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 K.J.W. Oosthoek Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:45:00 GMT http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#65 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#65 Sun, 7 Feb 2010 20:33:00 GMT The programme for the 79th Anglo American Conference of Historians witht the theme Environments has been released online. The Conference will be held at the IHR in London in July 2010. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#64 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#64 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:25:00 GMT Envirohistory NZ has now its own podcast. This is the third regular podcast on environmental history Besides Nature's Past and Exploring Environmental History. The podcast is hosted by Catherine Knight, author of the Envirohistory Blog, and is produced bi-monthly. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#63 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#63 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:51:00 GMT The latest episode of the Nature's Past podcast features an interview with Professor Liza Piper on her new book The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada. The podcast explores a region unfamiliar to most Canadians and how that space was transformed through industrial processes in the twentieth century. Rather than finding industrial technologies dominating the landscape of the northwest, Professor Piper found that humans used those technologies to assimilate nature. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#62 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#62 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:49:00 GMT The newly established Association of East Asian Environmental History invites papers for its first conference which will be hosted by Academia Sinica, Taipei. The General Theme is: Resource Utilizations and Impacts. 24-28 October 2011, Taipei, Taiwan http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#58 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#58 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:28:00 GMT The Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences of the University of Latvia is inviting papers for the 24th session of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape (PECSRL). The session is entitled: Living in landscapes: Knowledge, Practice and Imagination. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#57 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#57 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:08:00 GMT The European Society for Environmental History is inviting proposals for sessions, papers and posters for its next international conference. It will take place in Turku, Finland, from June 28 to July 2, 2011. The main theme of the meeting is Encounters of Sea and Land. The organisers seek proposals that explore the general theme from various environmental history perspectives but any papers related to environmental history will be accepted. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#51 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#51 Mon, 10 Nov 2009 16:37:00 GMT The Exploring Environmental History Podcast has been nominated for a European Podcast Award. You can show your appreciation and support by voting for the show. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#29 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#29 Wed, 3 Jun 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#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.