Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Roundtable - EH Week Virtual Event
NiCHE-JHI Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar Virtual Roundtable
EH Week 2023
Wednesday, 19 April 2023, 12-2pm EDT, Zoom
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Webinar/Panel Discussion April 6th: Nature at War: American Environments and World War II
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Chicana / Latina voices - regarding animals
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Summer Retreat Program at Shin Pond, Maine for Animal/Humane/Environmental Studies
Summer Retreat Program at Shin Pond, Maine
for Animal/Humane/Environmental Studies
Levan Institute for the Humanities Book Chats—Christina Dunbar-Hester, Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond (repost from H-Announce)
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April 24, 2023
Pages
Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Montana Chandler
Chandler on Helgren, 'The Camp Fire Girls: Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910–1980'
Jennifer Helgren. The Camp Fire Girls: Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910–1980. Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. Illustrations. xi + 355 pp.
Reviewer:
Adam Thomas
Thomas on Morris, 'Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp'
J. Brent Morris.
Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 256 pp.
$29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-6825-3. 
Reviewer:
Paige Figanbaum
Figanbaum on Ellermann, 'Thought’s Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature'
Greg Ellermann.
Thought’s Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. xiii + 180 pp.
$70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-2848-9.
Reviewer:
Gabriel Valle
Valle on Goh, 'Western Journeys'
Teow Lim Goh.
Western Journeys.
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2022. vi + 184 pp.
$21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-64769-095-3.
Reviewed by Gabriel Valle (California State University, San Marcos) Published on H-Environment (May, 2023) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Reviewer:
Matthew Turetsky
Turetsky on Seligmann, 'Quinoa: Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands (Interp Culture New Millennium)'
Linda J. Seligmann.
Quinoa: Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands (Interp Culture New Millennium).
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023. xiv + 201 pp.
$110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04479-3; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08688-5.
Recent Roundtable Reviews
Barandiaran, 'Science and Environment in Chile,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 9, No. 5 (2019)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 9, No. 5 (2019)
Title: Science and Environment in Chile: The Politics of Expert Advice in a Neoliberal Democracy
Author: Javiera Barandiarán
Commentators: Andra B. Chastain, Frederico Freitas, Javier Puente, Emily Wakild.
Editor: Keith Makoto Woodhouse
Needham, 'Power Lines,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 9, No. 4 (2019)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 9, No. 4 (2019)
Title: Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest
Author: Andrew Needham
Commentators: Matthew Klingle, James Allison, Julie Cohn, Robert Lifset
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
McCammack, 'Landscapes of Hope,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2019)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2019)
Title: Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago
Author: Brian McCammack
Commentators: J.T. Roane, Simon Balto, Kimberly Ruffin, Colin Fisher
Editor: Keith Makoto Woodhouse
Aso, 'Rubber and the Making of Vietnam,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2019)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2019)
Title: Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897-1975
Author: Michitake Aso
Commentators: Teresa Cribelli, Amy M. Hay, Stephen L. Harp, Pam McElwee
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting