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History and Sustainability Environmental History and Education for Sustainable Development. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Paper, panel, and poster submissions (500-word abstracts) will be accepted on-line until November 15, 2006. For abstract submission and conference details, visit: http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/cela/ 2nd International Symposium on Environment The Department of Chemical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens in collaboration with The Athens Institute for Education and Research (AT.IN.E.R.) organizes the 2nd international symposium on Environment, August 2-3, 2007. For the program of the pervious symposium and other information visit the conference website www.atiner.gr/docs/Environment.htm. The registration fee is 250 euro, covering access to all sessions, 2 lunches, coffee breaks and conference material. Special arrangements will be made with local hotels for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a number of special events will be organized: A Greek night of entertainment, a special one-day cruise in the Greek islands and a half-day tour to archaeological site or other sites. The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and students of environment from all disciplines such as education, biology, chemistry, geology, economics, geography, history, political science, communications, environmental health, environmental law & justice, government policy, etc. Special topics will be devoted to Waste and recycling, Water Research Engineering, Biological Treatment of water, Water Quality Engineering, Management, Water Quality Modeling, Treatment Management Strategies Relevant to Water, Surface Quality Control, Quality Control of Water, Development of Tools for Controlling Water Quality, Atmospheric Pollution, Soil Pollution, The Economy of Nature, Politics & Science, Petroleum Waste Management and Natural Methods of Controlling Pollution. Selected papers will be published in a Special Volume of the Conference Proceedings. Please submit a 300-word abstract by January 10th, 2007, by email (atiner@atiner.gr) to: Dr. Theophilos Theophanides, Honorary Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens and Academic Member of ATINER. Abstracts should include: Title of Paper, Family Name(s), First Name(s), Institutional Affiliation, Current Position, an email address and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of the submission. If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. chair a session, evaluate papers to be included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing, or any other offer to help please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos (gtp@atiner.gr), Director, ATINER. Woodland Cultures in Time and Space: tales from the past, messages for the future 1st Circular - IUFRO research group 6.07.00 invites you to participate to the International Conference on Forest and Woodland History that will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece, 3 – 7 September 2007. We welcome abstracts of approximately 300 words long, for paper or poster presentation. Each paper will be allowed maximum of 20 min time for presentations and 5 min for discussion. Abstracts must be submitted by October 27th, 2006. Electronic submission will be soon available at the conference website: All those interested in trees, woodlands, forests and their cultural, social and economic values are welcome. Researchers working in the fields of forest and woodland history, environmental history, historical and cultural geography and social anthropology or anybody who feels his/her research is connected to woodland cultures. For more information please contact: History and Sustainability:
Environmental History and Education for Sustainable Development A conference, organised by Paul Warde, and to be held on 6-7 September in For more details, see the dedicated area of this web site » Environment, Health and History European Association for the History of Medicine and Health The Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Among the themes of the conference will be: However, these themes are not exclusive and the Association and its How to submit a proposal: The proposal will be considered by the EAHMH Scientific Board and presenters will hear if their abstract/poster or session has been accepted by the end of January 2007. Registration for the conference The conference organisational address is: Centre for History in Public Natural Hazards, Risk, and Insurance in Historical Perspective Conveners: In recent years, the history of natural catastrophes has become a flourishing area of research. The existing literature has focused on questions of perception, interpretation, coping strategies, and institutional change triggered by such events. Thus far, little attention has been paid to problems of uncertainty in the history of natural disasters. This is especially the case for the modern era, when the destructive potential of natural forces has reached new heights due to the steadily increasing entangling of the environment in the infrastructure of human activity. Therefore, this conference aims to take a closer look at the historical intersections of uncertainty, hazards, risk, and extreme natural events. We are interested in different historical approaches to dealing with uncertain environments, ranging from individual and local attempts to national programs and transnational or even global undertakings. Especially interesting in this respect is the history of natural hazard insurance – both in a very practical sense and as an innovative way of spreading the risks of natural hazards over time and space. