Day One
Breakfast 8:00-8:30
Session 1 (2 hours) 8:30-10:30
Benjamin Kochan, Boston University, “Capturing Trade: Competition for Market Share and Fisheries Development Funds in Northwest Atlantic Fisheries, 1945-1954.”
Mark J. McLaughlin, University of Maine, “The Crown Forest, Modernization, and the State”
Troy Vettese, New York University, “Firm and Super-Firm: Pollution-Permit Trading and the Early History of Neo-Liberal Environmental Policy”
Break (30 minutes) 10:30-11:00
Session 2 (2 hours) 11:00-1:00
Claire Campbell, Bucknell University, “‘Rising with the Tide of History’: Presenting Canada as a Coastal Nation”
Laurel Muldoon and Kirsten Greer, Nipissing University, “Engaging in Interdisciplinary Research: Connecting Bermuda’s Histories of Meteorology to Canada”
Chris Pastore, University of Albany, “A Thousand, Thousand Slimy Things: Marine Natural History and the Origins of Ocean Ecology”
Lunch Break (1.5 hours) 1:00-2:30
Session 3 (2 hours) 2:30-4:30
Magen Hudak, Trent University, “Socio-Cultural and Environmental Interpretations of Property Abandonment: Northeastern Nova Scotia”
Ian Stevenson, Boston University, “‘This Is Not a Wilderness Area’: Cape Cod National Seashore, the National Park Service, and Hybridity”
Richard Judd, University of Maine, “Concord’s Poem: The Built Environment and Henry David Thoreau’s Sense of Place”
Tours
Day Two
Breakfast 8:00-8:30
Session 4 (1 hour and 20 minutes) 8:30-9:50
Nicole Gilhuis, UCLA, “Working as Natives: Frenchmen Among Mi’kmaq, 1650-1750”
Kristian Price, University of Albany, “‘Briny Monsters’ and ‘Greedy Robbers’: The Role of Sharks in the Transatlantic Slave Trade”
Break (30 minutes) 9:50-10:20
Session 5 (1 hour and 20 minutes) 10:20-11:40
Kristoffer Whitney, RIT, “Banding Together: The Science and Politics of Migratory Birds in the Atlantic Flyway”
Josh MacFadyen, Arizona State University, Canada’s Last Green Revolution: Modern Agriculture in Prince Edward Island, 1968-2015
Wrap-Up Session (1 hour) 11:40-12:40