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CfP: On the Surface: The Heritage of Mines and Mining

The focus of this conference is upon the heritage of mining and the extractive industries; the physical sites and the social legacies left on the Earth's surface. Some former mines, mining landscapes and communities have gained heritage status and have become popular tourist attractions while others lie abandoned as pertinent and problematic markers of a changed world. This international, multidisciplinary conference seeks to critically examine the powerful and on-going fascination with mining and how mining heritage now plays an important role in wider agendas of economic and cultural development.
Abstracts no later than Dec. 17th, 2010

Place / Ort: Innsbruck
Time / Zeit: 14 - 16 April, 2011

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Vortragsserie zur Geschichte der Umweltbewegung in Österreich

Do, 4.11.2010, 18.15 Uhr, Hörsaal EG 03 im Simony Haus der Universität für Bodenkultur, 18. Bezirk, Peter Jordan Str. 65, TEIL 1: Wienerwald, Zwentendorf, Tierschützercausa 1
Do, 11.11.2010, 18.15 Uhr, Hörsaal EG 03 im Simony Haus der Universität für Bodenkultur, 18. Bezirk, Peter Jordan Str. 65, TEIL 2: Hainburg, Tierschützercausa 2
Do, 18.11.2010, 19.00 Caritas Haus, 15. Bezirk, Robert Hamerlinggassse 7, Eingang um die Ecke Kellerlokal Hanglüßgasse, WIEDERHOLUNG VON TEIL 2

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Forstbranche und Forstuni in der NS-Zeit

Podiumsdiskussion zur Studie "Reichsforste in Österreich" mit Dr. Georg Erlacher (Vorstandssprecher der ÖBf), Univ.Prof. Oliver Rathkolb (Herausgeber der Studie "Reichsforste in Österreich"), Paulus Ebner (Historiker) und Em.Univ.Prof. DDr. Manfried Welan (Rector emeritus der BOKU Wien).

Anmeldung bis 11. November 2010 bei veronika.regner@boku.ac.at

Place / Ort: Festsaal der BOKU, 1180 Wien, Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33
Time / Zeit: 18. November 2010, 18.00 - 19.30

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Hazardous Chemicals: Agents of Risk and Change (1800-2000)
Call for Papers: Deadline July 1st, 2011

The Research Institute of the Deutsches Museum, the Department of History at Maastricht University and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society are planning a joint workshop to be held at the Deutsches Museum, Munich, in April 2012 dealing with the history of hazardous chemicals.

Chemistry is undoubtedly a science with a great social and economic impact. During the past two centuries millions of new substances have been discovered, and thousands of them have become novel industrial products. In several cases the scale of production, together with by-products and wastes, has led to previously unknown effects on human health and on the environment. Growing awareness of the impacts of hazardous substances on the economy, society and the environment has stimulated new scientific insights, discussion of risk perception, and new legislation. Advances in analysis and detection of chemicals have played a large role in this respect. Since the 1960s, industrialized countries have adopted a framework for assessing and regulating toxic chemicals that remains in force today. By this means attempts have been made, with varying degrees of success, to control individual pollutants using scientific and technical tools, including risk assessment, toxicological testing, epidemiological investigations, pollution control devices, trace measurements, and waste treatment and disposal technologies.

The present workshop will focus on the interaction between (a) the growing presence of hazardous substances in the economy and the environment, and (b) the cultural, scientific, regulatory and legal responses by modern society to these hazards. In each paper a specific chemical, or group of related chemicals, will take centre stage: from the start of its industrial production, via the proliferation of its uses, and the discovery of its effects on workers and/or on the biosphere, to attempts to control its emission and use, including the development of alternative products. The workshop will focus in particular on the history of specific chemicals which have had a profound impact on the way in which ecological and health effects have been perceived. Using a 'biographical approach' it will trace the entire 'life history' (production, use, problems, risk assessment, management strategies, and disposal) of those hazardous substances, culminating at the point at which legislative controls or alternative technical pathways were finally established. The focus will be on the main period of chemical industrialisation (ca. 1800-2000).