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the history of Please send a short proposal of no more than 300 words and a brief CV including a list of relevant publications to Bärbel Thomas at B.Thomas@[at]ghi-dc.org (fax: 202-483-3430). The deadline for submission is March 1, 2007. Participants will be notified by mid-April at the latest. The GHI will cover the cost for travel and accommodations of participants. Please send inquiries to Uwe Luebken (luebken@[at]ghi-dc.org). Baerbel Thomas XV International Meeting of the Society for Human Ecology We have already received some preliminary proposals for sessions include themes such as: Biodiversity, Coastal Management, Cultural Diversity, Education, Philosophy, Traditional Populations, among others. We will be happy to receive proposals for sessions, symposia, and roundtables that we can incorporate into the early stages of meeting planning even before we issue the formal call for papers. If you have ideas, please contact me at: Tall Buildings In The London Landscape We invite proposals (500 words) for contributions to a cross-disciplinary day meeting on tall buildings in London past and present. The seminar will bring together new research on towers of every type, their promoters and uses, the symbolism and associations of high-rise architecture, its cumulative presence in the metropolitan landscape, and the issues posed by new tall building for historic skylines and landmarks. The day's proceedings will form the basis of a special issue of The London Journal, now published by Maney, which has a unique reputation for scholarly coverage of London past and present. The recommended length for papers is 5,000 words long, and shorter communications are welcomed. The conference organisers are town planner Michael Hebbert (University of Manchester) and historian Elizabeth McKellar (Open University) , both members of the London Journal editorial board, and the Centre for Metropolitan History (CMH), Institute of Historical Research. The meeting forms part of the 2007 programme of the CMH and will be held in the Wolfson/Pollard Rooms at the Institute of Historical Research. Papers will be presubmitted and presentations limited strictly to 15 minutes to allow good time for discussion. Call for papers December 1st 2006 Michael Hebbert (michael.hebbert@manchester.ac.uk) The Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) Papers are cordially invited on all aspects of urban, regional and community planning history. The program committee welcomes proposals for either individual papers or whole sessions of two or three papers with comment. Submissions must include the following materials: Proposals must be sent by February 15, 2007 to sacrph@as.miami.edu with an attached file (preferably Word) that includes the proposal and the c.v.s of all session participants. Inquires may be directed to Program Committee Co-Chairs Robin Bachin at rbachin@miami.edu and Alison Isenberg at aei@rci.rutgers.edu. Nature Matters: Materiality and the More-than-Human in Cultural Studies of the Environment Having emerged from the 1990s “nature wars” that pitted so-called social constructivists against putative deep ecologists, scholars interested in questions of the relations between culture and nature (to use a convenient shorthand) have begun increasingly to engage in research that rejects both poles of that ultimately sterile debate: Nature may be a social construction, but it is pure hubris to think and act as if human beings are the only ones doing the constructing. For Haraway, the task of acknowledging and working with the implications of this observation about what she has called the “artifactuality” of nature is both scientific and political; for McKay, as demonstrated by his own lyric and metaphoric insistences, questions about nature, otherness and language are also poetic and ethical. For most scholars engaged in “environmental” work in the social sciences and humanities, the task is all of these things and more. How do we think and write about human, social processes and power relations in a way that also speaks to the activity and alterity of the more-than-human beings involved? How do we gesture, in our language and politics, to the ways in which nature is both interlayered with and outside of our cultural understandings of nature? What difference does it make in environmental cultural studies that we take more-than-human actors as our points of inquiry and conversation? In short: How do we make nature “matter” in cultural studies of the environment? This conference will address these questions by providing a multidisciplinary forum for scholars interested in the broad field of “environmental cultural studies” to come together to discuss just how it is that nature matters in their work. Our plenary speakers are: Stacy Alaimo, University of Texas, Arlington (feminist science studies) We thus invite proposals for panels and papers from scholars in any discipline whose work might inform, or be