From 2005-12-01 to 2005-12-04

Venue: Unesco Hq, Paris, France

Summary:
The IWHA invites panel proposals and individual paper abstracts for its fourth biennial conference. The program, which will address various topics related to water and history, will bring together scholars and practitioners from a variety of disciplines and different parts of the world. In the process, IWHA hopes to help advance the theoretical and methodological quality of water history as a research field and to thereby increase understanding of the role of water in history and development. Specifically, the panels and presentations will dovetail with the long-term IWHA/UNESCO project to publish a seven-volume series on ‘Water and Civilization’. The topics of this conference will include:
• the control of water
• water and religion
• water and climate
• water and conflict
• water and health
• river basins – a comparative perspective.

Organizers: International Water History Association (IWHA)
Contact Name: Alv Terje Fotland
E-mail: post@iwha.net
URL: http://www.iwha.net