UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS:
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Georgia's Waterways [Fall 2017]
Georgia Great Works Seminar, with Georgia Humanities and the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University The history of Georgia can be read in its waters. From the transatlantic slave trade to Deliverance to ongoing water wars over the Chattahoochee, waterways have shaped the lives of all Georgians in critical ways. Besides providing a habitat for wildlife (and people), Georgia’s watersheds have connected residents to the outside world, provided drinking water and food, whisked away wastes, and served as a key source of power and recreation. This seminar will consider the history of Georgia from the vantage of its waters, touching on each of these elements. We will conclude with a discussion of emerging issues like climate change, Savannah River dredging, and water scarcity—issues that will play a decisive role influencing Georgia’s waters far into the future. |
Rice culture on the Ogeechee River, near Savannah, Georgia (1867)
This free seminar will be held throughout the fall semester of 2017, and is open to the Atlanta public on a first-come basis. Please contact the staff of the Fox Center at Emory University to reserve a seat: foxcenter [at] emory [dot] edu or 404.727.6424.
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Other talks in 2017:
"Rooting Ecotourism in Southern Soil: The First Generation of 'Green' Developers"
Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South (CHASES) at Mississippi State University, Experiment Station
October, 2017
Coming up in 2018:
"Green" Tourism and Environmental Justice on the Carolina Sea Islands
American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Riverside, CA
March, 2018
“Resisting Environmental and Social Permanence in the Tourism Industry at the Height of Jim Crow”
Southern Labor Studies Conference
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
May, 2018
Panel Commentator - Crises of Social Reproduction in the US South: Gender, Race, and the Precarities of Daily Life
Southern Labor Studies Conference
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
May, 2018
"Rooting Ecotourism in Southern Soil: The First Generation of 'Green' Developers"
Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South (CHASES) at Mississippi State University, Experiment Station
October, 2017
Coming up in 2018:
"Green" Tourism and Environmental Justice on the Carolina Sea Islands
American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Riverside, CA
March, 2018
“Resisting Environmental and Social Permanence in the Tourism Industry at the Height of Jim Crow”
Southern Labor Studies Conference
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
May, 2018
Panel Commentator - Crises of Social Reproduction in the US South: Gender, Race, and the Precarities of Daily Life
Southern Labor Studies Conference
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
May, 2018
PAST INVITED TALKS:
2017
"Georgia's Waterways: The Flow of History"
Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership
Albany, GA, July 2017
2017
"Hilton Head Goes to Earth Day: Protecting 'Nature's Showpiece" in the Lowcountry"
Discovery Lecture Series, Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
2016
"A Century of America's National Parks"
Seminar series for the Atlanta public hosted by the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University
2016
"'Do not uglify the earth': Tourism and American Environmental Politics"
Furman University
2015
"John Muir and Wilderness in Modern Georgia"
Seminar series for the Atlanta public hosted by the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University and Georgia Humanities
2015
"'Constructive and not Destructive Development': The Struggle for 'Permanent' Uses of Resources in the South"
The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University
2014
"Giving 'Wise Use' a Southern Twang: Reshaping Conservation for a Developing Region"
The University of Delaware*
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES:
2017
"Resorting to Nature?: 'Green' Developers and American Environmental Politics"
American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting
2015
"Manufacturing 'Permanent' Landscapes in the Developing South"
Manufacturing Landscapes--Nature and Technology in Environmental History
Co-Sponsored by The Rachel Carson Center and Renmin University of China
2015
"Hobby Farming Tourists and Working Rural Landscapes in the New South"
Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting
2014
"Corporate Conservation and Conflict: Determining the Ideal Forms of Development in the American South"
Green Capitalism: Exploring the Crossroads of Environmental and Business History - Hosted by the Hagley Library and Museum, Wilmington, DE
*See the conference program here
2014
“'Permanent' Growth and Environmental Degradation in a Developing Region"
Cornell Conference on the Histories of American Capitalism - Hosted by Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
*See the conference program here
2014
"Building a More 'Permanent' South"
Symposium on Southern Environmental History - Hosted by the Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South (CHASES) at Mississippi State University
2013
“’Nature’s Bounty’: Competing Visions of Economic Development in the New South” (panel organizer)
American Historical Association Annual Meeting
2011
“Touring the New South Creed: Southern Railroads as Tourist Boosters” (panel co-organizer)
Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting
2011
Commentator for panel: "Southern Landscapes, Southern Bodies: Freedom and the Environment"
Landscapes of Freedom: Freedom Struggles During the Long Nineteenth Century - Hosted by the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State
2010
“’Ecology Emotion’: The Fight Against Industrial Pollution and Environmentalism in Beaufort, South Carolina, 1969-1970” (panel organizer)
American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting
2009
“’The Strength of the Scup Ticket’: The Politics of Fishery Regulation in Rhode Island, 1870-1872”
North Atlantic Fisheries History Association Annual Meeting
2017
"Georgia's Waterways: The Flow of History"
Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership
Albany, GA, July 2017
2017
"Hilton Head Goes to Earth Day: Protecting 'Nature's Showpiece" in the Lowcountry"
Discovery Lecture Series, Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
2016
"A Century of America's National Parks"
Seminar series for the Atlanta public hosted by the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University
2016
"'Do not uglify the earth': Tourism and American Environmental Politics"
Furman University
2015
"John Muir and Wilderness in Modern Georgia"
Seminar series for the Atlanta public hosted by the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University and Georgia Humanities
2015
"'Constructive and not Destructive Development': The Struggle for 'Permanent' Uses of Resources in the South"
The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University
2014
"Giving 'Wise Use' a Southern Twang: Reshaping Conservation for a Developing Region"
The University of Delaware*
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES:
2017
"Resorting to Nature?: 'Green' Developers and American Environmental Politics"
American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting
2015
"Manufacturing 'Permanent' Landscapes in the Developing South"
Manufacturing Landscapes--Nature and Technology in Environmental History
Co-Sponsored by The Rachel Carson Center and Renmin University of China
2015
"Hobby Farming Tourists and Working Rural Landscapes in the New South"
Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting
2014
"Corporate Conservation and Conflict: Determining the Ideal Forms of Development in the American South"
Green Capitalism: Exploring the Crossroads of Environmental and Business History - Hosted by the Hagley Library and Museum, Wilmington, DE
*See the conference program here
2014
“'Permanent' Growth and Environmental Degradation in a Developing Region"
Cornell Conference on the Histories of American Capitalism - Hosted by Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
*See the conference program here
2014
"Building a More 'Permanent' South"
Symposium on Southern Environmental History - Hosted by the Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South (CHASES) at Mississippi State University
2013
“’Nature’s Bounty’: Competing Visions of Economic Development in the New South” (panel organizer)
American Historical Association Annual Meeting
2011
“Touring the New South Creed: Southern Railroads as Tourist Boosters” (panel co-organizer)
Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting
2011
Commentator for panel: "Southern Landscapes, Southern Bodies: Freedom and the Environment"
Landscapes of Freedom: Freedom Struggles During the Long Nineteenth Century - Hosted by the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State
2010
“’Ecology Emotion’: The Fight Against Industrial Pollution and Environmentalism in Beaufort, South Carolina, 1969-1970” (panel organizer)
American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting
2009
“’The Strength of the Scup Ticket’: The Politics of Fishery Regulation in Rhode Island, 1870-1872”
North Atlantic Fisheries History Association Annual Meeting
