American West & Pacific Northwest
Columbia Plateau Seminar Speaker Series
Professor Andrew Kirk
"Doom Towns of the West"
Department of History, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
1:10–2:00, CUB Junior Ballroom
Andy Kirk's research and teaching focus on the intersections of cultural and environmental history in the modern U.S. with a special interest in the American West and public history. His recent publications include Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism (rev. ed., 2011) and "From Wilderness Prophets to Tool Freaks: Post WWII Environmentalism" in The Blackwell Companion to American Environmental History. His current work includes "The Art of Testing and the Culture of Secrecy at the Nevada Test Site." His talk at WSU, "Doom Towns of the West," concerns the nuclear industry and western places.
Professor Kathleen Brosnan
"Old Vines, Global Wines: The Cultural and Environmental Impacts of European Viticulture in the New World"
Department of History, University of Houston
Wednesday, 09 November 2011
1:10–2:00,
CUB Junior Ballroom
Kathleen Brosnan is an environmental historian whose first book is Uniting Mountain and Plain: Cities, Law, and Environmental Change along the Front Range (2002). She will be speaking at WSU on her projected three-book series that deals with the history of the wine industry. The first projected book focuses on how industry and consumerism shaped the environment of the Napa Valley. The second examines European viticulture as a form of ecological imperialism around the world. The third investigates how U.S. land grant institutions' roles in the development of food products, including wine, have shaped environments.
Chairman Michael O. Finley
"Contemporary Pathways in Indian Country"
Confederated Tribes of Colville
Wednesday, 01 February 2012
12:00–1:00, CUB Junior Ballroom
Michael O. Finley, chairman of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and co-author of Finding Chief Kamiakin: A Life and Legacy of a Northwest Patriot (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2008), will be speaking on issues confronting Native Americans in the United States, in particular from the perspective of Native Americans whose ancestral homes are in eastern Washington state.
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