(Subject to change; updated 3/10/2013)
Friday, March 15:
| 5-6PM | Opening Reception (for registered WHEATS participants and CHF guests only) | Chemical Heritage Foundation |
| 6-7PM | Keynote address: Conevery Bolton Valencius, University of Massachusetts Boston “Vernacular Science of the New Madrid Earthquakes: Creating Knowledge in the Early United States” |
Chemical Heritage Foundation |
Saturday, March 16:
*Each paper session is 50 minutes long, followed by a 10-minute break, with two 20-minute coffee breaks. Please return on time!
| 8AM | Breakfast | HSS Lounge Floor 3 Cohen Hall |
| 8:30-9:20AM | Hayley Goodchild, “Paradoxes of Proximity in the Early Ontario Cheese Industry” (Discussant: Emily Pawley) |
402 Cohen Hall |
| 9:30-10:20AM | Brian Jirout, “The Greening of Diplomacy: Landsat, Environment, and the Cold War, 1964-1978” (Discussant: Neil Maher) | 402 Cohen Hall |
| 10:20-10:40AM | Coffee Break | HSS Lounge |
| 10:40-11:30AM | Samantha Muka, “Illuminating Animal Behavior: The Impact of the Loeb-Jennings Debate on Experimental Procedure in Tropism Studies” (Discussant: Lloyd Ackert) |
402 Cohen Hall |
| 11:40-12:30PM | Silas Chamberlin, “‘Many Bulldozers are Drooling’: The Spatial Politics of Rail Trails” (Discussant: Andrew Isenberg) |
402 Cohen Hall |
| 12:30-2PM | Lunch: Participants are on their own for the lunch break. See “Getting Around” for dining suggestions. | Penn environs |
| 2-2:50PM | He Bian, “In Search of Goldthread: Harvest, Cultivation and Multiplication of a Bitter Herb in Late Imperial China” (Discussant: Projit Mukharji) | 402 Cohen Hall |
| 3-3:50PM | Meghan Crnic, “Technologies of Nature: How UV Lamps Brought Nature to the City” (Discussant: Conevery Bolton Valencius) |
402 Cohen Hall |
| 3:50-4:10PM | Coffee Break | HSS Lounge |
| 4:10-5:00PM | Jennifer Thomson, “Healing the Land: The Environmental Politics of Re-inhabitation” (Discussant: Adam Rome) |
402 Cohen Hall |
| 5:10-6PM | Rachel Gross: “Synthetic Wilderness: Gore-Tex and the Paths to Mastery in Outdoor Recreation” (Discussant: Amy Slaton) | 402 Cohen Hall |
| 6-8PM | Dinner | HSS Lounge |
Sunday, March 17:
| 8:30-9AM | Breakfast | Golkin Room, Houston Hall |
| 9-11AM | Publishing Panel: John Tresch, Andrew Isenberg, Audra Wolfe, and Ben Cohen | Golkin Room, Houston Hall |
| 11AM | Official Closing | Golkin Room, Houston Hall |
| 12AM-2PM | Bartram’s Garden field trip (bring a lunch!); meet at noon for group departure | Golkin Room, Houston Hall |