An article in 'Toxic News' on August 3 2016, by Andy Bruno.
https://toxicnews.org/2016/08/03/into-a-frozen-inferno-personal-and-historical-trajectories-in-monchegorsk/
Andy Bruno
is Assistant Professor of History and Faculty Associate in
Environmental Studies at Northern Illinois University. He is the author
of The Nature of Soviet Power: An Arctic Environmental History.
Showing posts with label 2016. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
Oxford Symposium on Population, Migration, and the Environment
21 and 22 March 2016
Wadham College, Oxford, UK
We
invite you to present a paper that encourages the exchange of
interdisciplinary ideas about the main themes of the conference: world
population increase, human migration, and environmental sustainability.
Alternatively, you may wish to attend as an observer or panel member.The Symposium seeks to cover a broad agenda that includes disciplines such as economics, education, environmental studies, agriculture, law, political science, religion, and social studies. Topics for presentation may reach beyond these areas, and our website contains an extensive list of suggested topics.
Papers presented at the meeting will be subsequently peer-reviewed by external readers for possible inclusion in Symposium Books or sponsored academic journals.
Monday, 8 February 2016
2016 Chernobyl Trip
The Leverhulme Network
Exploring Russia's Environmental History and Natural Resources
will be visiting Kiev and the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone on
28 June - 2 July 2016
More details
Monday, 11 January 2016
Student Conference "Useable Pasts" 4-5 Feb, St Petersburg
The Second History Student Conference of Higher School of Economics
USABLE PASTS
February 4-5, 2016
National Research University Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg
deadline for registrations 15 January
The conference aims at exploring the dynamic field of history featuring both the efforts of various disciplines in dealing with the pasts and interdisciplinary approaches within the discipline of history. The conference embraces a broad variety of research themes, which deal with material objects in history and their meanings within the framework of heritage and memory studies on the one hand, and the politics of circulation of historically formed discourses of identity and legitimacy in present-day society, on the other hand.
-- historical memory and historically-informed discourses of public politics, identity politics nationalism, cultural heritage and nationalization of the past,
-- comparative history of the imperial pasts, imperial diversity and imperial legacy;
-- symbolic representations of history in post-imperial and post-colonial societies,
-- studies of collective trauma and historical justice,
-- cultural, natural and industrial heritage, including public museums, media space, use of nature in
historical narratives and memory;
-- history in interaction with other disciplines: environmental history, history of science, technological history, urban history, economic history, history and law.
The conference will take place in Saint Petersburg on February 4-5, 2016.
The working language of the conference is English.
The application should be in English and consists of an extended abstract of the paper (no more than 800 words including references) and an application form.
You can register for the conference, fill the form, and load extended abstract of your paper here:
http://www.hse.ru/pasts/expresspolls/poll/166849955.html
before January 15, 2016
You are very welcome to ask questions, sending your queries to the address:
usable.pasts2016@gmail.com
and to Alexandra Bekasova (abekasova@hse.ru)
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