[Ssnet_list] Is the Columbia River an 'organic machine'? (Event details below)

[Monika Sengul-Jones via Ssnet_list]

*Apologies for cross-posting. *

Hey everyone,

Last summer, I visited Lake Entiat, formed by the Rocky Reach Dam -- one of
more than 450 dams in the Columbia River Basin.

Beside the lake, transformers crackled with electricity that serves seven
million people. Energy made from waterfalls -- it's poetic, written like
that. And like other enormous technological projects built on the force of
water, the river and the dam are flashpoints for competing ways of living.

This tension seems, to me, to run through historian Richard White’s
important book *The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River*.
And now, this Friday, Nov. 7, at 2:30 PM in Allen Library North, Room 485,
you can meet Richard White (History, Stanford) thirty years after the
book's publication for conversation about environmental humanities with
Jennifer O'Neal (University of Oregon), Nathan Roberts (History, UW
Seattle), Jennifer Seltz (History, Western Washington University), and Coll
Thrush (History, UBC), moderated by Margaret O’Mara (History, UW Seattle).

Add to your calendar
<https://calendar.washington.edu/The-Organic-Machine-at-30-feat-Richard-White/E191279267>

See below for details, and thanks to Jess Cavalari (History, UW Seattle)
for the heads up.

Yours,
Monika

Link:
https://calendar.washington.edu/The-Organic-Machine-at-30-feat-Richard-White/E191279267



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All are welcome to attend this forum celebrating the 30th anniversary of
Richard White's landmark book, The Organic Machine: the Remaking of the
Columbia River, featuring Dr. White in conversation with a panel of
environmental humanities scholars.


Published in 1995, The Organic Machine helped launch a new way of writing
environmental history—one that bridges nature and culture, science and
story, ecology and economy. Thirty years later, its influence endures
across disciplines. Beyond commemoration, this event seeks to reenergize
the interdisciplinary connections among scholars and students engaged in
environmental studies across the University of Washington. It will
highlight the UW’s longstanding role as a collegial and innovative center
for environmental thought—where ideas that helped shape The Organic Machine
first took root.


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