informed by, these or other views of nature “mattering” in environmental cultural studies. We invite proposals for fully-formed panels (three papers each, 20 minutes per paper, with a chair but no discussant), and also enthusiastically invite maverick papers that have no particular family of origin. Panel abstracts should include a general overview of the panel plus abstracts for each paper (all 250 words or under); individual paper abstracts should be no more than 300 words. All contributors should include a one-page individual CV with their abstract. Graduate student papers are welcome. Contributions from artists, musicians, creative writers and performers are also welcome; these contributions need not conform to the three-person panel format. Please contact the organizers for further information. Abstracts should be submitted by February 10 to: Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World This conference will focus especially on two more recent periods of global economic integration, the late nineteenth/early twentieth and the later twentieth centuries. The conference will highlight several themes: Our deliberations will strive for a more synthetic understanding of how the history of industrial hazards has varied across industries, nations, and periods, and of how, when, and why hazardous processes and their associated knowledge and remedy have (or have not) traveled from one nation or territory to another. The conference will have a workshop format, as we plan to move quickly to an edited publication. Accepted participants will be expected to submit a full manuscript version of their paper a month and a half beforehand, as a basis for conference discussions. Funds will likely be available for accepted presenters to cover food, lodging, and travel, national as well as international. We hope to strike an even balance between U.S. and non-U.S. participants. Paper proposals must include an abstract of at least five hundred words and a curriculum vitae. The deadline for paper proposals is March 31, 2007. They should be sent as email attachments, in Word or Wordperfect files, to csellers@notes.cc.sunysb.edu or else as hard copies, to Christopher Sellers, History Department, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA. Please address inquiries to Christopher Sellers, at the above email, or to Joseph Melling at J.L.melling@exeter.ac.uk. Great White North: Race, Nature and the Geographies of Whiteness in Canada Deadline: January 26, 2007 Since the early 1990s, the concept of nature has become an object of much theorizing and interpretive speculation within the social sciences. This trend has seen a profusion of cross-disciplinary researches that now draw the ontological stability of nature into question by showing how the contours of nature are inextricably linked to social processes, both material and semiotic. Accordingly, it is now commonplace to argue that geographies of nature have been central to and shaped by the exercise of colonial power and formative in the performance of cultural identity. Alongside this important development, so too critical race theory has developed a powerful set of analytic tools for making sense of identity and the practices that normalize particular modes of subjectivity. Among the many insights of such antiracist scholarship has been the idea that race and racialization can only be fully grasped by recognizing their genealogical proximity to the category of whiteness. More recently, efforts have been underway that seek to draw these two research fields into dialogue by tracing the genealogical linkages between race, whiteness and nature as they operate through time and across empirical sites as diverse as terrestrial space, bodies, the body politic and the genetic universe. This important work signals the emergence of a promising new research agenda that has been labelled the cultural politics of race and nature. Within this general framework, there is a great deal of flexibility to deploy a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding the entangled geographies of race, nature and whiteness in Canada. Such approaches include, but are in no way limited to:
Contact Please submit your paper abstracts (500-1000 words) to Andrew Baldwin (baldwina@post.queensu.ca) no later than January 26, 2007. Andrew Baldwin Human-Animal Relationships in US History Proposed panel for the 2008 OAH on human-animal relationships: The theme for the OAH meeting in New York City in 2008 is arranged around overcoming the fragmentation in US history, and attempting to develop a synthesis and connections between subfields. So, I am looking to put together a panel proposal that investigates the common history of humans and animals, looking for ways that historical animals and their behavior can be used to address some of the big questions in US history. The goal is that eventually animals can be historicized as actors such that they become indispensable to any synthesis of American history. The panel is open to papers on any time period, region or species. For my part, I would like to present some of my research on the role of animals as actors in the history of American capitalism, by way of animal behavior in the entertainment business ca. 1870-1930. Please send along your ideas/proposals by email by November 25, 2006.
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