Program Schedule Wednesday & Thursday

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2003

7:30 p.m.  Distinguished Lecture and Reception
“What Environmental and Cultural Factors Make Some Societies Especially Fragile?”
 Jared Diamond, Department of Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Reception for registered ASEH conference participants at the John Carter Brown Library, Main Green, Brown University.

Location: 101 Salomon Center, Main Green, Brown University.   For transportation information see Special events.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2003

8: 15 – 9: 50 a.m. Concurrent Session 1 (Panels 1-6)

Panel 1 Re-Thinking Landscape Change and Environmental Policy in Africa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Organizer: Donald Crummey, University of Illinois
Chair: Tom Johnson, Boston University

Location:  Mezzanine B Location:  State Suite

Pauline Boerma, Freelance Environmental Consultant
Recollecting Landscape Change in the Central Highlands of Eritrea

Donald Crummey, University of Illinois
Environmental Stress and Famine Vulnerability in Ethiopia: The Case of the Kefu Qan, 1888-1893

William Munro, Illinois Wesleyan University
‘To Civilize the People and the Land’: Environment and Governmentality in Late-Colonial Zimbabwe

Mahir Saul, University of Illinois
Fallow Land, Commercial Agriculture, and Tree Planting in Burkina Faso


Panel 2  With Nature as Our Guide: The Theory and Practice of Sustainable Use in the 20th Century U.S.
Organizer: Jeff Filipiak, University of Michigan
Chair: Paul Sutter, University of Georgia

Location: Ballroom Foyer

Jeff Filipiak, University of Michigan
Trying to Marry Ecology and Agriculture

Jordan Kleiman, State University of New York, Geneseo
Designing a ‘Living Machine’: The New Alchemy Bioshelters and the Quest for Sustainable Use

Timothy Lecain, Montana State University
Digging a Greener Mine? Nature and the Professional American Mining Engineer

Christopher Wells, University of Wisconsin
Learning from Nature: Roads, Engineers, and the Lessons of Nature


Panel 3  From Local Grocer to Global Supermarket: The Myriad, Contested World of California Food Production
Organizer: Kathleen Brosnan, University of Tennessee
Chair: Steven Stoll, Yale University

Location:  State Suite A

Linda Ivey, Georgetown University
Immigrants and Artichokes: Finding a Niche in the California Food Market

Kathleen Brosnan, University of Tennessee
‘What’s in a Name?’: The Environmental Impact of Napa’s Premium Appellation

Matthew Gerhart, University of California, Berkeley
At the Margins of the Dairy Industry: Oystering and the Stewardship of Tomales Bay

Greig Guthey; Sally Fairfax; Lauren Gwin, University of California, Berkeley
Dairy Operations at the Margins of Urbanizing Areas and Globalizing Industry


Panel 4  Nature’s Revenge: When the Environment Resists Human Shaping
Organizer: Ann Johnson, Fordham University
Chair: David Brock, Chemical Heritage Foundation

Location:  Bacchante Room

Ann Johnson, Fordham University
Sinking Forts, Sliding Lighthouses: Antebellum Engineering Failures

Paul Lucier, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
Science and the Landscape of Oil

Emily Brock, Princeton University
Forests Resisting Reforestation in the Western U.S., 1905-1949

Leo Slater, Johns Hopkins University
Chloroquine Resistance: Ecological Inevitability?


