From Prinisha.Badassy at wits.ac.za Wed Aug 14 11:07:04 2019 From: Prinisha.Badassy at wits.ac.za (Prinisha Badassy) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 09:07:04 +0000 Subject: [Sahs] CFP: Special Issue SAHJ - On the edge of the Anthropocene: crossing borders in southern African environmental history Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE OF the SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL[cid:image002.jpg at 01D55290.649F2FE0] On the edge of the Anthropocene: crossing borders in southern African environmental history Environmental histories have long shaped the world of humans and other animals, and our shared and shifting environments. Our history is written on the landscapes - in ecosystems, climates and microclimates - and the past is borne by the creatures that inhabit them. They reflect overlapping histories of human mobility and settlement, accommodation and invasion, globalization and parochialism, colonialism and postcolonialism. Southern scholars still need to interrogate the Anthropocene (itself a contested term) as an era, as a discourse, as a political moment and, perhaps especially, as an historical process. Much of the conversation about the Anthropocene has centred upon anthropogenic climate change, especially global warming, and the concomitant burning demands of political mobilisation. To date, very little analysis has come from a socio-environmental or environmental history perspective. Moreover, much of the scholarship that has emerged has come from and centred on the global north. But, understanding our contemporary moment and the impact of human activity upon our planet requires a longer view and a wider focus. This special issue will engage critically with the very idea of the 'Anthropocene' and examine it over the short term and longue dur?e, acknowledging that the "environment" is itself a contested idea with a history of its own. Thus, this special issue wants to cross borders: geographic, temporal and disciplinary. So the SAHJ calls for papers adopting a fresh approach to understanding the Anthropocene from the perspective of the global south and more specifically from the perspective of southern African environmental history. We are looking for papers that engage with the following themes, but are also open to other ideas: * How histories of the southern African environment can impact on current policy in the Anthropocene. * Historical human-animal studies, including historical analyses of animals and indigeneity * Vernacular approaches to environmental history * Environmental histories of migration and immigration; dislocation and diaspora * Comparative case studies between southern Africa history and other contexts * The politics of periodisation in southern African environmental history * Decolonizing the Anthropocene and environmental history from the global south * Beyond "environmental agency": new paradigms of analysis CONTACT PROF SANDRA SWART: SSS at SUN.AC.ZA This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. 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Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 88520 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: From Prinisha.Badassy at wits.ac.za Mon Aug 26 15:11:35 2019 From: Prinisha.Badassy at wits.ac.za (Prinisha Badassy) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:11:35 +0000 Subject: [Sahs] CFP: Beyond the Medicines/Drugs Dichotomy: Historical Perspectives on Good and Evil in Pharmacy Message-ID: Beyond the Medicines/Drugs Dichotomy: Historical Perspectives on Good and Evil in Pharmacy University of Johannesburg 5-7 December 2019 The dichotomy between pharmacologically-active substances considered legitimate (and therefore worthy of regulation as medicines, and also provided as public goods) and those considered problematic (and therefore deserving of moral and legal opprobrium, prohibition and sanction) has informed global regulatory regimes for decades. (Andy Gray, 2017) Drug policies and ways of thinking and talking about substances and treatment approaches are changing fast, both at national and international levels. These changes reflect a growing acknowledgement of core contradictions within the legislative regimes Gray described above, crafted respectively for 'drugs' and 'medicines' from the nineteenth-century onwards. Subversions of this dichotomy have lately become more apparent in the public eye - for example, in widespread addiction to opioid painkillers; in the repurposing of pharmaceuticals for pleasure, sedation or sociability; in the scientific legitimation of previously restricted drug alkaloids for medical application. Increasing criticism of 'war-on-drugs' style governance, the liberalisation of cannabis laws, and the advocacy of harm reduction approaches to drug treatment are among the indications of shifting views even within governments themselves. The organizers of this event argue that precise historical understandings of how this dichotomy has worked in practice, in multiple and very different contexts, are necessary in order to map possible alternatives and futures. To clearly identify who established and maintained classificatory boundaries, what interests lay behind their actions, how they have been challenged, and why it is only now that faith in them seems to be waning are important tasks for historians of health, medicines and modernities, and those working in related fields and disciplines. This event at the University of Johannesburg aims to draw together those addressing the questions below in their research. We invite submissions from postgraduates, together with emerging and established scholars, and are keen to include studies from around the world, as well as those that look at international or transnational contexts. Guiding questions: * What knowledge was generated to justify distinctions between medicines/drugs? By whom? How were decisions made about what evidence could be considered authoritative? * Which groups and/or disciplines were involved in establishing or challenging the emergence of this dichotomy and what determined their success or failure? * How have histories of various substances been created and deployed in justifying or disputing this dichotomy? * What values have driven pharmaceutical technologies and their regulation? How have ideas about 'good' and 'evil' framed scientific and political discussions? * How long has a shift towards a neuro-chemical society been happening and with what effects? Has it necessarily been a dehumanising process? * Have chronologies of commodification, lawmaking and enforcement followed similar routes in different countries or contexts? * How do historians recover neuro-chemical biographies, and what do these reveal about individual or collective experiences of the medicines/drugs dichotomy in practice? The event is funded by the Wellcome Trust and is jointly