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Boston Environmental History Seminar

The Boston Environmental History Seminar is an academic forum for scholars as well as interested members of the public to discuss aspects of American environmental history.

Most seminar meetings revolve around the discussion of a precirculated paper. Sessions open with remarks from the essayist and an assigned commentator, after which the discussion is opened to the floor. After each session, the Society serves a light buffet supper.

All are welcome to participate in the seminars at no charge; an RSVP is required. You should, however, subscribe to the series if you wish to receive advance copies of the papers that will be discussed. The modest subscription fee for the series also underwrites the suppers that accompany each program.

To RSVP: if you do not require an advance copy of a paper and wish to leave reservations only, you may phone 617-646-0568. Please give your name, the name of the seminar you would like to attend, and the number of guests

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2010-2011 Season

12 October 2010, 5:15 PM
Matthew McKenzie, University of Connecticut at Avery Point
A History of Denial: Romanticization and Regulation in the New England Fisheries, 1893-1918
Comment: Judith Layzer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

9 November 2010, 5:15 PM
Richard Judd, University of Maine at Orono
Rethinking Environmental History: The View from New England
Comment: Wyatt Oswald, Emerson College

14 December 2010, 5:15 PM
Steve Moga, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Flattening the City: Zoning, Topography, and Nature in the American City, 1908-1945
Comment: Karl Haglund, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation

11 January 2011, 5:15 PM
Ninian Stein, Wheaton College
City as Change: Design and Science Collaborations for Sustainable Urban Life
Comment: Joan Fitzgerald, Northeastern University

8 February 2011, 5:15 PM
Megan Kate Nelson, Harvard University and Massachusetts Historical Society
"They fluttered like birds in a snare": Battling the Desert in the Confederate Campaign for New Mexico, 1862
Comment: Anthony N. Penna, Northeastern University

8 March 2011, 5:15 PM
Sarah Phillips, Boston University
The Most Important Election You've Never Heard Of: The Wheat Referendum of 1963
Comment: Rachel Cobb, Suffolk University

12 April 2011, 5:15 PM
Joel A. Tarr, Carnegie Mellon University
Industry and Pollution at the Everett, Massachusetts, Site
Comment: Sam Bass Warner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology




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