Sustainability and Environmental History will be the focus of the Environmental History Forum to be held on Tuesday, March 9 at Portland State University March 9, 2010

Sustainability and Environmental History will be the focus of the Environmental History Forum to be held on Tuesday, March 9 in Portland State University's Smith Memorial Center, Room 238 starting at 6:30pm. The event is an academic forum open to scholars as well as interested members of the public to learn and discuss new aspects of American environmental history. .

The free Forum takes place on the eve of the 2010 Annual Meeting entitled "Currents of Change" of the American Society for Environmental History which will be taking place mostly at PSU and at other venues across Portland from March 10 through the 14th and is expected to attract over a thousand scholars in this field.

The Environmental History Forum is being co-sponsored by the Portland Center for Public Humanities and the PSU Friends of History. The Forum will feature several distinguished scholars in the field,including
Professors William Cronon, Nancy Langston and James Feldman.

The Environmental History Forum will be moderated by Professor William Lang, Department of History at Portland State University and the chief editor of the Oregon Enclyclopedia Project. Dr. Lang is the chief organizer of the 2010 ASEH "Currents of Change" meeting.

For more information on the Environmental History Forum or on the 2010 ASEH "Currents of Change" meeting check out the http://www.publichumanities.pdx.edu or the http://www.aseh.net/ websites. Parking is free in the PSU parking structures after 7pm. The phone number for PSU's History Department is (503)725-3917