Call for Participants:
Environmental History as a Taught Discipline
Roskilde, Denmark
17–18 March 2011
A meeting of the Nordic Environmental History Network (NEHN)
This third NEHN meeting will explore the practical and pedagogical challenges and opportunities of teaching environmental history in the Nordic countries. Through invited presentations and interactive workshop sessions, we will discuss how environmental history can be taught, by looking at syllabi design, teaching strategies, and instructional materials. We aim to critically examine the use of classroom teaching, remote learning strategies, and field trips as learning spaces for environmental history, and how these can be combined in blended learning approaches. Both undergraduate and graduate levels will be evaluated.
A special session will be devoted to brainstorming and planning the design for a joint Nordic doctoral course in environmental history. Few Nordic institutions have sufficient students to offer environmental history courses at this level, and a joint course would offer opportunities to pool both teaching resources and students. NEHN will seek external funding to organize such a course.
We encourage you to apply for participation if you:
- teach or have taught environmental history in a Nordic institution
- are in a position to develop and teach environmental history courses
- represent an institution that would be interested in participating in a joint Nordic PhD course in environmental history
- come from another discipline that faces similar pedagogical challenges.
We aim to cover all or parts of travel costs for the meeting participants. NEHN will pay for the travel expenses and lodging for paper presenters from the Nordforsk network countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the Baltic countries). However, we also welcome participants from other countries should you be able to cover your own expenses.
For consideration, submit a 1-page application describing your experience with and interest in environmental history as a taught discipline to norden@miljohistorie.net. Please attach syllabi for relevant courses that you have taught. The deadline is February 7, 2011.
Organizers
Finn Arne Jørgensen, Umeå University, Sweden (finn.jorgensen@idehist.umu.se)
Bo Poulsen, Roskilde University, Denmark (bopo@ruc.dk)
The Nordic Environmental History Network (NEHN) was founded in 2009 with grant support from Nordforsk to support knowledge exchange and professional development of Nordic environmental historians across borders and institutions.
