ICEHO Bulletin 6

The International Consortium of EnvironmentalHistory Organizations is a ‘network of networks’for environmental history in universities,museums, publishers and other institutions.
We sponsor International Congresses every 5years (next one in 2019). Between Congresses,
we want to work actively to promote
environmental history in all its forms: as
scholarship and research, informing public policy
and education, and in promoting collaboration
between environmental historians around theworld. Our website is regularly updated – we arekeen to publicise your conferences and events:

http://www.iceho.org/

FROM THE PRESIDENT
Congratulations to ESEH on a great conference inVersailles in very hot weather in June, just as our lastbulletin hit the press. Thank you to Dolly Jørgensen
current President of ESEH, as well as Secretary of ICEHO,
for giving us a full report of this meeting (see below).
Remember that our next World Congress is 2019. If you
have a proposal for our Site Selection Committee
recommending your University or Institution to host this,please contact them as soon as you can and before 1December, 2015, the final deadline (more on this below)
We have a pleasing number of new members inICEHO. We particularly welcome the new Turkish
Environmental History Society, which hosts a
number of events in Turkey this coming year. We also
welcome the Aarhus-based Climate Culture
Catastrophe Network. We encourage societies withnational or thematic focus to join our internationalteam so that people beyond the place of origin hearof your work, and find your webpages.
We also have members who are university
departments, museums and any other institutions
that undertake ‘environmental history’ at any scale,and who would like international recognition for theirOctober 2015

work. I have tried to get as many of our new
members as possible to contribute to the Bulletin.
If you have news from your member institution –whether you are a publisher or a museum or auniversity department – I always welcome
contributions. I am in Australia so don’t always hear ofnews in other parts of the world. You can write direct
to me – or contact your local regional organizers listed
at the end of the bulletin. Deadline for contributions
to the next bulletin is 31 December 2015.
Libby Robin FAHA (President)
Australian National University, CanberraHosting the 2019 World Congress ofEnvironmental History
After two very successful international meetings (inCopenhagen, Denmark and Guimarães, Portugal) thethird World Congress for Environmental History isscheduled for 2019, preferably in July or August ofthat year.

The call for proposals from parties interested in
hosting the 2019 conference closes soon – 1st
December 2015. Thanks very much to all theCommittee for this ongoing work: Graeme Wynn(Canada) (Chair), Stefania Gallini (Colombia), Lisa
Mighetto (USA) and Bo Poulsen (Denmark). There has
already been quite a lot of interest. The committee willwelcome all proposals – so if you have one, contact
them very soon.

The committee especially encourage proposals frombeyond North America and Europe. Proposals shouldcome, in the first instance from individuals ororganizations affiliated with universities or scholarly
societies. While the support of local convention andvisitors bureaus will become important once the site isproposed and under consideration, the proposal
should not come directly from the convention andvisitors’ bureau or events services.

If you are interested or if you would like to submit a
notice of intent, please contact Graeme Wynn atwynn@geog.ubc.ca for further details and a copy ofthe conference guidelines.

Congratulations to Christof Mauch!

Site selection should be finalized by July 2016.
Please keep in mind that hosting a conference that is
likely to attract 600-750 delegates requires substantial
effort and time as well as significant institutional
support and fundraising, but it is also a terrificopportunity to showcase local/ national scholarship,
to advance environmental awareness and to promotelocal initiatives.
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From Turkey
New Environmental History InitiativeTÜRKİYE ÇEVRE TARİHİ TOPLULUĞUThe Turkish Society for Environmental History is ascholarly organization that aims to create andmaintain lines of communication with researchers
who are pursuing an interest in environmental
histories of the Seljuk Empire, the Ottoman Empire
and the Republic of Turkey. The society has currently
74 national and international members. One of theaims of the society is to organize conferences atleading universities of Turkey to promote theenvironmental history field this year.
More information: http://cevretarihi.org
Organiser: M. Fatih Çalışır mfcalisir@ipek.edu.tr

C3NET, the Climate|Culture|Catastrophe Network
based at Aarhus University in Denmark has joined
ICEHO! This network is currently funded through aninternal university competition and is an effort to ashared platform for the substantial number ofenvironmental history and environmental humanities
scholars based at Aarhus University, Denmark.
More specifically, the vision and mission of C3NET isto bring together an interdisciplinary team ofresearchers concerned with the human impacts ofclimate change and extreme environmental events inthe past – as well as in the present and future. Its aim
is to create and catalyse a research, education andoutreach cluster that spans AU’s main academicareas and that challenges the traditional boundaries
of academic projects and practice. C3NET works
towards an integration of the Environmental Scienceswith the Environmental Humanities through atemporally deep perspective and under the particularheading of Palaeoenvironmental Humanities. The

disciplinary composition of C3NET is diverse including
members from literature studies, law, theology,
history of science, classical studies, archaeology andgeology. Historical thinking permeates our approach
and we’re actively working at combining Deep History
and notions of, in particular, geo-cultural heritage inan environmental history approach that takes us
from deep time to the Anthropocene present. And
thinking with and through heritage our work has aninherent futurist orientation.
Aarhus University is placed in the eponymous city,which is the second biggest in Denmark and theregional capital of the Jutland peninsula. The cityprides itself on its green ethos and is ideal for those
who like the sea, cycling and the woods. C3NET isadministrated from Campus Moesgård, a lovely oldmanor house 10km south of the city centre attachedto the recently rebuilt world-class Moesgård Museum(www.moesgaardmuseum.dk/en/).

