Dramas of Ecology
Carson Fellows Workshop
28.03.2011 10:00 – 16:00
Location: RCC Conference Room
The workshop "Dramas of Ecology" will be held at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society on 28 March 2011 with presentations by our Carson Fellows.
The event is free and open to the public. Lunchtime snacks will be provided.
The speakers and presentation titles are listed as follows:
- Robert Gioielli
"Inner-City People Are Our Most Endangered Species": Urban Environmentalism in Postwar America - Anne Milne
A Rural Poet in Britain: Acting Locally in Mary Leapor’s Upon Her Play Being Returned to Her, Stained with Claret (1751) - Marc Elie
Halting or Taming the "Black Dragon?" Mudflow Hazard and the Controversy over the Medeo Dam in Kazakhstan, 1958-1973 - Alexa Weik von Mossner
Troubling Futures: American Popular Culture and the Imagination of Global Environmental Risk
Photos from the event:
Robert Gioielli discussing different American presidential administrations' policies on urban environments
Marc Elie explaining the political-geographical landscape of Kazakhstan
Anne Milne assessing the prose of eighteenth-century British depictions of rural life