Miami University

"Third Nature" Humanities Center symposium Feb. 3

01/31/2012

"Third Nature: Reconsidering Boundaries between Nature and Culture," a Miami University Humanities Center symposium, will be held 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3, in 212 MacMillan Hall.

Twelve visiting scholars and authors will present talks. A full schedule is available in a PDF document.

Speakers are:

• Thomas Andrews, history, University of Colorado. Author of Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War (Harvard 2008, winner of the Bancroft Prize 2009);
  
• Connie Y. Chiang, history and environmental studies, Bowdoin College. Author of Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast (Washington 2008);
  
• Catherine C. Cocks, acquisitions editor, University of Iowa Press. Author of Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States, 1850-1915 (University of California Press 2001);
  
• Annie Gilbert Coleman, American studies, University of Notre Dame. Author of Style: A Cultural History of the Sport and its Resorts (Kansas 2004);
  
• Finis Dunaway, history, Trent University. Author of Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform (University of Chicago Press 2005);
  
• John Herron, history, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Author of Science and the Social Good: Nature, Culture, and Community, 1865-1965 (Oxford 2010);
  
• Andy Kirk, history, University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Author of Countercultural Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism (Kansas 2007);
  
• Frieda Knobloch, American Studies, University of Wyoming. Author of The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West (North Carolina 1996);
  
• Susan A. Miller, history, Rutgers-Camden. Author of Growing Girls: The Natural Origins of the Girls' Organizations in America (Rutgers 2007);
  
• Brett Mizelle, American studies, California State University-Long Beach. Author of Pig (Reaktion 2011);
  
• Cindy Ott, history, Saint Louis University. Author of The Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon (Washington 2012); and
• Phoebe S. K. Young, history, University of Colorado. Author of California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place (California 2006).