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Georgetown scholars at ASEH 2017

3/26/2017

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This week, several Georgetown scholars and graduates will speak at the annual conference of the American Society for Environmental History (March 29-April 2) in Chicago, Illinois.

Thursday, 30 March, 8:30-10 a.m.
  • Robynne Mellor: A Comparative Analysis of the Environmental Effects of Cold War Uranium Mining in Grants, New Mexico (Panel 1-E: The Cold War, the American West and the Environment, Michigan room)
  • George Vrtis: roundtable member for The Pedagogy of Hope, Teaching Hope in the Environmental Classroom (Roundtable 1-I, Walton North room)
Thursday, 30 March, 3:30-5 p.m.
  • Jackson R. Perry: Gospel of the Gum: Jules-Émile Planchon and the Global Eucalyptus Fever of the Nineteenth Century (Panel 4-B: Publish or Perish? Print Cultures of the Anthropocene, French room)
Friday, 31 March, 8:30-10 a.m.
  • Alan D. Roe: The Forest in the City: Elk Island National Park and the Challenges of the Russian National Park System ​(Panel 5-I: Ecologies of the Socialist City: Cultivating and Protecting the Green Spaces of Russia, Walton North room)
Friday, 31 March, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
  • Meredith McKittrick: Intersections of Race and Rain: Ensuring the Survival of ‘White Civilization’ in South Africa through Demographic and Climate Engineering, 1890-1934 (Panel 6-A: Before Climate Refugees: Mobility, Climate and Empire, 1600-1940, Astor room)
Saturday, 1 April, 1:15-2:45 p.m.
  • Chris Gratien: Transhumant Temporalities in Ottoman Anatolia 
  • and Graham Pitts: A Precarious Mediterranean Mountain Ecology: Migration, Silk and Famine in Lebanon, 1887-1918 (Panel 9-E: Mobilities, Limitations and Adaptations of the Mediterranean Mountains, Michigan room)
Saturday, 1 April, 3-4:30 p.m.
  • Dagomar Degroot: ‘A Mysterious System of Configurations:’ The Environmental History of Canals and Climate on Mars (Panel 10-J: The Final Frontier (of Environnmental History): Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Environments Beyond Earth, Walton South room)
  • Erin Stewart Mauldin: The Ecological Refugees of the Cotton Belt: Black Migration from Rural Spaces in the Wake of the U.S. Civil War (Panel 10-H: How the Other Half Drifts: Nature, Violence, and the Character of Migration in the 19th Century, Venetian room)
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