Towards 50 Key Questions for Historical Ecology
On November 12-13th 2014 in Uppsala Sweden, the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University and the Mind and Nature and the Integrated History and future of People on Earth research network sponsored the 1st International Workshop on Historical Ecology: The Next Generation.
The event provided a platform for early stage researchers to discuss and develop their ongoing projects and facilitated inter-disciplinary discourse amongst academics of all levels of experience interested in historical ecology. A major focus of this workshop was for early stage researchers to examine the research priorities and most pressing issues for historical ecology.
The attendeesof the 1st International Workshop on Historical Ecology: The Next Generation have initiated a process to determine the 50 key questions for historical ecology. Participants at this first workshop self-organized into seven thematic working groups titled: communication and time between discipline, mobilizing local knowledge, food and politics, the practice of historical ecology, ethics and biodiversity , communication and new mediaand models and landscapes. A variety of issues were discussed under the rubric of being important for historical ecology. Much discussion was generated when reflecting on how historical ecology is practiced. It became obvious that historical ecology attracts a diverse group of people whose interests populate many different theoretical, spatial, and temporal areas. The challenge now is to bring more voices to the discussion, and determine what issues unite us.
From this workshop, a group of early stage researchers has emerged that are distributing an open survey asking you, what are the key questions for historical ecology?
Note the survey will be live until April 30th 2015.
The second workshop for this series is planned to take place at Simon Fraser University, Canada in 2015. Click the link to participate or find out more about the upcoming workshop.
Contact person: Anna Shoemaker anna.shoemaker@arkeologi.uu.se