Abstracts (600 to 800 words) and a short CV are requested by email before 1 July 2011.

Place / Ort: Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany
Time / Zeit: 27.- 29. 4. 2012

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Research and Management of the Historical Agricultural Landscape
Call for Papers: Deadline October 31, 2010

The conference will focus on the following topics:
- History of agricultural landscape - natural, cultural, social, and economic determinants of origin and past development, land-use changes
- Historical agricultural landscape as a source of landscape diversity and biodiversity
- Historical agricultural landscape in globalisation period - development trends and opportunities, perception, legislative, economic and political tools of preservation and sustainable utilisation

Place / Ort: Vinicne, Slovak Republic
Time / Zeit: 14.-16.3.2011

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Exploring Ice and Snow in the Cold War
Call for Papers: Deadline August 30, 2010

This workshop is interested in new research projects at the interface of environmental history, military history and the history of science and technology to contribute to the discussion on the scientific perception and constitution of nature in the Cold War.

Abstracts (500 words) and a short CV are requested by email no later than August 30th, 2010.

Place / Ort: Deutsches Museum Munich, Germany
Time / Zeit: 27.- 29. 1. 2011

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Ester Boserup Conference 2010 - A Centennial Tribute

Ester Boserup was one of the pioneers of an integrated theoretical approach to questions of development and sustainability. 2010 marks the centennial of her birth. The international Boserup conference "Long-term trajectories in population, gender relations, land use, and the environment" wishes to pay tribute to her work and to her intellectual heritage.

Please submit your abstract of no more than 500 words for a presentation during the conference or a poster to info@boserup-conference.org no later than July 31, 2010.

Place / Ort: Institute of Social Ecology Vienna
Time / Zeit: 15th - 17th November 2010

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Nature and Nation in Europe since 1860
Call for Papers: Deadline April 30, 2010

This workshop focuses on both the symbolic and practical uses that European nation-states have made of the environment and of natural resources since the Second Industrial Revolution. The workshop´s geographical framework should be interpreted in the widest possible sense, including countries and regions that have been under the colonial rule of European states during the period of reference. The general aim of the workshop is thus to obtain a good overview of the role of the modern nation state and of nationalist discourse in the structuring, management and showcasing of nature/society interactions.

The organizers want to gather a variety of scholars, not only specialists in environmental history, but also political, cultural and social historians, historical geographers and historical anthropologists with an interest in nationalism, nature perception and/or symbolic politics. During the selection process both comparative analyses at the transnational level and specific case studies able to give net insights in the mechanism of state management of natural resources and symbolic uses of the natural world will be equally considered.

Place / Ort: Trento, Italy
Time / Zeit: 15 - 17 September 2010

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Environmental History PhD Workshop
Application Deadline: July 19, 2010

For five days in October this year, the Centre for Environmental History at the Australian National University will be running a workshop for PhD students from around the country who are researching aspects of environmental history in Australia, New Zealand or elsewhere. This is the fifth biennial workshop in environmental history run at ANU since 2002.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together doctoral students with common interests to learn from one another about how to address significant, exciting themes in this emerging field of scholarship. Students will be expected to participate by speaking and writing about their own research, and by doing some preparatory reading that will be provided in advance. Morning sessions will be held each of the five days (Monday 25 October to Friday 29 October). These will feature seminars on major themes in environmental history as well as student presentations on their doctoral research. Afternoons will mostly be reserved for preparatory reading, fieldwork, optional museum and archival visits, and informal meetings.

Course organisers will be Professor Tom Griffiths (Centre for Environmental History, ANU), Dr Libby Robin (Fenner School of Environment and Society ANU/Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia), Dr Nicholas Brown (School of History, Research School of Social Sciences ANU/Centre for Historical Research National Museum of Australia), Dr Gregory Barton (Centre for Environmental History, ANU), Dr Christine Hansen (Centre for Environmental History, ANU), Dr Mike Smith (Centre for Historical Research, NMA) and Professor Heather Goodall (Centre for Transforming Cultures, University of Technology, Sydney).

Our international guest of honour will be Professor John McNeill (Georgetown University, Washington DC).

