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3/1/2016
6/1/2015
CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED
Northeastern & Atlantic Canada Environmental History Forum
Fourth Annual Meeting
21-22 August 2015
Bucknell University: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Call for Papers – extended deadline, 15 June 2015
Please join us for our annual workshop exploring themes in the environmental history of northeastern North America.
We define both the theme and the area broadly.
The goal of the workshop is three-fold:
Please submit abstracts of no more than 350 words to Claire Campbell (claire.campbell@bucknell.edu) by June 15, 2015. For more information on past workshops, see NACEHF.org.
Northeastern & Atlantic Canada Environmental History Forum
Fourth Annual Meeting
21-22 August 2015
Bucknell University: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Call for Papers – extended deadline, 15 June 2015
Please join us for our annual workshop exploring themes in the environmental history of northeastern North America.
We define both the theme and the area broadly.
- The study of the role of nature in the past, environmental history encompasses aboriginals and settlers, rural and urban communities, material and imaginative uses of nature.
- By northeastern North America, we envision a geography covering the American eastern seaboard from the Gulf of the St. Lawrence to the New Jersey shore and westward to the Appalachian Mountains.
The goal of the workshop is three-fold:
- to discuss works in progress;
- to foster a sense of community among scholars in different fields and at different stages of their careers;
- to work toward a sense of the distinct contributions of eastern North America to the field of environmental history.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 350 words to Claire Campbell (claire.campbell@bucknell.edu) by June 15, 2015. For more information on past workshops, see NACEHF.org.
1/1/2016
Fourth Annual Meeting
Call for Papers
21-22 August 2015
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Please join us for our annual workshop exploring themes in the environmental history of northeastern North America.
We define both the theme and the area broadly.
· The study of the role of nature in the past, environmental history encompasses aboriginals and settlers, rural and urban communities, material and imaginative uses of nature.
· By northeastern North America, we envision a geography covering the American eastern seaboard from the Gulf of the St. Lawrence to the New Jersey shore and westward to the Appalachian Mountains.
Located in the central Susquehanna River valley, Lewisburg is a wonderful place to think about these questions. The heart of the eighteenth-century frontier, soon the river was lined with towns prospering from farm produce and then timber and coal from the Allegheny hills. Now the hills are reforesting, shale gas has replaced coal, but many of these river towns have not found a postindustrial equilibrium. Lewisburg, though, has remained economically and aesthetically vibrant, and the contrast in rural sustainability is intriguing and instructive.
This story will resonate with many in the northeast, and we hope you will bring your own stories to share.
The goal of the workshop is three-fold:
· to discuss works in progress;
· to foster a sense of community among scholars in different fields and at different stages of their careers;
· to work toward a sense of the distinct contributions of eastern North America to the field of environmental history. Please join our online discussion via www.nacehf.org in advance of the workshop.
Participants will be expected to circulate article-length drafts no longer than 25 double-spaced pages one month ahead of the workshop, which will also include much time for interaction, tours, and free discussion.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 350 words to Claire Campbell (claire.campbell@bucknell.edu) by April 15, 2015.
Call for Papers
21-22 August 2015
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Please join us for our annual workshop exploring themes in the environmental history of northeastern North America.
We define both the theme and the area broadly.
· The study of the role of nature in the past, environmental history encompasses aboriginals and settlers, rural and urban communities, material and imaginative uses of nature.
· By northeastern North America, we envision a geography covering the American eastern seaboard from the Gulf of the St. Lawrence to the New Jersey shore and westward to the Appalachian Mountains.
Located in the central Susquehanna River valley, Lewisburg is a wonderful place to think about these questions. The heart of the eighteenth-century frontier, soon the river was lined with towns prospering from farm produce and then timber and coal from the Allegheny hills. Now the hills are reforesting, shale gas has replaced coal, but many of these river towns have not found a postindustrial equilibrium. Lewisburg, though, has remained economically and aesthetically vibrant, and the contrast in rural sustainability is intriguing and instructive.
This story will resonate with many in the northeast, and we hope you will bring your own stories to share.
