[H-verkko] CFP: 27th Congress of Nordic Historians

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27th Congress of Nordic Historians

Call for papers for a half-day session at the 27th Congress of Nordic
Historians in Tromsø, Norway, 11-14 August, 2011.

Situated at the Northern edge of the world, the environment has posed
unique challenges to the Nordic countries throughout history. The
session takes  environmental historian William Cronon’s hinterland
concept as its starting point. He used the concept to demonstrate how
a metropolis like Chicago included ever larger areas in its influence,
gathering resources and exerting change on the environment of these
areas. The Nordic countries do not possess the same gravity, yet they
are also intimately connected to areas and environments across the
globe. Rather than a model with the Nordic countries either in the
center or in the hinterland, we understand these countries to be
nodes in an ever-changing network.

We are interested in how the movement of food, people, and ideas
into, out of, and within the Nordic countries has affected the local
and global environment. Potential subtopics within this session
include:

The transfer of environmental knowledge (both specific “how-to”
knowledge and ideological belief systems) over space and time
The effect of material flows on cultural and/or biological diversity
The effect of food networks on the environments of the Nordic
countries and throughout the commodity chain
The environmental consequences of the movement of people into, out
of, and within Nordic countries
If you are interested in participating in this session, please send
an abstract of 250-300 words outlining your topic, argument, and
sources, before September 15, 2010. We aim to publish all or parts of
the session as a collected volume after the conference. All abstracts
should be submitted to tromso2011 at nehn-nordic.org.
Each paper will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10
minutes for discussion; those papers that are selected for
publication will need to be submitted to the organizers as
full-length articles after the conference.

The session is sponsored by the Nordforsk-funded Nordic Environmental
History Network (NEHN), a network of more than 60 scholars from all
the Nordic countries. See the network’s webpage at
http://norden.miljohistorie.net/ for more information.

Organizers:

Eva Jakobsson, University of Stavanger, eva.jakobsson at uis.no (contact
person) 
Laura Hollsten, Åbo University Academy, Finland.
Dolly Jørgensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Norway.
Finn Arne Jørgensen, Umeå University, Sweden.
Unnur Birna Karlsdóttir, University of Iceland.
Bo Poulsen, Roskilde University Center, Denmark.

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Ilmoituksen lähetti: Agricola <agricola at utu.fi>
Ilmoitus vanhentuu: 16.09.2010
Lisätietoja WWW-osoitteesta: http://norden.miljohistorie.net/