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ESEH Biennial Conference 2019

ESEH Biennial Conference 2019
Tallinn, Estonia, 21 to 25 August 2019
 
Hosting institution: Estonian Centre for Environmental History (KAJAK), University of Tallinn
 
The Next ESEH Biennial Conference will be held in Tallinn!
 
To build on the discussions at the 2017 biennial conference in Zagreb, the 2019 Tallinn conference will operate under the notion of “boundaries in/of environmental history”, and will expand the idea of natures in-between to reach out for boundaries between humans and non-humans, environment and technologies, transcorporeality, transboundary agents, planetary boundaries as well as disciplinary boundaries and boundaries of science and arts, activism, popular science, etc. Keep posted for a Call for Papers to be released in 2018! The CfP would include a specific call for inter-area/border-crossing panels to encourage cross-European comparison. We are excited to have Prof. Finn Arne Jørgensen as the head of Programme Committee.
 
ESEH Tallinn team has committed to an ambitious diversification policy that seeks to encourage different session formats that diversify the ways we transmit knowledge, and promote gender and age balance at our conference. We are also dedicated to seeking low-cost accommodation for participants with limited financial support. If you still cannot make it to Tallinn, don’t worry – we are hoping to live-stream some of the sessions!
 
See you in Tallinn!
 
Local organizing committee:
Prof. Ulrike Plath (University of Tallinn)
Prof. Karsten Brüggemann (Tallinn University)
Prof. Tiiu Koff (Tallinn University)
Ass. Prof. Linda Kaljundi (Tallinn University)
Dr. Kati Lindström (KTH Royal Institute of Technology/ University of Tartu)
Ass. Prof. Marten Seppel (University of Tartu)
Dr. Erki Tammiksaar (Estonian University of Life Sciences and University of Tartu)
Dr. Kadri Tüür (Tallinn University and University of Tartu)
MA Liisi Jääts (Estonian National Museum)
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Placing Gender. A Workshop on Gender and Environmental History

Placing Gender. A Workshop on Gender and Environmental History
Gender remains an under-developed area of inquiry in environmental history. Despite Carolyn Merchant’s provocative 1990 article on gender and environment in the Journal of American History, little has happened to address this fact. This workshop aims to bring together scholars working in this area in order to advance the study of gender in environmental history. We hope to attract submissions which cover a range of time periods and diverse geographical areas.
Furthermore, we hope that participants will engage with some of the theoretical challenges of gendering environmental history.
 
For more information, please read the attached CfP or check out the event website.
 
The deadline for proposals is 15 February 2018.  Please send abstracts of 300 words outlining your topic and the contribution of your paper to the field of environmental history sent to both This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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Call for Papers - Fronteiras Journal v.6 n. 3 (2017) (Dossiê "História, Ciência e Natureza")

Call for Papers - Fronteiras Journal v.6 n. 3 (2017) (Dossiê "História, Ciência e Natureza")
Dossier “History, Science and Nature”
The relation between History, Science and Nature is extremely dynamic and interdisciplinary, allowing a deeper knowledge on the uses of the planet and Nature (Earth / Oceans / Seas). Through the analysis of the last we intend to develop a transnational and comparative perspective of the History of Sciences and Technologies. We also intend to understand Nature as a way of modernization of the economic, social, scientific and cultural activities of the different States and Nations. Nature also seen as an agent of new practices and sociabilities, representative of new philosophical and social ideals, in which the production, circulation and appropriation of knowledge and techniques is a reality, creating important networks that unite the Mediterranean world with the Ibero-American world and Africa. This call gives preference to the following scientific areas: Transnational History; History of Science and Technology; Internationalization of Science and Scientific Internationalism; Museums and Scientific Collections; Spaces and Actors of Science; Scientific and Cultural Diplomacy; History of Colonialism; History of Natural Sciences; History of Health Sciences; History of the Environment; History of Meteorology; Seas and Oceans.
 
Publishers
- Ângela Salgueiro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Universidade de Évora, Portugal) 
- José Pedro Sousa Dias (Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência – Museus da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) 
- Maria de Fátima Nunes (Universidade de Évora, Portugal) 
- Sara Albuquerque (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
 
Deadline for submission: January 30th, 2018
 
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Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association, in Montreal, Canada September 7 -9, 2018

Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association, in Montreal, Canada September 7 -9, 2018
The theme for EHA 2018 is “‘From Plague, Famine, and War, Save us, O Lord’ Shocks and Disasters in Economic History”. The age-old prayer refers to disasters that have blighted lives throughout history. The theme is an invitation for papers on the broader economic-historical aspects of such crises—environmental, climatic, humanitarian, economic, and other. Plagues and famines kill few nowadays, and deaths from state-based conflicts are also in decline. But they still matter, not least because may well threaten again as global warming intensifies. The theme of the 2018 meetings embraces topics such as the economic causes and consequences of wars and of other disasters; comparative and interdisciplinary analyses of famines and plagues from classical antiquity to modern times; analyses of the institutions that attempted to counter them; of their proximate and remoter causes (e.g. climate change); of their changing incidence over time; of the welfare gains from their eradication; and of their short- and long-run economic, demographic, and political consequences. Proposals on macroeconomic and financial crises and, indeed, on any other topic, are also welcome.
 