Panel 5 Smoke and Mirrors: Perceptions and Political Institutions
Organizer: E. Melanie Dupuis, University of California, Santa Cruz
Chair: Alexander Farrell

Location:  State Suite B

Peter Brimblecombe, University of East Anglia
Implications of Late Victorian Pollution

E. Melanie DuPuis, University of California, Santa Cruz
Who Owns the Air?: Clean Air Act Implementation as a Negotiation of Common Property Rights

Sudir Chela Rajan, Tellus Institute
A Fine Balance: Air pollution Control Strategies in California

Phil Brown, Brown University; Stephen Zavestoski, Providence College; Theo Luebke, Brown University; Joshua Mandelbaum, United States Department of Transportation; Sabrina McCormick, Brown University; Brian Mayer, Brown University
Clearing the Air and Breathing Freely: The Health Politics of Air Pollution and Asthma


Panel 6  After Science, Before Environment: 19th Century Surveillance and Representations of Nature and the Land
Organizer: Benjamin Cohen, Virginia Tech
Chair: Michael Vorenberg, Brown University

Location:  State Suite C

Suzanne Zeller, Wifrid Laurier University
Natural History: from Science to Environment in the ‘Realistic’ Animal Stories of Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946)

David Spanagel, Harvard University
Historical Geology: The Many-Faceted Key to Land Exploitation

Benjamin Cohen, Virginia Tech
Chemistry in the Service of the Survey: How Chemical Laboratory Analysis Aided the Exploration of the Land, and What It Got Us

Betsy Mendelsohn, University of Virginia
Water Law and Water Science: Legal Representations of Nature and Their Scientific Debt


9:50 - 10:20 a.m.Morning Break

10:20 a.m. – 11:55 a.m. Concurrent Session 2 (Panels 7-12)

Panel 7  The Third Voice: Environmental History and Living History Museums
Organizer: Stuart Bolton, Plimoth Plantation
Chair: Carolyn Merchant, University of California, Berkeley

Location:  Bacchante Room

Linda Coombs, Children’s Museum, Boston
The Wampanoag Indian Program: Visible Images, Invisible People

Liz Lodge, Plimoth Plantation
The Colonial History Program at Plimoth Plantation

Martin Sullivan, Historic St. Mary’s City
Historic St. Mary’s City and Environmental History

Stuart Bolton, Plimoth Plantation
Giving a Voice to the Environment


Panel 8 Investigating the Subaltern: Themes in Environmental Justice Scholarship
Organizer: Michael Egan, Washington State University
Chair: Neil Maher, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Location:  Mezzanine B

Ian MacMillan, Queen’s University
Robert Marshall: Wilderness Preservationist and Environmental Justice Advocate

Michael Egan, Washington State University
Prospects and Pitfalls: Barry Commoner and the Origins of Environmental Justice

Giovanna DiChiro, Mount Holyoke College
Steps to an Ecology of Justice: Women’s Environmental Networks Across the U.S.-Mexico Border

Daniel Faber, Northeastern University
Opportunities and Obstacles to the Environmental Justice Movement in the Age of Globalization

Mara Mills, Harvard University
Outside: Queering Nature with the Radical Faeries


Panel 9  Natural Diversity Through Archival Approaches: Constructed, Reconstructed, and Evaluated
Organizer: Bernd Herrmann, University of Goettingen
Chair: Janet Sturgeon, Brown University

Location:  State Suite A

Bernd Herrmann; William Woods, Southern Illinois University
Between Pristine Myth and Biblical Plague: Passenger Pigeons, Sparrows and the Construction of Abundances

Johannes Klose, University of Goettingen
Ranging from Esteem to Disdain: The Perception of Birds in Brandenburg Throughout History

Antje Jakupi; Peter-M. Steinsiek, University of Goettingen
Killing the Beaver, Saving the Nightingale: Accesses to the Variety of Life in History

Leos Jelecek, Charles University; Lenka Uhlirova, J.E. Purkyne University
Reconstructing 19th Century Biodiversity from Old Cadastral and Large Scale Maps in Czechia: Possibilities and Pitfalls


Panel 10 The Historical Ecology of Vector-Borne Disease: Mosquitoes, Agro-Ecology, Treatment, and the Body
Organizer: James McCann, Boston University
Chair: Ravi Rajan, University of California, Santa Cruz

Location: Ballroom Foyer

James L. Webb, Colby College
The Early Market for Quinine Sulphate and the Origins of Global Public Health

