Call for Proposals for 2015 ESEH Conference
◆ News(Jun 30, 2014)
The Call for Proposals for the ESEH 2015 conference is out now! The deadline for submissions is 1 October 2014.
In this conference we aim to create conversations about the results of environmental history research and about the process and methods of that research. Through an emphasis on disciplines, methods, and questions, we hope to encourage dialogue with all types of history, other humanities and social sciences, and the natural sciences. Where are we coming from as disciplinary specialists, and how are we organizing the relationships between society and environment? How, as environmental historians, are we changing the way history is written and historical objects interpreted? What is the future of environmental history and the humanities at a time when we are confronted with environmental and climate challenges that could push to reframe the divide between natural sciences and the humanities and social sciences?
The Program Committee welcomes contributions that address the environmental history of any period or place, and the conference is open to scholars from all disciplines and backgrounds. In particular, we hope to see a large number of submissions from graduate students and early career scholars. Because of the conference’s focus on disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, we are also interested in receiving proposals that directly address methods and approaches, and that could launch fruitful conversations across disciplines. We will have regular paper sessions, roundtables, a poster session, and the opportunity to apply for “experimental” format sessions. Papers can be submitted as organised sessions or individually.
The conference will be held in Versailles, France, on 30 June–3 July 2015. The host institution is the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), a green university which combines historical sciences and environmental sciences at a very high level, located only 30 minutes by train from the city center of Paris. The Local Organising Committee is led by Gregory Quenet of UVSQ and the Programme Committee is chaired by Ellen Arnold of Ohio Wesleyan University.
(Special Note: News from The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) , Website:http://environmentalhistory-au-nz.org）
