The panel will include water policy practitioners with expertise in history of water and historians, and be led by the editor in chief of Water Policy, Jerome Delli Priscoli. Invited key-note speakers Professor Fekri Hassan , University College London, UK Professor Christian Pfister , Bern University, Switzerland Professor em. The conference papers will be edited by an international editorial committee and subsequently published. In connection with the conference we will organise a book exhibition on water related research. We will invite participants to send the organising committee leaflets about reports and books published on the conference topic.
Posters are welcome.
The first formal meeting of the International Water History Association will take place at the Bergen conference. The meeting will include election of officials, discussion on further conference plans etc. Membership of IWHA will be possible to sign at the Bergen conference. It is envisaged that travel support will be available for selected speakers. It is the intention of the organisers to target this support towards speakers from universities and institutions which do not normally provide sufficient resources to fund extensive foreign travel.