Tim Sistrunk would like to organize a panel for the 2011 ASEH conference tentatively named: “Medieval European Approaches to Issues of Sustainability”.
The society’s call for papers is fairly rich with suggestions and widely disparate possibilities. I, myself, hope to contribute something on “Regulating the Harvest in the Late Middle Ages”. This will be legal material, [...]
International Conference “Landscapes and Societies in Ancient and Medieval Europe East of the Elbe. Interactions between Environmental Settings and Cultural Transformations”
26-27 March 2010
Fourth International Conference of the Interdisciplinary Association “Gentes trans Albiam – Europe East of the Elbe in the Middle Ages.” To be held on the Keele Campus of York University, Toronto, York Research [...]
The 2011 meeting of the American Society for Environmental History will be held in Phoenix, Arizona, April 12-16. The organizing committee has set “History and Sustainability: Stories of Progress, Hubris, Decline, and Resilience” as the conference theme, which is seen as welcoming papers on earlier periods and parts of the world outside North America. The [...]
The European Society for Environmental History next meets in Turku, Finland, 28 June-2 July 2011. Posters, papers, and panels are invited. The main conference theme is “Encounters of Sea and Land”. Organizers have suggested such topics as:
The emergence of environmental crises of the seas
Phases of conservation of [...]
If anyone interested in organizing a medieval panel for the International Water History Association conference in June (see announcement below), please contact Roberta Magnusson (rmagnusson@ou.edu).
Here’s the CFP:
The International Water History Association organizes a Water History Conference in Delft, The Netherlands, in June 16-19 – 2010. The conference will be a unique opportunity to exchange existing [...]
Tim Newfield (tim.newfield@mail.mcgill.ca) is considering putting together a panel on medieval food shortages for the 2010 International Rural History Conference. Email Tim if you are interested.
Landscapes and Societies in Ancient and Medieval Europe East of the Elbe
Interactions between Environmental Settings and Cultural Transformations
Fourth International Workshop of the Interdisciplinary Association “Gentes trans Albiam – Europe East of the Elbe in the Middle Ages”
Keele Campus of York University, Toronto, 26-27 March 2010
Medieval Europe east of the Elbe presents an interesting field for [...]
Make plans now to attend the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 13-16, 2010.
Ellen Arnold (earnold@macalester.edu) has organized three regular paper sessions and one roundtable on medieval environmental history for the 2010 meeting. For those of you participating in the sessions, note that your participant form and abstract must be submitted [...]
There will be many sessions with papers on medieval history at the 1st World Congress of Environmental History in Copenhagen, Denmark, 4-8 August 2009. Look for these in your program:
Session 2.5, Mapping global agricultural history 2: Global agricultural systems in Eurasia 1000-1500, Janken Myrdal
Session 2.6, Man’s role in changing the face of a river: (1) [...]