ICEHO Bulletin 9
July 2016
From the President’s Desk

Verena outside her office spending time with spring tulips

Dear Member Organizations of ICEHO,This letter serves as an introduction to mypresidency of ICEHO. I am taking over at a greattime for the organization. As you might havenoticed, ICEHO is growing. We have new member
organizations, who joined ICEHO when we met in
Seattle this spring. Then and thereafter, newpublishers have joined us. We keep being on thelookout for institutions, organizations andpublishers who should be part of the growing
network because they work on issues pertinent toEnvironmental History. We invite you to spread theword!
ICEHO is all about networking and about making
environmental history organizations more visible
worldwide. To achieve this goal, we regularly
publish a Bulletin with member news andannouncements relevant to more than one
organization, publisher or institution. We maintaina Website http://iceho.org which is a way for you
to reach other members, and to see what they are
doing. Our biggest task remains to host a worldconference every 5 years. As you will read in thisBulletin, the Site Selection Committee under the
diligent guidance of Chair Graeme Wynn has beensuccessful in securing a wonderful site for the next
ICEHO World Congress to be held in 2019.

I cannot thank enough all those who dedicate theirtime to ICEHO – an institution based entirely on
volunteer work for its projects. Umbrellaorganizations such as ICEHO often suffer from alack of dedication, are more formallyacknowledged than actually alive and thriving. That
ICEHO is different, is due to the commitment ofmany colleagues – thank you all!
After I moved from vice-president to president at
the ASEH convention this spring, succeeding Libby
Robin, even more than the above mentioned
positive developments have taken place within
ICEHO. Libby herself has agreed (applause to her
dedication!) to keep editing the Bulletin and theBulletin is thriving, with material arriving from all
corners of the world.
Thanks to the new Secretary Dagomar Degroot, we
successfully have moved the ICEHO website to a
new platform. Executive Committee member Alan
MacEachern has not only suggested that we try tofind out what member organizations most expectfrom ICEHO, he has also pulled up his sleeves anddesigned a questionnaire to actually do so.
With the next ICEHO World Congress coming up in
July, 2019, one of my tasks was to secure thequality of the conference program by inviting ascholar to chair the Program Committee. This is ahuge task. Taking responsibility for a program thatinvolves hundreds of presenters, maintaining
quality and diversity, steering the evaluation by ateam of typically more than a dozen committee
members and making sure that parallel sessions
don’t overlap more than necessary is an
extraordinary volunteer commitment over several
years. To cut a long story short, much to mydelight, we have been successful in identifying andconvincing two scholars to Co-Chair the Program
Committee. Stefania Gallini and Lisa Mighetto
have agreed to shoulder the task together! Thankyou both, merci, grazie, gracias, dêkuji, tack andobrigado! (The selection of languages is based on
my ability to say at least a few words in each of

them, please do not read any hidden agenda intoit!)
Our next big task is to secure an inclusive World
Congress for WCEH2019. We have had mixed
success with this in the past. As Chair of the
program committee (but serving as one-stop-shop
for all types of issues) of the first Congress
WCEH2009 and member of the Liaison Committee
for the WCEH2014, my experience has been that
inclusiveness is not only a question of conference
program decisions made wisely, but also an issueof funding. Conferences are expensive to attend.
ICEHO will dedicate as much of its own funds as we
can to supporting inclusiveness at the conference,but demand will by far outstrip our abilities. With
three years to go, we hope to be able to findsponsors for bursaries. Unlike some otherprofessional umbrella organizations, we cannot
easily draw on large corporations as sponsors(CEOs reading this letter are welcome, in fact,
invited to contact me!). We hope that manymember organizations, institutions and publishers
will decide to sponsor congress attendance by theirown members. We will address members in thisregard soon. We also hope that senior scholars will
add an additional fee to their conference payment
to allow us to sponsor young scholars from all over
the world to attend. I am sure that we can makesubstantial bursaries available, but this will not beeasy and all of you are called to assist, with ideas,
connections, or monies. Steve Anderson, ourtreasurer is more than happy to develop solutions
with you! ICEHO is incorporated in North Carolina,
and can offer tax deductibility in the USA.
I will keep all of you posted on developments overthe coming months and years. I hope to see manyof you at the next environmental history
conferences in Chicago (ASEH, March 2017) andZagreb (ESEH, June 2017). Many of you will also
meet each other very soon in Mexico for the
SOLCHA conference in early August. Good luck,
SOLCHA with this – looking forward to publishingabout the conference highlights in the Bulletin!
With my best wishes for the Northern Hemisphere
Summer break and the Southern Hemispherespring approaching soon,
yours sincerely,
Verena Winiwarter
President ICEHO
Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria

