ASEH 2015 CFP - Environmental Dimensions of Human-Animal Relationships
I only recently joined the ASEH listserve so I realize this is coming at the last minute, but I would love to participate in the upcoming ASEH 2015 Conference in Washington, D.C.
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2015 Dumbarton Oaks Symposium, Garden and Landscape Studies
The dynamic relationships between cities and their rivers, a landscape of potentially critical adaptability and resilience, is the focus of the 2015 Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. Building on the emergence of urban humanities and urban landscape history, we propose to consider the urban river as a city-making landscape deserving of careful reading and analysis: past, present, and future.
Seeking panel for a paper on...sunshine, vitamins, health, food, race, risk, bones, disease...
I would like to instigate, organize, or join a panel for the ASEH 2015 Conference. I’m writing a book about the history of Vitamin D deficiency and rickets. Some of the more directly environmental themes my work embraces include:
· Race, geography and the built environment
· Competing environmental risks: natural and man-made
· Natural Food, Natural Health vs. industrialized health and industrialized food
· Biotechnological tools for escaping nature
Seeking Panelists for ASEH 2015—Determinism, Agency, and Environmental Preludes in World History
I am seeking two panelists to present research focusing on environmental preludes to historical events that are overlooked or marginalized in the discipline. More recently, historical literature has rightly kept environmental determinism, a vague, over-used, and problematic concept, at bay. However, in doing so, it has frequently overextended its aversion to the environment. The purpose of this panel seeks to explore cases that make a compelling claim of why the environment needs to be highlighted for the historical problem, idea, event, etc. to be understood.
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Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Erik Loomis
Loomis on Speece, 'Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics'
Darren Frederick Speece. Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. 384 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-99951-7.
Reviewed by Erik Loomis (University of Rhode Island)
Published on H-Environment (April, 2017)
Commissioned by David T. Benac
Reviewer:
Bart Elmore
Elmore on Skrabec, 'Aluminum in America: A History'
Quentin R. Skrabec. Aluminum in America: A History. Jefferson: McFarland, 2016. viii + 244 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-9955-7.
Reviewed by Bart Elmore (Ohio State University)
Published on H-Environment (April, 2017)
Commissioned by David T. Benac
Reviewer:
Lukas Rieppel
Rieppel on Vetter, 'Field Life: Science in the American West during the Railroad Era'
Jeremy Vetter. Field Life: Science in the American West during the Railroad Era. INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment, Science, and Technology in the Anthropocene Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. 512 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4453-9.
Reviewed by Lukas Rieppel (Brown University)
Published on H-Environment (April, 2017)
Commissioned by David T. Benac
Reviewer:
James Bergman
Bergman on Zilberstein, 'A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America'
Anya Zilberstein. A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 280 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-020659-8.
Reviewed by James Bergman (Michigan State University)
Published on H-Environment (April, 2017)
Commissioned by David T. Benac
Reviewer:
Steven G. Noll
Noll on Epperson, 'Roads through the Everglades: The Building of the Ingraham Highway, the Tamiami Trail and Conners Highway, 1914-1931'
Bruce D. Epperson. Roads through the Everglades: The Building of the Ingraham Highway, the Tamiami Trail and Conners Highway, 1914-1931. Jefferson: McFarland, 2016. 276 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-6479-8.
Reviewed by Steven G. Noll (University of Florida)
Published on H-Environment (April, 2017)
Commissioned by David T. Benac