ICEHO Bulletin 1July 2014
Second World Congress of Environmental
History, Guimarães, Portugal
8-12 July 2014

What next?
The International Consortium of Environmental
History Organizations is a ‘network of networks’,and 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. Once every five years we meet for aCongress. In between, we are joined by our website:

http://www.iceho.org/
A warm thank you fromall of ICEHO to our hosts,
the University of Minhoand the city of Guimarães
for a wonderful
WCEH2014. We aregrateful to all theorganizers, particularly
the local team led byProfessor Estelita Vaz, and the academic team led byProfessor Graeme Wynn, for arranging a wonderfulprogram, rich with the spirit of the ‘university beyond
the walls’, evoked by Professor Cunho in his opening
address.
I want to add a personal tribute to outgoing President,
Professor Jane Carruthers, and the Site Selection
Committee, Professors Verena Winiwarter, MauroAgnoletti and Lisa Mighetto, for choosing Portugal, andfor the work they did with organizers and sponsors tomake this what one delegate claimed to be the ‘best
Big Conference’ he had ever attended.
We are proud that although our Congress closed last
Saturday, its legacy continues. The University of Minhois already investigating ways to continue work inenvironmental history, and to work with the city of in
Guimarães in its bid to be European Green City.

We want to make this a vibrant virtual hub, a URL
bookmarked by all our members. So we need yournews and views to add to this quarterly e-bulletin.
We welcome contributions for the next one starting
now. And we will use its offerings to update thewebsite even ahead of the ICEHO Bulletin, wheretime is critical.
ICEHO’s mission is to share information, learn fromeach other’s successes and failures, and to discusscommon issues, concerns, and challenges.
Contributions that further these aims will beincluded. Longer contributions will go to thewebsite, with a short alert in the bulletin. You arereceiving this bulletin as the ‘contact person’ foryour organization. Please send it on promptly toyour membership.
Contributions and ideas – send to your regional
representative:
Alan MacEachern (Canada) amaceach@uwo.ca
James Beattie(Aus/NZ/ Pacific)
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 and region)
houshen414@gmail.com

Or to libby.robin@anu.edu.au
Libby Robin (Incoming President ICEHO)

American Society for Environmental History
Upcoming conferences

Association for East Asian EnvironmentalHistory
EAEH2015 Beyond Borders. Oceans, Mountains,

Rivers in East Asia Date: Oct. 22-25, 2015
Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Kagawa University, Sunport Hall
Contact: eaeh2015@issjp.com
Submissions: http://www.aeaeh.org/eaeh2015.htm
Submission Deadline: 31 August 2014

Turning Protest into Policy: Environmental
Values and Governance in Changing Societies
The ASEH invites proposals for its 2015 conference
that will convene March 18-22 in Washington, D.C.
(Georgetown area)
The program committee invites panel, roundtable,individual paper, and poster proposals for theconference on these and other topics. We aim toinclude sessions that cover the globe, all eras ofhistory, and that engage with other important
historical themes including race, gender,imperialism, and diaspora histories.

No single presentation should exceed 15 minutes,and each roundtable presentation should be lessthan ten minutes since roundtables are designed toEuropean Society for Environmental History maximize discussion. Commentators are allowed
but not required. Please note that individuals canGreening History: Studying the Environment acrosspropose to present or comment on only one panel,Disciplines, Past, Present and Futureroundtable, or poster session in addition to chairing
ESEH’s 8th biennial conference will be held in Versailles, a second session.
-----------------------------------------------------------------France, on 30 June – 3 July 2015.

The Program Committee for the 2015 ASEH meeting
The host institution is the University of Versailles-Saint- in Washington is extending the deadline forsubmission to July 31st. Please see the call for
Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), a green university which
combines historical sciences and environmental sciences papers atat a very high level, located only 30 minutes by train from http://aseh.net/conference-workshops/dcthe city center of Paris. The Local Organising Committee is conference-2015/call-for-papers
led by Gregory Quenet of UVSQ and the ProgrammeCommittee is chaired by Ellen Arnold of Ohio Wesleyan
University.
Deadline for proposals is 1 October 2014.
Forms on the website:
http://eseh.org/event/upcoming-conference/
All questions about proposals should be sent
to conference@eseh.org----------------------------------------------------------

Mike Smith National Museum ofAustralia Student Essay Prize 2015
Essay in Australian or comparativeenvironmental history or history of science.
Prize $3000 (AUD). Closing date 30 September
2014 Details:
http://www.nma.gov.au/history/research/rese
arch_centre/prizes_and_awards
Open to students enrolled at any university inthe world; for research undertaken during
degree, not necessarily currently enrolled.