The Sixth Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History (EAEH 2021)
Time: September 7-10 (Tuesday-Friday), 2021
Venue: Kyoto University, Japan (online)
General theme:
Human and Nature in East Asia: Exploring New Directions in Environmental History
Update September 1, 2021
- The EAEH2021 handbook is available.
- Only registered paritcipants can access the conference rooms, which will be emailed on September 1. If you have any question on access, please contact eaeh2021kyoto@gmail.com.
Past Announcements
- May 31, 2021
Registration is now open. The deadline for early registration is 24:00, July 31, 2021(Japan Standard Time).
The tentative program is now available. You can download it from this website.
- February 26, 2021
The call for roundtable participants is now open. The title of the roundtable is: Asian and Oceanian environmental history in the future: Asian pluralism and environmental diversity under the influences of the Pacific Ocean. The deadline is March 31, 2021. Please see here for the detail.
- December 25, 2020
Confirmed keynote speakers are now announced below. The program will be updated if there are any further changes.
Registration fees are also listed below. Registration will start on May 31.
- November 13, 2020.
The new time table is now open. The extended deadline for paper and panel submission is March 31, 2021.
The online registration will begin on May 31, 2021. Please note that there will be a registration fee.
- November 6, 2020.
The Local Preparatory Committee of the EAEH2021 has decided to have our next conference completely online.
Program
The EAEH2021 Handbook 
Keynote Speakers
- September 7
Prof. Wataru Iijima 飯島渉 (College of Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University)
Pandemic and Endemic in East Asian History
- September 8
Prof. Reiko Seki
関礼子 (Graduate School of Sociology, Rikkyo University)
Niigata Minamata Disease 1965-2021: Social Exclusion, Hidden Victims and the Power of "Folk Cultural Revisionism"
- September 9
Prof. R. Bin Wong (Distinguished Professor of History, UCLA)
East Asian Environmental History & Contemporary Global Environmental Challenges
Instructions for Submitting a Full Paper
- Previous EAEH meetings have collected and distributed the full papers of presenters. But because of security concerns, EAEH2021 will not distribute full papers online.
- Presenters participating in an organized panel must share their papers with other session members by August 10.
- Presenters of individual papers must submit their papers to the EAEH2021 secretary, Hsiao-yun Liu ( hsyunliu@gate.sinica.edu.tw ), by August 10. Each paper will be shared by email with the presenters, the chair, and the discussant of the session.
Instructions for Presenters
- Organized panels
The amount of time allotted to each speaker is up to each panel.
- Sessions for individual papers
The amount of time allotted for presentations will depend on the number of speakers.
If there are four speakers, each speaker will have 15 minutes to talk, with 30 minutes for comments and discussion.
If there are less than three speakers, each speaker will have 20 minutes to talk.
Registration
- Online Registation is now open. Please click the "Registratin" button below.(closed)
The deadline for early registration is 24:00, July 31, 2021 (Japan Standard Time).
- Payment methods: Credit cards (VISA or Master cards). Unfortunately, other methods are not available for paymemt.
- Cancellation policy: Registrations for this event are non-refundable.
- Please note your credit card payment will be deducted under the name of CS Center Co., Ltd., the company entrusted with the handling of registration.
- If you have any questions on registration, please contact the EAEH 2021 Secretariat: eaeh2021@cscenter.co.jp
Registration fees
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Up to July 31, 2021 |
From August 1, 2021 |
| Regular Fee |
JPY 6,000 |
JPY 12,000 |
| Student Fee |
JPY 3,000 |
JPY 6,000 |
This registration fee includes:
- Online access to all sessions of the EAEH2021 via Zoom.
- Pdf file of the program and abstracts.
Time Table (Revised for the online conference.)
- April 8, 2020
Announcement of EAEH2021
- March 31, 2021 (extended deadline)
Deadline for abstract submission
- May 31 , 2021
Announcement of accepted proposal
- May 31 , 2021
Preliminary Program. Conference registration will begin.
- July 31, 2021
Deadline for conference registration. Late registration will have extra charges.
- August 10, 2021 (extended deadline)
Deadline for submission of full paper
- September 7-10, 2021
EAEH2021 at Kyoto University, Japan (online)
Call for Papers and Panels
Panels or individual papers are encouraged to focus on the general theme and the following sub-themes. The conference also accepts papers on environmental history that do not fall under the umbrella topics. We welcome panels that include speakers from multiple universities and which have inter-regional or trans-regional themes.
Suggested sub-themes:
- Energy
- Pollution
- Oceans
- Lakes and Rivers
- Forests
- Food and Agriculture
- Disease
- Art and Philosophy
- Historiography
Online submission is closed.
If you have questions, please contact EAEH2021 Secretariat (Miss Hsiao-yun Liu  ).
Submission Time: June 19, 2020 - March 31, 2021 (extended deadline)
The Program Committee
(alphabetical order by last name)
Tatsushi Fujihara 藤原辰史 (Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University)
Shinobu Iguro 井黒忍 (Faculty of Letters, Otani University)
Yawen Ku 顧雅文 (Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica)
Peter Lavelle (College of Liberal Arts, Temple University)
Shiyung Liu 劉士永 (Shanghai Jiao Tong University/ University of Pittsburgh)
Ts'ui-jung Liu 劉翠溶 (Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica)
Xueqin Mei 梅雪芹 (Department of History, Tsinghua University)
Shoko Mizuno 水野祥子 (Faculty of Economics, Komazawa University)
Manyong Moon 文晚龍 (Jeonbuk National University)
Satoshi Murayama 村山聡 (Kagawa University)
Koji Nakashima 中島弘二 (College of Human and Social Sciences, Kanazawa University)
Federico Paolini (Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli)
Lihua Wang 王利华 (Faculty of History, Nankai University)
The Local Preparatory Committee
Chair (President of AEAEH)
Akihisa Setoguchi 瀬戸口明久 (Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University)
Co-chair (Vice President of AEAEH)
Tatsushi Fujihara 藤原辰史 (Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University)
Committee Members (alphabetical order by last name)
Kjell Ericson (Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University)
Michinori Hashimoto 橋本道範 (Lake Biwa Museum)
Noboru Higashi 東昇 (Faculty of Letters, Kyoto Prefectural University)
Ryuji Hiraoka 平岡隆二 (Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University)
Shinobu Iguro 井黒忍 (Faculty of Letters, Otani University)
Miho Ishii 石井美保 (Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University)
Taisaku Komeie 米家泰作 (Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University)
Yuka Tsuchiya 土屋由香 (Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University)
Togo Tsukahara 塚原東吾 (Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University)
Shuntaro Tsuru 都留俊太郎 (Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University)
Kazuo Uesugi 上杉和央 (Faculty of Letters, Kyoto Prefectural University)
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).
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