<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><i>Apologies for cross-posting. </i><br><br>Hey everyone, <br><br>Last summer, I visited Lake Entiat, formed by the Rocky Reach Dam -- one of more than 450 dams in the Columbia River Basin. <br><br>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.<br><br>This tension seems, to me, to run through historian Richard White’s important book <i>The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River</i>. 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).<br><br><a href="https://calendar.washington.edu/The-Organic-Machine-at-30-feat-Richard-White/E191279267">Add to your calendar</a><br><br>See below for details, and thanks to Jess Cavalari (History, UW Seattle) for the heads up. <br><br>Yours,<br>Monika<br><br>Link: <a href="https://calendar.washington.edu/The-Organic-Machine-at-30-feat-Richard-White/E191279267">https://calendar.washington.edu/The-Organic-Machine-at-30-feat-Richard-White/E191279267</a> <br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">>>><br><br>All are welcome to attend this forum celebrating the 30th anniversary of Richard White's landmark book, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Organic Machine: the Remaking of the Columbia River</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, featuring Dr. White in conversation with a panel of environmental humanities scholars.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span id="m_6863980989680681953m_-2358470245816464878m_4867198744115575739m_3307643316636562954gmail-docs-internal-guid-d2a4ccfa-7fff-7f7d-c867-af8bbd75f76c"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:8pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Published in 1995, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Organic Machine</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> 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 </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Organic Machine</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> first took root.</span></span></div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">--</span></div>
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