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Inaugural CHE Graduate Student Symposium
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Memorial Union TITU

9:00 to 11:00: Coffee and light pastries will be provided

9:30: Kickoff speaker: Dr. Arnold Alanen , Department of Landscape Architecture, “A Landscape Historian’s View of Environmental History.” (Introduced by Genya Erling)


Session 1: Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability (Moderated by Anna Zeide)

o 10:30-10:50 Kathleen Masterson, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, “Logging, Land Inequality and Inter-indigenous Group Conflict in Rural Amazon Basin Bolivia”

o 10:55-11:15 Mike Dockry, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, “Using an Indigenous Model of Sustainability to Facilitate Research and Community Involvement to Understand Environmental Change”

o 11:20-11:40 Chelsea Chapman, Department of Anthropology, “Tristes Artiques: The Imagined Geographies of Climate Change in Post-ANCSA Alaska”


12:00-1:00 Lunch Break


Session 2: Three Versions of Gardens: Agents of Constancy & Cultural Change (Moderated by Sarah Camacho)

o 1:00-1:20 Meridith Beck Sayre, Department of the History of Science, “Cultivating the Wilderness of New France: Jesuit Agricultural, Spiritual, and Prodigious Gardens”

o 1:25-1:45 Rob Emmett, Department of English, “Writing Gardens and Cultivating Literature in Contemporary U.S. Culture”

o 1:50-2:10 Genya Erling, Nelson Institute—Environment and Resources Program, “Urban Pradise: Overlapping Boundaries in Germany’s Allotment Gardens”


Session 3: The Nature of Wisconsin (Moderated by Amrys Williams)

o 2:45-3:05 Jennifer Schmitz, Department of Limnology, “Social and Environmental Legacies of the Historical Clearcut in Northern Wisconsin, c. 1850-1950”

o 3:10-3:30 Peter Allen, Nelson Institute—Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development Program, “Transportation, Economic Transformation, and Resource Use: A Historical Case Study in Southern Wisconsin”

o 3:35-3:55 Travis Tennessen, Department of Geography, “The Myth of the Anthropogenic Prairie Peninsula”


4:30-5:30: Keynote Speaker: Dr. Greg Summers , UW-Stevens Point, Department of History, “Seven Years Out: Postcards from a Recently Tenured Environmental Historian.” (Introduced by Nic Mink)

5:30: Informal Reception in Paul Bunyan Room (snacks provided, BYOB)