Event Details

End: April 9, 2019
Contact: seminars@masshist.org
More Info: https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/environmental-history

The Boston Environmental History Seminar is pleased to announce our 2018-2019 series, with seven sessions held monthly from October to April. Sessions are generally held on the second Tuesday of each month and start at 5:15 PM. Subscriptions are now available at www.masshist.org/research/seminars.

What do MHS seminars offer? Access to the most recent scholarship on a range of topics, stimulating conversations that can inform your own work, and networking! The seminars comprise a welcoming community of scholars from throughout the region, and the format of the sessions leaves plenty of time to socialize over a light buffet supper.

We’ll kick off the environmental series on October 9 with a panel conversation on Native American Environmental History featuring Lisa Brooks of Amherst College, Strother Roberts of Bowdoin College, Ashley Smith of Hampshire College, and Thomas Wickman of Trinity College and moderated by Cedric Woods of the Institute for New England Native American Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston. Other sessions will consider recreational landscapes of Civil War memory, black labor at the dawn of Jim Crow, biological exchange in Pacific sugarcane plantations, environmental racism and justice in Boston, and more.

Attendance is free, but you can subscribe online ($25) for the convenience of advance online access to the papers in FOUR series: this, our new Boston African American History Seminar, the Boston Area Early American History Seminar, and the Boston Seminar on Modern American Society and Culture. Subscribe online at www.masshist.org/research/seminars. RSVP by emailing seminars@masshist.org. Follow our activities on Twitter @MHS_Research.

We look forward to seeing you at the seminar!