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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 June 28, 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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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

Im 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
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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