This panel will explore how human interactions with the environment informed power relations between colonizers and indigenous peoples across three continents in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. What roles did indigenous people play in the development of colonial environmental networks? How did colonial discourses about the environment inform indigenous strategies for self-determination?

Panelists include:
Kristen Connor (PhD Student, Anthropology and History, University of Michigan)
Kathleen Whiteley (PhD Student, American Culture, University of Michigan)
Matthew Woodbury (PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan)
Sophie Hunt (moderator; Postdoctoral Fellow, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan)
Erika M. Bsumek (respondent; Associate Professor, History, University of Texas at Austin)

Free and open to the public. Lunch provided.

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.