The Ninth Annual Graduate Student Conference on International History (ConIH 9) will take place at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 13-14, 2009. The conference theme is “Nature in International History”. Submissions are invited that examine nature in its international dimensions, more information can be found here.
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CfP “Nature in International History”, Harvard, March 13-14, 2009
Posted in Academic Events on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
CfP “Fields of Dreams: Landscapes of Myth and Imagination”, Brock University (CA), Oct 2009
Posted in Academic Events, tagged conference, landscape, nature on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Brock University St. Catharines, Ontario, hosts the Greenscapes Conference 2009, October 1-3. Deadline for paper proposals is January 5. Papers are invited that “explore landscapes of myth and imagination in real and virtual sites, literary texts, images, and installations” on the following topics:
• Landscapes of allusion (texts, myths, folktales, legends)
• Sacred and Secular Utopias
• Profane imagination: ruin, [...]
Civilizing Nature: Conference Report
Posted in Academic Events, tagged conference, environmental history, national park on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A report of the Conference “Civilizing Nature: National Parks in a Transnational Historical Perspective”, German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2008, is available here (in German). Thanks again to the organizers for this great conference.
Posted in Academic Events, tagged conference, environmental history, WCEH on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The First World Conference of Environmental History (WCEH) hosted by the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO) and the Roskilde University will take place in Copenhagen, August 4-8, 2009. The title of the conference: “Local Livelihoods and Global Challenges: Understanding Human Interaction with the Environment”. The deadline for the submission paper proposal has been extended to April 20, so hurry [...]
CfP “Chasing Eden: Nature, Health and the Politics of Environment”, Exeter
Posted in Academic Events on December 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Eden Project at the University of Exeter hosts a conference “Chasing Eden: nature, health and the politics of environment”, 4-5 September, 2008.
BSA Conference “Social Worlds, Natural Worlds”
Posted in Academic Events on December 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The British Sociological Association has been so kind to fit its annual conference to my PhD topic.” Social Worlds, Natural Worlds”, March 28-30, 2008, University of Warwick.
Conference “Civilizing Nature”, Washington D.C.
Posted in Academic Events on December 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. is hosting a conference Civilizing Nature: National Parks in Transnational Historical Perspective“, June 12-14.