The goal of the workshop is three-fold:
· to discuss works in progress;
· to foster a sense of community among scholars in different fields and at different stages of their careers;
· to work toward a sense of the distinct contributions of eastern North America to the field of environmental history. Please join our online discussion via www.nacehf.org in advance of the workshop.
Participants will be expected to circulate article-length drafts no longer than 25 double-spaced pages one month ahead of the workshop, which will also include much time for interaction, tours, and free discussion.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 350 words to Claire Campbell (claire.campbell@bucknell.edu) by April 15, 2015.
12/6/2014
Massachusetts Historical Society Research Fellowships
Reminder: The deadline for MHS-NEH support is January 15, 2015!
The Massachusetts Historical Society will offer more than three dozen research fellowships for the academic year 2015-2016, including two MHS-NEH Long-term Fellowships made possible by an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Their stipend, governed by an NEH formula, will be $4,200 per month for a minimum of four months and a maximum of twelve months. MHS Short-term Fellowships carry a stipend of $2,000 to support four or more weeks of research in the Society’s collections. The Boston Athenaeum and the MHS will offer one Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship on the Civil War, its Origins, and Consequences for at least four weeks at each institution. This fellowship carries a stipend of $4,000. The Society also participates in the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium of twenty-one organizations. These grants provide a stipend of $5,000 for eight or more weeks of research at participating institutions.
For more information, please visit [ http://www.masshist.org/research/fellowships ]www.masshist.org/research/fellowships, email [ mailto:fellowships@masshist.org ]fellowships@masshist.org or phone 617-646-0568. MHS-NEH application deadline: January 15, 2015. New England Regional Fellowship Consortium deadline: February 1, 2015. Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship deadline: February 15, 2015. MHS Short-term Fellowship deadline: March 1, 2015.
Reminder: The deadline for MHS-NEH support is January 15, 2015!
The Massachusetts Historical Society will offer more than three dozen research fellowships for the academic year 2015-2016, including two MHS-NEH Long-term Fellowships made possible by an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Their stipend, governed by an NEH formula, will be $4,200 per month for a minimum of four months and a maximum of twelve months. MHS Short-term Fellowships carry a stipend of $2,000 to support four or more weeks of research in the Society’s collections. The Boston Athenaeum and the MHS will offer one Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship on the Civil War, its Origins, and Consequences for at least four weeks at each institution. This fellowship carries a stipend of $4,000. The Society also participates in the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium of twenty-one organizations. These grants provide a stipend of $5,000 for eight or more weeks of research at participating institutions.
For more information, please visit [ http://www.masshist.org/research/fellowships ]www.masshist.org/research/fellowships, email [ mailto:fellowships@masshist.org ]fellowships@masshist.org or phone 617-646-0568. MHS-NEH application deadline: January 15, 2015. New England Regional Fellowship Consortium deadline: February 1, 2015. Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship deadline: February 15, 2015. MHS Short-term Fellowship deadline: March 1, 2015.
10/21/2014
Section of Richard Judd's Second Nature have been uploaded to the website. These can be accessed by clicking on NACEHF Resources and then Second Nature. One can also access them directly at www.nacehf.org/second-nature.html password will be required. The password is the same as the password for the conference. If you have forgotten the site password please email Daniel Soucier at daniel.soucier@umit.maine.edu
6/25/2014
Registration is now open for the workshop taking place during August in Prince Edward Island. There is also a rough draft of the schedule of events posted as well. This information can be accessed under the 2014 Workshop tab at the top of the page.
1/21/2014
*EXTENDED DEADLINE*
Call for Papers: Northeast and Atlantic Canada Environmental History
Forum (NACEHF) Third Annual Meeting, Charlottetown, Prince Edward
Island, PEI, Aug. 1-2, 2014.
