ESEH 2019 Conference in Tallinn, Estonia - submit your proposals by 31 October
The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) is
pleased to invite proposals for sessions, individual papers,
roundtables, posters and other, more experimental forms of communicating
scholarship for its 2019 biennial conference in Tallinn, Estonia.
Boundary
studies is a rapidly growing field of interdisciplinary research that
is increasingly relevant in historical research, for example, through
studies on transnational or migration histories, global and colonial
environments, relations of humans and animals or technical systems.
After a successful conference in Zagreb where we tackled boundaries as
contact zones in between, we would like to turn inwards and address the
phenomenon of boundaries as internal processes. An environmental
historian negotiates constantly the boundaries of its own field and
others, but also the boundaries between humans and nonhumans,
environment and technology, bodily and external, local and global. None
of these boundaries are fixed, but constantly redrawn and challenged.
Boundary zones mediate the contacts with other areas and act as filters
for innovation, where difference and similarity need to be constantly
negotiated and enacted.
Possible topics to be discussed under the umbrella concept of boundaries, include, but are not limited to the following:
- Hybridisation, transcorporeality, post-humanism and more-than-human histories;
- Industrial and agricultural impact on environment and biocultural diversity,
- Envirotechnical systems, nature protection, resource use;
- Environmental justice, colonialism and global environments, migration, conflicts, environmental legacies of wars, health and disease;
- Planetary boundaries and the Anthropocene, temporal and spatial boundaries in historical climate and climate change, ecosystem boundaries;
- Inter- and transdisciplinary, transnational and cross-regional environmental histories of Europe, environmental humanities and popular culture;
- Boundaries in time: new chronologies in environmental history;
- Crossing boundaries in/of scientific knowledge: pedagogical challenges of teaching environmental history.
The conference also accepts papers on environmental history that do not fall under the umbrella topic of boundaries.
Proposals can be made for paper sessions, individual papers, roundtables, posters and non-conventional sessions.
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