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2018: Canada Museum of Agriculture [Central Experimental Farm], Ottawa
Friday, June 15, 2018
Arboretum Walk 8:00-8:30
Breakfast 8:30-9:00
Session 1 (1.5 hours) 9:00-10:30
Benjamin Kochan, Boston University, “Capturing Trade: Competition for Market Share and Fisheries Development Funds in Northwest Atlantic Fisheries, 1945-1954.”
Mark J. McLaughlin, University of Maine, “The Crown Forest, Modernization, and the State”
Troy Vettese, New York University, “Firm and Super-Firm: How Neo-Liberalism Confronts the Environmental Crisis”
Break (15 minutes) 10:30-10:45
Session 2 (1.5 hours) 10:45-12:15
Claire Campbell, Bucknell University, “‘Rising with the Tide of History’: The Age of Sail as Industrial Alibi”
Laurel Muldoon and Kirsten Greer, Nipissing University, “Engaging in Interdisciplinary Research: Connecting Bermuda’s Histories of Meteorology to Canada”
Kristian Price, University of Albany, “‘Briny Monsters’ and ‘Greedy Robbers’: The Role of Sharks in the Transatlantic Slave Trade”
Lunch Break (1 hour) 12:15-1:15
Session 3 (1 hour) 1:15-2:15
Magen Hudak, Trent University, “Socio-Cultural and Environmental Interpretations of Property Abandonment: Northeastern Nova Scotia”
Richard Judd, University of Maine, “Concord’s Poem: The Built Environment and Henry David Thoreau’s Sense of Place”
Saturday, June 16, 2018
Arboretum Walk 8:00-8:30
Breakfast 8:30-9:00
Session 4 (1 hour) 9:00-10:00
Kristoffer Whitney, RIT, “Banding Together: The Science and Politics of Migratory Birds in the Atlantic Flyway”
Josh MacFadyen, Arizona State University, Canada’s Last Green Revolution: Modern Agriculture in Prince Edward Island, 1968-2015
Break (15 minutes) 10:00-10:15
Wrap-Up Session and Planning for 2019 (1 hour) 10:15-11:15
2017: Avery Point Campus, University of Connecticut
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, “Bays and Basins, Rivers and Roads: Linkages Across Boundaries in the Northwest Atlantic and Eastern North America,” May 19-20, 2017
Ed MacDonald, Parks and People: The Second National Park Controversy on Prince Edward Island, 1960-1973
2016: Gorsebrook Institute for Atlantic Canadian Studies, Saint Mary’s University
Friday, 12 August
8:45-9:00 am Introductions
9:00 am Jack Bouchard, University of Pittsburgh
The Problem of Scurvy in the 16th Century Newfoundland Fishery
9:45 am Daniel Soucier, University of Maine
War upon the French, the Fishermen, and the Fishery: Razing Crops, Cattle, and Built Environment during the Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign, 1758
10:30 Break
10:45 Brian Payne, Bridgewater State University
The Fish Trade of Prince Edward Island and Resource Diplomacy in
the Gulf of St. Lawrence
11:30 Matt McKenzie, University of Connecticut
Outsourcing Resource Exploitation: The Triumph of Atlantic Canada’s Nineteenth Century Fisheries, 1866-1916
12:15 Margot Maddison-MacFadyen
Province House and the Empire, Trees, Climate Project
12:30-1:15 Lunch at SMU and depart for Grand Pré
2:15 Arrive at Grand Pré
2:30-4:30 Grand Pré NHS
4:30-5 Blomidon
6 pm Return to Halifax
Saturday, 13 August
8:45 Reconvene
9:00 Jeffrey Egan, University of Connecticut
“The Great Reservoir”: Frederick P. Stearns and the Boston Metropolitan Water Supply, 1885-1905
9:45 Kris Archibald, Concordia University
Health and the Workplace Environment: New Attitudes Towards Pollution Within Sydney’s Steelworker Community, 1967-1990
10:30 Break
10:45 Michael Stamm, Michigan State University
The Statue and the Dam: The Chicago Tribune and the Corporate Transformation of the North Shore Landscape
11:30 Claire Campbell, Bucknell University
“A window looking seaward”: Finding environmental history in the
writing of L.M. Montgomery
12:15 Discussion of Gulf of the St. Lawrence edited collection
Edward MacDonald, UPEI & Brian Payne, BSU
2015: Bucknell University, Lewisburg PA
Friday 21 August
2:30 Welcome and Keynote
“Stories of the Susquehanna: A Digital investigation of History, Place, and First Peoples”
Katherine Faull, Comparative Humanities, Bucknell University
3:30-4:00 Session 1
“Lenape (‘Delaware’) in the early colonial economy: Cultural interactions and the slow processes of culture change before 1740”
Marshall Becker, West Chester University
6:30- Dinner
Mancini’s Pizza, 428 Market Street.
(Other options include: Elizabeth’s (upscale), Siam Café (Thai), Bushel & Barrel, and the Towne Tavern, all on Market Street.)
Saturday 22 August
8:45-9:00 Coffee
9:00-10:00 Session 2
“‘Begotten ‘Twixt a Wolf and a Fox’: Dogs and the Environment in the Seventeenth-Century Northeast”
Strother E. Roberts, Bowdoin College
“Shell Games: The Aquatic Commons, Economic Policy, and Shellfish Aquaculture in Prince Edward Island, Canada”
Edward Macdonald, UPEI
10:00-11:00 Session 3
“Imagining Mount Desert: Seeing the ‘True New England Character’ in a Republican and Arcadian Landscape, 1790-1850”
Nathan Price, independent scholar
“Negotiating Rural Modernity: The Maine Extension Service in Franklin County, 1914-1930”
Justus Hillebrand, University of Maine
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:15 Session 4
“The Environmental Roots of Urban Renewal and Minority Dislocation: Boston’s South End, 1937-1949”
Michael Brennan, University of Maine
“Extracting Aggregate, Extracting Paradise: Social and Environmental Impacts of Resource Extraction at Silver Sands Beach, Nova Scotia, 1940s-1970s”
Magen L. Hudak, Trent University
12:15-2:15 Lunch in downtown Lewisburg
2:15-3:15 Panel discussion: led by Matthew McKenzie, University of Connecticut
~ Second Nature: An Environmental History of New England (Richard Judd)
and Land and Sea: Environmental History in Atlantic Canada (eds. Campbell & Summerby-Murray)
Introductory chapters available at www.nacehf.org
~ of the borders of “north east” and “Atlantic”
3:15-4:00 Planning for NACEHF 2016
For more information, contact Claire Campbell: