Crossing Divides

Location: Parc 55 Wyndham Hotel, San Francisco

The Rachel Carson Center (RCC) is pleased to have the opportunity to collaborate on a number of events at this year's annual conference of the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH).  The following two panels are sponsored by the RCC:

"Lost in Translation: Environmental History in a Global Context"

Plenary Session

Thursday, 13 March, 7:30 - 8:45 a.m.

Location: Cyril Magnin Ballroom (Level Four)

Please note early time; coffee, tea, and a limited continental breakfast will be provided. In the last decade, enironmental history has attracted an increasingly diverse array of the interest from all over the globe. This is evidenced by the rapid growth of regional environmental history societies in Latin America, Europe, and Asia as well as the formation of an International Consortium of Environmental History Organization. As more scholars from around the world pursue environmental history research and more Americanists look for global compairisons, new questions arise concerning the translation of mostly Americanist ideas and norms in other cultural and linquistic contexts. For example, how does one translate such terms as nature, conservation and wilderness? More practically, how do environmental historians engage professionally in universities and institutes where environmental history is still largely unkown?

Moderator: David Biggs (University of California-Riverside)

Presenters:

• John Agbonifo (Osun State University, Osagbo)

• Claudia Leal (Universidad de los Andes, Bogota)
• Christof Mauch (Rachel Carson Center)
• Donald Worster (Renmin University, Beijing)

• Hou Shen (Renmin University, Beijing)

"Waging Chemical War in Vietnam, in History and in Memory"

Panel 10-D: Hearst (Level Four)

Chair: Christof Mauch (Rachel Carson Center)

Presenters:

• Michelle Mart (Penn State University, Berks) Talking about Agent Orange
• Amy Marie Hay (University of Texas - Pan American) The "Inescapable Ecologies" of War Agent Orange Herbicides and the Contamination of Vietnam
• Ed Martini (Western Michigan University) The Fire This Time: Napalm and the Antiwar Movement

The RCC is sponsoring individual panelists involved in the following panels:

Back to Humans, In the End? The Challenges of the Environmental Humanities

Roundtable 2-C: Fillmore (Level Four)

Moderator: Ursula K Heise (University of California, Los Angeles)

Presenters:

• Marco Armiero (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
• Arielle Helmick (Rachel Carson Center, Munich)
• Gregg Mitman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Knowing Nature Through Domestic Labor

Panel 6-G: Mission II (Level Four)

Chair: Dawn Biehler (University of Maryland)

Presenters:

• Valerie Padilla Carroll (Kansas State University) The Genealogy of New Domesticity: Radical Eco-Home-Making in the 20th Century
• Kathy S Mason (University of Findlay) Angels of the Lighthouse: Women Lighthouse Keepers of Lake Michigan
• Dawn Biehler (University of Maryland) Nature in the Kitchen and at the Supper-Table: African_American Women and Small-Game Cookery in Rural and Urban Landscapes
• Robert Scott Emmett (Rachel Carson Center) Environmental Aesthetics and Materiality in Contemporary U.S. Literary Representations of Domestic Labor