第四届东亚环境史学大会通告（第1号）
第四届东亚环境史学大会将于2017年10月27-30日在中国天津召开。本届会议由东亚环境史学会联合中国环境科学学会等多个学术团体共同组织，南开大学主办。它将为关注东亚及世界环境史的学者提供一个多学科国际学术对话的机会，邀请历史学、考古学、生态学、地理学、环境科学家及其它相关领域学者聚集一堂，共同回顾人类特别是东亚人民的生命历程，讲述人类与天空、大地、海洋、生物和非生物之间不断扩大和深化交往的故事，检视包括东亚文明在内的世界文明与文化曾经遭遇和正在面临着的环境挑战，为深刻认识文明与自然彼此因应、协同演化的复杂生态关系和历史过程，谋求人与自然和谐共生、永续发展之道提供经验借鉴。
本届会议主题是“文明的生态足迹：东亚与世界”。这里的“生态足迹”一词乃是象征意义上的使用，并不表明本届会议将主要讨论如何为考察历史上的人与自然关系引进或者建立一种量化分析模型——尽管我们欣赏并且实际上也需要这样的努力。它意味着我们主张以广域生态视野追寻文明的历史脚印，考察东亚人民在成千上万年的生命活动中与自然环境之间彼此施加的不断扩大和深化的影响。欢迎与会学者继续广泛探讨自然系统（如气候、陆地、海洋、物种……）的历史变迁问题，但更期望从环境史角度重新考察历史上的物质技术、经济类型、社会构造、政治制度、生活方式和思想观念，寻找文明演化背后的自然力量和生态规律，尤其关注东亚人民为了生存和发展如何不断适应自然环境、扩大资源利用？文明发展如何不断驱动环境变化最终使自身陷入当下困境？期望通过综合观察和广泛比较，整合以往的历史认识碎片，把握不同时空尺度之下人类系统与自然系统彼此因应的脉动、节奏、韵律和周期，揭示东亚区域文明演化的整体性和多样性，不同地区（国家、民族）之间的疏离与联动，并发现东亚与世界其它文明体系之间随着时间变化而不断扩大和增强的生态关联。总之，本届会议希望能在一定程度上推进对东亚乃至全球环境史的宏大叙事和整体认识。
参考论题
一、时空过程与历史脉动：东亚文明的起源、展开和转型。
二、自然环境与社会形态：人口行为、族群组织和国家政体。
三、自然环境与生存方式：经济体系、物质生产和衣食住行。
四、环境、资源与技术：材料和能源开发利用及其生态影响。
五、沧海变桑田：自然和人类力量共同作用下的环境景观变化。
六、挑战与应战：人类文明进程中的灾害、疾病、污染问题。
七、认知和情感：关于环境的知识、价值观、信仰和审美意识。
八、东亚与世界：跨越陆地、海洋和天空的文化接触与生态关联。
诚恳欢迎广大同仁（不论是否已经成为本会成员）就分组方式和主题提供宝贵建议，以便合理编制会议程序。学者可根据个人兴趣和专长自由组织讨论小组或提交单篇论文及宣传墙报。会议将约请专家进行审核并尽快通知审核结果。
根据以往惯例，同时为了推动中国环境史学成果走向世界，本届会议以英语作为工作语言。除主题演讲外，所有语言文字翻译问题均由参会者自行负责。为了保证交流顺畅，同时鼓励青年学者（含博士候选人、博士后研究人员等）参加本会，拟从全球招募5-10名志愿者担任现场同声翻译。作为回报，会议免收其注册费和食宿费。志愿者应同时精通英语和汉语（1-2人同时精通英语和日语），具有环境史研究或相关领域学习背景。有意者请在注册之时同时提交个人简历和可以证明自己学术经历、语言能力的材料。
本次会议报名采用网络注册方式。请准备参会的学者登录会议网页注册，并按要求及时提交相关材料:
1）2017年4月31日前，完成注册，提交论文摘要和小组讨论计划；
2）2017年8月30日前，完成宾馆预订，确认出席会议；
3）2017年9月30日前，提交完整的论文或报告材料。
参加本次会议可由两个地址注册:
1）东亚环境史学会网站“会议信息”栏，网址：
http://www.aeaeh.org/eaeh2017.htm
2）本次会议专用中文网页,地址：
http://eco-civilization.nankai.edu.cn/eaeh2017
建议中国大陆学者通过第二个地址注册。
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Call for panels, papers, and posters
Tracing the Ecological Footprint of
East Asian and World Civilizations
“The Fourth Conference of East Asian Environmental History” (EAEH 2017)
Hosted by Nankai University, Tianjin, China, October 2017
The fourth congress on East Asian environmental history will be held from October 27-30, 2017 in Tianjin, China. It is being jointly organized by the Association for East Asian Environmental History，Chinese Society for Environment Sciences along with a number of other institutions and will be hosted by Nankai University. It will provide an opportunity for multidisciplinary, international academic dialogue. Historians, archaeologists, ecologists, geographers, environmental scientists and other scholars in relevant fields are invited to gather together to review humanity’s and especially the East Asian peoples’ environmental past, to explain the constantly expanding and deepening interrelationship between humans and the sky, the earth, and the seas, and their various biotic and abiotic components, and to examine the environmental challenges that human civilizations, including East Asian civilizations have faced in the past and are still facing today. Our goal is to reach a more profound understanding of the complex eco-historical process of the interaction and co-evolution between human beings and nature for this important world region, and to provide non-western perspectives for the search for a road to a harmonious and symbiotic relationship between man and nature and sustainable development. Scholars from all around the world who are interested in environmental history are welcome.
