EAEH2011

The First Conference of East Asian Environmental History (EAEH2011)
To be hosted by Academia Sinica and the Association of East Asian Environmental History (AEAEH) is now scheduled for 24-28 October 2011 at Academia Sinica, Taipei.

General Theme: Resource Utilizations and Impacts
Suggested themes: (1) Energy, (2) Forest, (3) Land and Sea, (4) Water (river, lake, reservoir, and underground water),
(5) Disaster and Prevention, (6) Pollution, (7) Health and Disease, (8) Ethics and Justice.

Call for Papers
The First Conference of East Asian Environmental History (EAEH2011) aims to provide an opportunity for scholars to learn from each other and to identify important environmental issues with historical perspectives. We need to gain new insights through comparative studies and to learn from each other with regard to methods and sources. We invite papers dealing with themes suggested above for East Asia in any period. Although the study of environmental history is closely related to local histories and situations, we need to explore and identify common factors that have been influential beyond local and national boundaries.

Submission of an abstract: from January 15 to June 15, 2010.
The conference language is English. Oral presentation of each paper will be 15 minutes. Papers must be new and original; they should not have been presented previously at a professional conference nor published in a scholarly journal. Papers comparing the same theme across regions as well as those that present different facets of one place will be welcomed. After proposals are accepted, papers will be grouped into sessions according to their themes by the Program Committee. The chairs and commentators will also be invited.
There will be two roundtable sessions designed for postgraduate researchers for presenting ongoing PhD thesis work. Each will have 10 minute presentations. These roundtables will be chaired by senior scholars.
Some papers will be selected for presenting as posters which will be on display during the Conference and authors will have an opportunity to introduce their research in 3 minutes oral presentations at plenary sessions. If you prefer to present your research as a poster, you may give a note when submitting your proposal.

An abstract should be no more than 3,000 characters (including spaces) and should contain up to 5 bibliographic references. A 1-2 page CV must be submitted along with your proposal. Please convert your abstract and CV into PDF format for submitting.

Papers accepted and presented at the Conference will be published afterwards with necessary revisions.

Review Process
Your proposal will be reviewed by the Program Committee in an anonymous process. Each proposal will be reviewed independently by at least two members of the Program Committee. The Program Committee reserves the right to group papers into appropriate sessions and identify those for presenting as posters.

Time Table
Online submission will be opened by 15 January 2010.
Deadline for submitting an abstract: June 15, 2010.
Tentative date for announcing acceptance: October 15, 2010.
Tentative deadline for submitting a full paper: August 31, 2011.