October 3 and 4, 2003
Pond Room, Michigan Union
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3, 2003, 9:00 a.m.
Capturing Natural Resources

“Distribution Fights, Coordination Games, and Lobster Management”
Professor James Acheson, Anthropology, University of Maine

“Colonialism and Forestry in India: Imagining the Past in Present Politics”
Professor K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anthropology, University of Washington

“Fruit Trees and Family Trees in an Anthropogenic Forest: Ethics of Access,
Property Zones, and Environmental Change in Indonesia”
Professor Nancy Peluso, Environmental Science, University of California, Berkeley

Comment: Stuart Kirsch

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 3, 2:00 p.m.
Nature in the Age of European Expansion

“Naming the Stranger: African Cultural Adoption of Maize”
Professor James McCann, African Studies, Boston University

“Mosquito Coasts: Yellow Fever and Empire in the Americas, 1640-1900 ”
Professor John McNeill, History, Georgetown University

Comment: Maria Montoya

SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 4, 9:00 a.m.
Conceiving Landscapes

“Two Landscapes, Two Stories: Anglo-Saxon England and Contemporary America”
Professor Nicholas Howe, English, University of California, Berkeley

“In Search of Natural Identity: Alpine Landscape and the Reconstruction of the Swiss Nation”
Dr. Oliver Zimmer, History, University of Durham

“Lawn-o-Rama: The Commodification of Landscape in Postwar America”
Professor Theodore Steinberg, History, Case Western Reserve University

Comment: John Knott

SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 4, 2:00 p.m.
Changing Environments in Agricultural Societies

“The 'Ecological Footprints' of Medieval European Cities”
Professor Richard Hoffmann, History, York Universtiy

“Frontier Development and Sustainability in Imperial and Modern China”
Professor Peter Perdue, History, MIT

Comment: Philip Deloria

Copies of conference papers will be available for purchase at:
Accu-copy, 518 East William St., Ann Arbor