The general theme of the conference is Tracing the Ecological Footprint of East Asian and World Civilizations. The phrase "ecological footprint" is used in a broad sense here. It does not mean that we must all adopt in the conference a quantitative model for investigating ecological relationships between humans and nature in history, although we appreciate and eventually will need such efforts. We use the phrase to express the goal of attempting to figure out the qualitative as well as quantitative dimensions of human impact on the natural environment for the past few thousand years—to retrace the historical footprints of East Asian and world civilizations from many perspectives.
Discussions of the long-term changes in natural systems (including climate, land, sea, and species populations and distribution) are welcome. Yet we particularly encourage attention to materials, technology, economy, social structure, political institutions, living patterns, and concepts from the perspective of environmental history. What impact or “footprint” have natural forces had on the development of various civilizations? How do we explain how the East Asian peoples, for their own subsistence and development, have adapted to diverse natural settings, continuously expanded the utilization of natural resources, and caused tremendous environmental changes, eventually leading to a state of ecological crisis today? We also encourage a more comprehensive and extensive comparison within the region and beyond so as to grasp the pulsations, rhythms, patterns, and cycles that human systems and natural systems have exhibited. We encourage proposals that focus on East Asian civilization's historical integrity, diversity, independence, and linkages among regions and nations, as well as their common natural origin and ecological consequences. But our interest is not confined to this specific region. We also realize that East Asia has never been ecologically and culturally isolated from the outside world. More attention should be paid to the historical connections between East Asia and other parts of the world. All in all, we hope this conference will promote a more inclusive narrative and a more holistic understanding of East Asian environmental history and the region's ecological links with the rest of the world. The following are some suggested sub-themes:
1. Spatial-temporal Process & Historical Pulsation: The Origin, Expansion and Transformation of East Asian Civilization.
2. Natural Environment and Social Forms: Population Behavior, Ethnic Groups and Nation-state Regimes....
3. Environment and Lifestyles: Economic Systems, Material Production and the Ways of Food, Clothing, Housing and Transportation.
4. Environment, Resource and Technology and: Exploitation and Utilization of Material and Energy and Their Impacts to Eco-system.
5. Deep blue seas Changed into Mulberry Fields: The Changing Landscape Under the Joint Action of Natural and Human Forces.
6. Challenge and Response：Disaster, Disease and Pollution in the Process of Human Civilization.
7. Cognition and Emotion：Knowledge, Values, Beliefs and Aesthetic Related to Environment.
8. East Asia and the Outside World：Cultural Contact and Ecological linkage Across Lands, Oceans and Skies.
Participants are encouraged to organize panels and to submit sets of coordinated proposals. Single papers and individual or group posters, however, are also welcome. The organizer will invite experts to review, make selections among the proposals, and publicize the results as soon as possible.
We sincerely welcome colleagues (whether or not a member of the AEAEH) to send us their proposals to help us create that more inclusive narrative and to suggest new avenues of research.
The working language of EAEH 2017 is English. All participants except the keynote speakers are expected to provide competent translations of their work in English, both in their proposals, presentations, and commentaries. To ensure a smooth communication and to encourage young scholars (including doctoral candidates, post doctoral researchers, etc.) to participate in the conference, we plan to recruit from around the world 5 to 10 volunteers who will serve as simultaneous interpreters during the conference. In compensation, they will be exempted from the usual registration fee and entitled to free accommodation. Applicants should declare their willingness to serve as conference interpreters when they register and provide proof of their language skill. To be chosen as an interpreter, we need evidence of proficiency in both English and Chinese (1 to 2 interpreters should also be fluent in Japanese), and of a professional-level background in environmental history or a related field.
Scholars interested in the conference should log into our website to provide the relevant materials and information in time as required, including:
1) Conference registration and paper abstract or panel proposal submission by April 31, 2017.
2) Hotel reservation & attendance confirmation by August 30, 2017.
3) Full paper or report material submission by September 30, 2017.
For further information and updates, please visit our website. If you have any suggestion or problem, please do not hesitate to contact us.
E-mail: eco-history@mail.nankai.edu.cn
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