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.