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Call for Proposals

Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest: An ASLE Symposium on Northern Forest Studies

June 4-6, 2004
The Highland Center, Crawford Notch, White Mountains, NH

The 2004 Symposium on Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest invites proposals for papers, panels, workshops, roundtables, and readings for an interdisciplinary forum on Northern Forest issues. The symposium, cooperatively sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC), and a number of regional non-profit organizations, seeks to implement an interdisciplinary approach to Northern Forest Studies and foster dialogue among scholars, educators, forestry and recreation professionals, artists, writers, activists and non-profit organizations from the Northern Forest region. We will define the region as broadly as possible, geographically, ecologically, and culturally, in order to most effectively explore the layering of cultural and natural history in this often contested terrain. The location of the symposium, at the top of a mountain notch in the heart of the White Mountains, provides an ideal setting for topics that involve work in the field. Proposals that involve some fieldwork are therefore invited. Proposals for entire panels or roundtables are encouraged.

The symposium invites proposals on a variety of topics including, but not limited to, the following:

Settlement History

Early Exploration of Northern New
England and the Canadian Maritimes

Preservation vs. Conservation

Tourism

Regionalism

Teaching Regional Issues

Native American History and Culture

The Northern Forest Economy

Literature and Art of the Northeastern
U.S. and Southeastern Canada

Representations of the Northern Forest

Sustainability and Wise-Use

Forestry Practices and Forest Products

Wilderness vs. Wildness
 

Featured presenters and field-session leaders include: John Elder, author of Reading the Mountains of Home and Frog Run; Clare Walker Leslie, author of Keeping a Nature Journal, Into the Field, and A Naturalist’s Sketchbook; Tom Wessles, author of Reading the Forested Landscape and The Granite Landscape; Kent Ryden, author of Landscape with Figures: Nature and Culture in New England and Mapping the Invisible Landscape; Ian Marshall, author of Story Line: Exploring the Literature of the Appalachian Trail and Peak Experiences; and Rob Sanford, author of Stonewalls and Cellarholes: A guide for landowners on historic features and landscapes in Vermont’s forests.

Send inquiries and one-page proposals by December 19, 2003 (email preferred; no attachments please) to:

Pavel Cenkl
Department of English, MSC #40
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH 03264-1595
pavel@ncia.net