Segnaliamo una Call for Panels, Papers e Posters per la Conferenza 2026 della American Society for Environmental History, in programma dal 25 al 28 settembre 2026, per il tema “Crossroads: Environmental Histories on Contested Ground”.
This region exemplifies the entanglement of environmental history with histories of imperialism, colonial displacement, globalizing economies, and struggles for racial justice. At the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers, where the forests of the East become the prairies of the West, the city developed on land belonging to diverse Indigenous communities, including the Kaw and Osage nations. Before the founding of the city, the area was a hub for an Indigenous-white commerce in millions of beaver pelts and bison hides. In the nineteenth century, Kansas City became an eastern terminus for transportation routes that opened the West to extraction and settlement, while Missouri and Kansas played important roles in conflicts over freedom and enslavement and the competing systems of land use and expansion that undergirded sectional conflict. In the twentieth century the city and region continued to sit at the crossroads of both local and national challenges that came with urban development, racial tensions, and environmental degradation.
Deadline: 25 agosto 2025