organised by the Department of History at the University of Johannesburg and The Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) Glasgow through the 'Changing Minds: Psychoactive Substances in African and Asian History' project. The event will take place from 5 to 7 December 2019 at the University of Johannesburg. Call for Papers Please submit a title, an abstract of no more than 200 words which addresses some of the above questions, along with a narrative biography of 200 words, to Caroline Marley (caroline.marley at strath.ac.uk) and Thembisa Waetjen (twaetjen at uj.ac.za) by 20 September 2019. Applicants will be informed of the committee's decision by 4 October 2019. Funding This event is made possible by the generous support of the Wellcome Trust. Some funding for travel and accommodation is available, and will be prioritised for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and early career researchers, particularly where they are located at institutions in the Global South. This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 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Other partners are the National Council on Public History, the world's largest public history organization, the German Historical Association (VHD) and its working group on applied/public history (AGAG), the American Historical Association and the Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam (ZZF). Since 2011, IFPH has been dedicated to building an international and multi-lingual community of public historians working both outside and inside academia. The main role of the Federation is to foster the development of Public History worldwide, creating and coordinating networks and national associations for public history, promoting teaching, research, theoretical inquiry, and other activities that engage the public with the past, history and individual and collective memories. Berlin, which has been called the ?Rome of contemporary history,? is an ideal location for a major meeting of public historians from across the globe. Like few other places in the world it offers many different layers of history, that not only still matter and are controversial locally or regionally, but nationally and even internationally. There is no specific conference theme and no focus on a particular historical era. Proposals covering a wide range of public history are welcome, such as: 1. Public History practice and civic engagement ? The value of historical knowledge: historical consciousness and civic dimension of public history ? National agendas, fake news and historical controversies ? Difficult pasts interacting with the present: historians and social justice, human rights, truth commissions, transitional justice, wars and civil wars ? Public policies and applied history ? Public History and contemporary global challenges: migration, inequalities, climate change, development, democracy, human rights, health, food and water security ? Public archaeology 2. Memory ? Museums and exhibiting the past ? Oral history and community projects ? Identity and memory issues ? Material and immaterial public cultural heritage ? Commemorations, monuments and celebrations ? Historic preservation and community cultural heritage ? Memory policies, role of the state 3. Digital ? Digital Public History ? Participatory knowledge: social media, mobile app and user-generated contents ? Mapping and visual representations of the past 4. Media ? Historical fiction ? Games, videogames ? Visual historical narratives: graphic novels, murals, photography ? History in film: historical films, tv series, documentaries ? Podcasting, radio, and other audio forms of narrating history 5. Performance ? Re-enactments and living history ? History in theater, opera, and performance 6. Professional issues ? Concepts of Public History ? Teaching and learning Public History ? Challenges of practicing Public History in academia and outside ? Public History in museums, archives, libraries, parks ? Resources for research and teaching ? Public History publications ? Selling Public History ? Cultural tourism ? Ethical challenges While the submission of full sessions, of working group or workshop proposals is preferred, both ?partial? panels and individual proposals will be considered. Thematic sessions can include up to 4 presenters. Working groups consist of facilitators and discussants (up to ten people), to explore in depth a subject of shared concern before and during the annual meeting. Workshops provide hands-on and participatory experiences that impart practical information or skills and might require participants to pay a fee. Thematic sessions and working groups will be 90 minutes. Workshops can ask for more time. The conference language will be English. Those who are looking for co-presenters can suggest a topic proposal here. Proposals must be submitted in English and include a general abstract for the session, the name and contact information of the session?s coordinator, abstracts for all individual papers, and names and contact information of all presenters Proposals must be submitted using the respective form on the conference website https://www.ifph2020.org/submission-proposals/ The deadline for all proposals is 15 October 2019. The results of the CFP will be announced no later than 31 December 2019. Organizers will try to get funding for travel support for international participants from the German Research Foundation (DFG). The decision by DFG should be known by June 2020 at the latest. All participants must register for the conference (rates to be announced soon). Program Committee: ? Andreas Etges, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t Munich, Germany (IFPH) ? Paul Nolte, Freie Universit?t Berlin, Germany ? Irmgard Z?ndorf, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam, Germany (ZZF) ? Martin L?cke, Freie Universit?t Berlin, Germany ? Frank Drauschke, Facts & Files, Berlin, Germany (AGAG) ? Frank B?sch, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam, Germany (ZZF)/ Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (VHD), Germany ? David Glassberg, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA (NCPH) ? Dana Schaffer, American Historical Association, Washington, DC, USA ? Thomas Cauvin, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA ? Catalina Mu?oz, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia ? Joanna Wojdon, University of Wroc?aw, Poland ? David Dean, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada A separate call for poster proposals will be announced in early 2020. Please send any questions or inquiries to the following email: cfp at ifph2020.org ________________________________ This email and all contents are subject to the following disclaimer: http://disclaimer.uj.ac.za -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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