Category: Conference

Submission Deadline:  01/31/2021 — The conference aims to explore how different social actors and groups frame the issue of ‘un/predictability’ in their narratives, solutions and practices, and how un/predictable are their intended outcomes? Aiming to discuss the results of ethnographically grounded research, we invite papers that address questions such as: To what extent are specific climate and ecological disasters un/predictable? What are the implications of this un/predictability for human and non-human agency? How do specific discourses of socio-ecological

Read More Un/Predictable Environments: Politics, Ecology and Agency

Submission Deadline:  02/01/2021 — History is punctuated by periods of crisis that change the fundamental structures of society. Crises can range from a single event to multi-year, multi-level phenomena. In an age where we are confronting our own multiple crises, it is more important than ever to consider how we as historians deal with crises. This conference explores the concept of crisis in history and in historical practice. This three-day symposium is the inaugural Convergences: York-University of Toronto

Read More Confronting Crisis: Writing History in Uncertain Times

Submission Deadline:  01/15/2021 — The conference will address a range of scientific, social, policy and governance issues around managed retreat (also known as strategic realignment and planned relocation). The conference will bring together stakeholders from the public, private and nonprofit sectors, together with academics, scientists, and community representatives, to help develop a common understanding of this complex issue, and move the needle toward equitable solutions. A major emphasis will be on issues of environmental justice, in recognition that

Read More At What Point Managed Retreat? Resilience, Relocation, and Climate Justice

Submission Deadline:  09/30/2021 — Risks from and vulnerability to natural disasters are global phenomena, that have received more attention in the recent past as part of climate change discourses. Regions in the global North (North America) and the global South (Latin America or South-East Asia) are regularly hit by extreme weather events. But how successful have these regions responded to risks over time and what role has insurance played? This session will explore some of the following questions

Read More Natural Disasters and Risk Management from a Global North-South Perspective (Panel at Conference: History of Insurance in a Global Perspective)