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MHS: Early American Environmental Histories

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Boston Environmental History Seminar: James Rice, Tufts University Comment: Chris Parsons, Northeastern University Tuesdays at 5:15 PM. A light sandwich supper follows. Attendance is free. Subscriptions are available ($25 per year) for online access to...

Announcing the History Department Environmental History Curricular Initiative (EHCI), 2023-4 and 2024-5

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The History Department is launching a two-year initiative aiming to strengthen its course offerings on Environmental History across our curriculum. The EHCI intends to capture student and faculty interest in an exciting emerging methodology that places...

Global Environments Working Group: "Observations on the Nature and Culture of Environmental History, Redux"

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The Global Environments Working Group will meet this Tuesday, March 5th, from 5:45 - 7:00 pm in 9 Kirkland Place to workshop Camden Elliott's paper titled " Observations on the Nature and Culture of Environmental History, Redux." Please email...

MHS: Panel: Common Spaces: Environmental History and the Study of Early America

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Boston Environmental History Seminar: Christopher Pastore, State University of New York at AlbanY Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut; Conevery Valencius, Boston College Tuesdays at 5:15 PM. A light sandwich supper follows. Attendance is free...

MHS: Panel: Native American Environmental History

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Presented by the Boston Seminar on Environmental History and sponsored and hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society. Featuring: Lisa Brooks, Amherst College; Strother Roberts, Bowdoin College; Ashley Smith, Hampshire College; Thomas Wickman, Trinity...

Environmental Histories of Europe Seminar: Conscientious Objectors to the Jet Age? The History of Anti-Airport Activists and Non-Flyers in Europe and Beyond

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Speaker: Lauren Stokes, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University Chair: Ailish Lalor , Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard...

Hydropower in Authoritarian Brazil: An Environmental History of Low-Carbon Energy, 1960s-1990s

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Join us for a book talk with former Harvard Environmental Fellow Matthew P. Johnson and discussants Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico; Victor Seow, John L. Loeb Associate...

Joint Center for History and Economics Online Seminar: "Water for Growth: An Environmental History of the Po Valley, 1770-2003"

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Speaker: Giacomo Parrinello In 2022, the Po River basin experienced one of the worst droughts of the modern era. Its consequences reached far out, and across the economy of the wealthy Padana plain, showing to what extent the region's prosperity depends...

MHS: Amputated from the Land: Black Refugees from America and the Neglected Voices of Environmental History

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Presented by the Boston Seminar on Environmental History and sponsored and hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society. Featuring: Bryon Williams, Academy at Penguin Hall Comment: John Stauffer, Harvard University Attendance is free and open to all...

Environmental Histories of Europe Seminar: "A Manhattan Project for the Planet: Cold War, Decolonization, and Earth Science in the 1950s"

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Speaker: Benjamin W. Goossen , Assistant Professor of International History, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University Chair: Lauren Bohm , Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair...

Harvard Environmental History Working Group: Plants that Purify: The Natural and Supernatural History of Smudging

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Rosalyn LaPier (Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Montana)

MHS: Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice in Boston

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Presented by the Boston Seminar on Environmental History and sponsored and hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society. Featuring: Michael Brennan, University of Maine Comment: Daniel Faber, Northeastern Universit Attendance is free and open to all...