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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. We request that those wishing to stay for supper make reservations in advance.

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2009-2010 Season

13 October 2009, 5:15 PM
Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
"Earthsick: The Circumnavigator's Malady"
Comment: Harriet Ritvo, MIT

10 November 2009, 5:15 PM
Strother Roberts, Northwestern University
"Pines, Profits, and Popular Politics: The Timber and Lumber Trade of The Colonial Connecticut River Valley"
Comment: Harvey Green, Northeastern University

8 December 2009, 5:15 PM
Allen M. Gontz, University of Massachusetts-Boston
"Linking Anthropogenic Landscapes and Natural Processes to the Cultural and Environmental Vulnerability of Southern Rainsford Island, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts"
Comment: Peter Rosen, Northeastern University

9 March 2010, 5:15 PM
Kevin K. Olsen, Montclair State University
"An Environmental Management History of Jamaica Bay, Brooklyn and Queens Counties, 1849-1938"
Comment: Steven T. Moga, MIT

13 April 2010, 5:15 PM
Anya Zilberstein, Concordia University (Montreal)
"Cold Comfort: The Biogeography of Northern British America, 1670-1820"
Comment: Brian Donahue, Brandeis University




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