“NEW PERSPECTIVES IN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY”
Saturday, April 22, 2017
A Northeast Regional Conference
Luce Hall, Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Yale Environmental History hosted its sixth “New Perspectives in Environmental History” conference on Saturday, April 22, 2017. The conference showcased new graduate student research in environmental history and to sought to encourage dialogue among graduate students and faculty.
The conference included three moderated panel sessions featuring papers by doctoral students from eight different universities. The first session, “TRANSNATIONAL COMMODITIES,” examined borders and boundaries in Pacific fisheries, the Lebanese oil complex, and the global exchange of nitrogen. The second panel, “LIVING EMPIRES,” considered the exchange of nonhuman animals in the Atlantic slave trade; domesticity and ecological adaptation in colonial Philadelphia; and the colonizing laboratory of Egyptian cotton farms. The third session, “NATURE BY DESIGN,” explored its theme around four stories: the protection of a hybrid landscape at Cape Cod National Seashore; the imagining of a Pleistocene museum at the La Brea Tar Pits; the creation of a living wall of trees on the Sino-Nomadic border; and the emergence of an adaptive and opportunistic agricultural landscape in the Ottoman empire.
The conference format was based on successful northeast regional conferences held at Yale in recent years.
We are grateful to our Co-Sponsors and Supporters:
Department of History, Yale University
Franke Program in Science and the Humanities
Program in the History of Science and Medicine, Yale University