http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html News and events related to Environmental History and new publications on the Environmental History Resources website. en-uk Copyright 2006, K.J.W. Oosthoek Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:45:00 GMT http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#34 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#34 Mon, 29 June 2009 19:17:00 GMT Hunting is older than civilization, having played a central role in the artistic, religious and philosophical traditions of countless cultures. Yet few activities have been so controversial as hunting, for it touches the nerve of fundamental human questions like death, embodiment, nonhuman life, and morality. This book, which is part of the Wiley-Blackwell series Philosophy for Everyone, invites abstracts from relevant disciplines such as philosophy, anthropology, political theory, native studies, theology, history – as well as from thoughtful hunters. Abstracts and resulting selected papers should be written for an educated, but non-technical audience intrigued by hunting. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#33 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#33 Mon, 29 June 2009 08:08:00 GMT A new edition of the Exploring Environmental History Podcast is now available. In this edition Marc Hall, Assistant Professor at the Universities of Utah and Zurich, considers the question if there are different regional flavours of environmental history. He is well placed to do so with his transatlantic institutional affiliations. In addition he argues that environmental history has moved beyond the question of how we got into the environmental problems that we are facing at present. This is part three of a four-part series of podcasts investigating the nature, methods and challenges of environmental history. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#32 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#32 Fri, 26 June 2009 17:54:00 GMT The timeline of European environmental history has been updated. Sections have been added that brings the timeline up to the 20th century and includes new topics such as the industrial revolution, the Romantic Movement and the beginnings of nature conservation. The section on the 20th century is devoted to the globalisation of environmental concerns and the explosion of impacts caused by the so-called Great Acceleration of the 20th century. The navigation of the timeline has also been modernised and features now a slider that, when dragged, shows the different periods. The timeline is part of the Environmental History Resources website. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#31 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#31 Tue, 16 June 2009 09:38:00 GMT Episode 7 of Nature's Past, the Canadian Environmental History podcast of the Network in Canadian History and Environment is now available for download. This month the Canadian Environmental History Podcast looks at the issue of e-waste. The podcast features an interview with Giles Slade about his book Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America. We also talk with Bill Turkel about the Hacking as a Way of Knowing workshop. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#29 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#29 Wed, 3 June 2009 13:41:00 GMT The British Agricultural History Society has taken the initiative to convene the first international open meeting dedicated solely to rural history. This will take place in September 2010 at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. This meeting will be open to all rural historians as well as those primarily interested in viewing contemporary conditions and likely future developments with a knowledge of the past. It is intended that the conference should be the first in a series of biennial or triennial conferences and the Brighton conference will be the occasion when either a European rural history society or a continuation committee of some sort will be formed. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#27 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#27 Mon, 11 May 2009 08:51:00 GMT A new book on Scottish environmental history by Chris Smout has recently been published by Edinburgh University Press. This volume brings together the best of his recent articles and contributions to books and journals on the topic of environmental history. Many of the chapters focus on post-1600 Scotland; all have a wider relevance. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#26 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#26 Tue, 5 May 2009 20:02:00 GMT The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage and ICOHTEC, The International Committee for the History of Technology History are organising a joint conference at Tampere, Finland in 10 to 15 of August 2010. The title of the conference is Reusing the Industrial Past. The meeting will be a joint conference, and its theme is expected to be broad enough covering various approaches. One of these approaches is the Environmental History of Industrialisation and Deindustrialisation and papers addressing this sub-theme are invited for submission. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#16 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#16 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:10:00 GMT The American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) invites panel, roundtable, working group, paper, and poster proposals for its 2010 conference. The theme of this meeting is Curents of Change. Deadline for submission is 30 June 2009. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#15 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#15 Sun, 8 Feb 2009 14:33:00 GMT It has been announced that the European Society for Environmental History will held its sixth biannual conference from 28th June to 2nd July 2011 at the University of Turku and Abo Akademi University. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#91 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#91 Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:21:00 GMT The University of Edinburgh's new MSc in Landscape, Environment and History has started to recruite stdents. This new MSc explores developments in the changing landscape and environment and offers an exciting new eLearning based approach to graduate studies. The programme is a distance learning course and the latest digital learning technologies are used to deliver course materials online. Anyone, anywhere in the world with a first degree or equivalent experience can sign up for this MSc.