ICEHO Bulletin 17

ICEHO World Congress 2019:
Devastating Fire Postpones Call For Papers
Deadline: 1 October.
On September 2, 2018, a massive fire devastatedthe National Museum of Brazil. Founded 200 years
ago, the museum is Brazil's oldest scientificinstitution and one of the largest and mostrenowned museums in Latin America, with acollection of 20 million artifacts and specimens.
Newspapers around the world have publishedmany articles about this tragic event, and the list ofdestroyed artifacts is now an almost familiar
recitation of mourning: the butterfly andentomology collections, the archives, the Egyptiancollection, the mounted dinosaurs, the recording ofindigenous voices, the Anthropology Library.
Luzia, the oldest human fossil found in theBrazilian territory, is lost. It is a loss not only for
Brazilians, but for scientists and scholars aroundthe world
For Brazilian environmental historians, theMuseum is a particularly cherished space. It isconnected to the Universidade Federal do Rio deJaneiro and generations of Brazilian scientists
have graduated there. Many environmental
historians have explored the archives of theNational Museum, taken classes there, studied thepaleontology collections, written theses, articles
and books about the artifacts and those whocollected the precious artifacts, and about what
the Museum meant to national science and to theconcept of nature in Brazil.
As Brazil is preparing to host the 3rd World
Congress of Environmental History in July 2019, inFlorianópolis, this loss is deeply felt. In light of thisdevastating loss, we ask for help from theinternational community of environmental
historians. If you have researched at the National
Museum, if you have images of the collections, theartifacts, or any related documents, please sendcopies to www.museunacional.ufrj.br/memoria (itis an institutional link.) If your institution would
like to support the National Museum of Brazil in amore concrete way, write tofalecomdiretor@mn.ufrj.br
Due to these exceptional circumstances, theOrganizing Committee of the 3rd World Congressof Environmental History agreed to extend thedeadline for proposal submissions until October
1st.
We hope this extension will allow for everyone
interested in taking part in proposals for theacademic program of this exciting conference.

September 2018
Submission Website:
https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/iceho/iceho19/

Convergences:

The Global North and the Global
South in the Era of the GreatAcceleration
Conference: 22-26 July 2019
Submissions due
Federal University of Santa Catarina (Universidade
Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC), Florianópolis, Brasil

Guidelines*** 300-word limit on all Abstracts
The 3rd World Conference of Environmental History
invites scholars from different disciplines to situateenvironmental history in a planetary perspective. The
program committee invites panel, roundtable,individual paper, and poster proposals for thecongress. We prefer to receive complete session
proposals but will endeavor to construct sessions fromproposals for individual presentations. Sessions will bescheduled for 1.5 hours. No single presentation shouldexceed 15 minutes, and each roundtable presentation
should be significantly shorter than that, as
roundtables are designed to maximize discussion
among the speakers and with the audience.
Commentators are allowed but not required.
The program committee encourages nonconventional sessions that experiment with creative
formats, such as hands-on workshops, tooldemonstrations, and open discussion forums. To
submit a proposal for an experimental session,please provide a 300-word abstract describing theactivity on this form.
To maximize participation, we encourage session
proposals with more participants giving shorter
presentations (e.g., four presenters at 12minutes each). Please note that individuals canbe a primary presenter in only one panel,roundtable, or other session proposal, but canalso serve as chair or commentator in a second
session proposal.

Five types of submissions:• Roundtable (up to 5 presenters and a chair)• Panel (up to 5 presenters and a chair
and a commentator – the latter isoptional)• Experimental session (requires only one 300word abstract)• Individual paper (single submission –program committee might create panelsout of these)• Poster (a single submission by an individual)
Information collected:• Name of organizer• E-mail of organizer• Title of session• Names of presenters (up to five)••••

Institutions of presenters (or“independent scholar”)
E-mail addresses of presenters
Titles of presentations within sessions
Abstracts (a single description for entire
session limit 300 words, plus descriptions ofeach individual presentation limit 300 wordseach). Please indicate time periods or eras
covered.

Submit proposals at:https://convention2.allacademic.com/ one/iceho/iceho19/
Questions:wceh2019@gmail.com

2WCEH2019 Program Committee

Co-chairs: Lisa Mighetto and Stefania Gallini

Members
Kate Brown, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Micheline Cariño, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
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Peter Coates, University of Bristol
Stefan Dorondel, Institutul de Antropologie “Francisc I.
Rainer”
Marianna Dudley, University of Bristol
Stefania Gallini, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (co-chair)
Simo Laakonen, University of Helsinki
Lisa Mighetto, University of Washington-Tacoma (co-chair)
Ruth Morgan, Monash University/ Rachel Carson Center LMU(2017)
Micah Muscolino, Merton College, Oxford
Mucha Musemwa, Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Giacomo Parrinello, Louisiana State University
Ligia Pinto, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal
David Schorr, Tel Aviv University
Fei Sheng, Sun Yat-Sen University
John Soluri, Carnegie Mellon University
Paolo Squatriti, University of Michigan
Helmuth Trischler, Deutsches Museum MunichoOo*** DEADLINE FOR THE NEXT ICEHO BULLETIN
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