All sessions will meet in Room 213 of the Levis Faculty Center.
Please NOTE: This event is postponed and will be rescheduled for a later date.
Wednesday June 21:
Travelers Arrive in Champaign-Urbana
Thursday June 22:
8:30 Light Breakfast
Session 1: Environmental Justice in the Great Lakes
- Phil Belfry, MSU (retired), Native studies/law “Challenge to Enbridge’s Line 5 Oil Pipeline: A View From the Courtroom.”
- Rachel Havrelock, UIC, English, “Pipelines of the Great Lakes.”
- Chelsea Denault, Michigan Digital Heritage, History, “An Environmental Sleight of Hand: Trash, Activism, and Urban Finance in Detroit, 1970-1990.”
- Natasha Myhal, U Colorado Boulder, Ethnic Studies, “Always Present in Our Lives: Mishigami (Michigan) and the Anishinaabeg”
Lunch and Break
Session 2: Politics of Land Use
- David Horst Lehman, UIUC, History, “Keeping Fires, Tending Lands: The Practices and Legacy of Potawatomi Farming Around Lake Michigan, 1700-1900.”
- Camden Burd, Eastern Illinois University, History, “Searching for the Soul of the North Country: Work, Nature, and the Meaning of Place in the Upper Midwest, 1945-1980”
- Deondre Smiles, University of Victoria, Geography, “Geographic Indigenous Futures of The Great Lakes”
- Caroline Gottschalk Drushke, UW Madison, English, “Forty Acres of Land, More of Less”: How White Settlers Divided, Dammed, and Ditched Michigan Lands and Waters, and How To Reckon With This Past To Collaborate Towards Better Futures.
- Hayden L. Nelson, University of Kansas, History, “Resurrecting Old Growth: The North Woods Environment, ca. 1800”
- Mike Gonella, Santa Barbara City College, Ethnobotany, “Myaamia Fire Practices in Southern Great Lakes Ecology.”
Session 3: Keynote Address and Discussion
- Nancy Langston, Michigan Technological University, History, “Climate Ghosts”
Conference Reception and Dinner, TBA
Friday June 23
8:30 Light Breakfast
Session 3 Roundtable: Islands in the Inland Seas
- Lynne Heasley, Western Michigan U, Environmental Studies, “Islands in the Inland Seas 1.”
- Ramya Swayamprakash, Grand Valley State University, History, “Islands in the Inland Seas 2.”
- Greg Oulahen, Toronto Metropolitan U, Geography, “Great Lakes, Small Islands: The Production of Environmental Rewards and Risks on Toronto and Pelee Islands.”
Session 4: Maritime Infrastructure and Pollution
- Philip Campanile, UC Berkeley, Geography, “Anthropocene Lakes: A New Hydrological Regime and the Redevelopment of Buffalo’s Outer Harbor”
- Ted Karamanski, Loyola Chicago, History, “Maritime Infrastructure and Settler Colonial Place Making in the Great Lakes Region.”
- Elodie Charriere, Michigan Technical University, Environmental Studies, “Underwater U.S. Military Legacies in the Great Lakes.”
- Daniel Macfarlane, WMU, History/ Environmental Studies, “Furs, Sleighs, Grains, Dams: Coping with Climate Change at Lake Ontario from the Little Ice Age to the Present”
- Mark Kuhlberg, Laurentian U, History, “Dependent upon Ontario for its Supply of Wood: The Mythical Embargo on Ontario’s Pulpwood, and the Politics of Regional Timber Allocation, 1894-1970”
Lunch and Break
Session 5: Great Lakes Environmental Studies: New Directions Discussion
- Catherine Cocks, Editor, Michigan State University Press
- Robert Michael Morrissey, UIUC, History
- Daniel Macfarlane, Western Michigan University, History
Closing Dinner and Conference Conclusion,