EAEH 2019

The Conference will take place in the Buildings of History Department, History Archives and Phoenix Theater in the Kuang-Fu Campus 光復校區 of National Cheng Kung University. The Locations of History Department, History Archives and Phoenix Theater are KF11 History Dept (Red Box), KF9 History Archives (Blue Box) and KF16 Phoenix Theater (Brown Box).

Accomodation

The following three hotels are recommended from the Conference. These three hotels are all near the Conference Venue, and participants can walk to the venue in 15 minutes. Please see the map below.

Conference will help the reservation for the Zenda Suites and Hotel Tainan. Please choose your hotel and room when register online, if you would like to stay in these two Hotels.

If participants would like to stay in other hotels in Tainan, please directly book a room from hotel website or other online reservation website.

Mid-conference Field Trip

The organizers are delighted to offer two mid-conference Field Trips for participants on October 25, 2019. Each course will introduce participants the history, culture and landscape of the Tainan area.

Theme1: From Chihkan to Luermen – Old Industries in Tainan, Bicycle Route in Luermen
赤崁西望鹿耳門-府城老行業、鹿耳門單車路線

Duration: 09:00-18:00
Cost: NT$2,100 (includes transport, insurance, tour guide, audio guide, and lunch meal)
Capacity: 40 people (Maximum) / 25 people (Minimum)
Route:

Theme 2: Zengwen River Basin- Aqueduct, Pond, and Fishing, Sugar, and Rice
曾文溪流域-渡槽、水埤、漁糖米

Duration: 08:30-18:30
Cost: NT$1,700 (includes transport, insurance, tour guide, audio guide, and lunch meal)
Capacity: 40 people (Maximum) / 25 people (Minimum)
Route:

Transportation

The Conference venue, National Cheng Kung University, is in Tainan City of southern Taiwan. The fast way to Tainan from Airport (TPE or TSA) is to take the Taiwan High Speed Railway (THSR). The following is the information about the transportation from Airport to Tainan.

Registration

Full Paper Submission

Call for Papers and Panels

With the general theme, panels or individual papers are encouraged to focus on the following sub-themes in comparative perspective.

Suggested sub-themes:

Land-use Patterns and Environmental Sustainability in Human-scale
Water Resource Utilization and Conservation
Ocean Resource Utilization and Conservation
Energy Utilization and Renewable Energy
Pollution and Environmental Protection
Sustainable Urbanization
Forest Resources and Sustainability
Natural resources and environmental sustainability
Ecology, Environmental Sciences and Environmental Movements

Submit Proposal (closed)

Time: July 1, 2018 - ~~February 28, 2019~~ extended to March 17, 2019

Instructions for Submission

Individual Paper
- The author of individual paper should submit abstract and provide appropriate professional information (CV).
- If the paper is co-authoring, the submission information should include full names, affiliations, and email addresses of all co-authors.
Panel

Panel organizer should gather 3 or 4 presenters, a discussant, and a chair. The roles of panel organizer, chair and discussant can be fulfilled by the same or different persons.
Each panel organizer should take the responsibility to login for submitting all abstracts and CVs of the panel.

The length of each abstract should be less than 300 words.
Please submit the abstract and CV in PDF format.

Abstract submission system is closed.

If you have questions, please contact Miss Hsiao-yun Liu, Academia Sinica (hsyunliu@gate.sinica.edu.tw).

The deadline for paper abstract or panel proposal submission is April 30, 2017.

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.

The Fourth Conference of East Asian Environmental History will be held from October 26-31, 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.

Discussions of the long-term changes in natural systems (including climate, land, sea, and species populations and distribution) are welcome. Yet we particularly encourage attention to materials, technology, economy, social structure, political institutions, living patterns, and concepts from the perspective of environmental history. What impact or “footprint” have natural forces had on the development of variouscivilizations? How do we explain how the East Asian peoples, for their own subsistence and development, have adapted to diverse natural settings, continuously expanded the utilization of natural resources, and caused tremendous environmental changes, eventually leading to a state of ecological crisis today? We also encourage a more comprehensive and extensive comparison within the region and beyond so as to grasp the pulsations, rhythms, patterns, and cycles that human systems and natural systems have exhibited. We encourage proposals that focus on East Asian civilization's historical integrity, diversity, independence, and linkages among regions and nations, as well as their common natural origin and ecological consequences. But our interest is not confined to this specific region. We also realize that East Asia has never been ecologically and culturally isolated from the outside world. More attention should be paid to the historical connections between East Asia and other parts of the world. All in all, we hope this conference will promote a more inclusive narrative and a more holistic understanding of East Asian environmental history and the region's ecological links with the rest of the world.

Participants are encouraged to organize panels and to submit sets of coordinated proposals. Single papers and individual or group posters, however, are also welcome. The organizer will invite experts to review, make selections among the proposals, and publicize the results as soon as possible.

We sincerely welcome colleagues (whether or not a member of the AEAEH) to send us their proposals to help us create that more inclusive narrative and to suggest new avenues of research.

The working language of EAEH 2017 is English. All participants except the keynote speakers are expected to provide competent translations of their work in English, both in their proposals, presentations, and commentaries. To ensure a smooth communication and to encourage young scholars (including doctoral candidates, post doctoral researchers, etc.) to participate in the conference, we plan to recruit from around the world 5 to 10 volunteers who will serve as simultaneous interpreters during the conference. In compensation, they will be exempted from the usual registration fee and entitled to free accommodation. Applicants should declare their willingness to serve as conference interpreters when they register and provide proof of their language skill. To be chosen as an interpreter, we need evidence of proficiency in both English and Chinese (1 to 2 interpreters should also be fluent in Japanese), and of a professional-level background in environmental history or a related field. If you are interested in applying for conference interpreter, please send application to Miss Hsiao-yun Liu(hsyunliu@gate.sinica.edu.tw).

The Fifth Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History (EAEH 2019)

General theme:
Issues of Sustainable Development in East Asia: Perspectives of Environmental History

Program

Tentative Program of EAEH 2019, October 24-27, 2019

Venue

Accomodation

Mid-conference Field Trip

Transportation

Registration

Full Paper Submission

Call for Papers and Panels

Copyright © Academia Sinica 2022

The Fifth Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History (EAEH 2019)

General theme: Issues of Sustainable Development in East Asia: Perspectives of Environmental History

Program

Tentative Program of EAEH 2019, October 24-27, 2019

Venue

Accomodation

Mid-conference Field Trip

Transportation

Registration

Full Paper Submission

Call for Papers and Panels

Copyright © Academia Sinica 2022

General theme:
Issues of Sustainable Development in East Asia: Perspectives of Environmental History