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Colloquia Series
Colloquia in the North American West Winter Quarter 2007 Climate Change and California Water Kat Snow, News Editor - KQED-FM 2006-2007 Western Enterprise Reporting Fellow Scientists expect that as the earth's temperature warms, the salty seas will rise and seep into coastal aquifers and deltas, potentially contaminating the water supply. Rain and snow will fall at different times of the year and with different intensity than today, stretching the capacity of California's levees, reservoirs and pipelines. Snow will melt more quickly, threatening floods as water pours down the Sierra in the early spring, and drought as it filters from the mountains in the late summer. The warming trend in California is already well documented: the temperature of Lake Tahoe has risen one degree in 30 years; the water level in the San Francisco Bay has risen one foot in the last 150 years, and is expected to rise another 4 inches by 2050; spring runoff now gushes earlier as a greater portion of the snow pack melts before April. The hydrological changes that accompany global warming are expected to be severe: beyond the capacity of California's current water infrastructure, practices and policies. Join Kat Snow, KQED News Editor and a Bill Lane Center Western Enterprise Reporting Fellow, for a conversation about how climate change could affect water in California and what the state's leaders and residents are - and are not - doing to prepare. Immigration and Immigrants’ Rights Artur Domoslawski Columnist - Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, Poland 2006-2007 Western Enterprise Reporting Fellow Sharks in the Sea of Cortez Juliet Eilperin Staff reporter - The Washington Post 2006-2007 Western Enterprise Reporting Fellow Spring Quarter 2007 The Two-Generation Solution: The Mechanics of Establishing American Indian Blood Quantum in the "Indian New Deal" Professor of History and American Indian Studies Program University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire As well as talks by:
Watch this page for dates and topics. Autumn 2006 The The The Mapping the West: Describing America in an Age of Unknowns How do you describe a continent? In the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Americans struggled with this question as they sought to make sense of the shifting boundaries and populations of the North American West. This talk examines how American explorers, federal policymakers, and private publishers together attempted to make sense of the West through maps, treaties, and published travel accounts. It also examines how the worlds of policy, print, and visual culture developed together as Americans imagined a western future. Spring 2006 The Other's Other's Other: Or How I Came to Appreciate the Complexity of Indigenous Memory Through the Crafting of Footnotes Samuel P. Huntington, the 'Hispanic Challenge,' and Another Failure of Intelligence The Reel West: Making Documentary Films The Bill Lane Center’s Documentary Film Award Winners will present their works in progress. This noontime colloquium will feature a screening of Ashley Tindall’s film, “Feathers and Coins.” Tindall’s documentary examines the impact of an Indian casino on a small New Mexican town. In addition, Erin Hudson and Kathy Huang will also discuss their films, “Long Haul,” and “Miss Chinatown USA.” Winter 2006The Nature of Industrial Struggle in the Colorado Coalfields: What Can Environmental History Reveal about Strikes and Massacres in Industrializing America? Gendered Responses: 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Disaster Relief Preserving Western Wilderness How the West Was East: North America and the PacificBasin before 1850 Asian Exclusion in the Americas and the Pacific in the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Centuries Working Wilderness: The History of the Malpai Borderlands Group and the Future of the Western Range Science, Activism, and Feathered Pigs: Conservation Biology and the California Condor Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the Transnational North American Frontier Before They Went West: Engineers, Bureaucrats, and Developers in the Lower Mississippi Valley Taking Cover: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, the Destruction of Stanford University, and the Politics of Great Disasters Salt Pond Restoration: What Role Should History Take? Hidden in the Understory: Immigrant Labor & Forest Management in Southern Oregon Outlaw Women in the Nineteenth Century West Johnny Appleseed, John Wayne, and Homesteading on the Extraterrestrial Frontier California and the West in the 2004 Presidential Election Rephotographing the West Governing Cities in Transition: Local Policymakers React to Immigration and Change Oyster Growers and Oyster Pirates: Public Access and Private Property in San Francisco Bay’s Tidal Wetlands Nothing is Certain but Debt and Taxes: The Political Economy of Taxation during the California Gold Rush Cultural Fires and Regenerations in Yosemite The Forgotten Founders: Rethinking the History of the Old West Nature, Community, & Contemporary Planning in the American West: A Lake Tahoe Case Study Sabotage, ‘Jackass Tactics,’ Indeed!: Liberal Unionists, Wobblies, and Rethinking Rocky Mountain Labor Radicalism, 1890-1912 The Irish-American West: A Hypertext Corpus of Texts and Research Writing the Range of the American West |