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