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Georgetown at ASEH 2016: Environmental History and its Publics

3/27/2016

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Several Georgetown University scholars will participate in the annual conference of the American Society for Environmental History, taking place this week at the Westin Hotel in Seattle, Washington. See below for details on the relevant panels, roundtables and events.

Thursday March 31: 

Professor Dagomar Degroot chairs the informal Climate History Network lunch at 11:30 a.m. at Icon Grill.

Doctoral candidate Adrienne Kates presents 'Capitalism and Maya Autonomy in Mexico's Forest Frontier, 1902-1945', on the panel 'Landscapes and Peoples in the Yucatán, 1500-Present' from 1 to 2:30 p.m., in the Adams room. 

Dr. Andrea Williams (PhD 2013) presents 'French Foresters Abroad: French Empire and the Nineteenth-Century Evolution of Forest Science', on the panel 'Trees Crossing Borders - Towards a Transnational History of Forestry' from 3 to 4:30 p.m., in the Olympic room.


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To Attend: CUNY Workshop on Medicine and Knowledge in the Middle East, feat. Chris Gratien and Graham Pitts, 1 April 2016

3/22/2016

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On Friday, April 1, 2016, The Graduate Center at the City University of New York hosts a one-day workshop on Medicine and Knowledge in the Middle East. The third panel of the workshop, 'Environments of Other Wars', features the work of Dr. Chris Gratien (PhD, 2015) on “Year of the Mosquito: Displacement and Disease in the Ottoman Empire during WWI” and doctoral candidate Graham Pitts on “War as the Vector of Malaria in Twentieth-Century Lebanon.” Their panel will be moderated by Professor Alan Mikhail of Yale University.

The workshop will take place in Room C198 of the CUNY Graduate Center, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with a break for lunch. RSVP to Seçil Yılmaz (syilmaz@gradcenter.cuny.edu) to confirm attendance. All workshop participants are asked to read the papers in advance of the meeting.

Full details of the workshop are available here

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