Hello and welcome to #ASEH2020Tweets, an environmental history Twitter conference brought to you by @ASEHGradCaucus with the help of @NiCHE_NS. This is our third annual conference and as you might imagine, things are a little different this year. A few brief remarks. THREAD. 
This Twitter conference was envisioned two years ago by @JessicaMDeWitt as a way to spread the word about presentations at the annual American Society for Environmental History conference and to give those who couldn't attend the opportunity to participate.
Make sure to take a look at the previous two years of great conference content via their hashtags #ASEH2018Tweets and #ASEH2019Tweets.
This year's Twitter conference was in the works long before concerns over coronavirus. But things got worse, much worse, and then #ASEH2020 was canceled (for good reason, of course) and #ASEH2020Tweets gained new significance.
Though the circumstances are quite unfortunate, I hope and think that this year's #ASEH2020Tweets Twitter conference can prove to be a productive and even enjoyable opportunity during this global pandemic.
To that end, some basic housekeeping. Each speaker gets a half hour slot (see the schedule above). I will introduce them and then for the first fifteen minutes they will tweet out their talk as a thread. The next fifteen minutes is open to Q&A. And then on to the next speaker.
For those in the audience, please use the hashtag #ASEH2020Tweets when engaging with the conference. Though this is happening live, these tweet threads will remain on Twitter and after the conference will be put together as one big thread.
I feel like I should note that there's a person right now running this Twitter account (@CJSlaby) but that I couldn't be doing this without the help of many people. Particular thanks go to @JessicaMDeWitt @_JustinFisher_ @charlotte_leib @NiCHE_NS @NiCHE_Canada @ASEH_Resources
And since this is me (@CJSlaby) running the conference, I'll take this opportunity to engage you all very briefly with a sort of land acknowledgement, an acknowledgement of our presence, for many of us, on Indigenous land.
To see whose Indigenous land you're on, you can check here: native-land.ca
For a particularly thoughtful take on land acknowledgements, take a look at what American Indian and Indigenous Studies at Michigan State University has to say: aisp.msu.edu/about/land/
These are important things to consider no matter what the context but this year's American Society for Environmental History conference, #ASEH2020, had a very strong Indigenous presence so I feel it's important for us to start #ASEH2020Tweets this way too.
And with that, we'll get started in just a few minutes! Thanks! #ASEH2020Tweets
