The next American Society for Environmental History conference<\/a> will be in San Francisco (USA) 12-16 March 2014. Unfortunately, premodern environmental history is woefully underrepresented on the program, with only one paper mentioning the medieval period in the title:\u00c2\u00a0Ma\u00c3\u00afka De Keyzer,\u00c2\u00a0The disappearance of the tragedy of the commons. Sand drifts and collective action during the Late Middle ages in the Campine area, Southern Low Countries (on Panel 5-G).<\/p>\n Luckily, the 2nd World Congress for Environmental History<\/a> in Portugal 8-12 July promises to make up for the ASEH’s paltry offerings. A review of the draft program<\/a> yielded the following presentations on medieval environmental history:<\/p>\n 8 July<\/strong><\/p>\n Session: Wetland Cultures<\/span><\/p>\n Jim Galloway, Wetlands and Woodlands: Interactions around the Thames Estuary (SE England) in the Middle Ages<\/p>\n 9 July<\/strong><\/p>\n Session: Aquacultures: Promises, Practices, Problems, I<\/span><\/p>\n Richard C. Hoffmann, Domesticating Common Carp in Medieval Europe<\/p>\n Session: Comparative Fisheries<\/span><\/p>\n Antonio M. Teixeira & Cristina Brito, Digging into our Whaling Past Portugal (Mainland) as a Former Whaling Nation<\/p>\n Session: Coping with Pests<\/span><\/p>\n Elina Gugliuzzo & Giuseppe Restifo, Locust Invasions and Climatic Factors in the Mediterranean<\/p>\n Session: European Animals \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Real and Imagined<\/span><\/p>\n Rob Lenders, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153An Hund Wildra Horsa and Sextene Tame Hencgstas\u00e2\u20ac\u009d – The Myth of wild Horses in Medieval Europe<\/p>\n Hannele Klemettila, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Qu\u00c2\u00b4on ne les Tuast pas Faussement\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Gaston F\u00c3\u00a9bus on the Decline of Wild Life at the End of the Middle Ages<\/p>\n Session: Changing Views of Primates<\/span><\/p>\n Catarina C.N. Casanova & Cec\u00c3\u00adlia Veracini, Animal Distribution in Guinea-Bissau and how Non Human Primates Were Perceived in the 16th and 17th Century Chronicles: From Anatomical Descriptions to Tool-use Behaviour<\/p>\n Session: Program Committee Selection<\/span><\/p>\n Francis Ludlow, The Environmental Contexts of Subsistence Crises, Mass Mortalities and Social Conflict in Ireland, 425-1649 CE<\/p>\n Session: Ligurian Landscapes: 20 Years of Interdisciplinary Case Studies<\/span><\/p>\n Charles Watkins, Ross Balzaretti & Diego Moreno, Historical Rural Landscapes in the Apennines and Climate Changes<\/p>\n 10 July<\/strong><\/p>\n Session: Fueling Pre-modern Economies: Energy Production and Consumption before the Industrial \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Revolution\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n Rick Keyser, Wood for Burning: Firewood Production and Collection in Medieval France<\/p>\n Session: The Socio-political Leverage of Extreme Weather Events in Late Medieval Europe<\/span><\/p>\n Martin Bauch,\u00c2\u00a0More than Divine Wrath – Perception of Extreme Weather Events in Late Medieval Italy<\/p>\n Thomas Labb\u00c3\u00a9,\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Toute Chose se Desnature\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: Environmental Changes of the 14th Century from the Perspective of Contemporary Witnesses (c. 1330-1400)<\/p>\n Linn\u00c3\u00a9a Rowlatt,\u00c2\u00a0Some Religious Perceptions of Nature in Late Medieval Alsace<\/p>\n Session: Ways as a Means of Space Exploration<\/span><\/p>\n Irina Konovalova, Route Data as a Tool of Describing the World in Islamic Geography of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries<\/p>\n Tatjana N. Jackson, Ways (Vegar) of Medieval Scandinavians<\/p>\n Galina Glazyrina, The Way as a Representation of Moral and Ethical Transformations in the Icelandic Sagas<\/p>\n 11 July<\/strong><\/p>\n Session: Poster Presentations<\/span><\/p>\n Pavel Raska & Vilem Zabransky, A Central-European Perspective on the Learning-through-the-Past Paradigm in Disaster Studies<\/p>\n Renata Pavelkova Chmelova & Jindrich Frajer, Extinct Ponds in tbe Czech Republic<\/p>\n Session: Urban Farming throughout History \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Part 1: More than Shovels, Henhouses and Seed: Urban Farming as a Promoter for Structural and Cultural Change from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century<\/span><\/p>\n Dolly J\u00c3\u00b8rgensen, Foul Fowl: The Challenges of Keeping Birds in Medieval Urban Spaces<\/p>\n Chantal Camenisch, Cabbage, Beans and Apples: Agricultural Production within the City Walls in the Western Part of the Swiss Confederacy during the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period<\/p>\n 12 July<\/strong><\/p>\n Session: Marine Cultural Environments<\/span><\/p>\n Eva Panagiotakopulu, Medieval Cultural Landscapes: Interaction and Subsistence in the North Atlantic Region<\/p>\n Session: Changing Coastlines. The Impacts of Human Activities in Coastal Zones<\/span><\/p>\n Maria Ros\u00c3\u00a1rio Bastos, Oleg\u00c3\u00a1rio Pereira, S\u00c3\u00a9rgio Rodrigues, Jo\u00c3\u00a3o Pedro Tereso, & Jo\u00c3\u00a3o Pedro Ribeiro, Vegetation in the Portuguese Coastal Interface in a Broad Diachronic Perspective. Case Studies from the West Coast, near the Aveiro Lagoon<\/p>\n Session: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Pestilence, War, Famine and Death<\/span><\/p>\n Richard D. Oram, Timor Mortis Conturbat Me: Death and the Scots c.1350-1500<\/p>\n Alasdair D. Ross, Verus Valor: A Mid-14th Century Scottish Reaction to One or Two (or all) of the Four Horsemen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The next American Society for Environmental History conference will be in San Francisco (USA) 12-16 March 2014. Unfortunately, premodern environmental history is woefully underrepresented on the program, with only one paper mentioning the medieval period in the title:\u00c2\u00a0Ma\u00c3\u00afka De Keyzer,\u00c2\u00a0The … Continue reading