If you’re interested in attending, please contact Matt McKenzie (matthew.mckenzie@uconn.edu) for more information, directions, etc.
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”
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