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This month on EHN
Carolina Granado, “Remaining Emotionless in the Face of Catastrophe”
Isobel Akerman, “How to Wild an Environmental Historian”
ASEH Connects with WEHN & EHN
EHN team members Ramya Swayamprakash and Genie Yoo will be participating in an ASEH Connects event, organized by the Women’s Environmental History Network (WEHN). Join us as we discuss pedagogy, research, and diversity in environmental history in this virtual session, “Diversifying the Field: Reflections on Syllabi and Citational Practices,” on Friday, March 1st, 4:00PM EST.
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From the EHN archive: Founder Elizabeth Hameeteman
February marks the one-year anniversary of EHN founder Elizabeth Hameeteman’s bilingual piece about her own family history, “Toen de Dijken Braken” / “When the Dikes Broke.” Read an excerpt below.
Mijn tante haalt diep adem als ze zich probeert te herinneren wat er zeventig jaar geleden is gebeurd. Ze geeft aan dat ze zelf nauwelijks herinneringen heeft aan de rampnacht. Maar mijn tante kent wel de verhalen die haar moeder haar jaren later vertelde. “Wij sliepen natuurlijk op de bovenwoning,” beschrijft ze, “en we zijn wakker geroepen door de dijkwacht dat de dijken waren gebroken.”
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My aunt takes a deep breath as she tries to recollect what happened seventy years ago. She indicates that she hardly has her own memories of the night of the disaster. But my aunt does remember the stories her mother told her years later. “We slept in the upstairs apartment of course,” she describes, “and we were awakened by the dike guard that the dikes had broken.”
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