1st International Workshop on Historical Ecology: The Next
Generation
Hosted by Mind and Nature, IHOPE, and Uppsala University Department of
Archaeology and Ancient History
Wednesday 12 November
8:30
Registration: Sunnersta Herrgård second floor of main building
9:00
Welcome – Anna Shoemaker
Keynote Speakers
9:10
Carole Crumley
9:35
Paul Sinclair
10:00
Paul Lane
10:25
Fika Break
Study and Practice of Conservation
11:00
Glynis Humphrey – The role of humans in the complex fire, climate, and
vegetation regimes of north-east Namibia
11:20
Anna Shoemaker – Reexamining assumptions of human environmental
interactions in Amboseli Basin, Kenya
11:40
Kristina Berglund – Peace Parks: history, rationales, potential
Integrated Modelling
12:00
Andrea Kay – A classification of subsistence lifestyles and land use in
prehistoric Africa
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12:20
Ryan Hughes – The third land use revolution: The environmental impact of
the Bronze Age
12:40
Rebecca Kariuki – Modelling past, present, and future ecosystem dynamics
and societal interactions in East Africa
13:00
Lunch
Managing Resources
14:00
Megan Hicks – Community and Conservation: long term hunting and egg
collection of wild birds in Myvatn Northern Iceland
14:20
Konrad Smiarowski – Resilience, sustainability, and collapse in Norse
Greenland
14:40
Chelsey Geralda Armstrong – The ecological and social contexts of
traditional resource management: Corylus (spp.) in the Pacific Northwest
Agriculture, Sustainability, and Urbanism
15:00
Ezekial Mtetwa – Anthropogenic Landscapes: a historical ecology of iron and
fuel provisioning systems in Great Zimbabwe urbanism, 800-1900 A.D.
15:20
Michiel de Haas & Kostadis Papaioannou – Climate, scarcity, and intercommunal violence and conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from colonial
British Africa (1920-1939)
15:40
Erika R. Hoffman – A cultural shift to sustainable agriculture
16:00
Fika Break
Soils and Landscape Formation
16:30
Oliver Boles – Lasting Impressions: the enduring effects of pastoralist
settlement in the eastern African savannah and their archaeological implications
16:50
Lindsay Duncan – A multi-scalar, interdisciplinary approach to long-term
environmental change at a coastal Maya site
18:00
Dinner at Sunnersta Herrgård
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Thursday 13 November
Keynote Speakers
9:00
Thomas McGovern
9:20
Anneli Ekblom - Introduction to 50 key questions
9:40
Forming morning workshop groups – moderator Nik Petek
10:00
Group discussions
11:00
Fika break
11:30
Presenting morning workshop group discussions – moderator Chelsey
Geralda Armstrong
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Forming afternoon workshop groups – moderator Megan Hicks
13:50
Group discussions
15:00
Fika break
15:30
Presentations of afternoon workshop group discussions – moderator
Oliver Boles
16:30
Closing statements
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