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Discussion published by Joanna Dyl on Sunday, June 22, 2014

Seeking panelists for ASEH 2015 - International events or urban expansion

I am seeking to form or join a panel for ASEH 2015 in Washington, D.C.  My paper is on the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition, a world's fair held in San Francisco to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal and the city's recovery from the 1906 earthquake and fire.  The choice of site and the construction of the Exposition represented an explicit promotion of urban expansion in a relatively-undeveloped area of San Francisco.  My paper will discuss the process of building the Exposition, which required displacing poor people living in the area and filling in a cove along San Fran

Discussion published by Karen Hoffman on Friday, June 20, 2014

REMINDER: ASEH panel, CFP: Implementing US Environmental Law, 1970 to the Present

 

Dear List members,

This is a reminder about the ASEH 2015 panel described below. If you are interested in participating in the panel, as a presenter or a commentator, please be in touch with me by July 11, 2014. Thanks!

Best,

Karen

 

Karen Hoffman

Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

University of Puerto Rico

Río Piedras Campus

San Juan, Puerto Rico  00931

 

Implementing US Environmental Law, 1970 to the Present

Discussion published by Joshua Jeffers on Friday, June 20, 2014

Seeking Panelists for 2015 ASEH--Conceptual Landscapes and Imagined Geographies

Though it departs a bit from this year's theme, I'd like to form a panel that looks at, broadly speaking, the intersections of intellectual and environmental history.  How have environments, geographies, landscapes influenced (and been influenced by) ideologies, cultural discourses, and the history of ideas?

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