Ruth A. Morgan University of Western Australia Press, 320 pp, PB, February 2015. For nearly 200 years the visions and aspirations of the people of Australia’s west have been characterised by an unquenchable thirst. Ruth Morgan uncovers the fear of running out of water — a fear...
Australia-Pacific Environmental Humanities Observatory, Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney. Centre for Environmental History, Australian National University, Canberra. 4-8 May, 2015 Are you writing a PhD or MA in environmental history or humanities, and are interested in the relationship between writing and filmmaking? The Australia-Pacific Environmental Humanities Observatory will...
14–15 September 2015 University of Arizona, Tucson Sponsors: The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany; Temple University, PA, USA; the University of Arizona; and the University of California, Davis. We seek paper proposals for a conference on deserts in global environmental history. The goal...