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#87 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#87 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:50:00 GMT The Groupe d’Histoire des Forêts Françaises is pleased to announce its 10th international Conference on Forests and landscapes, which will be held in Besançon, France, September 16-18, 2009. Scholars are invited to submit paper proposals within the theme of forests and landscape. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#86 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#86 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:49:00 GMT The University of Edinburgh will launch a new MSc in Landscape, Environment and History to begin in Sepember 2008. 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. A teaser of teaching meterials is now available online at www.shc.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/landscape/. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#86 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#86 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:00:00 GMT The University of Edinburgh will launch a new MSc in Landscape, Environment and History to begin in Sepember 2008. 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. A teaser of teaching meterials is now available online at www.shc.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/landscape/. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#85 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#85 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:16:00 GMT Paper are sought for a panel that investigates the uses and representations of nature and the environment in feature films, rather than the more often discussed use of documentaries to reflect on the natural world. Thanks to Al Gore, and others, we expect and respect documentary films that address environmental issues, but feature films can also speak to environmental issues or provide nuanced representations of nature. Feature films sometimes tackle the same issues and sometimes do so unintentionally. Questions to be addressed include: Can feature films provide a forum for discussion on environmental issues? Is such a message always sensationalized with Hollywood stars and big budget special effects? Is this always an intersection of box office revenue and message, with box office the only hoped for winner? Date and location: 2008 Film and History Conference, Film and Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond, October 30-November 2, 2008, Chicago, Illinois. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#82 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#82 Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:42:00 GMT Crisis Forum is convening a series of seven, one day, workshops to explore and interrogate the connections between accelerating anthropogenic climate change and the potentiality for violence in all its forms. Anyone who has an interest in this area  - whether academics, from NGOs, think-tanks, policy makers in government or business, or independent researchers -  are invited (subject to a limit on numbers) to participate. We are particularly encouraging potential participants as of now to offer papers for the workshop or workshops they consider most relevant to their interest. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#80 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#80 Thu, 15 May 2008 15:30:00 GMT A new book has been published that is a chronological study of South Asia that emphasizes the effect of humans on their environment, and in return the influence of nature on the evolution of human society. It charts important events in the environmental history of South Asia, from the development of the Indus civilization ca. 2500 B.C.E., to the impact on Sri Lanka of the tsunami of December 2004. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#78 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#78 Sun, 4 May 2008 14:46:00 GMT The Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA) invites participation in the Association's Annual Conference, to be held on 12 th –14 th September 2008, in Aarhus , Denmark with the theme: The Consequences of Fire. The conference will focus on the role and consequences of FIRE in the preservation and interpretation of the environmental archaeological record. Fire is usually connected with some kind of human activity, and charred organic material, bone, weed seeds, grain, wood, pollen or whatever, is usually among the most abundant find groups recovered in archaeology. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#72 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#72 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:11:00 GMT The programme for the exiting interdisciplinary meeting in Paris - Common Ground, Converging Gazes - is now available from the conference website. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#65 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#65 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:04:00 GMT Paul Warde's new book, Energy Consumption in England and Wales, 1560-2000, has just published in Italy by Consiglio Nazionale della Ricerche. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#53 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#53 Sat, 5 Jan 2008 14:18:00 GMT Seminar at the Newcastle University, Tuesday 4 March 2008. The speaker for this seminar is climatologist Dennis Wheeler of the University of Sunderland. The talk reviews the history, nature, purpose and content of old ship logbooks and demonstrates how a growing number of climatologists using them to help provide a clearer picture of how climate has changed in the past and in doing so help in our search to predict better the climate of the future. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#51 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#51 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:00:00 GMT Papers are sought for the next Meetings of Liessies, open to all disciplines, which will deal with the modifications of watercourses, the impact and the perception of these changes. Papers on North of France and the nearest basins will be privileged. However, there is no geographical restriction. The “water records” and other kinds of sources (whether written, cartographic, archaeological, legal, geographical or sociological) should be taken with the greatest care. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#34 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#34 Sat, 8 Sep 2007 18:41:00 GMT Overwhelmingly it is the urban poor who live in the worst environments and suffer most from environmental problems. Contemporary research on air quality, flood risk, and industrial hazards shows that poorer people are twice as likely to live near polluting factories, and children from families on low incomes are five times more likely to be killed by road traffic than children from affluent areas. The organisers of a panel for the IXth International Conference on Urban History seek to examine the historical dimensions of such issues. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#33 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#33 Sat, 8 Sep 2007 18:41:00 GMT Papaer are sought for a conference that will explore how to shape and deliver an anticipatory education for sustainable futures. All aspects and levels of education will be on the conference agenda; but there will be particular emphasis on the contribution to be made by the universities and other institutions of higher education.