Friday, 19 May 2017

8:30 to 10:30: Session I: Plants, Pestilence, and Food

Manuel Lizarralde and Jason R. Mancini, “Recovering and Repatriating Native Americans Plant Knowledge: Historical Ethnobotany of Southern New England.”

Joseph Miller, “The Company of Joseph Treat’s War Against Nature.”

Rachel A. Snell, “Molding Gentility, Preserving Frugality: Jelly Recipes and the Development of Hybrid Sociability in the Lake Ontario Region.”

Brian Payne, “‘Cool, Crisp, Ocean Goodness’: The Environmental History and Consumer Culture of Canadian Seafood Marketing in the Twentieth Century.”

10:30-10:45: Break

10:45- 12:15: Session II: International Competition

Naomi Slipp, “Picturing Marine Abundance: Homer, Hammond, and Gilded Age Canadian- American Atlantic Herring Fisheries,”

Benjamin Kochan, “The Great Protein Robbery”: American and Canadian Reactions to Foreign Fishing in the Northwest Atlantic in the 1960s and 70s.”

William Knight, “Tracking Fish Introductions Across Borders.”

12:15-1:30 Lunch

1:30 – 3:00: Session III: Defining contested boundaries

Jack Bouchard, “Terra Nova and Terra Firme: The Mental Geography of the Newfoundland Fishery in the Sixteenth Century.”

Christopher L. Pastore, “Atlantic Beach: Constructing the Ocean’s Edge Materially and Imaginatively during the Age of Exploration.”

Caitlin Charman, “An ugly, piled-up sea”: Industrialization and Regional Identity in Hickman’s Gulf of St. Lawrence Fiction.”

Saturday 20 May 2017

9:30 -11:00 Session IV: Manipulating Nature

Jeffrey Egan, “The Fight Before the Flood: Rural Protest and the Creation of Boston’s Quabbin Reservoir, 1919-1927.”

Katheryn P. Viens, “’The natural features are broken’: The Spread of Manufacturing in Early 19th-Century Massachusetts”

Ed MacDonald, “Parks and People: The Second National Park Controversy on Prince Edward Island, 1960-1973”