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Calls from NEXTGATe: Dissertation Abstracts and Writing Support Programme 2020-2021

Un programa de ayuda a la escritura de jovenes investigadores se pone en marcha

También una base de datos de tesis sobre historia ambiental

Toda la informacion aqui

Dear colleagues,

The Next Generation Action Team of the European Society for Environmental History is delighted to spread the world about its activities and invite you all to take part in them.

As you may know, NEXTGATe’s mission is to strengthen the presence and influence of next generation scholars on the environmental history field in Europe and beyond and to offer a space for discussion and collaboration among junior scholars, but not only.

Attached you will find details about two of our initiatives and how to contact and join us.

1.     Call for Dissertation Abstracts

Have you recently submitted your PhD thesis or passed your viva? Consider to have your research included in the ESEH dissertation database, an online platform accessible through the ESEH website. Besides increasing the visi bility of your research, the database aims to encourage collaborations within the environmental history community.

Do you know colleagues who have just defended their dissertation or passed their PhD viva? Inform them about this call!

In relation to the dissertation database, we are happy to advertise the call for the 2021 Tallinn Dissertation Prize in European Environmental History. This prize aims to support early career environmental history scholars in Europe and those based outside Europe but whose work contributes to European environmental history. Check the call out at this link: http://eseh.org/tallinn-dissertation-prize-call-for-submissions/

2.     Writing Support Programme 2020-2021

Are you an early career scholar who is finalising a paper or a chapter and you would like to discuss it before submission? Are you a senior scholar who is willing to act as discussant or facilitator? Consider to join the group!

This mentorship programme aims to provide early career scholars with a supportive setting for obtaining focused, hands-on peer feedback on their work. The peer feedback and group discussion push the writing process forward, boost output and, finally yet importantly, strengthen the community of European environmental historians.

Attached you find the open calls.

We would really appreciate if you could circulate these calls through your network.

Thank you for your attention and feel free to contact us in case you may need additional information.

All the best and hope to hear from you!

ESEH NEXTGATers​

Video de un curso de historia ambiental en américa central

Queridas y queridos solcheros,

Es un gusto presentarles un breve video que resume el Taller de Historia Ambiental para América Central y el Caribe, llevado a cabo en la Universidad de El Salvador, en octubre del año pasado, gracias al financiamiento otorgado por el “International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations” (ICEHO). Este taller fue organizado por la Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica) y la Universidad de El Salvador, en coordinación con la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH) y la Bluefields Indian & Caribbean University (BICU), de Nicaragua. La actividad incluyó una jornada dedicada a conferencias magistrales dictadas por la Dra. Micheline Cariño y el Dr. Reinaldo Funes, así como por el Dr. José A. Fernández de la Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica (A quienes agradecemos profundamente, vale decir, su disposición y entusiasmo para participar activamente del taller).  Los siguientes días se destinaron al diseño de un Curso de Historia Ambiental para América Central, así como a la creación de una Red de Historia Ambiental para América Central y el Caribe. Durante la última jornada tuvimos la oportunidad de visitar zonas arqueológicas y agropecuarias de El Salvador.

El taller reunió a más de una treintena de estudiantes de grado y posgrado de Historia de dichas universidades, así como académicas (os) e investigadoras (es) de otros campos de las Ciencias Sociales y Naturales. Como bien lo revela el video, existe una especial motivación entre jóvenes estudiantes de América Central por adentrarse en la Historia Ambiental, ya no solamente como un campo de desarrollo profesional, sino también como una herramienta pertinente para la acción social constructiva de sus presentes y futuros.

Tal y como suele decir nuestro querido amigo Sandro Dutra: ¡Que viva Solcha y que viva entonces cada vez más enraizada SOLCHA y la Historia Ambiental en América Central…!

Abrazos, Wilson.

Nota al pie: el video fue hecho utilizando exclusivamente grabaciones de teléfonos celulares, lo que evidencia las enormes posibilidades de preparar nuestros relatos en forma audiovisual, haciendo uso de tecnologías de bajo coste, así como en una forma, aunque empírica, muy auténtica.

Call for proposals to host the 2024 World Congress of Environmental History (WCEH)

Dear colleagues,

After three very successful international meetings (in Copenhagen, Denmark, Guimarães, Portugal, and Florianopolis, Brazil) the fourth World Congress for Environmental History is scheduled for 2024.  

The International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO) is now calling for proposals from parties interested in hosting the 2024 conference, preferably in July or August of that year.

The deadline for proposals is 15 January 2021.

We encourage proposals from any part of the globe. Proposals should come in the first instance from individuals or organizations affiliated with universities or scholarly societies. While the support of local convention and visitors’ bureaus may become important once the site is proposed and under consideration, the proposal should not come directly from the convention and visitor’s bureau or events services. 