"Looking Eastward for New Visions of Environmental History"
Since its inception, environmental history in North America
has been driven by questions arising from western experiences. This
year's NACEHF meeting invites scholars to explore how studies of
northeastern North America raise different questions, reflect different
understandings, and yield different results from similar studies focused
in the west. Building on findings from meetings held in Boston (2012)
and Maine (2013), NACEHF asks scholars to consider how the region's
environmental history challenges us to reconsider such issues as:
*The suitability of nature-culture dichotomies for studies of
northeastern North America
*Long-term resource use vs. encounters with "pristine nature"
*Sustainability regimes, past, present and future
*Colonial and post-colonial interpretations of environmental history
*Northeastern North America within larger Atlantic commercial,
intellectual, scientific, or cultural realms.
*Environmental histories of re-industrialized and/or re-urbanized
spaces and communities
*The defining and interpreting environmental "recoveries"
Accepted journal-length manuscripts will be pre-circulated and discussed
in workshops designed to critique, challenge, enhance, and broaden
paper's strengths and significances.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 350 words to Brian Payne
(Brian.Payne@bridgew.edu) by 15 March, 2014.
Call for Papers: Northeast and Atlantic Canada Environmental History
Forum (NACEHF) Third Annual Meeting, Charlottetown, Prince Edward
Island, PEI, Aug. 1-2, 2014.
"Looking Eastward for New Visions of Environmental History"
Since its inception, environmental history in North America
has been driven by questions arising from western experiences. This
year's NACEHF meeting invites scholars to explore how studies of
northeastern North America raise different questions, reflect different
understandings, and yield different results from similar studies focused
in the west. Building on findings from meetings held in Boston (2012)
and Maine (2013), NACEHF asks scholars to consider how the region's
environmental history challenges us to reconsider such issues as:
*The suitability of nature-culture dichotomies for studies of
northeastern North America
*Long-term resource use vs. encounters with "pristine nature"
*Sustainability regimes, past, present and future
*Colonial and post-colonial interpretations of environmental history
*Northeastern North America within larger Atlantic commercial,
intellectual, scientific, or cultural realms.
*Environmental histories of re-industrialized and/or re-urbanized
spaces and communities
*The defining and interpreting environmental "recoveries"
Accepted journal-length manuscripts will be pre-circulated and discussed
in workshops designed to critique, challenge, enhance, and broaden
paper's strengths and significances.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 350 words to Brian Payne
(Brian.Payne@bridgew.edu) by 15 March, 2014.
12/3/2013
Call for Papers: Northeast and Atlantic Canada Environmental History
Forum (NACEHF) Third Annual Meeting, Charlottetown, Prince Edward
Island, PEI, Aug. 1-2, 2014.
"Looking Eastward for New Visions of Environmental History"
Since its inception, environmental history in North America
has been driven by questions arising from western experiences. This
year's NACEHF meeting invites scholars to explore how studies of
northeastern North America raise different questions, reflect different
understandings, and yield different results from similar studies focused
in the west. Building on findings from meetings held in Boston (2012)
and Maine (2013), NACEHF asks scholars to consider how the region's
environmental history challenges us to reconsider such issues as:
*The suitability of nature-culture dichotomies for studies of
northeastern North America
*Long-term resource use vs. encounters with "pristine nature"
*Sustainability regimes, past, present and future
*Colonial and post-colonial interpretations of environmental history
*Northeastern North America within larger Atlantic commercial,
intellectual, scientific, or cultural realms.
*Environmental histories of re-industrialized and/or re-urbanized
spaces and communities
*The defining and interpreting environmental "recoveries"
Accepted journal-length manuscripts will be pre-circulated and discussed
in workshops designed to critique, challenge, enhance, and broaden
paper's strengths and significances.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 350 words to Brian Payne
(Brian.Payne@bridgew.edu) by 1 February, 2014.
Forum (NACEHF) Third Annual Meeting, Charlottetown, Prince Edward
Island, PEI, Aug. 1-2, 2014.
"Looking Eastward for New Visions of Environmental History"
Since its inception, environmental history in North America
has been driven by questions arising from western experiences. This
year's NACEHF meeting invites scholars to explore how studies of
northeastern North America raise different questions, reflect different
understandings, and yield different results from similar studies focused
in the west. Building on findings from meetings held in Boston (2012)
and Maine (2013), NACEHF asks scholars to consider how the region's
environmental history challenges us to reconsider such issues as:
*The suitability of nature-culture dichotomies for studies of
northeastern North America
*Long-term resource use vs. encounters with "pristine nature"
*Sustainability regimes, past, present and future
*Colonial and post-colonial interpretations of environmental history
*Northeastern North America within larger Atlantic commercial,
intellectual, scientific, or cultural realms.
