FYI...
Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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Call for Papers
Panel: Swamps and American Culture
American Society for Environmental History Meeting - Denver, Colorado
March 20-23, 2002
In 1867, Harriet Beecher Stowe moved to an orange plantation on the St.
Johns River in northeastern Florida. Five years later, she wrote about her
front yard, a stretch of swamp extending from her porch to the river. "This
swamp is one of those crooks in our yard which occasions a never ceasing
conflict of spirit," she wrote. "It is a glorious, bewildering
impropriety." Most nineteenth-century Americans agreed with Stowe: swamps
were befuddling, constant challenges to human efforts to control or contain
them.
This panel, tentatively titled "Muck: Swamps and American Culture"
will consist of three papers, a chair and a commentator. One paper will
discuss images of and actions against the Okefenokee Swamp in
nineteenth-century southern Georgia. Additional papers need not examine
southern swamps in particular or focus on nineteenth-century encounters with
swamps or other inundated environments.
All interested panelists, chairs or commentators, please contact Megan
Nelson at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Megan Nelson
University of Iowa
American Studies
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer
Environmental Management & Design Division
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 84
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fax: 64-03-325-3841
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