Place / Ort: Centre for Environmental History, Australian National University, Canberra
Time / Zeit: 25 - 29 October 2010

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Augenscheinkarten - eine Quelle für die Kultur- und Klimageschichte
Eine Veranstaltung im Rahmen von "Geschichte am Mittwoch"

Der kartographiehistorische Vortrag behandelt ausgewählte Augenscheinkarten aus der frühen Neuzeit, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf das bayerisch-tirolische Territorium gelegt wird. Diese bisher in der kartographiehistorischen Forschung nur am Rande behandelten Altkarten wurden zumeist von vereidigten Malern als Beilage für Gerichts- oder Verwaltungsakten angefertigt ("Forensische Kartographie"). Sie skizzieren die bayerische Landschaft in Form von getreuen Momentaufnahmen und können deshalb für kulturgeschichtliche Fragestellungen, aber auch als Proxydaten für die Klimageschichte herangezogen werden.

Place / Ort: Universität Wien, Hörsaal Druckerei, Eingang Erdgeschoß Hof 5
Time / Zeit: Mittwoch, 24. März 2010, 18:00 c.t. - 20:00

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Bringing STS into Environmental History. An international workshop.

Organizers:
Dolly Jørgensen (Norwegian University of Science & Technology),
Finn Arne Jørgensen (Norwegian University of Science & Technology), and
Sara Pritchard (Cornell University)

Deadline CFP: 5 February 2010

This workshop focuses on the intersection of STS and environmental history, paying particular attention to how conceptual tools, approaches, and insights from science and technology studies might enrich historical studies of interactions between humanity and the natural world. We aim to bring together a variety of international scholars, primarily environmental historians but also historically-minded sociologists, ethnographers, and anthropologists to consider how, for instance, the social construction of science, public understanding of science, actor-network theory, and technological systems can be used in historical studies of human-natural interactions. Participants will present papers that develop specific empirical case studies while also being explicitly reflective about the STS methodological basis and theoretical contributions of that study.

The workshop is limited to 14 participants. Each participant will prepare a draft text that will be pre-circulated to workshop attendees in June 2010. At the workshop, each paper will be briefly presented by the author and then fully discussed by the group in a one-hour session. After the workshop, participants will be asked to revise their papers for possible inclusion in an edited volume to be submitted to an international academic press.

For more information, please visit the workshop web page.

Place / Ort : Trondheim, Norway
Time / Zeit : Call for papers: Deadline 5 February 2010, Workshop: 5-7 August 2010

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Summer-Workshop Umweltgeschichte für Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden
Call for Papers: bis 15. Jänner 2010

Juni 2010 wird am Rachel Carson Center zum ersten mal ein Workshop für Doktorand/innen stattfinden, auf dem umwelthistorische Dissertationsprojekte präsentiert und diskutiert werden können. Der Workshop, den das Center zusammen mit dem transdisziplinären Forschungsschwerpunkt KlimaKultur des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Instituts Essen organisiert, versteht sich auch als ein Versuch, die über viele Disziplinen verstreute umwelthistorische Forschung im deutschsprachigen Bereich zu versammeln und Nachwuchswissenschaftler/innen ein Forum für ihre Arbeiten zu bieten.

Place / Ort: Kerschensteiner Kolleg des Deutschen Museums, München
Time / Zeit: 7.- 9.6.2010

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"Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis"
11th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics 2010
Call for Papers

Ecological systems and their services to humans have been exposed to stress, exploitation and destruction for decades. Biodiversity is being lost at an almost unprecedented pace. Climate change will bring about rapid and unpredictable changes in the earth's entire biophysical system. There are thus massive indications of a crisis of ecosystems caused by human activity. In 2008 the global financial system collapsed and pushed many economies towards crisis. A deregulated banking sector acted outside the boundaries of safe and trustworthy operations resulting in a collapse of confidence in economic institutions not seen since the 1930s. Economic breakdowns in many countries have already generated dramatic social problems adding to existing poverty, hunger and inequality.
But times of crisis are also times of opportunity. The financial meltdown has led to a renaissance in public responsibility and an avalanche of stimulus packages that stand against the neo-liberal creed of minimal government. While many of these measures follow conventional lines of unsustainable economic practices, there is a growing awareness for the need for active public policies to create more sustainable economic structures and processes to combat both economic and ecological crises. Green recovery, a global Green New Deal, and a green energy revolution are catch phrases that now find their way into governance and policy making processes.

