CHE Place-based Workshops

Each year, CHE hosts a "Place-Based Workshop" that uses place to integrate transdisciplinary perspectives, both in education and research, in understanding human-environment interactions over time.

The Place-Based Workshop is one of CHE’s most important annual activities, and fulfills a core requirement of the CHE certificate. Most of all, it is a wonderful opportunity for members of the CHE community to get to know each other on a much more personal basis while exploring environmental history themes via interdisciplinary conversations that are the reasons for the Center’s existence.

Mark your calendar!

CHE's 2013 Place-Based workshop will be held May 20-23, 2013

 

 

 

Past Workshops

2012

CHE's 2012 Place-Based Workshop, "Vernacular Landscapes of Southwest WI and Greater Madison," explored the cultural and built landscapes of southwest Wisconsin and the Madison region with the help of the organizers of this year's Vernacular Architecture Conference in Madison--CHE's Anna Andrzejewski and Arne Alanen.

2011

In May 2011, CHE's annual Place-Based Workshop explored a diverse set of "Landscapes of Health" around Wisconsin. Learn more about this workshop and CHE's reflections on health and the environment here

2010

 

Participants of CHE's 2010 workshop, Energy in the Upper Midwest, traveled to different sites of energy production, consumption, and distribution in Wisconsin and Illinois.¹

2009

2009's Chicago and Indiana Dunes Place-Based Workshop was one of CHE's most ambitious workshops on record. The workshop explored themes relating to the history of ecology, environmental justice, and the history of the natural and built environments in Chicago and the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. You can view the Reading an Urban Landscape, which was compiled by the participants of the Chicago trip.²

2008

 

 

 

In 2008, CHE workshop members explored agricultural landscapes of southwestern Wisconsin. The workshop included a canoe trip down the Kickapoo River.³

 

2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the spring of 2007, CHE faculty and students traveled to the Apostle Islands region of northern Wisconsin for 5 days to explore the many facets of the region’s rich cultural, environmental, and social history.⁴


The first faculty-graduate student workshop took place through an evolving partnership with Montana State University. Approximately 12 Nelson Institute-associated faculty and graduate students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison participated in a workshop in January of 2007 at Chico Hot Springs, just outside Yellowstone National Park, devoted to exploring particular issues at the interdisciplinary intersection of environmental history, history of science, history of technology, and conservation biology.⁵

 

 

 

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