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Conference: "Indigenous Environments: African and North  American
Environmental Knowledge and Practices Compared"

The Africana  Studies and Environmental Studies Programs at Bowdoin
College are pleased to  be hosting a conference to discuss indigenous
environmental knowledge April  3-5, 2008.  The conference, "Indigenous
Environments: African and North  American Environmental Knowledge and
Practices Compared"  will bring  twenty scholars of African and Native
American history and culture from  across North America to campus to
explore pre-colonial, colonial, and  post-colonial relationships with
the environment over time. Funding for the  conference has been
provided by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon  Foundation

Arun Agrawal of the University of Michigan will open the  conference
with the keynote address "Indigenous Knowledge and Power" on  Thursday,
April 3. The keynote address is open to the public. We  encourage
interested faculty and students to attend the conference.

By  placing African and Native American local knowledge and practices
alongside  one another, we hope that participants might not only
compare differences  between period and place, but also between
different traditions of  scholarship.  Specific topics will include
land tenure and treaty  rights, health and food ways, religion, science
and scientists, identity and  ethnicity, and natural resource
management.

For more information about  the conference, please visit the web  site:
http://www.bowdoin.edu/environmental-studies/symposia/indigenous-environments-
2008/conference-program.shtml.

If  you are interested in attending, please contact David  Gordon
(dgordon at bowdoin.edu). While Bowdoin cannot offer any  financial
support, we will make every effort to enable you to participate in  all
the conference functions.

>From the conference  organizers,
Connie Y. Chiang, Assistant Professor of History and  Environmental
Studies, Bowdoin College
David Gordon, Assistant Professor  of History, Bowdoin College
Matthew Klingle, Assistant Professor of History  and Environmental
Studies, Bowdoin College
Lance Van Sittert, Mellon  Global Scholar in Environmental Studies and
Associate Professor of Historical  Studies, University of Cape Town




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