“旱暵水溢：世界历史上的河流、洪涝与旱灾”国际学术研讨会
国际学术会议论文征集通知
地点：中国北京中国人民大学
时间：2013年5月23日-26日
主办单位：中国人民大学生态史研究中心、德国慕尼黑大学蕾切尔·卡森中心
会议召集人：唐纳德·沃斯特（Donald Worster中国人民大学生态史研究中心名誉主任）
克里斯多夫·毛赫（Christof Mauch 德国慕尼黑大学蕾切尔·卡森中心主任
夏明方（中国人民大学生态史研究中心主任）
“过犹不及”这句古训对于美好的事物是否也同样适用？水，是地球生命的最基本要素之一，然而，它却每每太过丰沛或者短缺不济。旱暵水溢的结果是一系列的环境灾难，进而促成突发的迁移与调试，以及各种洪涝控制与水量调配的措施。人类社会似乎永远也无法在其中找到一种完美的平衡。
本会议将跨越国家的边界，探讨人类历史上洪泛河流与干旱循环的社会、政治、文化与经济原因及其影响。我们邀请历史学与其它相关学科的学者就以下问题提交论文申请：不同的社会如何理解洪涝与干旱，传统知识与现代科学如何塑造对于这些现象的社会理解？不同的社会寻求什么样的策略来解决这些问题，他们的成败如何？它们又设计出怎样的长期或短效的社区救济方式？自然灾害如何影响文明的发展？人类的行为又在怎样的程度上为灾难性的洪、旱创造条件？
提交申请所需材料包括：论文申请（五百字左右）与个人简历。申请截止日期2013年1月1日。2013年2月1日将公布申请结果，论文全文以及英文提要（六百词以上）提交时间为2013年5月1日。
会议不收取会务费。境外学者旅费将由蕾切尔·卡森中心承担，中国大陆学者的旅费由个人承担。中国人民大学生态史研究中心将负责与会学者在京会议期间食宿（共计四日）。会议最后一日将安排天津海河沿线考察。
中、英文申请请发往以下电邮地址：
Donald Worster, dworster@ku.edu
Christof Mauch, mauch@lmu.de
夏明方：xiamingfang2@vip.sina.com
相关事务性问题请询问会议秘书：侯深（中国人民大学生态史研究中心副主任）houshen414@gmail.com。
中国人民大学生态史研究中心
xiamingfang2@vip.sina.com
Christof Mauch
mauch@lmu.de
Donald Worster
dworster@ku.edu
Mingfeng Xia is Director of the Center for Ecological History, Remin University of China, and professor of history in the Qing Institute. Christof Mauch is Director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany. Donald Worster is Hall Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA, and Distinguished Foreign Expert, Renmin University of China, Beijing. The conference secretary is Professor Shen Hou, Deputy Director of the Center for Ecological History and assistant professor of history at Renmin University of China.
德国慕尼黑大学蕾切尔·卡森中心
2012-11-6
A Call for Papers
An international conference to be held in Beijing, at Renmin University of China, May 23-26, 2013
Co-Sponsored by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, and the Center for Ecological History, Renmin University of China
Too much, too little of a good thing? Water is one of the basic elements of life on earth, yet again and again it has been either in short supply or overabundant plenty. The result has been a string of environmental disasters that have prompted bursts of migration and adaptation, along with projects of flood control or water enhancement. It seems that societies can never find the perfect balance.
This conference will explore across national boundaries and throughout the human past the social, political, cultural, and economic effects of flooding rivers and cycles of drought. We invite scholars in history and related disciplines to submit paper proposals on such questions as these: How have different societies understood drought and flood, and how have traditional knowledge and modern science shaped social understanding of those phenomena? What strategies of coping have societies pursued, and where did they succeed and where did they fail? What kinds of community relief have they devised, short-term or long-term? How have natural disasters influenced the development of civilizations? How may human actions have created conditions for disastrous floods and droughts?
Paper proposals should be one-page long (or about 300 words) and include a title and a one- or two-page CV. The deadline for consideration is 1 January 2013. Successful proposals will be announced by 1 February, and complete drafts of papers will be required by 1 May.
Travel expenses for scholars living outside of China will be paid for by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. Scholars living within China should depend on their own universities for covering travel expenses. For all participants, hotel expenses for four nights will be covered by Renmin University of China.
The last day of the conference will be devoted to a field trip to the Hai River, once the site of severe, destructive flooding and now reconstructed as the centerpiece of the city of Tianjin’s burgeoning tourist industry.
Send proposals in Chinese or English to all of the conference organizers:
Mingfeng Xia
Rivers, Floods, and Droughts in World History Disasters Wet and Dry:
