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April Environmental History Events at Georgetown

3/29/2018

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This April will be a busy month for environmental history at Georgetown with some really exciting upcoming events.  The workshops and discussions below cover large stretches of time, from the Medieval period through to the future, and various topics, from disease, to teaching, to climate change.  See below for details, and if you are in the DC area and interested in environmental history, please join us. 
April 4, 12:00 - 5:30 pm, 391 Regents Hall, Georgetown University
Pathogens and Climates in Motion: Multidisciplinarity Perspectives on Disease in Late Antiquity
A workshop sponsored by the Georgetown Environmental Initiative & Medieval Studies Program.  The workshop hopes to untangle disease-climate interaction in the distant past. It will be an interdisciplinary event, with disease ecologists, dendro-climatologists, palaeo-genomicists and historians.  Click here for full schedule.  Please contact Timothy Newfield if attending.
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April 11, 1:00 pm, 450 Intercultural Center, Georgetown University
​Teaching Environmental History: Insights from a Trailblazer
Richard Hoffman (Professor Emeritus, York University)
Dr. Richard Hoffman will discuss a lifetime of teaching and studying the environmental history of the pre-modern world.  He is a pioneer in the scholarship of medieval and aquatic environmental histories, and his recent book, An Environmental History of Medieval Europe, is a landmark in his field. Dr. Timothy Newfield and Dr. Dagomar Degroot will begin the event by asking Dr. Hoffman some big questions about his discipline, and then will open it up to questions from anyone else is the room. 

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April 18, 1:00 - 3:30 pm, CCAS Boardroom, Intercultural Center, Georgetown University
The Arctic: Past, Present, Future 
Speakers: Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown University), Bathsheba Demuth (Brown Univerity), Matthew Druckenmiller (National Snow and Ice Data Center) 
Dr. Dagomar Degroot will begin by offering case studies on the environmental history of the early modern Arctic. Dr. Bathsheba Demuth will then introduce her work on the environmental history of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Arctic. Finally, Dr. Matthew Druckenmiller will explain how the Arctic is changing today, project how it might change in our imminent future, and explain what it all means for communities in the far north. This should be a fun, thoroughly interdisciplinary event that offers fresh perspectives on a unique and fast-disappearing environment.

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Faisal Husain and Meredith Denning successfully defend dissertations

3/27/2018

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PictureFaisal Husain, John McNeill, and Meredith Denning.
Georgetown Environmental History scholars Faisal Husain and Meredith Denning successfully defended their dissertations this month.

Faisal's dissertation, “The Tigris-Euphrates Basin Under Early Modern Ottoman Rule, c. 1534-1830” examines the establishment of a unified Ottoman imperial regime over the Tigris and Euphrates and the consequences of this political transition on the state, streamside communities, and the environment.

Meredith's research focuses on transboundary water management and her dissertation, "Connections and Consensus: Changing Goals for Transnational Water Management on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, 1900-1972" examines how the United States and Canada cooperated to transformed the Great Lakes during the twentieth century. 

John McNeill was the primary advisor for both projects.

Congratulations Faisal and Meredith! 


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A Distant Archive? Reading Global History at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

3/26/2018

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Jackson Perry
PictureAuthor with bust of German-Australian botanist Ferdinand von Mueller at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.
The modern history of the ‘discovery’ of Australia typically reads as a tale of the wider world coming to the island continent, in such diverse forms as European colonists and prisoners, rabbits, California redwoods, infectious diseases, and common law. Less emphasized in this tale is the Australian contribution to the history of other parts of the world. For environmental historians and historians of science in particular, there is no better place to understand that contribution than the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne.  Read more on the blog.

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Georgetown scholars at ASEH 2018

3/12/2018

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This week, several Georgetown environmental history scholars, both current and former, are participating in the annual conference of the American Society for Environmental History (March 14-18) in Riverside, California.
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Poster Exhibit

Matthew Johnson, Exhibit Hall C and D, “Black Gold of Paradise: Negotiating Oil Pollution in the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1966-2012.” 

​Thursday, March 15

​10:30 am-12:00 pm, Room MR 8 - John McNeill (chair), Panel 2-H: The Freedom of the Hills? Nature and Empire in Upland Frontiers. 

​10:30 am-12:00 pm, Room RC E (upper level) - Meredith McKittrick, "Aquatic Dreams: Invisible and Imagined Water in Colonial South West Africa,"  Panel 2-E: Hidden Histories of Hidden Water: Groundwa- ter Resources and Power.
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1:30 pm-3:00 pm, Room RC E (upper  level) - John McNeill (chair), Panel 3-E: Acclimating Bodies: The Ecology of Yellow Fever Transmission in the Nineteenth-Century Greater Caribbean.

1:30 pm-3:00 pm, Room MR 9 - Robynne Mellor, "The Aboveground Ecology of an Underground Mine: A Comparison of Uranium Tailings and their Treatment in the U.S. Desert, Soviet Steppe, and Canadian Shield," Panel 3-E: Mined Earth: Transnational Environmental Histories of Extraction.

Friday, March 16

8:30 am-10:00 am, Room MR 10 - Dagomar Degroot (chair), Panel 5-J: New Perspectives on Climate and History in the Little Ice Age.

8:30 am-10:00 am, Room RC D (upper level) - Tait Keller - "Fallen Trees: Forests and Reshaping the Memory of the First World War," Panel 5-D: Forest Fights: Trees, Memory, and Identity in India, North America, and Poland.

10:30 am-12:00 pm, Room RC F (upper level) - Matthew Johnson, Lightning Session 6-F: Three-Minute Thesis Slam.

Saturday, March 17

10:30 am-12:00 pm, Room RC F (upper level)​ - Dagomar Degroot, 
"Bowhead Whale Hunting in a Cooling Arctic, 1610-1640," and Faisal Husain, "Buffalo Herding in the Tigris-Euphrates Marshes, 1534-1590," Panel 8-F: The Animal Kingdom and Aquatic Ecosystems in the Early Modern World.

For the full conference program, click here.

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