South African environmental historian Jane Carruthers has been elected President of the inaugural Board of a new international organisation for environmental history at a meeting in Turku, Finland in July….
Landmarks: New Gallery at National Museum of Australia, Canberra opens 2 June
Landmarks: People & Places Across Australia, is the big new permanent exhibition at the National Museum of Australia. It is a place-centred exhibition that includes many environmental history themes. Open…
Watermark Literary Muster June 2011
The 5th Watermark Literary Muster is on in Kendall (on the NSW mid north coast) from Friday June 17 to Monday June 20. The theme is The Nature and Place…
The Waterhole Project focuses on Combaning Creek, New South Wales.
George Main, an environmental historian at the museum writes: If we consider a global issue in local terms, what insights might we gain? The Waterhole Project investigates the global problem…
Seminar – The Diplomacy of Krill: negotiating the exploitation of Antarctic resources in the 1970s
Alessandro Antonello, School of History, ANU School of History Seminar Series Wednesday 18 May 2011, 4.15-5.30pm, Seminar Room A, Coombs Building, ANU In May 1980, after six years of discussions…
New Climate History Network
The new website contains announcements, links, research and teaching resources, a member directory, and shared Zotero bibliographical database. The Climate History Network is happy to receive news and ideas for…