ESEH Summer School in St. Petersburg - Deadline extended
*** DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS EXTENDED TO 31 MAY ***
The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) is
happy to announce its third annual Summer School. It will take place in St.
Petersburg, Russia, from
August 28 to August 31, 2012,
and it will be hosted by Dr. Julia Lajus (Department of
History, National Research University Higher School of Economics; and Center
for Environmental and Technological History at the European University at St.
Petersburg). The sponsors of the summer school are the
European Society of Environmental History, the Rachel Carson Center for
Environment and Society in Munich, and the Estonian Center for Environmental
History (KAJAK).
The theme of the Summer School is
Natural resources: historical ideas, exploration, and
exploitation
Doctoral students who are members of the ESEH are welcome
to apply. If the student wishing to attend is not yet a member, an ESEH
membership application should be completed via http://eseh.org/membership/how-to-become-a-member/
before applying for the school.
The student's work should address one or several of the
following research
questions/themes:
How have societies throughout history reacted to
diminishing vital resources (such as water, wood, land, fossil fuels)?
How have they dealt with food resources (plantations,
fisheries etc.)?
How have technologies enabled resource use; and on the
flip side, how has resource availability encouraged technological development?
What role has knowledge played in the exploration of
resources and how have ideas about resources changed over time?
What role have specific natural resources (such as
precious metals, water, hunted animals) played in historic cultural practices
or religious ideas?
How have groups come into and/or resolved conflicts over
natural resources?
What concepts have been developed to fight resource
exploitation?
The summer school will feature lecturers from different
countries in a workshop atmosphere. The program will give doctoral students the
opportunity to discuss their work with peers and mentors.
All participants will be asked to submit a research paper
of 15 to 20 double-spaced pages by August 1, 2012. The papers will be
pre-circulated among the summer school participants in order to facilitate
discussion of each student's work.
Please send: (1) a proposal outlining the research paper
to be submitted and where it fits into the larger PhD work in no more than 400
words and
(2) a 2-page CV
to Dr. Dolly Jorgensen, Chair of the Summer School
Committee, e-mail dolly@jorgensenweb.net.
Please note that selected participants will have
accommodation, meals, and workshop participation paid by the ESEH and the
Summer School organizers, however, students must make their own travel
arrangements to St.
Petersburg. A limited amount of funding may be available
towards the support of travel. Students are responsible for acquiring their own
visas; the local organizers will provide official invitations.