ASEH Presents 2025 Schedule

We hope you’ll join us for the following ASEH Presents online sessions (all U.S. ET). Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86078981283?pwd=7RQiW9EgGVDmEOXTVuoaQLb90h5UVq.1

Jan. 29, Weds., 10:00 AM: Poisoned Paradise: Environmental Justice in the Sunshine State

Felicia Bevel (Univ. of N. Florida)
Black Resilience and the History of Jacksonville's Ribault River/Moncrief Corridor

Tru Leverette Hall (Univ. of N. Florida)
The Seeds We Water

Charles Closman (Univ. of N. Florida)
Battling Water Pollution and Cancer along Florida's Space Coast

Leslie Kemp Poole (Rollins College)
Environmental Justice Along Florida's Fenholloway River

Feb. 3, Mon., 3:00 PM: Selling Nature

Bryan Kauma (Southwestern Univ.)

‘Agriculture is a scam!’: Agro-technologies and the agrarian fallacy among African grain farmers in colonial Zimbabwe, the 1950s to 1960s

Zelin Pei (Univ. of Arizona)

Between Mountain and Sea: Tourism and Subject-Making in the Ecological Borderland of Japanese Colonial Taiwan during the 1930s

Feb. 7, Fri., 12:00 PM: Methodologies and Mistakes in Environmental hGIS

Abigail P. Dowling (Mercer Univ.)
How do I make my textual environmental data spatial data? A case study from medieval Artois (France)

Vicky McAlister (Towson University) and Jennifer Immich (Univ. of Colorado – Boulder)
Mistakes Maketh the Methodology: Developing a replicable interdisciplinary process with GIS for identifying deserted medieval settlements in Ireland

Jeffrey Liu (Univ. of South Dakota)
Geoparsing Historical Gazetteers in Premodern East Asia: The QA/QC Process

Emmanuel H. Kreike (Princeton)
TBC

Chair: Camila Marcone (Yale)

Feb. 13, Thurs., 12:00 PM: Building the Environment

Eun-Joo Ahn (Yale)

Building roads up to astronomical observatories during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the American West

Ekinsu Devrim Danış (Bogazici University)

Slow Violence on Coastal Ecosystems and Workers' Bodies: The Case of Aliaga, İzmir Shipbreaking Yards

Adam Mestyan (Duke) University

Stone in Nineteenth-Century Cairo: Notes on Geology and Property

Feb. 17, Mon., 2:00 PM: Environmentalism and Environmental Policy in the 20^th century

Caleb Pennington (Univ. of Iowa)

Shades of Green: Historical Perceptions of the U.S. Environmental Movement

Marc Dorpema  (NYU)

Environment and Development: The Global Building Blocks of a Eurocapitalist Ecology

Simone Schleper (Maastricht University)

Intimate Allies: Collaborative Couples and the Making of Global Environmental Governance

Feb. 20, Thurs., 3:00 PM: Wildlife and Farm Animals

Christina Dunbar-Hester (Univ. of Southern California)

The Fungible Coast? California Sea Otter Conservation in the Space of Empire

Dennis Moore (Univ. of South Florida)

America's Cow: Sandhill Cranes as Food in the United States

Hairong Huang (Univ. of Toronto)

Liberating Chinese Pigs from Soviet Bovines: Pig Fodder, Ecological Stress, and Rural Subsistence in Maoist China

Feb. 25, Tues., 5:30 PM: History of Waters in Modern East Asia

           

Anke Wang (Cornell)

Extractive Regimes and the Making of the Gulf of Tonkin (1880-1940)

           

Mengliu Cheng (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

Decentalizing the Technocratic State: Flooding, Vernacular Technologies, and Agricultural Campaigns in WWII Chines, 1940-1946

Zhaoyuan (Peter) Yu (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

Fishing for the Empire: International Fisheries Regimes, Colonial Taiwan, and Japan’s Maritime Empire, 1897-1941

Yurui Hu (Univ. of Chicago)

Nature, Technology, and the Remaking of the Hai River, 1928-1935

Chair: Chris Chung

March 3, Mon., 8:30 AM:  Moving Aquafarms

Charlotte Ciavarella (Harvard University)
Cultivating Irrationality: Merchant Capital, Community and the Limits to Seaweed Farming in Japan, Korea, and the US

Kjell Ericson (Kyoto University) and Matthew Booker (North Carolina State Univ.)
Where is a Monoculture Made? Transplanting Seed Oysters from Miyagi Prefecture to Washington State and France

Lijing Jiang (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
The Ecologies of Scaling Up: Species, Technology, and Economics of Shrimp Aquaculture in Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand