Conferences

A one-day conference, including panels on “Landscape and Representation,”  “Resources and Infrastructure,” and “Power and Expertise.”

A one-day conference, including panels on “The Nature of Nations,” “The Struggle for Environmental Control,” and “Animals and the Commons.”  

Human societies have always been defined by their relationship to plants and animals, whether through the domestication efforts that underlay the earliest sedentary societies, the commodification of plants and animals that arrived in the industrial age, or the new opportunities for manipulation that genetic engineering has provided.

For environmental historians, the question of what it means– and has meant– for a landscape to be healthy provides a starting point to explore the entanglement of human and natural histories.  The same landscape– such as the tropics– can carry multiple and contradictory meanings.