*Environmental histories of re-industrialized and/or re-urbanized
spaces and communities
*The defining and interpreting environmental "recoveries"
Accepted journal-length manuscripts will be pre-circulated and discussed
in workshops designed to critique, challenge, enhance, and broaden
paper's strengths and significances.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 350 words to Brian Payne
(Brian.Payne@bridgew.edu) by 1 February, 2014.
9/11/2013
Please join us for the 2013-2014 season of the Boston Environmental History Seminar.
The coming year will be the seminar’s thirteenth. Our first session for 2013-2014 will take place on Tuesday, October 8, at 5:15 p.m. at the MHS, 1154 Boylston Street, in Boston. John Larson of Purdue will present a paper on political economy and the exploitation of environmental resources in the colonial and early national periods; Joyce Chaplin of Harvard will offer the comment.
Other sessions will deal with earthquakes in San Francisco, hurricanes in Texas, Pacific expansion in the nineteenth century as environmental history, the environmental implications of African American efforts for the Civilian Conservation Corps, and the economic development of a ski area. A special panel discussion on December 10 will discuss different approaches (including different tools) for researching and writing environmental history. The complete schedule is available at http://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/environmental-history.
As in the past, we are making all of the essays available to subscribers as .pdfs through the above webpage. Subscribers also receive access to the essays to be discussed in the Boston Area Early American History Seminar and the Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar, both also held at the MHS. For additional information or to receive email announcements of forthcoming programs, contact Research Coordinator Kate Viens at kviens@masshist.org or 617-646-0568.
The first essay is available now, so don’t delay!
--
Kate Viens, Research Coordinator
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215
Tel: 617-646-0568, Fax: 617-859-0074
www.masshist.org - America's First Historical Society - Founded 1791
8/6/2013
The Northeast Atlantic Canada Environmental History Forum website will be under construction to prepare for the 2013 conference. Access to certain areas of the site may be down during this process. Thank you for your patience.
7/25/2013
This year's Northeast and Atlantic Canada Environmental History Forum workshop will be held at the University of Maine in Orono on September 28. After some deliberation, the steering committee is happy to release this tentative schedule (found below post-script). If you are a participant, please take a moment to review the schedule and confirm with us that you are still able to participate.
This year's workshop promises to be as successful as last year's meeting in Boston. To ensure best participation and discussion, all presenters must upload this full paper to the nacehf.org website by September 2. This will give participants approximately four weeks to read all the papers and come to Orono fully prepared to engage in the rigorous debate that makes these types of workshops so successful for everyone involved.
To place your paper on the NACEHF website please email a pdf of your paper to 2013workshop@nacehf.org. Our webmaster, Daniel Soucier, will the upload it to a password-protected portion of the website. To access papers of other participants please register for the 2013 conference. Upon registering the username and password to access these files will be sent to you. Please note that there will be a delay in registering for the conference and receiving the login information. Our system is not automated.
The format of the presentation will be identical to last year's workshop. Each presenter will be given 10 minutes to discuss their topic and set up the trajectory of discussion related to their paper. Each session will be moderated by a commentator who will be given ten minutes to present some of their own observations on how the papers of the panel may work together. The remainder of the time will be devoted to group discussion.
The committee is currently organizing a pre-workshop dinner in Orono to be held on the evening of Friday, September 27. Please check back for updates regarding this.
The committee is also gathering information on potential lodging places and will send out that information by the end of August.
We look forward to an exceptional gathering. Please contact us with any questions of concerns.
Sincerely,
Brian J. Payne
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Bridgewater State University
Secretary, Northeast-Atlantic Canada Environment History Forum
This year's workshop promises to be as successful as last year's meeting in Boston. To ensure best participation and discussion, all presenters must upload this full paper to the nacehf.org website by September 2. This will give participants approximately four weeks to read all the papers and come to Orono fully prepared to engage in the rigorous debate that makes these types of workshops so successful for everyone involved.