Tamara Giles-Vernick, City University of New York
Landscapes of Disease: Conceptualizing and Controlling Malaria Epidemics in Soudan Francais, 1925 – 1945

John McNeill, Georgetown University
Mosquitoes and Fevers in the History of the Americas since 1600

James McCann, Boston University and Asnakew Kebbede, World Health Organization, Ethiopia
The Shivering Fever: Evidence of Links between Malaria, Maize and Agro-Ecological Change, Ethiopia


Panel 11  Intersections of Human Society and Disease
Organizer: George Dehner, Northeastern University
Chair: Anthony Penna, Northeastern University

Location:  State Suite B

Kristin Bright, Prevention Research Center, University of California, Berkeley
Traditional Models of Disease Prevention and Urban Health Care Delivery in India

Gilda Anroman, University of Maryland
Environment, Disease and Policy in Philadelphia, 1740-1800: An Interdisciplinary Analysis

George Dehner, Northeastern University
Examining the International in the National Influenza Immunization Program: The C.D.C. Records

Guillermo Castro Herrera, University of Panama
Toward an Environmental History of Health


Panel 12  Out of the Ivory Tower: The Historian’s Interface with the Public in Environmental Controversy
Organizer: Lynne Heasley, Western Michigan University
Chair: Paul Sabin, Environmental Leadership Program

Location:  State Suite C

Martha Weisiger, New Mexico State University
The Debate over El Lobo: Can Environmental Historians Make a Difference?

Lynne Heasley, Western Michigan University
Walking Contested Land: Participatory Ways of Doing Environmental History in the American Midwest and West Africa

Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Suckers, the Salmon, and the Historian

Zoltan Grossman, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Why Activists Can Make Good Scholars


12:15 - 1:45 p.m.  President’s Luncheon
“Race and Environmental History,” by ASEH President Carolyn Merchant
Thursday, March 27

Location:  Grand Ballroom
See special events for details.

2:00 - 3:35 p.m.  Concurrent Session 3 (Panels 13-18)

Panel 13  Submarines, Jerusalem and the Menagerie: Re-thinking the Nature Lover’s Biography
Organizer: Verena Winiwarter, University of Vienna
Chair: Mary Elizabeth Braun, Oregon State University Press

Location: Ballroom Foyer

Peder Anker, University of Oslo, Norway
Buckminster Fuller’s Dome and the Dymaxion of Nature

Kevin Dann, Landmarks
Wonderful, Because Mysterious: Tale’s Tales and Tails as Arbiters of the Authentic in Nature’s Nature

Sibylle Wentker, University of Vienna
Encounters with the Holy Land: Archduke Franz Ferdinand von Osterreich-Este’s Journey to Palestine

Verena Winiwarter, University of Vienna
Exotic Nature’s Healing Powers: Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s Travels to the Sublime


Panel 14  Crossing the Border: Taking Environmental History Beyond the Academy
Organizer: Polly Fry, University of Minnesota
Chair: Martin Melosi, University of Houston
Location:  State Suite A

Gary Blank, North Carolina State University
Applying Environmental History to Restore A Transitional Longleaf Pine Site

Julia Hobson, University of Colorado
 Conserving Ranchlands: Using Environmental History to Shape Conservation Strategies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

David Louter, National Park Service
On Becoming Relevant: Environmental History and National Park Management

Polly Fry; Barbara Coffin, University of Minnesota
 Making (Un)Common Ground: The Use of Documentary Video in Making Environmental History Relevant to a Wider Audience


Panel 15 Smoke and Mirrors: Political Tensions and Regulation Building
Organizer: E. Melanie DuPuis, University of California at Santa Cruz
Chair: Peter Brimblecombe, University of East Anglia

Location:  State Suite B

Frank Uekoetter, Universitat Bielefeld
A Decade Lost? A New Look at Air Pollution Control in Post-War America

Alexander Farrell, Carnegie Mellon University
Tensions and Linkages between International, National and Local Pollution Control Institutions: Air Pollution in Spain

