Virtual ASEH 2024 Schedule |
All sessions will be on Zoom March 25-29, 2024. Links will be available on the Whova conference app. Register for Virtual ASEH 2024 ONLY Register for ASEH 2024 in person in Denver (includes Virtual ASEH 2024 registration March 25 Creaturely Chronicles: Histories of Animal-Human Relations Chair: Will Cavert, University of St. Thomas Participants:“A bird by any other name: a history of European attempts to understand the relationship between penguins and auks.” Ellen Arnold, University of Stavanger To Hang the Said Sow: Pig Execution in Medieval Burgundy, Marissa Crannell-Ash, University of Rochester "100% Pure American Bison:" Environmental Networks and Animal Vitality in the American Zoo, Dominic Dongilli, University of Iowa From “Silence” to Song: Sonic Histories of Whales, Jessica Ward, University of Oxford Sowing Political Seeds: Gardens, Newcomers, and Nationalisms Chair: Mona Bieling, Geneva Graduate Institute Participants: Italianness in the United States between Migrants’ Informal Gardening Practices and Agricultural Diplomacy (1880–1912), Gilberto Mazzoli, European University Institute, Florence Botanical Zionism at the Hebrew University Jerusalem: Planting National Identities between Science and Religion in Mandatory Palestine, Mona Bieling, Geneva Graduate Institute Blood and Soil in the Garden: Growing a German Heimat at Stuttgart’s 1939 Reichsgartenschau, Nicky Rehnberg, University of California, Santa Barbara Picnics, Peppers, Pak Choi: Immigrants in Allotment Gardens in the Netherlands, 1960-1990, Ailish Lalor, Harvard University Discussant: Kate Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sharing Knowledge about Water: Experiences and Practices in Teaching Presenters: Francisco Javier Bonilla Garcia, Carnegie Mellon University Abigail E Owen, Carnegie Mellon University March 26 Marxist Ecology and the Problem of Non-Western Development ONLINE: Tuesday, March 26: 10:00AM–11:30AM EDT Participants: Water, Coal, Wheat: Irrigation, Colonial “Development,” and the Space-Time of Fossil Capitalism, Swarnabh Ghosh, Harvard University Metabolizing Development: Ecologies of Labor and Agriculture in Pre-War Japan, Charlotte Ciavarella, Harvard University; Joshua Linkous, Harvard University Ecological Themes in the Developmental Thought of Ismail-Sabri Abdallah, Max Ajl, University of Ghent Discussant: Kohei Saito, University of Tokyo Environment and the State: Authoritarianism, Democracy, and Notions of Modernity ONLINE: Tuesday, March 26: 12:30PM–2:00PM EDT Chair: Faisal Husain, Penn State University Participants:The struggle for water in rural Paraguay: a 'perverse analysis' of subversive participation, Joseph J Garcia, University of New Mexico The English Working Cat: Genetics, Socialism, and the Domestic Environment in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Matthew Holmes, University of Stavanger Reconsidering the Nazi Fire Fetish (1933-1939), Sloane Nilsen, University of California - Berkeley Nordic Green Modernity as Speculation, 1970-1980, Jay Richardson, University of Cambridge Online Lightning Talks Chair: Yiyun Peng, Cornell University Participants: The Infinite Red Lists: Can Biodiversity Ever Be Measured? Isobel Akerman, University of Cambridge Conservatism, the Far-Right, and the Environment, Jesse Callahan Bryant, Yale University Bound to Waste Paper: An Exploration of Printed and Manuscript Waste in Early American Books, Ashley Cataldo, American Antiquarian Society Arctic Environmental Extractivism and the Inuit Polar Bear Skin Trade in Canada, 1920-1930, George Colpitts, University of Calgary; Andrew Goodwin, University of Calgary Captives From Canada’s “Unspoiled Province;” Extracting Wild Animals For Sportsmen’s Shows, 1898-1941, Sean Cox, University of New Brunswick Before Fire Suppression: The Erosion of Fire Stewardship and the Rise of Fire Aversion in Gold Rush Era California, Marina Del Cassio, Stanford From “American Snack” to “Beijing specialty”:A Transpacific Story of Fried Chicken, Wenzheng Fang, University of Notre Dame Borders, Resource Extraction, and the Early Conservation Movement in Patagonia, Argentina, María de los Ángeles Picone, Boston College March 27 Social and Political Violence in the Extraction Zone: Disasters, States, and Memory Moderator: Charles Closmann, University of North Florida Panelists: Alexander Jania, University of Chicago Alison J Bruey, University of North Florida James Parker, Arizona State University Amit Sadan, University of New Mexico Chau Kelly, University of North Florida Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Anthropocene Chair: Jack Bouchard, Rutgers University Participants: Building a New World: Carbon Memories in creating Green Energy Markets, Stephanie Childress, University of Texas at Austin The Anthropocene as Speculative Space for Environmental Negotiations of Human-Nature