Environmental History: Discourses and Disasters

Saturday, May 2, 2015
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

The John Carter Brown Library Fellows' Reunion & Jamboree, May 1-3, 2015

Plenary Roundtable 1: Environmental History: Discourses and Disasters

Anya Zilbersteing *co-organizer
Concordia University

Heidi Scott
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Mark Molesky
Seton Hall University

Christopher Pastore
University at Albany, SUNY

Tatiana Seijas *co-organizer
Miami University

This roundtable brought together leading scholars to discuss ideas of nature and environmental history from both intellectual and material perspectives. As one of the Library’s pilot programming initiatives in the coming years, it was an opportunity to discuss new approaches to a topic of tremendous potential at the JCB.