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There is another reason to look forward to fall—the resumption of the Boston Environmental History Seminar. Please join us on Tuesday, September 21, when Professor Martin Melosi of the University of Houston will open our series with a lecture: “How the Automobile Shaped the City.” The evening will start with a reception at 5:00 P.M.; Professor Melosi will speak at 5:30 P.M.
The September 21 session will be the first of seven meetings during the coming academic year. Following our customary format, except for Professor Melosi’s lecture each session will be devoted to the discussion of a precirculated paper. Regular seminars will begin at 5:15. After each session the Society will provide a light sandwich supper.
Boston Environmental History Seminar
Schedule, 2004-2005
2004
September 21 Keynote lecture: Martin Melosi,University of Houston, “How the Automobile Shaped the City”
(Reception 5:00-5:30, Lecture 5:30)
November 9 Daniel Belknap, University of Maine, “Ice and Water: Postglacial Sea-Level Changes in Boston and around the Gulf of Maine”
Comment: Peter S. Rosen, Northeastern University
December 7 James C. O’Connell, National Park Service, “Shaping the Built Landscape of Suburban Boston”
Comment: To be announced
2005
January 11 Cheryl Beredo, Massachusetts Historical Society, “Archival Needs and Opportunities in the Environmental History of New England”
(No commentator at this meeting)
February 8 Judith Layzer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Science, History, and Overfishing in New England”
Comment: Beth Daley, Boston Globe
March 8 Mark Besonen, University of Massachusetts—Amherst, “Hurricane Activity in the Boston Area: A 1000-Year Record from the Lower Mystic Lake”
Comment: Ray Bradley, University of Massachusetts—Amherst
April 12 Alice Ingerson, Applied History for Land Conservation & Urban Planning, “Land Happens: Using History for Conservation in New England”
Comment: Taber Allison, Massachusetts Audubon Society
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