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History and Sustainability Stories of Progress, Hubris, Decline, and Resilience Annual Conference | April 13 - 17, 2011 Phoenix, Arizona | Wyndham Hotel Host: Arizona State University1 Table of Contents Plenary talks ......................................... 12 Welcome from ASEH’s 2011 Local Arrangement Receptions ............................................ 13 History and Committee ......................................................................................... 4 Breakfasts ............................................. 13 Welcome from ASEH’s 2011 Program Banquets ............................................... 13 Sustainability Committee .........................................................................................5 Stories of Progress, Hubris, Decline, and Resilience Field trips ............................................... 13 Conference Information .......................................................... 6 Special workshop for high school students ................................................. 18 Host Location .................................................. 6 Environmental films ............................. 18 Accommodations – conference hotel ... 6 Annual Hal Rothman fun(d) run ......... 18 Registration ........................................... 6 ASEH members’ meeting (business meeting) ................................................ 18 Cancellations ......................................... 6 Sponsors Transportation and directions ............. 6 The American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) and Arizona State University Registration and Event Fees .............................................. 19 Weather ................................................. 7 (ASU) would like to thank our conference sponsors, whose generous contributions made this meeting possible: Child care ............................................... 7 Conference at a Glance .......................................................... 20 Arizona Community Farmers’ Markets ASU Decision Center for a Desert City Commitment to sustainability ............. 7 ASU Environmental Humanities Certificate Concurrent Sessions .............................................................. 22 ASU Foundation Questions? ............................................. 7 ASU Global Institute of Sustainability and School of Sustainability ASU North American Center for Transborder Studies ASEH Committees 2010-2011 ........................................... 42 ASU Public History and Scholarly Publishing Programs ASU School of Community Resources and Development A Brief History of Phoenix ...................................................... 8 ASU School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies Index ..................................................................................................... 44 Faculty of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication in the ASU School of Letters and Sciences at the Polytechnic campus Exhibits .............................................................................................. 10 ASU Center for Biology and Society Hotel Map ......................................................................................... 47 National Park Service Network in Canadian History and Environment Poster Advertisements ............................................................................. 48 Oxford University Press Presentations ...............................................................................10 USDA Forest Service Conference Sites Maps.......................................................... 69 2011 ASEH travel grant recipients .................................11 2010 Hal Rothman Fellowship recipient ...................11 2010 Samuel Hays Research Fellowship The Friday evening plenary discussion on immigration and the environment is made possible recipient .............................................................................................. 11 by the Arizona Humanities Council. Special Events .............................................................................. 11 Workshops and symposia ................... 11 Program design: Roxane Barwick, ASU 2 Welcome from ASEH’s 2011 Local Arrangement Committee Welcome from ASEH’s 2011 Program Committee It’s a sprawling city in a sprawling landscape – the capital of Arizona, the 12th largest metropolitan area in the U.S., a tourist The program committee’s members are very pleased with the range of the program’s sessions, which represents the many mecca valued for its dry air and sparkling winter sunshine, and a poster child for the ambiguous transition to a service innovative proposals that we received. There will be an especially rich set of sessions on the conference theme of sustainability economy. It’s a city framed by stone and saguaro, as stark, sculpted mountains rise above a botanically rich Sonoran Desert in and resilience. Many sessions probe the unsustainable history of our past practices, with an eye to examples of resilience and April bloom. We’ll meet after baseball’s spring training season and before the summer’s bleaching sun. adaptations, as well as improving resource use. This can assist us as environmental professionals to engage in the broad public debate and help shape policy formation. One roundtable will address the ways our members engage in the public sphere as It’s a good place for a meeting themed on sustainability: the paradoxes are unavoidable. A very modern city built on a very experts. Another roundtable will present environmental historians’ perspectives on the Gulf oil spill and its long-term impacts. old one. A metropolis in a desert. A place where upscale suburbs look across a line in the sand at mountain wilderness. The There will be several sessions on climate history. And for our teaching efforts there will be a series of sessions on integrating nation’s largest university by enrollment and among its most green. A postwar car culture amid the largest municipal park in sustainability themes into the curriculum. the country. A city founded for irrigation agriculture along a river now used for a sand and gravel pit, save for an artificial lake filled by pumped ground water. Private lands and enterprise meet public lands and common goods. An economy powered by This has been a particularly challenging year for the political pressures that shape our work, notably the turmoil over Hispanic cheap gas and sprawl hit by the Great Recession. The setting itself can serve as a text. immigration in Arizona and beyond. We have turned that challenge into an opportunity to forge several sessions on the environmental dimensions of large-scale labor migrations. The Friday evening plenary session, advertised widely for the But of course there will be much more. There are field trips to Taliesin West, the Tonto National Forest, and Arizona public, will present an outstanding panel of experts on immigration and environment in Arizona. We will also offer a pair of State University’s Decision Center for a Desert City. There will be birding trips to South Mountain, kayaking on the Salt roundtables comparing this situation with other mass migrations globally. River, horseback riding at the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, cycling along canal levees, and walking through the historic downtown. The U.S. Forest Service is sponsoring a special workshop on Friday to commemorate the centennial of the Weeks These sessions will build an important bridge between migration historians and environmental historians. They will be enriched Act. ASU’s School of Sustainability is sponsoring a sustainability workshop on Wednesday. Thursday evening will feature a by several sessions on other minorities in the United States, probing ethnically differentiated access to resources and exposure special no-host dinner at Heritage Square, with local organic and sustainable food vendors. Bill Cronon will deliver a plenary to toxins. The ASEH Diversity Committee has worked hard to create panels on the experience of Native Americans in western talk on “The Riddle of Sustainability: A Surprisingly Short History of the Future.” A second plenary will discuss “Immigration, North America. And several additional sessions probe environmental pressures around Arizona, at the border with Mexico, and Borderlands, and the Environment.” The meeting will feature two post-conference field trips: one all-day tour to the US- through the wider arid Southwest and the trans-border Sonoran region. Mexico border to discuss social justice and environmental issues; the other an overnight tour to the Grand Canyon, where a distinguished panel of international experts will discuss national parks and preserves in Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. Finally, several sessions will specifically address the disciplinary relations between environmental history and related fields in the social and ecological sciences, which will enrich our conceptual frameworks and methodological strategies. The committee This is certain to be a memorable conference, not to be missed. We look forward to seeing you in Phoenix! considers this a vital aspect of the ongoing work of ASEH, and an important dimension of each year’s conference. 2011 Local Arrangements Team: We look forward to important work together in Phoenix. Paul Hirt, Arizona State University (ASU), Chair 2011 Program Committee: Stephen Pyne, ASU Joni Adamson, ASU Richard Tucker, University of Michigan, Chair Bonny Bentzin, Director of Sustainability Practices, ASU Connie Chiang, Bowdoin College Monika Bilka, PhD student,