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CfP: 10th Biennial European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference (Tallinn, Estonia, 21 to 25 August 2019)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

10th Biennial European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference

Tallinn, Estonia, 21 to 25 August 2019

Hosting institution: Estonian Centre for Environmental History (KAJAK), Tallinn University

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.

The theme of the conference will be Boundaries in/of Environmental History. 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.

For further details, see http://eseh.org/2019-conference-call-for-papers/<https://eseh.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4889f0476c5add6417b9b6ea4&id=b200837d4f&e=ea0772fc2f >

All proposals should be submitted through our online submission system < https://eseh.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4889f0476c5add6417b9b6ea4&id=48ceb02423&e=ea0772fc2f >.< https://eseh.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4889f0476c5add6417b9b6ea4&id=78922b956a&e=ea0772fc2f >. The deadline for submittals is October 31, 2018.

Questions about proposals should be directed to the Head of the Programme Committee, Prof. Finn Arne Jørgensen, University of Stavanger, through the email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. < This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. >.

For more information about the conference and the venue, visit https://www.tlu.ee/eseh2019 < https://eseh.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4889f0476c5add6417b9b6ea4&id=9ec7315686&e=ea0772fc2f >

Download a copy of the ESEH 2019 CFP as a pdf file < https://eseh.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4889f0476c5add6417b9b6ea4&id=0b92deeab9&e=ea0772fc2f >.

Turku Book Prize call

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The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC), are pleased to announce the call for entries for the 2019 Turku Book Prize in European Environmental History < https://eseh.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4889f0476c5add6417b9b6ea4&id=c9acdfe7c9&e=ea0772fc2f > that they jointly sponsor every two years.

With the purpose of identifying and encouraging excellent, innovative, and well-written scholarship in the field of European environmental history, the prize is worth €3,000 and will be awarded at the 10th Biennial ESEH Conference to be held in Tallinn, Estonia, in August 2019. This prize rewards authors and books that are European and therefore does not compete with other environmental history prizes that recognize work relating to other parts of the world.

Criteria: Entries must be

* single-authored monographs

* original work recognizable as European environmental history

* published in 2017 or 2018;

* received by 31 January 2019.

Applicants must submit three copies of the book by mail to the Rachel Carson Center at the address below, as well as a digital copy (preferably a PDF file) to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. If the book is published in a language other than English, please include a one-page English summary.

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society

Turku Book Prize

Leopoldstrasse 11a

80802 München

Germany

A downloadable version of this announcement is available here< https://eseh.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4889f0476c5add6417b9b6ea4&id=7370d0717e&e=ea0772fc2f >

Small Workshop Grants

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In 2018, ESEH awarded funding to two small workshops. The first one "Writing environmental history in the 21st century: sources, methods and practices" was organized by Stéphane Frioux on behalf of RUCHE (Réseau Universitaire de Chercheurs en Histoire Environnementale). The workshop, which marked the tenth anniversary of this francophone network, took place June 13-15, 2018 in Lyon, France. Scientists from more than a dozen countries participated, from the Philipines to Canada, and Portugal to Netherlands. The second workshop "First Baltic Conference on the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences (BALTEHUMS)", whose main organizer is Kati Lindström, will take place October 8-9, 2018 at the Academic Center for Natural Sciences, Latvian University, Riga, Latvia.

NEXTGATe - a new ESEH initiative

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In June 2018 ESEH established its Next Generation Action Team (ESEH NEXTGATe) with a mission to strengthen the presence and influence of next generation scholars in the environmental history field in Europe and beyond. To achieve that goal ESEH NEXTGATe will organize pre-conference and on-site activities primarily for doctoral and post-doc researchers at the ESEH 2019 10th Biennial Conference in Tallinn, Estonia. Activities will include social media campaigns, virtual and live events, outreach activities, as well as career planning and publishing industry related event. The first tenure of ESEH NEXTGATe in 2018/19 includes the following members: Roberta Biasillo (Rachel Carson Center, Germany); Elena Kochetkova (Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg, Russia); Tayler Meredith (University of Birmingham, UK); Simone Schleper (Leibniz Institute of European History, Germany), and Erin Spinney (University of Oxford, UK). ESEH’s Next Generation Coordinator is Viktor Pál (University of Helsinki, Finland).

