CHAT - History of Environmental Thought - Student Presentations

CHAT: History of Environmental Thought - Student Presentations

WHEN: Tuesday May 2nd - 6:30-9pm (Visitors do not need to stay for all presentations)

WHERE: CAP ArtSpace Gallery (First Floor) in the Tompkins Center for History & Culture on the Ithaca Commons - 110 North Tioga St. Ithaca NY 14850.

PRESENTERS: Ithaca College Students from HIST/ENVS 720

Join us for a CHAT (Community History Across Tompkins) with student presentation's from Professor Michael Smith's 'History of American Environmental Thought' class. Michael Smith, Professor of History and Environmental Science at Ithaca College, developed a course in environmental history requiring students to use local historical resources to study an event in the greater Ithaca area.  In doing so, it is his hope that students will develop a sense of “ecological citizenship” and an understanding that they are a part of the community they are studying.    

Through a partnership with The History Center, students are recognizing the reciprocal impact of human behavior and ecological changes from events such as the major floods that have affected Tompkins County (most notably in 1935), the development of the Commons, and the 1903 typhoid epidemic (especially notable as environmental history in the wake of the pandemic).  

No registration necessary.

COVID-19 POLICY - The History Center will follow the most up to date guidance from the Tompkins County Health Department. Our organization is a mask friendly space and encourage visitors to practice what is most comfortable to them regarding mask wearing. Learn more at thehistorycenter.net/health.

The program is offered through the CHAT (Community History Across Tompkins) program series for informal presentations by citizen historians. See other upcoming CHAT's at thehistorycenter.net/CHAT.

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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This event will take place in the traditional and contemporary lands of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫ' Nation (Cayuga), one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Learn more at thehistorycenter.net/land-acknowledgement.