Congratulations
toUniversidade
Federal da
Santa Catarina,(USFC),
Florianópolis,
Brazillocation for
WCEH III in
2019

From the Site Selection Committee for
WCEH2019
We are delighted to announce that the ICEHO Site
Selection Committee, charged to identify a location
for the Third World Congress for Environmental
History, has confirmed the Universidade Federal da
Santa Catarina, (USFC), in Florianópolis, Brazil, as
the venue for that meeting.
The committee’s strong support for the USFC bid(which came with wide support from a number ofcolleagues and institutions in Brazil) was confirmed
after a site inspection visit to Florianópolis bycommittee chair Graeme Wynn.
In his report on the venue, Wynn emphasized thatICEHO and WCEH are fortunate indeed to have acolleague of the stature and ability of USFC
Professor of Environmental History, Eunice Nodari
fully committed to delivering an excellent
conference. She has the avowed support of her
UFSC colleague João Klug, and a sizeable group of
engaged graduate students, as well as theaforementioned support of the community ofenvironmental historians in Brazil.

Centro de Cultura e Eventos UFSC Campus

The main USFC conference facilities are excellent
and there are more than sufficient good classroom

spaces, open areas for social interaction, andcoffee shops and snack bars within a five-minuteradius. The campus is well served by bus services
from downtown (15 minutes) and nearby Lagoa daConceição (20 minutes during the day). There aremany different types (and costs and quality) of
accommodation in these locations, from hostels,
through pousadas (small family-operated “inns”) to
regular hotel chains (eg Ibis).
Florianópolis is easily reached by flights of less than
two hours duration from several majorinternational airports (Brasilia, Rio de Janiero, Sao
Paulo and Buenos Aires). Santa Catarina Island is
an attractive location (and summertime holiday
destination).

Costa da Lagoa – a bus and boat ride from Florianópolis

Further details will be forthcoming. The conferenceis scheduled for the fourth week of July 2019 (with
23rd—26th as the central dates). Mark yourcalendars!
Graeme Wynn
Chair, Site Selection Committee

Welcome New Members!

Publishers of the new journal

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Belgian botany in the nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries: from plant hunting to
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Dolly Jørgensen and Peder Roberts, Department of
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matter of the European Green Capital received
acclamation in the formal speeches by the Mayor and
the Prime Minister and the role of the Advisory
Committee was acknowledged.

GUIMARÃES MAIS VERDE!
Regular readers of this Bulletin will have seen two
earlier reports from Jane Carruthers, past president of
ICEHO, on her visits to Guimarães – the site of theextremely successful 2014 World Congress ofEnvironmental History. As a member of theInternational Advisory Board assisting the city of
Guimarães and its partner, the University of Minho, she
is involved with the city’s application to become theEuropean Green Capital in a few years’ time. Also on thisBoard are ICEHO representatives Mauro Agnoletti andVerena Winiwarter. A further meeting was held in June
2016, attended by Mauro and Jane and described
below.
The Green Capital application is led by a formidable
committee directed by the Mayor, Dr Domingos
Bragança, the Rector of the University of Minho,
Professor António M. Cunha, and an executive
committee led by Vice-Mayor Amadeu Portilha andVice-Rector Paulo Ramisio. The chief coordinator isProfessor Isabel Loureiro and she heads the team thatwill complete the application and submit it to a panel ofexperts from the European Union in due course. This
includes matters such as waste and water management,
air quality, noise reduction, green energy and green
transport and similar aspects of sustainable urban
management.
The June 2016 meeting coincided with thecommemoration of 24 June, the date on which theBattle of São Mamede was fought at Guimarães in 1128
between forces led by Afonso Henriques against thoseof the House of Leόn, led by his mother, Teresa. The
victory of Afonso Henriques is considered to be thefounding date of the Kingdom of Portugal and thus themodern country. The event was marked by celebrations
including a stirring re-enactment of the battle, thecolourful Afonsina Medieval Fair, a charity marathon
through the streets, and traditional dancing and singing.
In addition, the Mayor took the opportunity to open a
new large city green open space and the Prime Ministerof Portugal, António Luís Santos da Costa, attended thesolemn occasion in the Palace of the Dukes of Braganza(Paço dos Duques de Bragança) at which medals of
honour were presented to a number of people whohave contributed to the city over the past year. The

Informal meeting of Advisory Committee. L to R: Mohan Munasinghe,
Estelita Vaz, Mauro Agnoletti and Will Wynn (Photo: Jane Carruthers)