Contributions to the conference addressing the following main themes are particularly invited:
Climate Change, Energy, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Land Use, Ecology, Dematerialization and De-Growth, Sustainable Development, Environmental Ethics and Values, Governance and Public Policy, Knowledge and Social Learning, Green Business, Heterodox Economics, Transdisciplinarity, Teaching Ecological Economics

Online abstract submission is invited starting 15 September to 31 October 2009.

Place / Ort: Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany
Time / Zeit: 22. - 25. August 2010

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Landscapes and Societies in Ancient and Medieval Europe East of the Elbe. Interactions between Environmental Settings and Cultural Transformations
Call for Papers

Department of History, York University
Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes”, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel

Landscapes can be defined, in the words of Denis E. Cosgrove, as “visibly distinct regions.” Landscapes can be understood as the natural environments in which a society is embedded, or as the set of representations with which members of a society observe and describe a region and give it significance. The idea of landscape is dependant on the one hand on the material reality of a given region, on the other hand on the sense attached to it by human beings beholding it.

Medieval Europe east of the Elbe presents an interesting field for the investigation of landscape transformations. The area is characterized by many features that clearly distinguishes it from the Mediterranean regions throughout the Middle Ages - absence of Roman traditions, late appearance of Latin culture, colonization movement, chartered towns. There were generally independent developments concerning society, economy, and religion which led to the creation of a distinct cultural area. All of this makes this part of the European continent attractive for a consideration of large-scale and longue durée interactions between landscapes and societies.

The workshop will bring together a small group of young scholars (16 papers) from North America and Europe working in the fields of archaeology, history, palaeobotany and palaeozoology.

Papers in the fields of history, archaeology and related disciplines are invited. The papers should present a link with parts of Europe outside the borders of the Roman Empire as well as with environmental and/or social history. The main focus will be on the medieval period but papers dealing with Antiquity are invited too. Doctoral students and young scholars will be particularly considered.

Please send a short abstract (less than one page) and a CV by email to one of the organizers by 20 October 2009. Invitations will depend upon available funding. A publication following the workshop is considered.

Place / Ort: Toronto, Canada
Time / Zeit: 26 - 27 March 2010

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39. Minisymposium des Zentrums für Umweltgeschichte

Great War, Mighty Mountain: The Environmental Legacy of the First World War in the Alps

Vortrag: Dr. Tait Keller
Rhodes College, Department of History, Memphis, USA
http://www.rhodes.edu/academics/5000_13676.asp

Although the Alpine Front receives less attention from historians than the Western Front, the environmental impact of the First World War was far greater in the Alps than Flanders Fields. In many ways, the war modernized the mountains. Army engineers drilled and dug into the mountainside to build barracks, tunnels and roads. Electric power stations made the high places hum, while telephone wires crossed the peaks and artillery marred the snowfields. The resulting deforestation led to a greater danger of avalanches in the winter and soil erosion in the spring and summer. This lecture will explore the environmental consequences of combat in the high Alps and how the war later encouraged mass Alpine tourism in the 1920s and 1930s.

