International Conference on Rivers and Civilization:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Major River Basins
La Crosse, Wisconsin USA
June 25-28, 2006
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| June 15 , 2006 Final Program and Abstracts posted on Web site |
| June 19, 2006 Regular online and fax registration closes. Registration will resume at the conference site on Sunday, June 25. |
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| Program & General Information Ron Rada |
| Registration & Travel Jan Olson |
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CONFERENCE SPEAKER
Mark Cioc (University of California-Santa Cruz, USA): Roundtable discussion Rivers in History.
Mark Cioc is Professor of History at the University of California-Santa Cruz. and Editor of the journal Environmental History. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California-Berkeley in 1986 and prior to teaching at Santa Cruz, taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst from 1987-1989. His most recent publications include The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002) and a co-edited anthology How Green Were the Nazis? (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005). He is currently working on a book-length manuscript, The Game of Conservation: International Treaties to Protect the World's Migratory Animals, 1900-1948.