Guodong Sun, Harvard University
Fighting the Smoke Dragons: From London to China

The late John Wirth, read by Melanie DuPuis
If So, Then What? The Struggle for TEIA


Panel 16 Teaching Environmental History with ‘Marginal’ Primary Sources
Organizer and Chair: David Hsiung, Juniata College

Location:  Mezzanine B

Alix Cooper, State University of New York, Stony Brook
The Classroom as ‘Primary Source’ For Teaching Environmental History

Todd Kerstetter, Texas Christian University
Expanding Classroom Frontiers: Environmental History in the Field

Lynn Nelson, Middle Tennessee State University
Henry Harper’s Cockle-Filled Wheat: Putting History Back into the Environmental History Classroom

Edythe Ann Quinn, Hartwick College
Analyzing Changing Land Uses through Nineteenth Century Maps and Oral Interviews


Panel 17  Tropical Transformations: The Discourse and Culture of Environmental Control in the Caribbean
Organizer: Logan Hennessy, University of California, Berkeley
Chair: Charles Zerner, Sarah Lawrence College

Location:  State Suite C

Amar Wahab, University of Ontario
(Un)Mapping Colonial Landscapes: Trinidad as Metaphor in the Victorian Imagination

Lawrence Grossman, Virginia Tech
Changing Colonial Environmental Discourses: St. Vincent in the Eastern Caribbean

Logan Hennessey, University of California, Berkeley
Silencing Cultural Land: Amerindians, the Environment and Cooperative Socialism in Post Colonial Guyana, 1956-1986

J. E. Steenshorne, Independent Scholar
Self Awareness and Environmental Impact in the British Colonial World of the Seventeenth Century *


Panel 18 Oil and the Environment: Historical Perspectives on the Environmental Impacts of Oil Developments around the Globe
Organizer: Phia Steyn, University of the Free State,
Chair: Brian Black, Penn State University, Altoona
Location:  Bacchante Room

Phia Steyn, University of the Free State
Big Business: Oil and Nature: A Historical Exploration of Environmental Consciousness and Management within the Modern Oil Industry, 1850s-1990s

Brian Frehner, University of Oklahoma
 Charles Gould and the Oklahoma Geological Survey; The State’s Role in Mapping Nature 1900-1920

Heather Turcotte, University of California, Santa Cruz
Beneath the Oily Surface: Women’s Political Movements against the State and Oil in Nigeria

Debora Hammond, Sonoma State University
Sustainability and Civic Engagement: Global Climate Change and Community-Based learning *

3:35 - 4:05 p.m.  Afternoon Break

4:05 - 5:40 p.m.  Concurrent Session 4 (Panels 19-24)

Panel 19  Paths Not Taken: Alternative Fuels and the Hegemony of Petroleum
Organizer: Laurie Winn Carlson, Washington State University
Chair: Jamie Lincoln Kitman, Automobile Magazine

Location: Ballroom Foyer

Laurie Winn Carlson, Washington State University
Alcohol, the Farmer’s Fuel: Washington State Grange and the Alcohol Fuel Movement, 1906-1919

William Kovarik, Radford University
Ethyl: The 1920s Environmental Controversy Over Leaded Gasoline and Alternative Fuels

Mark Finlay, Armstrong Atlantic State University
Big Oil vs. Small Farmer: The Defeat of Chemurgy and the Rise of Synthetic Rubber in World War II

Timo Myllyntaus, University of Helsinki
Wood Gas as the Last Resort: The Fuel that Powered Finnish Automobiles Over the Wartime Crisis, 1939-1945


Panel 20  Changes in the Land, Changes in the Field: A Twenty Year Retrospective
Organizer, Chair and Moderator: Emily Greenwald, Historical Research Associates

Location:  Bacchante Room

Session Note: This panel will be a roundtable discussion on the impact of William Cronon’s Changes in the Land in the twenty years since its publication.

