generation Projects
Organizer: Louis-Raphael Pelletier, Carleton University
Chair: Darcy Ingram, McGill University

Location: Ballroom Foyer

Michael Logan, Oklahoma State University
The Duty of Water: Hydrology’s Role in Urban Development, Phoenix and Tucson, 1890-1920

Joy Parr, Humanities, Simon Fraser University
Radiation Risks and Hinterland Workers

Louis Raphael Pelletier, Carleton University
Power from the Land – Power on the Land: Inhabitants Reactions to the Construction of the Beauharnois Hydroelectric Plant

Marco Armiero; Stefania Barca, University of Naples
The Management of Nature: Resources, Conflicts and Rules in the South of Italy in the 19th Century


Panel 50  Colonial Development and the Biosciences in the Late Imperial World
Organizer: Joseph Hodge, Skidmore College
Chair: Kavita Philip, Georgia Tech University
Location:  Bacchante Room

Ben Weil, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Engineer’s War with Nature: A Comedy of British Flood Control and Navigation Schemes on the River Indus, 1840 – 1927

Helen Tilley, Princeton University
Empire and the Advent of Subversive Sciences: Ecology and Epidemiology in the Development of British Colonial Africa, 1900-1940

Joseph Hodge, Skidmore College
The Colonial Office, Resource Management Debates and Tropical Agricultural Expertise, 1935-1955

Michael Lewis, Salisbury University
Marking Their Territory: Neo-Imperialist Scientists, Nationalist Foresters and Project Tiger


Panel 51  Salt, Soda Ash and Sewage: Onondaga Lake’s Environmental History Over Two Centuries
Organizer: Samuel Sage, Atlantic States Legal Foundation, Inc.
Chair: Cathy Corman, Harvard University

Location:  State Suite A

William Kappel, U.S. Geological Survey
The Hydrogeology of the Onandaga Creek Valley and Syracuse, New York

James Darlington, State University of New York, Cortland
Wood and Water Make Salt: The Environmental Impact of the Onandaga Salt Industry in the Early Nineteenth Century

Michael Alexander, City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
The Solvay Process Company

Samuel Sage, Atlantic States Legal Foundation, Inc
Onandaga Lake: The Road to Recovery


Panel 52  Commercial Forest Management and Divergent Ecologies: Case Studies from Northern Forest Regions
Organizer: Peter Clancy, St. Francis Xavier University; Anders Sandberg, York University
Chair: William Parenteau, University of New Brunswick

Location:  State Suite B

Anders Sandberg; Asaf Rashid York University
Pests, Pulp and Science Politics: The Spruce Budworm, Aerial Insecticide Spraying, and the Forest Industry in New Brunswick

Peter Clancy, St. Francis Xavier University
Nursery and Seedling as Factors in the Forest Ecology of Nova Scotia

Ebba Lisberg Jensen, Lund University
A Forest Fraternity: Foresters, Identity, and Politics in Twentieth Century Sweden

James Lawson, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Aboriginal Disposession, Resource Rent, and the Transformation of the Ottawa Valley Timber Industry


Panel 53 A Plurality of Ruralities: A Roundtable on Environmental Approaches to Agricultural History
Organizer and Chair: Steven Stoll, Yale University

Location:  Mezzanine B

Jack Temple Kirby, Miami University
Steven Stoll, Yale University
Deborah Fitzgerald, Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Colin Duncan, McGill University
Ruth Sandwell, University of Toronto


Panel 54 Marginalizing the Biotic: Hunting and Wild Country
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Thomas Zeller, German Historical Institute/University of
Maryland

Location:  State Suite C

Robert Campbell, Montana State University, Bozeman
Tuskers, Trade and Trypanosomes: The Ecologies of the Victorian Parlor

John Reiger, Ohio University, Chillicothe
To Reduce …Beauty to Possession… Aldo Leopold’s Ideas on Hunting in Round River
 
Thomas Rainey, Evergreen State College
Witnesses to a Vanishing Russia: Chekhov and Levitan
 
Walter Cook, Jr., University of Georgia
Forstaesthetik, 1902 vs. Forest Aesthetics, 1992: The More Things Change


3:35 - 4:05 p.m. Afternoon Break

4:05 - 5:40 p.m.  Concurrent Session 10 (Panels 55-60)

Panel 55  Creativity in Personal and Environmental Histories, II: Generativity: Creating, Defining and Promoting Environmental Futures
Organizers: Cynthia Miller, Emerson College and Steven Holmes, Harvard University
Chair: Peter Quigley, Minnesota State University