If you want to find out more about C3NET or consider
joining us, check us out at http://c3net.au.dk/
Feel free to get intouch with me, thenetwork PI, Felix
Riede(f.riede@cas.au.dk).

Report from Dolly Jørgensen, President ESEH

8th Biennial ESEH Conference

Versailles, 30 June – 3 July 2015

The European Society for Environmental History(ESEH) hosted its eighth biennial conference on 30
June – 3 July 2015 in Versailles, France. The event,which featured the theme Greening History,
offered over 90 panels. In recognition of the 100thanniversary of World War I, the Program Committeeorganized a special roundtable panel ‘From Sarajevo
to Versailles, and far beyond: Environmental History
and the Centennial of World War I’ featuringhistorians of war and environment from France,
Germany, Sweden, and the US.

A book exhibit offered titles for sale as well as adisplay of recent French environmental histories forbrowsing.
The nearly 350 delegates also had the opportunity toparticipate in environmental field trips of the nearby
French countryside and gardens and a conference
dinner in a magnificent old ship construction
workshop in the Palace of Versailles gardens.

This month
9th National Conference of theAustralian Forest History Society Inc

21st-24th October 2015,
Mount Gambier, South
Australia
www.foresthistory.org.au/conferences.html

AustralianForest History
SocietyThe sweltering heat of 38 degrees C encouragedsome creativity on the part of attendees and several
sessions were moved outside to take advantage ofthe breeze and shade.

The ESEH Prize for Best Article in European
Environmental History published in 2013 or 2014
was awarded to Dagomar Degroot for

The inaugural Best Poster Prize to Martin Meiske for“The Birth of Geoengineering: Large-scaleEngineering Projects in the Early Stage of the
Anthropocene (1850-1950)”

Winning Poster by Martin Meiske

and second prize was given to Joshua MacFadyen for“Hewers of Wood: Biomass Energy in Canada, 18711951”.

The next (ninth) biennial conference of ESEH will takeplace in Zagreb, Croatia, 28 June – 2 July 2017, withthe theme Contact/Conflict Environments.
We are looking forward to a great event!
Dolly Jørgensen, Lulea University, Sweden
President ESEH

The ESEH/RCC Turku
Book Award wasconferred to Gregory T.
Cushman for his book
Guano and the Openingof the Pacific World: A
Global EcologicalHistory (Cambridge:Cambridge
University Press, 2014).

From the Australian National University
The Centre for Environmental History at ANU has
refreshed the design of its website and added lots ofnew members and projects.
Of particular interest is the new section 'Stories fromthe Field' featuring field trip stories and reflections
from CEH members.

Diane Erceg
http://ceh.environmentalhistory-au-nz.org/storiesfrom-the-field/digging-deep/

Alison Pouliot
http://ceh.environmentalhistory-au-nz.org/storiesfrom-the-field/from-fungal-fields/

Merril-Cazier Library Utah State University

Welcome new members of ICEHOEd:Contact: Chris Conte:

chris.conte@usu.edu

Utah State University History Department

The Utah State University history department offers
M.A. and M.S. degrees, with a specialization inenvironmental history. The department convenes anA special word of thanks toValerie Bass at the Forest
History Society, one of ourinaugural major supporting
members, who helps all thedifferent organizations whoapply to be members of ICEHO.
Valerie is very helpful to allinterested in joining ICEHO andcan be contacted atvalerie.bass@foresthistory.org

annual graduate seminar in environmental history
and its students work closely with USU's Merril-Cazier
Library archivists to develop thesis topics that draw
upon the history of science, ecological history,landscape history and the history of technology. Our
Special Collections and Archives holdings include
much scientific material generated over theuniversity’s history by the colleges of engineering andIf you have contributions for the next bulletin,
please send to your regional representative:

Alan MacEachern (Canada) amaceach@uwo.ca
James Beattie(Oceania)jbeattie@waikato.ac.nz
John McNeill (US) mcneillj@georgetown.edu
José Padua (South America) jpadua@terra.com.br
Mauro Agnoletti (Europe) mauro.agnoletti@unifi.it
Ranjan Chakrabarti (India)ranjan.jadavpur@gmail.com
Shen Hou (China) houshen@ruc.edu.cn

Or to libby.robin@anu.edu.aunatural resources, particularly with regard tofisheries, forestry, rangeland management, andhydrological and agricultural engineering in the Rocky
Mountains and the Great Basin of the western US.

Thanks to Head of Department, Professor Tammy M. Proctor for aterrific letter showing links between USU and ICEHO’s members.

Do you want to join ICEHO?
From as little as $US100/year.
Information online:
http://www.iceho.org/membership/
Membership form:
http://www.iceho.org/wpcontent/uploads/2013/01/ICEHO-MembershipApplication.pdf
Or contact treasurer, Steve Anderson
Steve.Anderson@foresthistory.org or Valerie Bass
Valerie.Bass@foresthistory.org