Place / Ort: IFF, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Wien, 6. Stock, Seminarraum 6
Time / Zeit: Mittwoch, 27. Oktober 2010, 18:00 - 20:00 Uhr

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38. Minisymposium des Zentrums für Umweltgeschichte und "Museumsdinge im Gespräch"

Umweltgeschichte Ausstellen: Vom wissenschaftlichen Konzept zur Inszenierung
Die Donau als Beispiel

Eine Podiumsdiskussion gemeinsam veranstaltet vom Zentrum für Umweltgeschichte am Institut für Soziale Ökologie und von exponat. Forum für Museologie und visuelle Kultur am Institut für Wissenschaftskommunikation und Hochschulforschung an der IFF Wien

Noch bis 5. November 2010 ist in Ardagger "Umwelt Donau: Eine andere Geschichte", der niederösterreichische Beitrag zur länderübergreifenden Ausstellung "Donau - Fluch & Segen" zu sehen. Im Auftrag des Niederösterreichischen Landesarchivs kuratierte ein interdisziplinäres Team am Zentrum für Umweltgeschichte (ZUG) diese erste umwelthistorische Ausstellung in Österreich. Das nehmen Museologie und Umweltgeschichte an der IFF gemeinsam zum Anlass, ein hochkarätig besetztes Podium einzuladen, um Ziele, Grenzen und Möglichkeiten der Vermittlung umwelthistorischer Inhalte in Ausstellungen und Museen auszuloten.
Die Ausstellung in Ardagger erzählt die Geschichte der Umwelt Donau als gemeinsame Geschichte von Natur und Gesellschaft. Sie zeigt, wie umfassend die Flusslandschaft während der letzten etwa 300 Jahre verwandelt wurde, welche Gewinner und welche Verlierer es in dieser Geschichte gab - sowohl unter verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Interessensgruppen als auch in der Natur. In einer solch langfristigen, Natur- und Kulturwissenschaften integrierenden Sicht erscheinen auch aktuelle Projekte zum Hochwasserschutz, Kraftwerksbau oder für die Schifffahrt in einem neuen Licht. Unser gegenwärtiger Umgang mit dem Fluss ist der Versuch, auf unintendierte und langfristige Folgen von oft weit in der Vergangenheit zurückliegenden Eingriffen zu reagieren.
In der Podiumsdiskussion sollen die Umweltgeschichte der Donau und die aktuelle Ausstellung als Einstieg dienen, wissenschaftliche Konzepte der Umweltgeschichte und ihre öffentliche Darstellung zu diskutieren. Was sind dafür geeignete Narrative und gestalterische Formen? Wie können umwelthistorische Ausstellungen zu aktuellen Umweltdebatten beitragen? Sollen sie das überhaupt?

TeilnehmerInnen:
Mag. Dr. Sándor Békési, Stadt- und Umwelthistoriker, Department Stadtentwicklung und Topographie im Wien Museum
MMag. Dr. Peter Payer, Historiker, Stadtforscher, Autor und Ausstellungskurator, Leiter des Sammlungsbereichs "Alltag & Umwelt" im Technischen Museum Wien
DI Johannes Pressl, Bürgermeister von Ardagger
Univ. Prof. Ing. Dr. Verena Winiwarter, Professorin für Umweltgeschichte an der Alpen-Adria-Universität, Leiterin des Kuratorenteams von "Umwelt Donau: Eine andere Geschichte"

Moderation:
Mag.a Regina Wonisch, Historikerin mit Forschungsschwerpunkt Museologie, Visual Culture und Gender Studies, u.a.an Alpen-Adria-Universität, IFF-Institut für Wissenschaftskommunikation und Hochschulforschung, freiberufliche Ausstellungstätigkeit

Weitere Informationen zur Ausstellung:
Auf der Website von "Donau- Fluch & Segen" unter http://donau-ausstellung.at/
und im zur Ausstellung erschienen Katalog:
V. Winiwarter, M. Schmid (Hg.), Umwelt Donau. Eine andere Geschichte (= Katalog zur Ausstellung des Niederösterreichischen Landesarchivs in Ardagger Markt, 5. Mai - 7. November 2010) (St. Pölten 2010)

Place / Ort: IFF, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Wien, 6. Stock, Seminarraum 6
Time / Zeit: Montag, 11. Oktober 2010, 18:00 - 20:00 Uhr

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37. Minisymposium des Zentrums für Umweltgeschichte

Umweltkatastrophe im Bild? Eine bäuerliche Arbeitsdarstellung auf einem spätmittelalterlichen Wirkteppich

Vortrag: PD Dr. Dorothee Rippmann
Historisches Seminar Universität Zürich

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