All times are Eastern Time
10:00
a.m. Welcome
Emma Hart (McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of
Pennsylvania)
Peter Mancall (Early
Modern Studies Institute, University of Southern California)
10:15
a.m. Opening Exercise
Emily Pawley (Dickinson College) on behalf of the Environmental
Historians’ Action Collaborative
10:30
a.m. Panel 1:
Narrating the
Climate Crisis
Chair and Comment: Natale A. Zappia
(California State University, Northridge)
Sophie
Hess (University of Maryland)
“The Iron Forest: Ecological
State-Building, Public Memory, and Climate Change Legacies in Maryland”
Blake
McGready (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
“Philadelphia
Heritage Tourism and the Revolutionary Origins of the Climate Crisis”
Ana
Schwartz (University of Texas at Austin)
“The Natural History of the Nopal”
Camille
A. Suarez (California State University, Los Angeles) and
Kathryn Lasdow
(Suffolk University
)
“Manipulating Landscapes from East
to West: Historicizing Climate Change in the Classroom”
12:00
p.m. Break
1:00
p.m. Panel 2:
Water:
Disappearing and Rising
Chair
and Comment: Scout Blum (Troy University)
Claire
Campbell (Bucknell University)
“The Vanished Shoreline: Redrawing
Our Cities by the Sea”
Craig
Colten (Louisiana State University)
“Adaptation to Environmental Change
on the Mississippi River Delta”
Mary
Draper (Midwestern State University)
“‘Dry Weather’: Managing Drought in
the Early Modern British Caribbean”
Julia
Lewandoski (University of Southern California)
“Land Tenures in a Watery World:
Mapping Aquatic Strategies and Adaptations in Early Modern Louisiana”
2:30
p.m. Break
3:00
p.m. Panel 3: Plantationocene
Chair
and Comment: Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University)
Leila
Blackbird (University of Chicago) and Robin McDowell (Washington University in St. Louis)
“The
Plantation-to-Petrochemical Complex of Southeast Louisiana: Reflections on
Embodied Research”
John
Brooke (Ohio State University) and Eric Herschthal (University of Utah)
“Accounting for the
Plantationocene: Slavery’s Carbon Footprint in the Early British Atlantic”
Matthew
Daniel Eddy (Durham University)
“James
McCune Smith, Climatology, and Health Equity in Antebellum America”
Teresa
A. Goddu (Vanderbilt University)
“The
(Neo) Slave Narrative and the Plantationocene”
5:00
p.m. Break
5:30
p.m. Keynote
Chair: Bethany Wiggin (Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, University of Pennsylvania)
Elizabeth Ellis (New York University)
“A Fragile Refuge:
Indigenous Communities on the Front Lines of Climate Crisis in Louisiana”
Chair and Comment: Anya Zilberstein
(Concordia University)
Elaine LaFay (Rutgers University)
“Debility and the Climatic Imagination:
Early American Perspectives on Embodiment and Climate”
Elise Mitchell (Princeton University)
“Morbid Geographies: Epidemics and
Enslavement in the Atlantic World”
Kate Luce Mulry (California State
University, Bakersfield)
“Environment and Reproduction in the Early
English Atlantic”
11:30
a.m. Break
12:30
p.m. Panel 5: Climate and Conflict
Chair
and Comment: Keith Pluymers (Illinois State University)
Timothy Grieve-Carlson (Rice University)
“‘God is not in the Stars’: Early
American Religions and the Little Ice Age”
Holly
Jackson (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
“All the World Will Burn: William
Miller’s Eco-Millenarianism”
Hayley
Negrin (University of Illinois at Chicago)
“Return to the Yeokanta/River:
Powhatan Women and Environmental Treaty-Making in Early Virginia/Tsenacommacah”
Thomas
Wickman (Trinity College)
“A Political Ecology of When and
Where: Phenology, Fowling, and Trespass in the 1630s”
2:00
p.m. Break
2:30
p.m. Panel 6:
Prehistories of the Green New Deal
Chair and Comment: Mark Chambers
(Stony Brook University)
Gustave Lester (Harvard University)
“Mining Climate Solutions: Geology
in the Early U.S. Empire”
Emma Moesswilde (Georgetown
University)
“Agricultural Afterlives of the
‘Year Without A Summer’: Rural Communities and the Uses of Climate History”
Brian Phillips Murphy (Rutgers
University)
“Great Falls: Water, Power, and
Alexander Hamilton’s Vision of an Industrial America”
John William Nelson (Texas Tech
University)
“Development and Dispossession as a
Twofold Policy of Exploitation: The Roots of Environmental (In)justice in the
Early Republic”
4:00
p.m. Break
4:30
p.m. Final Conversation
Scout Blum (Troy
University)
Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University)
Emily Pawley (Dickinson College)
Keith Pluymers (Illinois State University)
Anya Zilberstein (Concordia University)
5:30
p.m. Light Reception