Showing posts with label Moon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moon. Show all posts

Tuesday, 15 September 2015

Talk on Lake Baikal at Georgetown University - 22 September


Tuesday, September 22, 4 - 6pm, at Georgetown University

Exploring Russia's Environmental History : Lake Baikal 

David Moon and Catherine Evtuhov will talk about their recent visit to Lake Baikal in Siberia


Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Katya Kalemeneva reports on David Moon's talk at Vyshka


A report, written by Katya Kalemeneva, on David Moon's talk at the Higher School of Economics (Vyshka) on 26th March 2015

Американская степь: российские влияния на Великие равнины
26 марта в рамках регулярного международного семинара «Границы истории» состоялось выступление Дэвида Муна, профессора истории университета Йорка (Великобритания), специалиста по социальной и экологической истории России, с докладом «Американская степь:  влияния из России на Великие Равнины».

Read the full report (in Russian)

Tuesday, 24 March 2015

This Thursday: paper presentation in St Petersburg by David Moon

The American Steppe: Influences from Russia on the Great Plains

 

On 26th March, Anniversary Professor of the University of York (UK) David Moon will present his paper “The American Steppe: Influences from Russia on the Great Plains” at the regular research seminar “Boundaries of History” of the Center for Historical Research and the Department of History of the Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg.

Read the whole article

Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Friday, 24 January 2014

York Talk "Interactions in environmental history" summary

The summary handout from David Moon's 'York Talk' on "Interactions in Environmental History" (8/1/14) is now available from the Resources and Publicity page of the website.

Tuesday, 7 January 2014

Network showcased at 'York Talks'

On Wednesday 8th January the work of the Network will come under the spotlight in the University of York's inspiring public showcase - 'York Talks' http://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/public-lectures/spring-2014/york-talk/.

Styled on the highly successful ‘TED’ Talks, 'York Talks' will highlight some of the University's most innovative and challenging research in an accessible, fast paced series of 15-minute talks.The aim is to share and explain our research to a wide audience of academics, researchers and the general public.

The event, the first of its kind at the University, illuminates the work of the University's Anniversary Professors, all of whom are leading edge academics appointed in 2013 to mark York’s 50th year. It will be opened by the new Vice-Chancellor, Professor Koen Lamberts in his first public event.

As one of the Anniversary Professors, David Moon will be presenting the work of the Leverhulme International Network in a talk entitled "Interactions in environmental history".

Tuesday, 10 December 2013

Chernobyl resources

David has prepared a brief, preliminary bibliography of works on Chernobyl. It is available at http://www.york.ac.uk/media/history/russianenvironment/chernobyl/Chernobyl%20bib%20brief.pdf . Please send further suggestions for important works - in any language - to history-russenv@york.ac.uk.

You can also find links to the BBC article "Chernobyl: A field trip to no man's land" on the work of Canadian Scientist Tim Mousseau and the film "Radioactive Wolves" on the Resources section of the website (http://www.york.ac.uk/history/research/majorprojects/russiasenvironmentalhistory/#tab-7).

Monday, 21 October 2013

Prof David Moon presents Network to Leverhulme Trust workshop

On Friday 18 October, David Moon made a brief presentation on the network at a workshop on 'Leverhulme Trust research funding', addressed by Professor Gordon Marshall, the Director of the Leverhulme Trust. This took place in the Humanities Research Centre at York University.

Book review of "Heart-Pine Russia: Walking and Writing the Nineteenth-Century Forest."

Read Network member Prof David Moon's review of:

Jane T. Costlow, Heart-Pine Russia: Walking and Writing the Nineteenth-Century Forest. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=38239