Follow ESEH NEXTGATe via Twitter @ENextgate (https://twitter.com/ENextgate)

Call for Expression of Interest to host the ESEH biennial conference in 2021

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The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) invites expressions of interest from scholars who would like to host the biennial conference of the Society in 2021. The deadline for submission is January 31, 2019. For details, please visit http://eseh.org/call-for-expressions-of-interest-to-host-eseh-biennial-meeting-in-2021/<https://eseh.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4889f0476c5add6417b9b6ea4&id=2eb2afbe52&e=ea0772fc2f>

ESEH Biennial Conference 2019 (Tallinn, Estonia, 21 to 25 August 2019)

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ESEH Biennial Conference 2019

Tallinn, Estonia, 21 to 25 August 2019

Hosting institution: Estonian Centre for Environmental History (KAJAK), Tallinn University

The Next ESEH Biennial Conference will be held in Tallinn!

To build on the discussions at the 2017 biennial conference in Zagreb, the 2019 Tallinn conference will operate under the notion of “boundaries in/of environmental history”, and will expand the idea of natures in-between to reach out for boundaries between humans and non-humans, environment and technologies, transcorporeality, transboundary agents, planetary boundaries as well as disciplinary boundaries and boundaries of science and arts, activism, popular science, etc. We are excited to have Prof. Finn Arne Jørgensen as the head of Programme Committee.

ESEH Tallinn team has committed to an ambitious diversification policy that seeks to encourage different session formats that diversify the ways we transmit knowledge, and promote gender and age balance at our conference. We are also dedicated to seeking low-cost accommodation for participants with limited financial support. If you still cannot make it to Tallinn, don’t worry – we are hoping to live-stream some of the sessions!

The Call for Papers is available now!

For more information about the conference and the venue, visit https://www.tlu.ee/eseh2019

See you in Tallinn!

Local organizing committee

Prof. Ulrike Plath (University of Tallinn)

Prof. Karsten Brüggemann (Tallinn University)

Prof. Tiiu Koff (Tallinn University)

Ass. Prof. Linda Kaljundi (Tallinn University)

Dr. Kati Lindström (KTH Royal Institute of Technology/ University of Tartu)

Ass. Prof. Marten Seppel (University of Tartu)

Dr. Erki Tammiksaar (Estonian University of Life Sciences and University of Tartu)

Dr. Kadri Tüür (Tallinn University and University of Tartu)

MA Liisi Jääts (Estonian National Museum)

Three doctoral students in History of Science, Technology and Environment

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Third-cycle subject: History of Science, Technology and Environment

The PhD education takes place in the ERC-funded project “The Rise of Global Environmental Governance: A History of the Contemporary Human-Earth Relationship” (GLOBEGOV). GLOBEGOV is a historical study of how humanity’s relation to planetary conditions and constraints became understood as a governance issue since the twentieth century. The key argument is that Global Environmental Governance (GEG) is inseparable from the rise of a planetary Earth systems science and understanding of global change that has affected international politics and broad communities of practice.

The project will study international, regional and national organizations, including governments, businesses, universities, and Non-Governmental Organizations, that have played roles in GEG. Research in GLOBEGOV will be based on multiple sources: archives, libraries, databases, other collections, the world wide web, and interviews with politicians, diplomats, civil servants, scholars and scientists, activists, members of NGOs, business leaders or representatives, journalists, or others.

Based at KTH in Stockholm the three PhD students may, depending on their individual research tasks, pursue part of their work in different world regions in close collaboration with senior GLOBEGOV researchers at the University of Cambridge, UC Berkeley, California, and at the University of Sydney.

More information is available at: https://www.kth.se/en/om/work-at-kth/lediga-jobb/what:job/jobID:214122/where:4/