Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
"The View from Here: Cultural History and Ecology of the North Atlantic
Region"
Universite Laval
Quebec City, Canada
September 2006
For further information, please contact one of the conference co-chairs:
Allison Bain
E-mail: Allison.Bain [at] hst.ulaval.ca
Jim Woollett
E-mail: James.Woollett [at] hst.ulaval.ca
A multidisciplinary, international conference on the cultural history
and ecology of the North Atlantic Region is planned for late September
2006 in Quebec City, Canada. This call is extended to both researchers
and students working in archaeology, historical and cultural geography,
palaeoecology, anthropology, and other related disciplines. This call
also includes researchers and students active on North Atlantic
Biocultural Association projects and those of the Landscapes circa
Landnam progamme. Papers are expected to fit into the suggested themes
below to encourage exchange and discussion from all sides of the
Atlantic. Methodological papers or geographically-limited subjects which
do not respond to the conference themes may be presented as posters.
Students wishing to present their proposed graduate research and
preliminary results are strongly encouraged to pursue this option for
inclusion in the poster sessions. Some financial support to encourage
student participation will be available.
Proposed sessions are (but not limited to):
- Economic Decision-Making in the Context of Instability
- Early World Systems and Multinationals of the North Atlantic: Tales
of Fish, Furs and Whales
- Colonization of Landscapes and Anthropogenic Change in Northern
Landscapes
- Dynamics of Small Scale Societies
- Physical Landscape Change during the Holocene
- The North Atlantic Climatic System
Please send a 100-150 word abstract, suggested session (if applicable -
no session required for posters) and indicate whether you wish to
present a paper or a poster by 1 October 2005 to one of the conference
co-chairs:
Allison Bain
E-mail: Allison.Bain [at] hst.ulaval.ca
Jim Woollett
E-mail: James.Woollett [at] hst.ulaval.ca