If you are interested or if you would like to submit a notice of intent, please contact ICEHO President Graeme Wynn at wynn@geog.ubc.ca or ICEHO Secretary Alexandra Vlachos at alexandra.vlachos@hist.unibe.ch for further details and a copy of the conference guidelines, before August 2020 if possible. 

We aim to finalize the site selection by July 2021.  

Please keep in mind that hosting a conference that will likely attract 500-750 delegates requires substantial effort and time as well as significant institutional support and fundraising, but it is also a terrific opportunity to showcase local/ national scholarship, to advance environmental awareness and to promote local initiatives. 

We look forward to your proposals. 

Contact Info: 

Alexandra Vlachos, ICEHO Secretary, alexandra.vlachos@hist.unibe.ch

ICTA-UAB to host an Interdisciplinary Workshop on Drought and Adaptation in the Mediterranean during the Little Ice Age (1300 – 1850 AD)

WATERMARKS – Interdisciplinary Workshop on Drought and Adaptation in the Mediterranean during the Little Ice Age (1300 – 1850 AD) 

Understanding how societies of the past struggled to adapt to climate variability is critically needed to advance research about climate change adaptation today (Adamson et al. 2018). During the historical period known as the Little Ice Age not only average temperatures decreased but extreme weather events became more frequent (White 2014; White 2011; Oliva et al. 2018). This period constitutes an excellent opportunity for the joint work of researchers from the human and natural sciences interested in adaptation. In the Mediterranean, periods of drought marked how communities experienced the Little Ice Age. Recent research has shown how local communities combined different strategies to cope with drought, including infrastructural, institutional and symbolic responses which changed throughout time (Grau-Satorras et al. 2016; Grau-Satorras et al. 2018). 

At the crossroads between historical climatology and environmental history, the aim of this workshop is to further our understanding of the complex human impacts of climate variability in the Mediterranean during the Little Ice Age, with special attention to adaptation to the study of drought. Building on the studies of drought reconstruction in Spain following rogation ceremonies (Barriendos 1997; Domínguez-Castro et al. 2012) and attending to the current state of the art on the study of past droughts with documentary data (Brázdil et al. 2018), the ambition of this workshop is to foster interdisciplinary communication. Transdisciplinary contributions that combine the work of historians, natural scientists and archaeologists (Izdebski et al. 2016) or researchers from other disciplines will be especially welcomed. The workshop will include three keynotes: Andrea Kiss (Vienna University of Technology), Mariano Barriendos (University of Barcelona) and Mar Grau Satorras (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). John McNeill (Georgetown University) will act as discussant. Aiming at the publication of some of the contributions received, we call for both methodologically sound and nuanced transdisciplinary historical works from a wide range of disciplines that engage with the following topics in the Mediterranean region:

1. Methodological approaches towards establishing instruments for classification that bring together historical records that can be used as proxy for climate reconstruction, with particular attention to drought, rainfall and temperature;   2. Long-term transdisciplinary studies that integrate multi-proxy analyses of historical climate change;
  3. In-depth studies of specific severe hydro-climatic episodes during the LIA in the Mediterranean, particularly drought and floods, with attention to the responses developed by local societies to cope with the consequences of such events and prevent future episodes;

4. Human dimensions of historical climate change during the Little Ice Age;

5. Community and institutional adaptation to drought, strategies to cope with disturbances and climate variability;

6. Watering the city: engineering, building and maintaining urban water supply infrastructure in the face of ice and drought;

7. Irrigation schemes: infrastructural projects for agricultural irrigation in the Mediterranean;

8. War and water: in-depth analyses of military campaigns conditioned by drought.


Interested participants should send their abstracts (300 words) and a short biography (100 words) with contact details to the workshop organiser Dr. Santiago Gorostiza (Santiago.Gorostiza@uab.cat) by 14 June, 2019. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 1 July 2019. We ask participants to circulate a complete draft of their paper one month before workshop. 

The organisation of this workshop has received financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, through the “María de Maeztu” program for Units of Excellence (MDM-2015-0552). 


Important dates

April 2019: Call for papers published 

14 June 2019: Deadline for contributions abstracts (abstracts 300 words plus a short biography 100 words)

1 July 2019: Communication of acceptance of contributions

1 October 2019: Deadline for submitting full papers

Thursday 24 and Friday 25 October 2019: Workshop at ICTA-UAB.


References

Adamson, G.C.D., Hannaford, M.J. & Rohland, E.J., 2018. Re-thinking the present: The role of a historical focus in climate change adaptation research. Global Environmental Change, 48(August 2017), pp.195–205. 