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Call for Participants and Proposals: Canadian History and Environment Summer Symposium (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, May 30-June 2, 2018)

Call for Participants and Proposals: Canadian History and Environment Summer Symposium (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, May 30-June 2, 2018)
Deadline to apply: January 15, 2018
 
The Network in Canadian History and Environment is excited to announce its Call for Participants for the 2018 Canadian History and Environment Summer Symposium. CHESS is an annual gathering of emerging scholars, graduate students, junior and senior faculty, public historians, and independent scholars, interested in environmental history and historical geography. For the first time, in 2018 CHESS will consist of two parts, a summer school and a workshop. The summer school will resemble previous CHESS events. The workshop is a new element to CHESS intended to provide a workshop for authors of pre-circulated papers to be published as part of NiCHE’s new peer-reviewed online journal Papers in Canadian History and Environment. Participants are invited, but not obligated, to participate in both the summer school and workshop.
 
Summer School
To the uninitiated, the prairie landscape and environment, like the intellectual journey to know its history, might seem pretty straightforward. But the plains of western Canada are the product of thousands of years of human occupation, management, and reciprocity with the natural world. In some cases, change took place in subtle and slow ways that allowed for adaptation and accommodation. In others, dramatic and rapid change transformed the prairie landscape and its peoples. The history of the prairies during the twentieth century reveals the overlapping pace and scale of First Nations, Métis, settler colonial, immigrant, scientific, and technological experiences of change in a landscape that seems timeless and flat.
The summer school will start in Regina after the meeting of the Canadian Historical Association on May 30 and end after lunch in Saskatoon on June 1. Participants will learn about the variety of interconnected ways that people living in Saskatchewan adjusted to and altered the prairie landscape during the twentieth century. Traveling between a number of historic sites north of Saskatoon, participants will consider how communalism shaped the settler experience at the Blaine Lake Doukhobor community, networks of agricultural science informed the development of Marquis wheat and other crops at Seager Wheeler’s farm in Rosthern, kinship networks maintained sites of Métis resistance and resiliency at Gabriel’s Crossing near Batoche, concerns over wind erosion inspired experiments with introduced species of trees at Saskatoon’s Forestry Farm, and industrial agriculture created both the necessity and opportunity for a Federal seed bank on the campus of the University of Saskatchewan.
Those interested in attending CHESS 2018, but are not submitting an abstract for the workshop should provide a statement of interest (250-300 words) and a one-page CV using the CHESS 2018 application portal.
 
Workshop
We invite abstracts for journal-length manuscripts in Canadian environmental history to be published as part of an open access, online, and double-blind peer-reviewed series, Papers in Canadian History and Environment, which will be published on the NiCHE website. Invited authors will pre-circulate papers amongst workshop attendees in early May and receive feedback prior to final submission for peer review. Final articles will not appear as part of a particular issue, but will be published online as they have completed the peer-review and editing process. The workshop will take place over the afternoon of June 1 and a full day on June 2. Those interested should submit a short abstract (400-500 words) along with a one-page CV using the CHESS 2018 application portal. Anyone submitting an abstract for the workshop need not also submit a statement of interest for the summer school.
 
 
Organizing Committee: Ashleigh Androsoff, Jim Clifford, Laura Larsen, Cheryl Troupe and Andrew Watson.
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Pre-Announcement: 15 Recruitment of 15 Marie Sklodowska-Curie PhD Researchers

Pre-Announcement: 15 Recruitment of 15 Marie Sklodowska-Curie PhD Researchers
The RCC is pleased to announce the recruitment of fifteen Marie Sklodowska-Curie PhD Researcher positions (Early Stage Researchers). Together with Coventry University (England), University of Groningen (the Netherlands), Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food (Belgium), Natural Resources Institute (Finland), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Austria), the RCC is participating in a Marie Sklodowska Curie (MSCA) Innovative Training Network funded by the European Commission on ''Building Resourceful and Resilient Communities Through Adaptive and Transformative Environmental Practice (RECOMS)'.'
 
The ESRs will enroll for doctoral study in one of the 15 projects offered by the seven hosting institutions. The 15 positions are listed below, together with links to further information on the corresponding doctoral study projects. From early January 2018, the formal recruitment of candidates for these 15 PhD Research vacancies will begin. In addition to undertaking doctoral research, the ESRs will engage in a series of collaborative research and training activities. They will be encouraged to critically, practically, and creatively explore the contribution and relationships between their individual doctoral study projects across three interconnecting research themes:
 
Research theme cluster 1: Unlocking and Empowering
 
Research theme cluster 2: Adapting and Transforming
 
Research theme cluster 3: Connecting and Collaborating
 
 
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CfP for a Special Issue and a Writing Workshop, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

CfP for a Special Issue and a Writing Workshop, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Tensions of Europe – Research Group on Technology, Environment and Resources
 
“Challenging Europe: Technology, environment and the quest for resource security”
 
Call for Papers for a Special Issue and a Writing Workshop, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
 
13-15 June 2018
 
Deadline 15 January 2018
 
The Research Group on Technology, Environment and Resources of the Tensions of Europe Network invites applications for contribution to a special issue and a writing workshop dedicated to the improvement and finalization of well-developed draft contributions to this special issue. The special issue will tie major results and work at former events of the research group together, but it also opens up for new contributors who are not yet members of the research group and who are engaged in relevant research. Invited are authors who are able to deliver serious, fairly mature drafts of full-length papers. The draft papers should be submitted by 15 May 2018. The set of articles will be reviewed, discussed and further developed at the workshop.
 
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