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Pacific Northwest Contours: Complicating and Questioning Notions about Region and Regional History

A SYMPOSIUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Smith Hall 304 November 23rd, 2002

Hosted by the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild
and
the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest

Program

7:30 am Coffee and Donuts
8:15 am Welcoming / Bruce Hevly, Associate Professor of History, University of Washington, Director, the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest.
8:30 am Lived Environments
Chair: Adam Sowards, Shoreline Community College
  Judy Green, University of Washington  "Oregon's and Washington's Land Grant Colleges: Orchestrating a Rural Renaissance in the Pacific Northwest, late 19th early 20th centuries"
  Elizabeth Carney Sowards, Arizona State University  "Suburbanizing Nature: Popularizing Outdoor Living, 1920s to Present"
  Junius Rochester  "Creating Neighborhoods: Transforming Seattle into Communities (or is it the other way around?)"
10:00 am Science, Technology, and Regional Context
Chair: Bruce Hevly, University of Washington
  Lorraine McConaghy, Museum of History and Industry  "The First Steam-Powered Sawmill on Puget Sound: Framing Interpretation"
  Brian Schefke, University of Washington  "Science and Imperialism: Beginning with the HBC"
  Matt Sneddon, University of Washington  "Technology Museums: Commemorating Industrialization and Telling National Stories at the Same Time"
11:30 am Susan Karren, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) : "Come See What We're Saving For You: Federal Records at NARA's Regional Facilities"
11:45 am Off the reservation
Chair: E. A. Schwartz, California State University, San Marcos
  Andy Fisher, Arizona State University  "Columbia River Indians, 1855 to 1945: Persistence of Native People in Off Reservation Settings; and the Emergence of New Ethnic Identities"
  Melinda Marie Jette, University of British Columbia  "Intercultural relations in Oregon's French Prairie, 1800 to 1850"
  Coll Thrush, University of Washington  "Material Realities: The Interconnection Between Indian History and Urban History and the Discursive and Symbolic Role of Indians"
1:00 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Keynote Address
  John Findlay, Professor and Chairman, Department of History, University of Washington  "Regional Writers and Northwest Identity: Transplanted and Home-Grown Species"
2:15 pm Race and Ethnicity in the Pacific Northwest
Chair: Susan Bragg, University of Washington
  Veta Schlimgen, University of Oregon  "From Colonial Subject to 'Americans': Pacific Northwest Filipino Americans during the Interwar Period"
  Turkiya Lowe, University of Washington  "Black Clubwomen: Social Activism and Social Uplift at the Turn of the Century"
  Shelley Lee, Stanford University  "Japanese Americans: Center of a Web of Relationships, 20th century"
3:45 pm  
  Jerry Handfield, Washington State Archives  "Regional Treasures: A Scholar's Search for Gold in the Archives"
4:00 pm Community Building: Different Notions of Diversity, Problems, and Progress
Chair: Mary Wright, University of Washington
  Sherry Edmund-Flett, Simon Fraser University  "First Generation Women to Vancouver Island,1858-1870"
  Rachel Williams, University of Washington  "Prostitution and Community"
  Michael Reese, University of Washington  "'We Need to Watch Her Carefully Because She Is Partly of Negro Blood': Race and the Creation of Welfare in the Pacific Northwest."
  Ed Diaz, Seattle  "Refugees from Hostility and Poverty: Nineteenth Century Black Strikebreakers in Washington's Coal Mining Industry"
5:30 pm Snack
6:00 pm Teaching the Pacific Northwest Survey: A Conversation Between Geographers and Historians
Chair: Shaun Huston, Department of Geography, Western Oregon University
  Michael McGlade, Department of Geography, Western Oregon University  Teaching the PNW Geography Course, WOU
  Max Geier, Department of History, and Chair of the Social Sciences Division, Western Oregon University  Teaching the PNW Survey Course, WOU
  Chris Friday, Department of History, Western Washington University  Teaching the PNW Survey Course, WWU

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1st GRS: Photo from UW Libraries, Special Collections, #19678z

1st GRS: Photo courtesy of UW Libraries, Special Collections, #19678z

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