Emily Wakild, assistant professor of history, will give an invited talk, “Deepening Histories of Private Conservation, Science, and Patrimony in Patagonia,” at the Institute of Social Sciences at Cornell University April 11. Together, science and conservation have indelibly shaped South America, a continent that today reserves more than a fifth of its territory in some form of protected natural area. Her talk examines the historical parameters for land protection as natural history research shifted towards considering the contingencies of location.
Wakild has already given a talk at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign March 6-7, 2014. Wakild’s talk: “Situating and Circulating Scientific Knowledge in a Tropical Rain Forest: Naming and Knowing Manu National Park” was given on the second day of the Global Environmental History Symposium. She as well was the keynote speaker at the teacher’s workshop.