Dagomar Degroot, a PhD candidate in environmental history at York University, Toronto, Canada, is working with David Hsiung to develop a panel proposal on the relationship between pre-industrial warfare and environment for the 2011 ASEH conference in Phoenix, April 12-16. As the panel presently stands, Dagomar’s paper would uncover links between the fluctuating climatic history [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 inland waters, seas, and coasts Historical [...]
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 [...]
Ellen Arnold and Richard Hoffmann have put together an exciting series of five sessions for the Kalamazoo meeting in May 2010. Here’s a breakdown of what you can expect to see. Environmental History I-V: Kalamazoo 2010 I: Medieval Ecological Thinking?: Ideas, Actions, Impacts Presider: Ellen Arnold, Macalester College “Landscape and Imagination in Egil’s Saga” Janet [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]