Barriendos, M., 1997. Climatic variations in the Iberian Peninsula during the late Maunder minimum (AD 1675-1715): An analysis of data from rogation ceremonies. Holocene, 7(1), pp.105–111.

Brázdil, R. et al., 2018. Documentary data and the study of the past droughts: an overview of the state of the art worldwide. Climate of the Past Discussions, (2002), pp.1–67. 

Domínguez-Castro, F. et al., 2012. Assessing extreme droughts in Spain during 1750-1850 from rogation ceremonies. Climate of the Past, 8(2), pp.705–722.

Grau-Satorras, M. et al., 2016. Long-term community responses to droughts in the early modern period: the case study of Terrassa, Spain. Ecology and Society, 21(2). Available at: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol21/iss2/art33/.

Grau-Satorras, M. et al., 2018. Prudent peasantries: Multilevel adaptation to drought in early modern Spain (1600-1715). Environment and History. Available at: http://www.whpress.co.uk/EH/papers/1375-Grau-Satorras.pdf.

Izdebski, A. et al., 2016. Realising consilience : How better communication between archaeologists , historians and natural scientists can transform the study of past climate change in the Mediterranean. Quaternary Science Reviews, 136, pp.5–22. 

Oliva, M. et al., 2018. The Little Ice Age in Iberian mountains. Earth-Science Reviews, 177(October 2017), pp.175–208. 

White, S., 2011. The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, Cambridge University Press.

White, S., 2014. The Real Little Ice Age. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XLIV(3), pp.327–352.

POSTDOC en historia ambiental en Paris


Please find attached a job offer for a 3-year postdoc position at the Center for History at Sciences Po, Paris. This position is associated to Giacomo Pinarello’s project “Shifting Shores: An Environmental History of Morphological Change in Mediterranean River Deltas over the Twentieth Century.”

http://chsp.sciences-po.fr/actualite/postdoctoral-researcher-environmental-history-recruitment

The deadline to apply is June 3, 2019. Please do not hesitate to pass this on to potential candidates and circulate to your networks.

Convocatoria Abierta IV Escuela de Posgrados, SOLCHA Stanford University, 20-23 noviembre 2019

Stanford University (Califórnia)

La Sociedad Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Historia Ambiental (SOLCHA), el Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Stanford (CLAS) y la Fundación Tinker se complacen en anunciar la realización de la IV Escuela de Posgrados de SOLCHA-Simposio Tinker, que busca contribuir a la conformación de una red de académicos que trabajan en torno a la historia ambiental latinoamericana. Su eje, como en anteriores ocasiones (VER http://solcha.org/index.php/escuela-de-posgrados), será la discusión de los trabajos de los estudiantes. Esta escuela además continuará un esfuerzo comenzado por el profesor Mikael Wolfe de concebir un “reader” de historia ambiental latinoamericana, es decir, una publicación que reúna fuentes primarias y las presente. También contará con conferencias, discusiones, talleres y una salida de campo.

La escuela tendrá como profesores destacados investigadores en el tema que nos convoca, tanto historiadores como geógrafos, de cinco países y que trabajan tanto en América Latina como en Estados Unidos:

  • Mikael Wolfe Stanford University, California, Estados Unidos
  • Claudia Leal Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
  • Myrna Santiago St Mary’s College, Moraga, California
  • Sandro Dutra e Silva Universidade Estadual de Goiás; UniEvangélica, Anápolis, Brasil
  • Emily Wakild Boise State University, Idaho, Estados Unidos
  • Frederico Freitas North Carolina State University, Raleigh, Estados Unidos
  • Pedro Urquijo – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia
  • Adi Lazos – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia
  • Reinaldo Funes – Universidad de La Habana, Cuba; Yale MacMillan Center, Estados Unidos
  • Matthew Vitz – University of California, San Diego, Estados Unidos
  • Cynthia Radding – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Estados Unidos

La escuela contará con un máximo de 18 estudiantes. Todos los admitidos serán becados y tendrán cubierto alojamiento, desayunos, almuerzos y dos cenas. A quienes estudien en instituciones de América Latina y el Caribe se les financiará parte o la totalidad de los tiquetes aéreos, hasta USD $800 por tiquete, según la necesidad y la disponibilidad de recursos. Pueden presentarse estudiantes de maestría y doctorado de cualquier disciplina, cuya investigación sea en historia ambiental de América Latina o el Caribe. También pueden aplicar aquellas personas que hayan terminado su programa de posgrado en 2018 o en 2019, así como becarios de las escuelas pasadas, aunque tendrán prioridad quienes vayan a participar por primera vez.

