The full program - including abstracts - of the world congress in environmental history, to take place in Copenhagen next week, is available at https://whec2009.ruc.dk/program/pdf.
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Why is it that so many academic events have such high-society profiles? At WCEH2009, lunch + coffee can be bought for 2000 DKK - 400 DKK (around 50 Euros) per day! Such prices discourage participation from low-income countries, and persons (as well as for scholars and students who don't mind - or even prefer - normal standards).
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Same story with hotels (pensions and B&B are more often than not not even mentioned as options - cf. the upcoming world congress in semiotics in La Coruna, Spain).
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As for the program, I am to be found at p.7 (program) and 183 (abstract).
1001 Estranged, Endangered, Extinct. Lessons from the Extinction of the Scandinavian Wolf
Morten Tønnessen, University of Tartu/After thousands of wolves had been shot, the Scandinavian wolf went extinct. But it reappeared – and in Norway it’s had the status of a protected species since 1972. For many sheep farmers – widely regarded as the clearest antagonists of the wolves – the current wolf management remains a symbol of their modern estrangement. In what way does the estrangement of sheep farmers relate to the equally evident estrangement of the still endangered wolves?
Other Norwegian topics at WHEC2009:
380 Making yourself at home in nature: The conflict between public access to land and leisure cabin ownership in Norway, 1850-2000
Finn Arne Jørgensen, fa@jorgensenweb.net, NTNU
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473 Local knowledge in a global industry: the formation and movement of the science of salmonaquaculture
Stephen Bocking, sbocking@trentu.ca, Trent University
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914 War over Whales: Radical Environmentalist Organizations and Scientific Knowledge in Whaling Controversies
Morten Haugdahl, morten.haugdahl@hf.ntnu.no, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
914 War over Whales: Radical Environmentalist Organizations and Scientific Knowledge in Whaling Controversies
Morten Haugdahl, morten.haugdahl@hf.ntnu.no, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
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959 The standard of living, consumption and the environment in Norway 1726-2006
Kjell Bjørn Minde, kjell.minde@hsh.no, Stord University College
959 The standard of living, consumption and the environment in Norway 1726-2006
Kjell Bjørn Minde, kjell.minde@hsh.no, Stord University College
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The reason for the high cost is not because the arrangers choosed some "luxury" aspect. Not many venues could handle c. 600 persons, and unfortunately the food at SasRadison is expensive. But so is the rest of Copenhagen as well.
I see that the catering at SAS Radisson was not luxery quality - just luxery priced.
Personally I ate at restaurants etc. for about 100 DKK - really tasty food, for instance at B'india (Gammel Kongevej).
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