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Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for History Classics & Archaeology

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6th September

2.30 - 4.30          
Open discussion on environmental history’s role in education for sustainable development, led by Colin Brooks of the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for History, Classics & Archaeology.

Places will be limited for the afternoon event and given on a first-come, first-serve basis.

7th September

9.30-10.45          
The Problem of the Problem of Environmental History: a discussion

Vinita Damodaran (University of Sussex)
Stephen Mosley (Leeds Metropolitan University)

Will lead a discussion of the article 'The problem of the problem' by Sverker Sörlin and Paul Warde in the January 2007 edition of Environmental History. Warde and Sörlin will respond to their comments and initiate a general discussion. Copies of the article will be pre-circulated to attendees.

10.45-11.30        
The Big Here and the Long Now': agendas for history and sustainability

Libby Robin (Australian National University, Canberra)

11.30-11.45 
Coffee

11.45-1.00
Ideas of sustainability: perspectives from the history of western thought

Melissa Lane (Cambridge)

Ideas of sustainability: Arctic perspectives

Bridget Hains (UCL)

1.00-1.45
Lunch

1.45-2.30
Slavery as a cause of environmental destruction: the evolution of a Brazilian political debate, 1786-1888

Jose Augusto Padua (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

2.30-3.30
International perspectives on teaching Environmental History

Poul Holm (Rektor of Roskilde University, Denmark)

Sverker Sörlin (Royal Insitute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)

3.30-4.00
Coffee

4.00-4.45            
A sense of place and time ~ Sustainable Schools and the links to History and the Environment

Rupert Brakspear (Environmental education, Worcestershire)

Closing comments.