To place your paper on the NACEHF website please email a pdf of your paper to 2013workshop@nacehf.org. Our webmaster, Daniel Soucier, will the upload it to a password-protected portion of the website. To access papers of other participants please register for the 2013 conference. Upon registering the username and password to access these files will be sent to you. Please note that there will be a delay in registering for the conference and receiving the login information. Our system is not automated.
The format of the presentation will be identical to last year's workshop. Each presenter will be given 10 minutes to discuss their topic and set up the trajectory of discussion related to their paper. Each session will be moderated by a commentator who will be given ten minutes to present some of their own observations on how the papers of the panel may work together. The remainder of the time will be devoted to group discussion.
The committee is currently organizing a pre-workshop dinner in Orono to be held on the evening of Friday, September 27. Please check back for updates regarding this.
The committee is also gathering information on potential lodging places and will send out that information by the end of August.
We look forward to an exceptional gathering. Please contact us with any questions of concerns.
Sincerely,
Brian J. Payne
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Bridgewater State University
Secretary, Northeast-Atlantic Canada Environment History Forum
Northeast and Atlantic Canada Environmental History Forum
September 28, 2013 Workshop
University of Maine
Orono, Maine
8:00-8:30 – Continental Breakfast and Opening Remarks
8:30-10:00 - Session One: Methodology and the Use of Environmental History
Alan MacEachren, “Surveys of All They Mastered”
Daniel Soucier, “Discovering the Past through Digital Environment: Thoreau’s Walden in Second Life”
Matthew McKenzie, “Accounting for the Influence of Clio: New England Maritime Historians and Regional
Fisheries Policy, 1921-1986”
10:00-10:30 - Break
10:30-12:00 - Session Two: Protests in Modern Environmentalism
Neil Forkey, “‘Has this country sunk to such a point that it allows the Air Force to terrorize its own
citizens?’: New York’s North Country Confronts Low-Altitude, Military Flights, 1989-1991”
Mark Leeming, “In Tune With The Earth: Musical Protest and Nova Scotian Environmentalism"
Jackie Mirandola Mullen, "'The Cape Cod Formula': Public Park From Private Land”
12:00-1:00 - Lunch Break
1:00-2:00 - Session Three: Contested Landscapes and the Human Mind and Body
Strother Roberts, “Hydrology and the History of Malaria in 17th-19th-Century New England”
Joseph Miller, “The Human Landscape of War”
2:00-2:30 - Break
2:30-3:30 - Session Four: Localism and the Control of the Environment
Brian Payne, “Controlling the Cost of Fish: Markets, Nature, and Labor in Maine’s Sardine Fishery, 1875-1930”
Bill Parenteau, “Colonization, Corporate Resource Management and Forest Fires in New Brunswick, 1918-1935”
3:30-4:00 - Break
4:00-5:00 - Session Five: New Directions in Environmental Literature
Dale Potts, “‘A Greenness Already Determined': Writer/Naturalist Hal Borland, Popular Environmental Literature, and Nature as More than the Backdrop to History, 1946-1978”
Mark McLaughlin, "Rise of the Eco-Comics! The State and Modern Environmental Values in Canadian Comic Books, 1971-1975"
5:00-6:00 - Closing Remarks
September 28, 2013 Workshop
University of Maine
Orono, Maine
8:00-8:30 – Continental Breakfast and Opening Remarks
8:30-10:00 - Session One: Methodology and the Use of Environmental History
Alan MacEachren, “Surveys of All They Mastered”
Daniel Soucier, “Discovering the Past through Digital Environment: Thoreau’s Walden in Second Life”
Matthew McKenzie, “Accounting for the Influence of Clio: New England Maritime Historians and Regional
Fisheries Policy, 1921-1986”
10:00-10:30 - Break
10:30-12:00 - Session Two: Protests in Modern Environmentalism
Neil Forkey, “‘Has this country sunk to such a point that it allows the Air Force to terrorize its own
citizens?’: New York’s North Country Confronts Low-Altitude, Military Flights, 1989-1991”
Mark Leeming, “In Tune With The Earth: Musical Protest and Nova Scotian Environmentalism"
Jackie Mirandola Mullen, "'The Cape Cod Formula': Public Park From Private Land”
12:00-1:00 - Lunch Break
1:00-2:00 - Session Three: Contested Landscapes and the Human Mind and Body
Strother Roberts, “Hydrology and the History of Malaria in 17th-19th-Century New England”
Joseph Miller, “The Human Landscape of War”