Histories, André Krebber, University of Kassel The Men in the High Castle of the Anthropocene: American Geostrategists Speculating on Planetary Futures and Extractivist Roots of Global War During the 1940s, Paul Nauert, Eastern Oregon University Disaster Cinema and Just Eco-criticism: How Can We Envision New Worlds? Tijen Tunali, University Of Rennes 2 ASEH 2024 Online Plenary Session Reflections on the Hottest Year on Record Moderator: Tim Lehman, Rocky Mountain College Panelists: Dagomar Degroot, Georgetown University Ruth Morgan, Australian National University Qing Pei, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Jay Turner, Wellesley College EARLY CAREER CAUCUS MEET-AND GREET ONLINE: Wednesday, March 27th at 5 PM EST/4 PM CST As part of this year's ASEH virtual conference, the Early Career Caucus is hosting a virtual meet-and-greet event that is open to everyone, no matter your career stage! Come to meet other ASEH members, learn more about everyone's work, and have some pleasant conversations about how the conference is going. The event will take place on Wednesday, March 27th at 5 PM EST/4 PM CST, shortly after the plenary session. We will use the following zoom room: Link: https://JHUBlueJays.zoom.us/j/99393892051 Meeting ID: 993 9389 2051 Looking forward to seeing you there!" March 28 Changing Climates–Past, Present and Future Chair: Tania Munz, Forest History Society Participants:Students and Changing Climates: Teaching Climate Anxiety in Environmental Studies and Environmental History, Alex Boynton, University of Kansas “The Heart of Winter”: English Environmental Catastrophe as Indigenous Strategy in 17th-Century New England, Nathan Bryant Braccio, Lesley University The Climate of Cairo, 1800-2000, Adam Mestyan, Duke University Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Sustainable Forest Management in Asia & Role of Traditional Societies, Baisakhi Bandyopadhyah,, Independent Researcher Agricultural Extension: Transimperial Institutions and Transpacific Environments in Modern East Asia Chair: Jessica Wang, University of British Columbia Participants: The Ecology of Authority: Agricultural Science and Integrative Mapping in Modern Korea, Albert L Park, Claremont McKenna College Not important but indispensable: the changes in and environmental impact of wheat varieties and production areas in Postwar Taiwan, SHAO-LI LU, National Taiwan University A Little Patch of Kentucky in Yamanashi: Transpacific Agricultural Extension in Japan (1938-1979), William Sack, Harvard University Discussant: Jessica Wang, University of British Columbia On the Road with Environmental History: Travel, Transportation, and Tourism Chair: Sarah Keyes, University of Nevada, Reno Participants: Wonderland: Emerging Brand Identity of the Northern Pacific Railway at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Rebecca Houze, Northern Illinois University Indigenous Guides and Naturalist Vistas: Twentieth-century Naturalists, Nature Writing, and the Role of Indigenous Collaborative Voices, Dale Potts, South Dakota State University Pumping the Past: The Dinosaur as a Symbol for Fossil Fuels, Henrik Jaron Schneider, The University of Texas at Austin March 29 Unearthing Environmental Justice: Energy Development and Indigenous Communities ONLINE: Friday, March 29: 10:00AM–11:30AM EDT Participants: From Native Sovereignties to Petro Citizens: Oil, Conservation, and Allotment in Indian Territory, Mark Boxell, University of Nebraska at Omaha Oil Exploration and Gas Flaring in Nigeria: Building unsustainable Future through Environmental Degradation, Livinus Ikwuako Okeke, Imo State University, Nigeria The Return of Mi Shwe Tin? Native Litigation and Speculative Futures in a Burmese Oilfield, Chao Ren, University of Michigan Frameworks for Speculation: Science, Economy, and the Uncertain Environment Chair: Matthew B. Shutzer, Duke University Participants: “Without Regard to Season:” The Question of Extractivism in Modern Amazonia, Adrián Lerner, Churchill College, University of Cambridge Infrastructures of Ocean/Knowledge: The Port of Hambantota and Ocean University, Sri Lanka 2000-2020, Tamara Fernando, Stony Brook University The Coal Evangelists, Leah Aronowsky, Columbia University Oil Finders: The Planet as a Hydrocarbon Reservoir, Matthew B. Shutzer, Duke University Discussant: Gökçe Günel, Rice University The Pacific Ocean: New Perspectives in Its Environmental History Chair: Lisa Brady, Boise State University Participants: New City and New Ocean: A Comparative History between Qingdao and Los Angeles, Shen Hou, Peking University Pacific as a Connected Unit: Imagined and Created, Sheng Fei, Sun Yat-Sen University Braided Waters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii, Wade Graham, Independent Scholar Discussant: Donald Worster, University of Kansas |
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