Time: October 27-30 (Friday-Monday), 2017
Venue: Nankai University, Tianjin, China
General theme:
Tracing the Ecological Footprint of East Asian and World Civilizations
Call for panels, papers, and posters
Suggested sub-themes:
- Spatial-temporal Process and Historical Pulsation: The Origin, Expansion and Transformation of East Asian Civilization.
- Natural Environment and Social Forms: Population Behavior, Ethnic Groups and Nation-state Regimes.
- Environment and Lifestyles: Economic Systems, Material Production and the Ways of Food, Clothing, Housing and Transportation.
- Environment, Resource and Technology: Exploitation and Utilization of Material and Energy and Their Impacts to Eco-system.
- Deep blue seas changed into Mulberry Fields: The Changing Landscape Under the Joint Action of Natural and Human Forces.
- Challenge and Response: Disaster, Disease and Pollution in the Process of Human Civilization.
- Cognition and Emotion: Knowledge, Values, Beliefs and Aesthetic Related to Environment.
- East Asia and the Outside World: Cultural Contact and Ecologicallinkage Across Lands, Oceans and Skies.
Time Table
- March 31, 2017
Deadline for paper abstract or panel proposal submission - August 30, 2017
Deadline for hotel reservation and attendance confirmation - September 30, 2017
Deadline for full paper or report material submission - October 27-30, 2017
EAEH2017 in Nankai University, Tianjin, China
The Fourth Conference of East Asian Environmental History will be held from October 27-30, 2017 in Tianjin, China. It is being jointly organized by the Association for East Asian Environmental History, Chinese Society for Environment Sciences along with a number of other institutions and will be hosted by Nankai University. It will provide an opportunity for multidisciplinary, international academic dialogue. Historians, archaeologists, ecologists, geographers, environmental scientists and other scholars in relevant fields are invited to gather together to reviewhumanity’s and especially the East Asian peoples’ environmental past, to explain the constantly expanding and deepening interrelationship between humans and the sky, the earth, and the seas, and their various biotic and abiotic components, and to examine the environmental challenges that human civilizations, including East Asian civilizations have faced in the past and are still facing today. Our goal is to reach a more profound understanding of the complex eco-historical process of the interaction and co-evolution between human beings and nature for this important world region, and to provide non-western perspectives for the search for a road to a harmonious and symbiotic relationship between man and nature and sustainable development. Scholars from all around the world who are interested in environmental history are welcome.
The general theme of the conference is Tracing the Ecological Footprint of East Asian and World Civilizations. The phrase “ecological footprint” is used in a broad sense here. It does not mean that we must all adopt in the conference a quantitative model for investigating ecological relationships between humans and nature in history, although we appreciate and eventually will need such efforts. We use the phrase to express the goal of attempting to figure out the qualitative as well as quantitative dimensions of human impact on the natural environment for the past few thousand years—to retrace the historical footprints of East Asian and world civilizations from many perspectives.
If you have questions, please contact Miss Hsiao-yun Liu, Academia Sinica (hsyunliu@gate.sinica.edu.tw)
Feature image: Nankai University campus by Matthew Stinson