2:00-2:30 - Break
2:30-3:30 - Session Four: Localism and the Control of the Environment
Brian Payne, “Controlling the Cost of Fish: Markets, Nature, and Labor in Maine’s Sardine Fishery, 1875-1930”
Bill Parenteau, “Colonization, Corporate Resource Management and Forest Fires in New Brunswick, 1918-1935”
3:30-4:00 - Break
4:00-5:00 - Session Five: New Directions in Environmental Literature
Dale Potts, “‘A Greenness Already Determined': Writer/Naturalist Hal Borland, Popular Environmental Literature, and Nature as More than the Backdrop to History, 1946-1978”
Mark McLaughlin, "Rise of the Eco-Comics! The State and Modern Environmental Values in Canadian Comic Books, 1971-1975"
5:00-6:00 - Closing Remarks
6/21/2013
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 5
The Northeast and Atlantic Canada Environmental History Forum
Call For Papers 2013
University of Maine
Orono, Maine
September 28, 2013
The Northeast and Atlantic Canada Environmental History Forum will host its second one-day academic workshop to examine new approaches to the environmental history of the Northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada.
The workshop will take place at the University of Maine in Orono on September 28, 2013.
The aim of the workshop is to explore, from different critical perspectives, the environmental history of the Northeast, including New England, eastern Canada, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The workshop will focus on the social and cultural history of the region as shaped by human interaction with nature as well as a complex natural history of geological upheaval, climatic change, erosion, and renewal.
Papers might consider topics such as land use, waterways, forests, oceans, environmental justice, native peoples, women, men, and governments. Papers should be 3,500-4,000 words in length, and present original research on specific topics on the environmental history of the northeastern US and Atlantic Canada. Accepted papers will be pre-circulated to registered attendees. Presentations will be organized into four themed panels. Presenters will be given approximately ten minutes to summarize the paper's major goals and conclusions before discussion is opened to workshop participants.
Proposals should consist of a 500-word abstract of the proposed paper and a complete CV. All proposals should be submitted individually to Brian Payne at brian.payne@bridgew.edu.
Deadline for submission is July 5, 2013.
The Northeast and Atlantic Canada Environmental History Forum
Call For Papers 2013
University of Maine
Orono, Maine
September 28, 2013
The Northeast and Atlantic Canada Environmental History Forum will host its second one-day academic workshop to examine new approaches to the environmental history of the Northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada.
The workshop will take place at the University of Maine in Orono on September 28, 2013.
The aim of the workshop is to explore, from different critical perspectives, the environmental history of the Northeast, including New England, eastern Canada, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The workshop will focus on the social and cultural history of the region as shaped by human interaction with nature as well as a complex natural history of geological upheaval, climatic change, erosion, and renewal.
Papers might consider topics such as land use, waterways, forests, oceans, environmental justice, native peoples, women, men, and governments. Papers should be 3,500-4,000 words in length, and present original research on specific topics on the environmental history of the northeastern US and Atlantic Canada. Accepted papers will be pre-circulated to registered attendees. Presentations will be organized into four themed panels. Presenters will be given approximately ten minutes to summarize the paper's major goals and conclusions before discussion is opened to workshop participants.
Proposals should consist of a 500-word abstract of the proposed paper and a complete CV. All proposals should be submitted individually to Brian Payne at brian.payne@bridgew.edu.
Deadline for submission is July 5, 2013.
5/17/2013
The Northeast and Atlantic Canada Environmental History Forum
Call For Papers 2013
University of Maine
Orono, Maine
September 28, 2013
The Northeast and Atlantic Canada Environmental History Forum will host its second one-day academic workshop to examine new approaches to the environmental history of the Northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada.
