Sept. 4, 1997
Contact: Carmen Ramos Chandler,
(818) 677-2130
cchandler@exec.csun.edu
CSUN's annual Southern California Environment and History Conference, this year titled "Nature's Workshop: Environmental Change in 20th Century Southern California," will take place from Sept. 18 through Sept. 20 in the University Student Union, on the east side of the campus at 18111 Nordhoff St. in Northridge.
Conference sessions, which will begin each day at 8:30 a.m. and continue through the early evening, include "Creating an Urban Landscape: The Perils of Progress in 20th Century Los Angeles;" "Who Will Pay the Piper? Industrialization and Pollution in Early 20th Century Los Angeles;" "Farewell Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream;" "Wet Years, Dry Years: Can We Blame Them on El Ni–o?"; "Los Angeles as Disaster;" and "There Are Worse Things Than Earthquakes: Complex Urban Hazards in Los Angeles."
Featured presenters include conference co-chair Mike Davis, historian, journalist and author of "City of Quartz;" historian Catherine Mulholland; and Leonard Pitt and Dale Pitt, authors of "Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County."
In addition to more than 20 colleges and universities from across the country, conference participants include the ArtsCorpsLA; the California Dept. of Parks and Recreation; the Getty Research Institute for the History of Arts and Humanities; Heal the Bay, Huntington Library, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the Sierra Club.
The conference is co-sponsored by CSUN's College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, its Center for Southern California Studies and The Whitsett Endowment; California Institute of Technology; the John and Laree Caughey Foundation; California Council for Humanities; Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and Humanities; and the Calabasas Historical Society.
Public registration for the three-day event is $20. Students with identification will be admitted free. Academic registration is $50 and K-14 instructors will be charged $30.
For more information, call conference coordinator Lorna Fenenbock via telephone at (818) 677-6518, via fax at (818) 677-7115 or via email at scehc@csun.edu. The conference's web site is http://www.csun.edu/~hfgeg012/.
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