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Fwd: FW: Unique graduate course in Environmental Humanities in Iceland

  • Posted by Matthew K. Gold (he/him) on February 10, 2015 at 10:47 pm

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    From: Thomas McGovern <[email protected]>
    Date: Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:16 AM
    Subject: Fwd: FW: Unique graduate course in Environmental Humanities in
    Iceland

    Dear Colleagues

    Apologies for the mass mailing, but we want to let you and your students
    and colleagues know that there are still some places left in the 2015
    Interdisciplinary graduate seminar at Svartarkot in N Iceland this summer.
    The series is a collaboration between NABO (hard science/ social science/
    environmental history spectrum mainly) and NIES (environmental history/
    environmental humanities/ education for sustainability) as part of the
    larger international inter-disciplinary IHOPE Circumpolar Networks
    initiative (http://ihopenet.org/circumpolarnetworks/) *Inscribing
    Environmental Memory in the Icelandic Sagas *project (informally “sagas for
    sustainability”).

    The 2014 seminar was a great success and good fun, and the participants
    had a genuinely unique opportunity to work closely with environmental
    historians, saga scholars, environmental archaeologists, climatologists and
    environmental scientists in the rich and beautiful historical landscape of
    Northern Iceland.

    This year, thanks to NSF support to a North Atlantic Cyberinfrastructure
    project led by Colleen Strawhacker of National Snow and Ice Data Center,
    we are able to combine the Svartarkot seminar with an international
    workshop on using digital tools to build connections across disciplines and
    to create tools for public engagement with issues of sustainability and
    global environmental change. This will be the third North Atlantic
    cyberinfrastructure workshop in a series, and will follow directly upon
    multidisciplinary sessions at U Maryland and U Umea. Experts from US, UK
    and Scandinavia will be interacting with students and Svartarkot staff in
    intensive hands on work aimed at developing products and using the rich
    literary, archaeological, and paleo-environmental record of Iceland as a
    test bed for ambitious efforts to create new integrative approaches towards
    sustainability.

    Students interested in digital humanities approaches, visualization, GIS
    applications in archaeology and environmental history, and building
    genuinely trans-disciplinary collaborations in human ecodynamics and
    sustainability will have a rich and exciting experience.

    Please see the attached for more details, and please feel free to forward
    this message to interested colleagues and students.

    All the best
    Tom McGovern

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    From: Hartman Steven <[email protected]>
    Date: Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 7:22 AM
    Subject: FW: Unique graduate course in Environmental Humanities in Iceland
    To: Hartman Steven <[email protected]>

    Dear colleagues,

    Below and attached please find a second call for applications for the
    summer graduate course Understanding the Human Dimensions of Long-term
    Environmental Change: Transformations of Iceland from the Viking Era
    through the late Medieval Period (CE 850-1500), taking place June 5-15
    in Bárðardalur,
    Northern Iceland.

    The first call and application round fell during a period (Dec 15-Jan 15)
    when many people in the academic world may not be monitoring email closely
    due to holiday breaks from regular academic sessions The response to that
    first call was nevertheless strong enough that the organizers are confident
    the course will have the required enrollment to proceed. Nevertheless there
    are still available spots in the course for those who wish to attend, so
    the organizers have elected to open a second round of applications.

    Postdocs and senior scholars are also welcome to apply for the course.

    We hope that you will consider distributing this notice more widely within
    your networks. *The deadline for the second round of applications is March
    15, 2015.*

    If you wish to be removed from the NIES email list please reply with the
    word “Remove” in the subject field.

    Thanks very much! Apologies for any unintended cross-postings.

    Sincerely,

    Steven Hartman
    ________________________________________
    Steven Hartman
    Professor of English
    Coordinator, Mid Sweden University Eco-Humanities Hub (ECOHUM)
    Chair, Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES)
    Department of Humanities
    Mid Sweden University
    87170 Sundsvall, Sweden
    Cell/Mobile: +46-(0)703-664 944

    http://miun.academia.edu/StevenHartman
    http://se.linkedin.com/pub/steven-hartman/6/1a0/276/sv
    http://www.miun.se/ecohum
    http://www.miun.se/en/research/major-research-initiatives/research-groups/nies

    From: Viðar Hreinsson <[email protected]>
    Date: fredag 30 januari 2015 13:43
    To: Steven Hartman <[email protected]>, Thomas McGovern <
    [email protected]>
    Subject: Unique graduate course in Environmental Humanities in Iceland

    Dear friends and colleagues

    Please circulate this announcement of an extended deadline for our unique,
    graduate summer course: *Understanding the Human Dimensions of Long-term
    Environmental Change: Transformations of Iceland from the Viking Era
    through the late Medieval Period (CE 850-1500) *in Bárðardalur, Northern
    Iceland, 5-15 June 2015.

    We have decided to open a new application round by popular request, as the
    original application round was missed by many people since it fell during
    the Christmas / New Year holidays. The new deadline is March 15, 2015. Further
    information and a small poster are attached. Please visit our website (
    scn.akademia.is ) for further details. We would be grateful if you could
    circulate to mailing lists and networks far and wide.

    Sincerely

    Viðar Hreinsson

    —
    Viðar Hreinsson
    Bókmenntafræðingur / Literary historian
    Svartárkot, menning / náttúra
    Svartarkot, culture / nature
    ReykjavíkurAkademíunni
    The Reykjavik Academy
    Þórunnartún 2 – 105 Reykjavík – Iceland
    Sími / Phone (+354) 552 3956 (home) / 844 8645 (cell)

    —
    Thomas H McGovern
    Professor
    Director,
    Zooarchaeology Laboratory
    Anthropology Dept.
    Hunter College CUNY
    695 Park Ave NYC 10065
    dept. phone (001) 212 772 5410
    dept. fax (001) 212 772 5423

    Coordinator
    North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO)
    http://www.nabohome.org

    Associate Director
    CUNY Human Ecodynamics Research Center (HERC)
    http://herc.gc.cuny.edu/

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