Upcoming Northeast Regional Environmental History Conference

I'm passing along an announcement for a regional environmental history conference that will be held next month at Yale. Registration is requested but free.

Two Kingdoms: New Perspectives on Flora and Fauna in Environmental History

A Northeast Regional Conference
Yale University, Saturday, April 14, 2012
Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall
195 Prospect Street
New Haven, Connecticut

The lineup of papers includes quite a few history of science and technology topics (as one would expect for an environmental history conference): forest and species conservation, plant and animal breeding, industrial agriculture, animal experimentation, and others. The abstracts for the conference are available here, and I've copied the schedule for the day-long event after the jump. I hope to see some of you there!

“Two Kingdoms: New Perspectives on Flora and Fauna in Environmental History.”

A Northeast Regional Conference

Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall

Yale University, Saturday, April 14, 2012
New Haven, Connecticut

9:30	Opening Remarks Paul Sabin, Yale University Eric Rutkow, Yale University
9:45-11:00	Panel 1: Resource Conservation Chair: Peter Perdue, Yale University John Lee (Harvard): "Protect the Pines, Punish the People: The Social Implications of Forest Conservation in Pre-Industrial Korea, 1600-1876" Rebecca Woods (MIT): "The Return of the Native Breed: Place, Belonging and Hereford Cattle in Britain" Kristoffer Whitney (University of Pennsylvania): "Domesticating Nature?: Surveillance and Conservation of Migratory Shorebirds in the 20th Century" Commentator: James McCann, Boston University
11:00	Coffee Break
11:20-12:35	Panel 2: Wildlife, Humans and Environmental Change Chair: Alan Mikhail, Yale University Thomas Wickman (Harvard): "Great Snows and Big Animals: Moose and Other Ungulates on the Contested Maritime Peninsula in the Little Ice Age, 1675-1700" Radhika Govindrajan (Yale): "Pigs Gone Wild: The Production of Wildness and Human-Wildlife Conflict in Modern India" Nadia Berenstein (University of Pennsylvania): "They Rush Blindly at the Light at the Expense of Their Lives”: Bird Collisions, Urban Illumination, and ‘Tragedies of Migration’ in New York City and Philadelphia, 1887-1915" Commentator: Shafqat Hussain, Trinity College
12:35	Buffet Lunch (free for all registered participants)
1:45-3:35	Panel 3: Scientific Experimentation and Technology Chair: Daniel Kevles, Yale University Tamar Novick (University of Pennsylvanis): "Holy Cow! On Milk Yield, Fertility and the Creation of Plenty in Palestine/Israel" Helen Curry (Yale): "King-sized Cabbages and Miracle Marigolds: Creating Crops and Flowers with a Chemical, 1937-1950" Sarah Sutton (Brandeis): "Rethinking Land and Labor: Shifting Family Values and the Transition to Industrialized Dairy Farming in New England" Shira Shmu'ely (MIT): "'The Flying Death': Curare Travels From American Jungles to the British Laboratories" Commentator: Sarah Phillips, Boston University
3:35	Afternoon Refreshments
4:00-5:15	Faculty panel Nancy Jacobs, Brown University Aaron Sachs, Cornell University Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, MIT Moderator: Rachel Rothschild, Yale University