ENFORMA is sponsoring five sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, May 10-13, 2012. The sessions are: Session 43: Medieval Environments I: Food Shortage and Subsistence Crises in Medieval Europe, Thursday, 10 am, Bernard 157 After the “Fall”: Feeding Rome in the Early Middle Ages – Kathy Pearson, Old Dominion [...]
ENFORMA is pleased to announce that three environmental history sessions for the 2012 International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo have been approved. Two of these (Medieval Environments I-II) will be traditional paper sessions, providing a forum for the presentation of individual papers and the sharing of current research projects. This is a forum for [...]
Although this is an off-year for our environmental sessions at Kalamazoo, this year nonetheless features several papers on environmental topics, and the MARS group (Medieval Association for Rural Studies) has organized sessions on “Gardens and Gardening” and the “Archaeology of Landscape.” This year’s Congress is from May 12-15. See http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/sessions.html for more information. We will [...]
The American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) meeting in April 2011 (see http://aseh.net/conferences/aseh-s-phoenix-conference-2011) includes several papers of interest for medieval environmental historians: Panel 2-A: Abigail Schade, Columbia University, Reading medieval water knowledge forward? Reading into al-Karaji’s 11th century instruction manual for Extraction of Hidden Waters Panel 5-C: The European Experience with Sustainable Practices in the [...]
Dagomar Degroot, a PhD candidate in environmental history at York University, Toronto, Canada, is working with David Hsiung to develop a panel proposal on the relationship between pre-industrial warfare and environment for the 2011 ASEH conference in Phoenix, April 12-16. As the panel presently stands, Dagomar’s paper would uncover links between the fluctuating climatic history [...]
Tim Sistrunk would like to organize a panel for the 2011 ASEH conference tentatively named: “Medieval European Approaches to Issues of Sustainability”. The society’s call for papers is fairly rich with suggestions and widely disparate possibilities. I, myself, hope to contribute something on “Regulating the Harvest in the Late Middle Ages”. This will be legal [...]
International Conference “Landscapes and Societies in Ancient and Medieval Europe East of the Elbe. Interactions between Environmental Settings and Cultural Transformations” 26-27 March 2010 Fourth International Conference of the Interdisciplinary Association “Gentes trans Albiam – Europe East of the Elbe in the Middle Ages.” To be held on the Keele Campus of York University, Toronto, [...]
The 2011 meeting of the American Society for Environmental History will be held in Phoenix, Arizona, April 12-16. The organizing committee has set “History and Sustainability: Stories of Progress, Hubris, Decline, and Resilience” as the conference theme, which is seen as welcoming papers on earlier periods and parts of the world outside North America. The [...]
The European Society for Environmental History next meets in Turku, Finland, 28 June-2 July 2011. Posters, papers, and panels are invited. The main conference theme is “Encounters of Sea and Land”. Organizers have suggested such topics as: The emergence of environmental crises of the seas Phases of conservation of inland waters, seas, and coasts Historical [...]
If anyone interested in organizing a medieval panel for the International Water History Association conference in June (see announcement below), please contact Roberta Magnusson (rmagnusson@ou.edu). Here’s the CFP: The International Water History Association organizes a Water History Conference in Delft, The Netherlands, in June 16-19 – 2010. The conference will be a unique opportunity to [...]