It is clear from our involvement in Guimarães, a complex
municipal area of 48 local entities, that there areimmense opportunities for environmental history in thisregion. The metropolitan fabric is diverse – agricultural,industrial and urban. Human use of the environment
and its natural resources dates back to the Bronze Ageand the area has been utilised by successive
communities until our present era. Of particularinterest is Citânia de Briteiros, a rich archaeological site,and one of the latest city initiatives is an innovative andunusual museum, the Casa da Memória (House ofMemory) both of which were visited by committee
members. Moreover, the strong commitment of the
University of Minho to sustainability in all spheres of theinstitution is noteworthy in our age of the
Anthropocene.
It is both a pleasure and a privilege for ICEHO toparticipate in this project and to have a lasting
relationship with the city and the university after theextremely successful WCEH.
Jane Carruthers
See also:
www.cm-guimaraes.pt/pages/1092
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_S%C3%A3o_Ma
mede
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citânia_de_Briteiros
http://www.archipendium.com/en/architecture/casada-memoria/
https://www.uminho.pt/EN/uminho/Sustainability

Vamos Guimarães! This was the main square afterEURO2016 football match. We are hoping that next time
it will be all green for 2020…

Australian Historical Association 2016 – the
New Green Stream.
Environmental historians Nancy Cushing and Jodi
Frawley convened a new initiative at the 2016
Australian Historical Association meeting in Ballarat
Victoria (Federation University), a ‘Green Stream’ inenvironmental history. This created the opportunity tohear about 40 lively papers from emerging andestablished historians on a range of environmental
subjects, including climate, fire in the landscape,animals (invasive and otherwise) in history, health andecologies.
Nancy and Jodi chaired a well-attended meeting where
there was very warm support for establishing an
Australian Environmental History Collective, something
to enhance and complement existing initiatives. We
agreed to build on the foundation of the Australian and
New Zealand Environmental History Network
http://environmentalhistory-au-nz.org/about/ amember of ICEHO. A working group has been formed tocontact people through facebook (Australian
Environmental History group), the Environmental
History Network and the AHA email list.
The AHA's prizes were announced at the conference
dinner in the lovely Craig's Royal Hotel. Amongst the
many worthy recipients was Ruth Morgan, who wasselected for the Allan Martin Award. This research
fellowship is to assist early career historians further
their research in Australian history and Ruth will use it
to support her project ‘Australindia: Australia, India andthe Ecologies of Empire, 1788–1901’. Ruth's book
Running Out? Water in Western Australia (UWA
Publishing, 2015) was short listed for the WK Hancock
prize, which is awarded to the best first book publishedin the previous two years, and was won this year byAdam Clulow, The Company and The Shogun: The Dutch
Encounter with Tokugawa Japan (Columbia University
Press, 2014).

Do you want to join ICEHO?
From as little as $US100/year.
Information online:
http://www.iceho.org/wpcontent/uploads/2013/01/ICEHOMembership-Application.pdf
Or contact Valerie Bass
Valerie.Bass@foresthistory.org

In Brief
The Women’s Environmental History
Network (WEHN) listserv is now active. If
you are interested in receiving periodic
updates from this group, please contact Julie
Cohn at jacohn@uh.edu.

Early Bird Registration: Deadline 31 July!
IUFRO Regional Congress for Asia and Oceania 2016
Forests for Sustainable Development: The Role ofResearch Beijing, China; 24-27 October 2016

http://www.iufro-ao2016.org
Please keep sending news of what is happening with yourmembership, conferences, publications so that theinternational community can keep in touch with each other.
This Bulletin is yours to develop any way you think will help
your organizations. Copy for next issue is due 30 September
2016, and next Bulletin (No 10!!) will appear in October.
Libby Robin (Bulletin Editor)
The International Consortium of Environmental History
Organizations is a ‘network of networks’ forenvironmental history in universities, museums,
publishers and other institutions.
We sponsor International Congresses every 5 years.
Between Congresses, we work actively to promote
environmental history in all its forms: as scholarship andresearch, informing public policy and education, and inpromoting collaboration between environmental
historians around the world. We are keen to publicise
your conferences and events on our NEW WEBSITE:

http://www.iceho.org/

Nancy Cushing (left) and Jodi Frawley at the annual Australian
Historical Association (AHA) meeting in Ballarat– see
http://environmentalhistory-au-nz.org/2016/07/new-green-stream/

If you have suggestions and ideas for what the working
group could include in its program, please e-mail theConvenor, Nancy Cushing
nancy.cushing@newcastle.edu.au

Contact a Board member:
Alan MacEachern amaceach@uwo.ca
Claudia Leal claleal@uniandes.edu.co
Daisy Onyige chioma2nv76@gmail.com
James Beattie jbeattie@waikato.ac.nz
Mucha Musemwa mucha.musemwa@wits.ac.za
Shen Hou houshen@ruc.edu.cn
Sidd Krishnan siddhartha.krishnan@atree.org