Other Presentations

(60 minutes)

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Jameson Karns of the Huntington-USC Institute on California & the West moderated a conversation with Professor Sergiy Zibtsez, the head of the Regional Eastern Europe Monitoring Center (REEFMC), about the historical and current challenges of Ukrainian forest fire management.Additional contemporary and historical perspective was offered by Robert English, Professor of International Relations, at USC Dornsife. The webinar was cosponsored by the Huntington-USC Institute on California & the West and the Forest History Society.

Sergiy Zibtsev is a professor at the Department of Silviculture of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine and Head of the Regional Eastern Europe Fire Monitoring Center (REEFMC) based in Kyiv. Robert English is an associate professor of International Relations, Slavic Languages and Literature, and Environment Studies. He formerly worked as a policy analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense and the Committee for National Security. Jameson Karns is a former firefighter whose research focuses on international wildfire management. He serves as the ICW's “West on Fire” Assistant Research Director.

(60 minutes)

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Historians Sue Fawn Chung and Will Gow and anthropologist Stacey Lynn Camp joined Shing Yin Khor to discuss Khor's The Legend of Auntie Po. Set in an 1880s logging camp in the Sierras, this graphic novel weaves together stories of thirteen-year old Mei and her friends and family—including the mythical Auntie Po, logging camp life, and Chinese American community-building during the Chinese Exclusion Era.

The webinar was cosponsored by the Huntington-USC Institute on California & the West and the Forest History Society.

Watch Nov. 2 HERE

Held in cooperation with Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment on Nov. 1 and 2, 2019. Presenters were:

• Stephen Bell, Department of Geography, UCLA (A Life in Shadow: Aimé Bonpland in Southern South America)
• Stephen Jackson, U.S. Geological Survey and University of Arizona (editor, Humboldt’s Essay on the Geography of Plants, and co-editor with Laura Dassow Walls of Humboldt’s Ansichten der Nature)
• Elizabeth Millán, Department of Philosophy, DePaul University (The Romantic Roots of Alexander von Humboldt’s Presentation of Nature)
• Nicolaas Rupke, Institut fűr Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Universität Göttingen (Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography)
• Laura Dassow Walls, English Department at Notre Dame (Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America)