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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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2008-2009 Season

7 October 2008, 5:15 PM
William Meyer, Colgate University
"The Making and Unmaking of a 'Natural' Resource: the Salt Industry of Coastal Southeastern Massachusetts"
 Comment: David Soll, Brandeis University

 18 November 2008, 5:15 PM
Jennifer Light, Northwestern University
"A Science of the City: Clementsian Ecology in Urban Theory and Practice"
 Comment: Clay McShane, Northeastern University

 9 December 2008, 5:15 PM
George H. Vrtis, Carleton College
"'Gold! Gold!! Gold!!!': Mining and Environmental Change in the 19th-Century West"
Comments: Beth LaDow, author of "The Medicine Line: Life and Death on a North American Borderland"

13 January 2009, 5:15 PM
Tish Tuttle, M. Tuttle & Associates
"Geological Record of Paleo-Earthquakes in the New Madrid Region"
Comment: Conevery Bolton Valencius, Harvard University

10 February 2009, 5:15 PM
Megan Nelson, California State University, Fullerton
"Battle Logs: The Ruins of Nature and the American Civil War"
 Comment: To be announced

10 March 2009, 5:15 PM
Peter Shulman, Case Western Reserve University
"Ships, Security, and the Politics of Trees: The Maritime Origins of American Forest Conservation"
Comment: Joseph F. Cullon, Dartmouth College

14 April 2009, 5:15 PM
Blake Harrison, Yale University
"New England Migrant Farm Workers"
 Comment: Matthew Garcia, Brown University


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