Para postularse es necesario enviar, como un solo PDF, los siguientes documentos a ivescuelasolcha@gmail.com a más tardar el 15 de junio de 2019:

  1. Carta de presentación de máximo dos páginas que explique por

qué quiere participar, diga qué texto pretende presentar y exponga cómo puede aportar al fortalecimiento de la red de historia ambiental latinoamericana (por ejemplo, en su país o alrededor de un tema específico).

  1. Hoja de vida de máximo dos páginas.
  2. Una carta de recomendación, preferiblemente del tutor o tutora.

Estos documentos pueden estar en español, portugués o inglés.

Las discusiones de la escuela se harán en los tres idiomas (ingles, español y portugués), así que la única condición para participar es manejar uno de esos idiomas.

Las respuestas serán enviadas a más tardar el 15 de julio de 2019. Los aceptados tendrán que enviar antes del 25 de octubre de 2019:

  1. Un texto de su autoría de máximo 7,000 palabras de extensión (sin incluir notas ni bibliografía), en español, portugués o inglés, que puede ser un capítulo de la tesis, un borrador de artículo, o un proyecto de investigación.
  2. Una fuente primaria, junto con una explicación de máximo una página. Enviaremos más instrucciones al respecto a quienes sean aceptados.

Organizadores: Mikael Wolfe y Claudia Leal.

III ESCUELA DE POSGRADOS DA SOCIEDAD LATINOAMERICANA Y CARIBEÑA DE HISTORIA AMBIENTAL
Anápolis, Brasil, 2017

Podcast La religión del antropoceno, por Rafael Cid (el vaivén, Radio Klara)

El periodísta Rafael Cid, comentarista habitual de los programas de radio “El Vaivén” y “La visión del día” de Radio Klara (de la Confederación General de Trabajadores, CGT, Valencia) reflexiona sobre los desastres ambientales en el link siguiente: https://www.ivoox.com/22118535

Si te interesa el tema, apúntate al congreso que se celebrará del 8 al 9 de noviembre de Granada de nuestra Red sobre el “capitaloceno”, periodo más ajustado que el de “antropoceno” para ciert@s historiador@s ambientales.

Cualquier persona investigadora es libre de apuntarse.

 

URSS and France event on Environmental History

Marie-Hélène Mandrillont, Laurent Coumel, Marc Elie, Alexis Vrignon y Alexandre Bikvov preparan para el día 20 de septiembre un evento muy intersante acerca del Ecologismo en la Unión Soviética y en Francia.
Más información en francés, aquí abajo
18-20h

Seguir leyendo URSS and France event on Environmental History

‘Año de los tiros’ Meeting, Huelva 6 Feb 2017

Dear colleagues:

We are sending the poster and the program of the “III Jornadas Conmemorativas del Año de los tiros: una perspectiva internacional” (https://www.dropbox.com/s/7289it9weahmfn1/cartel-4f-defintivo.jpg?dl=0). The objective of this seminar is to attain the recognition by UNESCO of the “Year of shoots”, the peaceful demonstration against smoke that ended in brutal repression in 1888, as the “ World Environmentalism Day”. In this regards, the city council of Huelva has unanimously approved a motion on January 27th 2017 (https://www.facebook.com/mesadelaria/videos/994081094068894/)

Best Wishes

ano-de-los-tiros-2017

REPORT(H)A – II Meeting Environmental Changes in Historical Perspective

REPORT(H)A – II Meeting Environmental Changes in Historical Perspective

The Centro de História of the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (CH-ULisboa) / Center of History of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon and the Instituto de História Contemporânea of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (IHC-FCSH, UNL) / Institute of Contemporary History of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the New University of Lisbon, are pleased to be hosting the II meeting of REPORT(H)A – Portuguese Network of Environmental History, in 2017 Spring.

The Call For Abstracts is open.

The Conference is open to all interested researchers as well as the general public. Proposals in the form of abstracts should be submitted to encontroreportha2017@gmail.com by 1st December 2016 and authors will be notified by e-mail until 15th February 2017 whether their proposal has been accepted.
Abstracts with 300words (Word, style Calibri 11 1,5 line spacing, double spacing between paragraphs; 2-5 keywords) should be presented in one of the official languages of the Conference. Proposals should explicit the type of presentation: paper (20 minutes) or short talk (10 minutes) and abstract should include author(s) name(s), affiliation(s) as well as their e-mail address(es).
Papers accepted  can be presented in Portuguese, English or Spanish though there will be no simultaneous translation.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

Portuguese, English and Spanish

For more information see:

http://reporthameeting.wixsite.com/2017
http://www.reportha.org/pt/events/28