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#73 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#73 Sat, 6 Mar 2010 16:56:00 GMT Edition 32 of the Exploring Environmental History Podcast is now available. In this podcast James Beattie, Senior Lecturer at the Department of History of the University of Waikato in New Zealand explores the environmental anxieties of settlers, scientist and colonial officials in India, Australia and New Zealand during the 19th century. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#72 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#72 Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:22:00 GMT Sustainability and Environmental History will be the focus of the Environmental History Forum to be held on Tuesday, March 9 at Portland State University, Smith Memorial Center, Room 238 starting at 6.30pm. The event is an academic forum open to scholars as well as interested members of the public to learn and discuss new aspects of American environmental history. The free Forum kicks off the start of the 2010 Annual Meeting entitled  Currents of Change of the American Society for Environmental History which will be taking place mostly at PSU and at other venues across Portland from March 10 through the 14th and is expected to attract over a thousand scholars in this field. Co-sponsored by the Portland Center for Public Humanities and the PSU Friends of History, the Forum will feature several distinguished scholars in the field http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#71 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#71 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:26:00 GMT The Center for Contemporary History and Policy at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, PA, seeks proposals for summer fellows in the Environmental History and Policy Program. While in residence, 2010 fellows will pursue research projects contributing to the program’s core project, Controlling Chemicals. The main outcome is the completion of a white paper suitable for publication in the program’s series, Studies in Sustainability. Deadline for applications is 1 March 2010. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#70 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#70 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:17:00 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. Note that the deadline has been extended to mid-March. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#69 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#69 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:32:00 GMT The First European Society for Environmental History summer school in environmental history will take place at the Musee national de Port Royal des Champs, Yvelines, France, June 28- July 2. The theme for the summer school is Events, disasters, narratives and temporalities in environmental history. As the theme suggests this first ESEH summer school is not only focused on risks and disasters but rather on how to inscribe them within the writing of environmental history. http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#68 http://www.eh-resources.org/news/news.html#68 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:10:00 GMT The Irish Environmental History Network is a contact point for researchers in diverse disciplines focusing on the different aspects of environmental history within Ireland and on the interactions between Irish people and the environment outside Ireland. On this website you will find more information about the Network and its remit, a growing collection of links to relevant websites and resources, and news of events of interest. Visit the network at www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/iehn/. 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#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#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.