The Society for the History of Natural History (SHNH), in association with the British Ornithologists’ Club, is organizing a meeting in Liverpool on June 14-15, 2018. The meeting, called “Bon Voyage? 250 years exploring the natural world“, will focus on the lives, encounters, contributions and legacies of many of those involved in the history of natural history exploration around the world,…
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The Higher School of Economics Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History of the Center for Historical Research in St. Petersburg, Russia invites applications for postdoctoral research positions in the fields of environmental history or environmental humanities, history of science and technology or urban history. Scholars whose interests are focused on the regions of Circumpolar North or Global South are particularly welcome to…
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Online historical geographic information system (GIS) called the Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire (DARE) is a potentially new source for environmental historians and environmental archaeologists who study Turkey and its surrounding regions in Roman era. Developed by the Swedish “research engineer” Johan Åhlfeldt and hosted by the Department of Archaeology and Classical History at Lund University in Sweden, the DARE is a…
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Kebikeç, a journal of studies for human resource sciences, published in Turkey has an open call for papers for submissions for a forthcoming special issue on “felaket” (disaster). The editors of for the special issue are Elif Ekin Akşit and Eda Acara. Papers in Turkish can be submitted to the editors by the April 1, 2018 deadline.
Prof. Joachim Radkau, an emeritus professor at the University of Bielefeld in Germany, is considered one of the leading representatives of environmental history in the German-speaking world. We were fortunate to listen his keynote lecture at the First Conference on the Environmental History of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey at the University of Hamburg in October 2017. Now, we are…
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