The workshop will take place at the University of Maine in Orono on September 28, 2013.
The aim of the workshop is to explore, from different critical perspectives, the environmental history of the Northeast, including New England, eastern Canada, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The workshop will focus on the social and cultural history of the region as shaped by human interaction with nature as well as a complex natural history of geological upheaval, climatic change, erosion, and renewal.
Papers might consider topics such as land use, waterways, forests, oceans, environmental justice, native peoples, women, men, and governments. Papers should be 3,500-4,000 words in length, and present original research on specific topics on the environmental history of the northeastern US and Atlantic Canada. Accepted papers will be pre-circulated to registered attendees. Presentations will be organized into four themed panels. Presenters will be given approximately ten minutes to summarize the paper's major goals and conclusions before discussion is opened to workshop participants.
Proposals should consist of a 500-word abstract of the proposed paper and a complete CV. All proposals should be submitted individually to Brian Payne at brian.payne@bridgew.edu.
Deadline for submission is June 21, 2013.
Call For Papers 2013
University of Maine
Orono, Maine
September 28, 2013
The Northeast and Atlantic Canada Environmental History Forum will host its second one-day academic workshop to examine new approaches to the environmental history of the Northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada.
The workshop will take place at the University of Maine in Orono on September 28, 2013.
The aim of the workshop is to explore, from different critical perspectives, the environmental history of the Northeast, including New England, eastern Canada, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The workshop will focus on the social and cultural history of the region as shaped by human interaction with nature as well as a complex natural history of geological upheaval, climatic change, erosion, and renewal.
Papers might consider topics such as land use, waterways, forests, oceans, environmental justice, native peoples, women, men, and governments. Papers should be 3,500-4,000 words in length, and present original research on specific topics on the environmental history of the northeastern US and Atlantic Canada. Accepted papers will be pre-circulated to registered attendees. Presentations will be organized into four themed panels. Presenters will be given approximately ten minutes to summarize the paper's major goals and conclusions before discussion is opened to workshop participants.
Proposals should consist of a 500-word abstract of the proposed paper and a complete CV. All proposals should be submitted individually to Brian Payne at brian.payne@bridgew.edu.
Deadline for submission is June 21, 2013.
3/18/2013
Dear Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to participate in the Northeast-Atlantic Canada Environmental History Forum Annual breakfast at this year's conference for the American Society for Environmental History to be held in Toronto, Ontario.
The breakfast will take place at Over Easy (http://www.overeasyrestaurants.com/) at 56 Yonge Street, 600 yards from the conference hotel, on Friday, 5 April, 7:00-8:20am.
The Purpose of the breakfast is to further encourage the networking among environmental historians working on topics within the Northeastern United States and Atlantic Canadian Provinces.
We will also discuss the next workshop to be held in October 2013.
Meals run from about $6.99 to $9.99 a plate.
If you are able to attend the breakfast, please RSVP to Daniel Soucier at daniel.soucier@nacehf.org.
Please feel free to pass this message on to anyone who you may think would be interested in the meeting or the organization.
Looking forward to see you all there.
Brian
You are cordially invited to participate in the Northeast-Atlantic Canada Environmental History Forum Annual breakfast at this year's conference for the American Society for Environmental History to be held in Toronto, Ontario.
The breakfast will take place at Over Easy (http://www.overeasyrestaurants.com/) at 56 Yonge Street, 600 yards from the conference hotel, on Friday, 5 April, 7:00-8:20am.
The Purpose of the breakfast is to further encourage the networking among environmental historians working on topics within the Northeastern United States and Atlantic Canadian Provinces.
We will also discuss the next workshop to be held in October 2013.
Meals run from about $6.99 to $9.99 a plate.
If you are able to attend the breakfast, please RSVP to Daniel Soucier at daniel.soucier@nacehf.org.
Please feel free to pass this message on to anyone who you may think would be interested in the meeting or the organization.
Looking forward to see you all there.
