Thursday, January 31, 2013

Sixth Annual CHE Graduate Student Symposium

Many graduate students and faculty in the UW-Madison History of Science Department are also affiliated with CHE (the Center for Culture, Humans, and Environment). We even share a building with them! So, it should come as no surprise that the upcoming CHE Graduate Student Symposium features several of our own. Please join us Saturday, February 9th to here from Professor Keller, Alex Rudnick, Melissa Charenko, and many more. Here is the program:


CENTER FOR CULTURE, HISTORY, AND ENVIRONMENT SIXTH ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

9 February 2013 · Science Hall 175
An interdisciplinary showcase of graduate research around issues of culture and environmental change, bringing together history, geography, literature, science, and action.


PROGRAM OF EVENTS
8:30 AM Breakfast
Coffee and bagels provided, Science Hall 175

Symposium Kickoff
9:00 Dr. Richard Keller, Medical History and the History of Science
“Toward a World History of the Environment”

I. NATURES OF THE STATE
Moderator and Commentator: Brian Hamilton, History
9:30 John Suval, History, “Of Squatters and Statesmen: The Chocchuma Land Sale and the Nature of Jacksonian Democracy” 
9:50 Alex Olson, History, “Byzantium’s Eastern Border: Ecology, Mentalities, and the State”
10:10 Alex Rudnick, History of Science, “Diets and Landscapes of Deficiency: Pellagra, Sacks of Corn Meal, and Economic Underdevelopment in the American South, 1907-1940”
10:30 Comment and Discussion

10:50 20 Minute Break
Poster on view:
Kaitlin Rienzo-Stack, Entomology/Holtz Center, and Amy Alstad, Zoology
“If you build it, they will come: testing paradigms of restoration ecology using a historical dataset”


II. IDEOLOGIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION
Moderator and Commentator: Nathan Germain, French and Italian
11:10 Noah Theriault, Anthropology, “Saving Souls, Forests, and Traditions: The (Neo)Colonial Genealogy of a ‘Last Frontier’”
11:30 Melissa Charenko, History of Science, “The Second Coming and Environmentalism: The Historical DebateAbout End Times and Environmental Action Among Evangelical Christians”
11:50 John Porco, History, “Second Growth: Changing Notions of Economic Value in Northern Wisconsin’s Forests”
12:10 Comment and Discussion

12:30 Lunch
On your own in Madison

III. INTERPRETING PEOPLE AND PLACE: STORYTELLING IN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
1:30-2:30
Moderator: Kaitlin Rienzo-Stack, Entomology/Holtz Center
1:35 Bethany Laursen, Forestry and Nelson Institute, “The World is Made of Stories of Atoms: Narratives and Networks in Driftless Area Landscape Governance”
1:45 Amanda McMillan, Community and Environmental Sociology, “Ghosts of Farming Past and Future: Narrative and the Graying of Agriculture”
1:55 Kara Cromwell, Limnology, “Telling Science Stories: When It Gets Ugly”
Comment and Discussion

Keynote Address
2:45 Dr. Abby Neely, University of Minnesota, Geography, Environment and Society
“Research and Writing Through Teaching”
3:30 Reception, Science Hall 175