Workshop: Collaborative Research: The Great Plains: An Environmental History

拟举办的为期四天的“大平原：环境史”跨学科研讨会将于2017年5月由俄克拉荷马大学主办。这个跨学科的研讨会将探索从德克萨斯州西部到加拿大南部的北美大平原的环境历史。这次研讨会将加强环境研究中的跨学科对话。它将扩大对大平原的学术知识。研讨会将免费向公众开放。它将通过播客和推特进行现场直播。出版的这本书将为当代关于环境的政策辩论提供信息。它将解释为什么在人类居住和资源管理方面，某些技术成功了，而其他技术失败了。它将为公众提供一个机会，从历史的角度将大平原视为一个复杂的生态系统，其中包括人类的互动。这个拟议的跨学科研讨会将为学者们提供机会，从技术适应的角度重新定义大平原，而不仅仅是生态灾难。通过探索水、草、动物和能源等基本和持久的主题，研讨会将讨论不断变化的技术如何维持人类生活、促进多样化社会以及改变人类与该地区无数生态系统的关系的复杂方式。研讨会将整合不同领域的视角和研究方法，以形成对环境、文化和技术交汇处的大平原的分析。研讨会将有来自环境史、能源史、人类学、地理学、社会学、美洲原住民研究以及环境科学、政策和管理的学者参加。

The proposed four-day interdisciplinary workshop on "The Great Plains: An Environmental History" will be hosted by the University of Oklahoma in May 2017. This interdisciplinary workshop will explore the environmental history of the North American Great Plains from western Texas to southern Canada. This workshop will enhance interdisciplinary dialogue in environmental studies. It will expand academic knowledge of the Great Plains. The workshop will be free and open to the public. It will be podcast and tweeted live. The published book will inform contemporary policy debates on the environment. It will explain why certain technologies succeed and others fail in regards to human habitation and resource management. It will provide an opportunity to members of the public to consider the Great Plains as a complex ecosystem that includes human interactions from a historical perspective.This proposed interdisciplinary workshop will offer a scholars the opportunity to re-conceptualize the Great Plains from the perspective of technological adaptations rather than only ecological disasters. By exploring the elemental and persistent themes of water, grasses, animals, and energy, the workshop will discuss the complex ways in which shifting technologies sustained human life, advanced diverse societies, and altered human relations with the region's myriad ecologies. The workshop will integrate the perspectives and research methodologies of different fields to forge an analysis of the Great Plains at the intersection of environment, culture, and technology. The workshop will involve scholars from environmental history, energy history, anthropology, geography, sociology, Native American studies, and environmental science, policy and management.