Northeast & Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum - Annual Workshop (Boston University, 21-22 June)
The Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum (NEAR-EH) invites you to our eighth annual meeting, Friday, June 21 and Saturday, June 22 at Boston University.
NEAR-EH is a workshop for scholars at any stage of their career who want to share works in progress for constructive, collegial discussion. We consider the northeast in broad terms – this year’s papers range from Hibernia to Connecticut. We alternate back and forth across the border: this summer, our hosts are Boston University’s History Department and American & New England Studies Program.
Papers are submitted in advance so participants can read them at leisure and offer feedback when we meet. If you are interested in reading the papers and participating in all or part of the discussion, we’d be delighted to have you join us! Please email Claire Campbell for the Google Drive folder with the papers, and Ben Kochan with any questions about Boston U.
Program: Northeast & Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum Eighth Annual Workshop, 2019
Kenmore Room, 9th floor of the John and Kathyrn Silber Administrative Center, 1 Silber Way, Boston University
Friday, June 21
8:45-9:00
Coffee, welcome, and introductions
9:00-9:45
Dammed: The Destruction of New England’s River Fisheries
Zachary Bennett, Rutgers University
9:45-10:30
Sick as a Dog: A Speculative History of the Role of Canine Diseases in Early New England
Strother E. Roberts, Bowdoin College
10:30-11;15
Displaying Wildlife: Life, Death, and the Non-Domesticated Animals of the Northeast
Ian J. Jesse, University of Maine
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:15
Frederic Tudor’s “Slippery Speculation”
Andrew Robichaud, Boston University
12:15-1:45 Lunch
1:45-2:30
Condensed Milk, Cattle Plague, and Convalescents: Discovering Biotic Threats to Union Soldiers’ Health in the Civil War Northeast
Steven B. Davis, University of Kansas
2:30-3:15
Whatever happened to Pleasant Street? Rediscovering an Urban Shoreline
Claire Campbell, Bucknell University
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-4:15
Instabilities: The Birch Trees on Lover's Walk
Joanna Dean, Carleton University
Saturday, June 22
9:00-9:15 Coffee
9:15-10:00
The second chimera: nature and Newfoundland history
Daniel Banoub, Memorial University
10:00-10:45
Where is Hibernia?
Fiona Polack, Memorial University
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-11:45
"No more roads over people": Environmental Racism and Community Development in Boston, 1955 to 1970
Michael Brennan, University of Maine
11:45-12:30
A Target Action: Turning Industrial Waste into Consumer Waste in Woburn, Massachusetts
Johnathan Williams, Boston University
12:30-1:00
Closing and next steps
Claire Campbell, Bucknell University