Donald Worster, University of Kansas, will assess the intellectual contribution of the book to environmental history.

David Foster, Harvard University, will discuss the importance of environmental history to ecology and to conservation biology using the book as a case study.

Elisabeth Sifton, Senior Vice President of Farrar, Straus, Giroux and Publisher of Hill and Wang, will discuss the book’s sales history and developments in the publishing market for environmental history.

Kathryn Morse, Middlebury College, will examine the book from a teaching perspective, and discuss the implications of the book’s popularity for the field of environmental history.

Respondent: William Cronon, University of Wisconsin


Panel 21  Environment, Technology, and Social Choice
Organizer: Paul Hirt, Washington State University
Chair: Thomas Wellock, Central Washington University

Location:  State Suite A

Martina Kaup, Bielefeld University
The Emergence of Hydrological Engineering as a Science and its Changing Attitudes toward Nature

Kent Curtis, University of Massachusetts
The Nature of Systems: Copper Abundance and the Electrical Imagination

Paul Hirt, Washington State University
‘Momentary Outbursts of Design Intelligence’: The Evolution of Electrical Systems in the U.S. Since 1880

Jay Brigham, Morgan, Angel, & Associates
Homer Truett Bone: Hydro and Public Power Crusader


Panel 22  Environmental History in Latin America: Space, Science and Institutions
Organizer: Lise Sedrez, Stanford University
Chair: Robert Wilcox, Northern Kentucky University

Location:  Mezzanine B

Claudia Leal, University of California, Berkeley
Mining for Gold and Platinum in a Rainy Forest, Columbia, 1890-1930

Catherine Christen, Smithsonian Institution
At Home in the Field: Smithsonian Science Field Stations in the U.S. Canal Zone
 and Panama

Lise Sedrez, Stanford University
Environmental History in Latin America: Space, Science and Institutions

Sean Duffy, University of Arizona
Just Say Yes: A Call for the Inclusion of the Study of Illegal Drugs in Environmental History *


Panel 23 Bringing Ecology to the Historians’ Table: Ecological Implications of Local Environmental Histories
Organizer: Philip  Garone, University of California, Davis
Chair: John Opie, University of Chicago

Location:  State Suite B

Peter Alagona, University of California, Los Angeles
Fitting Symbols or Feathered Pigs? California Condors and the Emergence of a Synthetic Conservation Paradigm

Douglas Spieles, Denison University
The Black Swamp: A Case Study of Ecological Succession and Human Inhabitation

Philip Garone, University of California, Davis
Twentieth Century Water Wars for the Protection of Wetlands in California’s Great Central Valley

Donald Wetherell, University of Calgary
Farming the Wilds: Beaver and Muskrat Farming in Northern Canada 1920-1960


Panel 24  Research as Activism: Public Participation in Environmental History
Organizer: Alice Ingerson, Consultant, Applied History for Land Conservation & Urban Planning
Chair: Karilyn Crockett, Director, MyTown (Multicultural Youth Tour of What’s Now)

Location:  State Suite C

Charles Lee, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Living with the River

Ellen Spears, Emory University
Practicing Environmental History: Valuing Local Knowledge

Abigail Franklin, Hampshire College
Place-Based Natural and Cultural History

Laura Quackenbush, Curator, Leelanau Historical Museum
Community History for a Sustainable Future

Paul Wozniak, Fox/Wolf Rivers Environmental History Project
Bringing Local Environmental History into the Public Discourse

 
5:45 - 7:45 p.m.Cocktail Hour

Discussions 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. See page special events for details.

Location:  L’Apogee


8:15 -10:00 p.m.  Plenary Session

“Mainstreaming the Marginal,” chaired by Ravi Rajan, University of California, Santa Cruz

Panelists: Stephanie Pincetl, University of Southern California; Rachel Morello-Frosch, Brown University; Dorceta Taylor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Discussants: Susan Flader, University of Missouri, Columbia; Martin Melosi, University of Houston

Location:  Grand Ballroom