Location: Ballroom Foyer

Steven Holmes, Harvard University
‘When a Man Plants a Tree He Plants Himself’: Agriculture, Environmentalism, and the Psychology of Generativity in John Muir’s Middle Years

Christopher Meindl, Georgia College and State University
On the Importance of Environmental Claims-Making: The Role of James O. Wright in Promoting the Drainage of Florida’s Everglades in the Early Twentieth Century

Derek Alderman, East Carolina University
The Making of a Miracle Vine: Channing Cope and the Naturework of Promoting Kudzu

Penelope Canan, University of Denver
The Social Connections that Foster Creativity: Personal Biographies of Ozone Layer Protection Champions


Panel 56 Premium Blend
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Jared Day, Carnegie Mellon University

Location:  State Suite A

Sean Daley, University of Connecticut
‘We’re the True Environmentalists’: Federal Land Management Policies and Environmentalism from the Perspective of Southern Utah’s Cowboys

Michael Rawson, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The War on Cows and the Enclosure of Boston Common

Anne-Marie Cammarota, Neumann College
New Jersey Pinelands Preservation: Reflecting the Issues of Necessity and Controversy

Zachary Falck, Carnegie Mellon University
Conflicting Boundaries in Urban Ecology: Ragweed Control in New York, 1945-1965


Panel 57  California Conundrums: Conceptualizing New Frontiers for Environmental History in the Golden State
Organizer: Jared Orsi, Colorado State University
Chair: Jared Orsi, Colorado State University

Location:  State Suite C

William Deverell, California Institute of Technology
Tentative Conclusions from the Case of Los Angeles

Sarah Elkind, San Diego State University
New Frontiers for Environmental and Political History: The Structure of Power and Environments in California Cities

Dan Igler, University of Utah
California and the Pacific World

Andrew Isenberg, Princeton University
Industrial Place: Gold Rush California and Industrialization

Jennifer Price, Independent Scholar
A Field Guide to Los Angeles


Panel 58  Twenty-Five Years of Love Canal
Organizer: Elizabeth Blum, Troy State University
Chair: Craig Colten, Louisiana State University

Location:  Bacchante Room

Elizabeth Blum, Troy State University
Messengers of Isaiah: The Christian and Environmental Rhetoric of the Ecumenical Task Force at Love Canal

Amy Marie Hay, Michigan State University
Housewives, ‘Common Sense’ and a Public Health Timebomb: Science, Health Activism and Public Health at Love Canal, 1978-1990

Kathleen De Laney, University of Buffalo
Diplomacy and Politics: Curating the Love Canal Collection

Michael McMahon, York University
Nature’s Metropolis and the Political Ecology of Great Lakes Water


Panel 59  A Bird’s Eye View of Global Environmental History
Organizer: Nancy Jacobs, Brown University
Chair: Kurk Dorsey, University of New Hampshire

Location:  State Suite B

Shepard Krech III, Brown University
The Avian-Human Relationships in Indigenous North America

Nancy Jacobs, Brown University
European Ornithology and Indigenous Knowledge in Southern Africa

Libby Robin, Australian National University
Erratic Climates and Neo-European Ideas: People and Birds in Australia

Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa
‘Our Beautiful and Useful Allies’: Ornithology in 20th Century South Africa


Panel 60  Natural Conservation and Historic Preservation: The Landscape as Connection
Organizer: Laura Watt, University of California, Berkeley
Chair: Alice Ingerson, Applied History for Land Conservation and Urban Planning

Location:  Mezzanine B

Laura Watt, University of California, Berkeley
Preserving Landscapes: A Historical Comparison of the Endangered Species Act and the National Historic Preservation Act

Thomas Lekan, University of South Carolina
Movements of Nature: Cultural Landscape Preservation and Historical Memory in the Rhine Valley, 1880-1939

Jon Taylor, University of Missouri, Columbia
Thinking Environmentally about National Park Service Historic Sites: The Harry S. Truman National Historic Site as a Case Study

David Rotenstein, DSR Consulting
The Glass House and the Metal Tower


5:45 - 7:45 p.m.  Cocktail Hour
Discussions 6:15 - 7:15 p.m.   See page special events for details.

Location:  L’Apogee


6:00 - 6:30 p.m. ASEH Business Meeting

Location:  L’Apogee Room, Salon 7


8:00 p.m. ASEH Awards Banquet
“The Status of the African Lion: Towards Extinction or Possible Survival,” by His Excellency Mwelwa Musambachime, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Zambia to the United Nations

Location:  Grand Ballroom


SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2003

8:30 - 11:00 a.m.International Teleconference and Breakfast

Buses will run continuously between the Biltmore Hotel and the Watson Institute from 8:15 to 11:15.