The Rachel Carson Center for Environmental Studies is a joint initiative of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and the Deutsches Museum. Generously supported by the German Ministry for Research and Education, the Rachel Carson Center’s goal is to further research and discussion in the field of international environmental studies and to strengthen the role of the humanities in [...]

[Read more →]

We are looking for two persons with a doctoral degree or the equivalent who present research plans with a high degree of relevance for the appointments. The place of work for the appointments will be the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies.
The appointees’ research programmes must be clearly linked to the research area of [...]

[Read more →]

This is the annual call for submissions for SHOT’s IEEE Life Member’s Prize in Electrical History.
If you or someone you know has published a deserving article in 2008 dealing with any aspect of the history of electricity, electronics, telecommunications, or any other electrically-related field — please consider nominating it for the IEEE Prize.
THE IEEE LIFE [...]

[Read more →]

Fulbright chair in Denmark 2010-2011
Distinguished Fulbright chair in US Environmental History / AMERICAN STUDIES
Grant Activity: The grantee would be asked to teach one 4 hour course at the MA level each term, plus one BA level course in the fall term. In the spring term, two hours would be given over to advising of students [...]

[Read more →]

Just a small, technical note: We are moving the envirotech email discussion list over from Stanford’s servers to our own today. All subscribers should have received an email asking for confirmation of this move. I also sent out a reminder to the old mailing list. If, despite all these emails, you are a subscriber and [...]

[Read more →]

We will have a lunch meeting during SHOT in Lisbon, on Monday. The winner of the Envirotech Article Prize will be announced at this meeting (and on the web page after the conference). Dolly Jørgensen will be arranging this event. There was a sign-up for the lunch on the SHOT registration form, so those of [...]

[Read more →]

Nina Lerman sent us a notice about a new database of potential interest to envirotechies: Documenting Louisiana Sugar 1845-1917 at http://www.sussex.ac.uk/louisianasugar/
“Documenting Louisiana Sugar provides historians and social scientists with an innovative tool for examining plantation economy and agrarian society in the American South. Utilizing exceptionally detailed annual crop returns and additional census records, Documenting Louisiana [...]

[Read more →]

Dear Colleague,
The new Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, supports advanced research covering all relevant topics related to the life sciences. The Centre is named after German-American physiologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924), one of the legendary experimentalists and seminal thinkers [...]

[Read more →]

The Vol. 4, No. 1, January 2008 issue of the Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence (SSNV) Research Newsletter has been posted.  The theme this month is: “Religious Dimension of Sustainable Development.”
The link is: http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv04n01.html
The summary (abstract) is pasted below.  I would be grateful for any feedback (positive/negative/in-between). Please let me hear from you.
With best wishes for [...]

[Read more →]

The Vol. 3, No. 12, December 2007 issue of the “Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence (SSNV) Research Newsletter” has been posted.  The theme this month is:
“Review of the 2007 State of the Future Report”
http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv03n12.html
OUTLINE
1. The UN Millennium Development Goals
2. The WFUNA Millennium Project
3. State of the Future & Global Challenges
4. State of the Future Index
5. Education [...]

[Read more →]