Brian
12/21/2012
Dear Colleagues,
It has been a bit over two months since we held our first workshop on the environmental history of the northeast and Atlantic Canada. Everyone involved; presenters, commentators, and audience members, agreed that it was overwhelmingly successful.
The success of the event was largely due to the quality of the papers, presentations, and commentary, but equally important was the spirited conversation that followed each session. This level of engagement was exactly what the committee had hoped for.
Now we just need to figure our a way to maintain that momentum and enthusiasm.
First, we are in the process of planning a follow-up meeting for anyone interested in the North-East Atlantic Canada Environmental History Forum at the 2013 ASEH meeting in Toronto. At that meeting we will provide a brief overview of the organization and what we have accomplished during the past year, but the bulk of the time will be spent on the future; namely, the fall 2013 workshop to be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We'll post additional information as soon as we have it.
Second, we are in the process of revising this website to include a running "blog" consisting of research notes. Anyone should feel free to post their latest research ideas or plans and/or comment on others' posts. All posts, initial and commentary, will be monitored to ensure that the conversations remain professional and constructive. To post your research, email an abstract of your work to daniel.soucier@nacehf.org
Richard Judd and Brian Payne will be providing the initial posts on the "research blog" portion of the website.
Dick will be outlining his current book projects: the first, now under review, is an environmental history of New England from glacial retreat to the present; and the second is a project just getting underway, tentatively titled "Inventing Thoreau: The Meaning of Nature in the Making of an American Icon."
Brian will be posting on his ongoing research into the history of seafood canning in coastal Maine. This post will look specifically at the weir fishermen's response to the collapsing market after 1919 and their (failed) goal for an international weir fishermen's union.
More posts will be initiated in the very near future, and we invite anyone to add new posts or comment on any existing posts. Questions can be directed to daniel.soucier@nacehf.org
The "Research Blog" also may be a good space for people to spread the word about their ASEH presentations. Let us know what you will present, when, and where and we'll do our best to pack the room.
All things look bright and promising for the future of the NACEHF, but we need to keep up the momentum during these early years of maturation.
We look forward to hearing from you all.
It has been a bit over two months since we held our first workshop on the environmental history of the northeast and Atlantic Canada. Everyone involved; presenters, commentators, and audience members, agreed that it was overwhelmingly successful.
The success of the event was largely due to the quality of the papers, presentations, and commentary, but equally important was the spirited conversation that followed each session. This level of engagement was exactly what the committee had hoped for.
Now we just need to figure our a way to maintain that momentum and enthusiasm.
First, we are in the process of planning a follow-up meeting for anyone interested in the North-East Atlantic Canada Environmental History Forum at the 2013 ASEH meeting in Toronto. At that meeting we will provide a brief overview of the organization and what we have accomplished during the past year, but the bulk of the time will be spent on the future; namely, the fall 2013 workshop to be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We'll post additional information as soon as we have it.
Second, we are in the process of revising this website to include a running "blog" consisting of research notes. Anyone should feel free to post their latest research ideas or plans and/or comment on others' posts. All posts, initial and commentary, will be monitored to ensure that the conversations remain professional and constructive. To post your research, email an abstract of your work to daniel.soucier@nacehf.org
Richard Judd and Brian Payne will be providing the initial posts on the "research blog" portion of the website.
Dick will be outlining his current book projects: the first, now under review, is an environmental history of New England from glacial retreat to the present; and the second is a project just getting underway, tentatively titled "Inventing Thoreau: The Meaning of Nature in the Making of an American Icon."
Brian will be posting on his ongoing research into the history of seafood canning in coastal Maine. This post will look specifically at the weir fishermen's response to the collapsing market after 1919 and their (failed) goal for an international weir fishermen's union.
More posts will be initiated in the very near future, and we invite anyone to add new posts or comment on any existing posts. Questions can be directed to daniel.soucier@nacehf.org
The "Research Blog" also may be a good space for people to spread the word about their ASEH presentations. Let us know what you will present, when, and where and we'll do our best to pack the room.
All things look bright and promising for the future of the NACEHF, but we need to keep up the momentum during these early years of maturation.
We look forward to hearing from you all.
