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Dec. 12 - Dr. Katja Bruisch and Dr Cordula Scherer hosted a screening of "A Plastic Ocean", an adventure documentary shot at more than twenty locations over the past four years documenting the causes and consequences of plastic pollution and share solutions. It was hosted in the Science Gallery.

Nov. 8 The IEHN hosted a lecture from TCD Honorary Doctorate awardee Patricia Oliver of An Taisce, who presented a lecture entitled "Flagging the Future". This lecture will took place in the Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Block, from 18:00-19:00 on the 8th of November 2017. More details

Sept. 2017-May, 2018 - Dr. Charles Travis Faculty was awarded a University of Texas, Arlington, Fellowship on Sustainability in the Curriculum from the Institute for Sustainability and Global Impact (ISGI)

September and October 2017 Dr. Charles Travis was awarded a University of Texas, Arlington College of Liberal Arts Research Grant “From Cure to Care: Advancing Human Well-being through Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences” Humanities GIS: Deep Mapping Health, the Human Condition and Climate Change in the American Southwest and Sub-Saharan Africa

September 19-22 2017 Prof. Poul Holm will partake in a lecture tour in Taiwan entitled "Climate Change and the Environmental Risk: Humanities, Social Science and Natural Science in Dialogue

15 – 16 November 2017 - Dr Cordula Scherer to attend the INFOMAR annual seminar held by the Marine section of the Geological Survey and the Marine Institute to inform and present the latest update on mapping the Irish marine territory

22 – 24 November 2017 - NorFish workshop will take place.

18 Aug 2017 - Al Matthews attended the 7th Annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference in NUI Galway, where Patrick Hayes presented collaborative work

18 Aug 2017 - Al Matthews attended the 7th Annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference in NUI Galway, where Patrick Hayes presented collaborative work

18-20 July 2017 - Al Matthews visited the British National Archives in Kew, London and examined primary sources and documentation relating to NorFish.

1st July 2017 – Dr Katja Bruisch organized a section on wetland transformation in Northern and Eastern Europe at the biennial conference of the European Society for Environmental History in Zagreb. Her presentation was called “More and Better Land: Championing Peatland Reclamation in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union”. More info here.

22 June 2017 - Dr Cordula Scherer gave a general introduction to the structure and functioning of the marine pelagic ecosystem as part of a knowledge transfer and in line with introducing herself as a new member of the NorFish team with the expertise of applied marine ecology.

15-19 May 2017 - Al Matthews attended the Oceans Past Platform, COST Action (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) in Sesimbra (Lisbon), Portugal and presented on some collaborative work for NorFish.

5 May 2015 – Dr Katja Bruisch gave a presentation on “Peasant Farming and Rural Development Projects in late Imperial and early Soviet Russia” in the Agricultural History Seminar Series at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

21 Apr 2017 - Al Matthews presented at the CEH Outreach Event with students from the Institute of Inter-disciplinary Studies at University of Amsterdam, in the Long Hall Hub, Trinity College Dublin.

19 April 2017 - Dr. Dara Fleming-Farrell and Richard Breen attended the launch of Connecting Early Medieval European Collections (CEMEC) at the National Museum of Ireland.

2-8 April 2017 - Al Matthews undertook at Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM), facilitated by the Oceans Past Platform (OPP) and funded European COST Action. The topic discussed European Market Integration of Fish Prices 1400 - 1700, and took place in the German Maritime Museum (DSM), Bremerhaven (DE).

5th April 2017 - Dr. Cornelius Buttimer of University College Cork presented a lecture entitled "Weather Data in Humphrey O'Sullivan's Diary, 1827-35". The meeting took place on Wednesday 5th April, 2017, in the TRISS Seminar Room, Floor 6, Arts Block, at 5pm.

2-8 April 2017 - Dr. Dara Fleming-Farrell undertook Short-Term Scientific Mission, as part of the COST Action Ocean’s Past Platform, to German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven to work researchers (Dr. Natascha Mehler, Christian Küchelmann, Dr. Mike Belasus, & Bart Holterman) investigating the Hanseatic league.

29 Mar-1 Apr 2017 - Prof Poul Holm attended the American Society for Environmental History in Chicago and present the Norfish project at session 4-A Navigating the North Atlantic Past through archaeology, History and the Environmental Humanities.

23-24 March 2017 - The NorFish March workshop was run in conjunction with the Space and Settlement in the Middle Ages conference, held annually in the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute and run by Prof. Terry Barry and Dr. Dara Fleming-Farrell. This year the conference considered the changing dynamics of medieval society and settlement through an exploration of changing landscapes. The conference provided rich discussions on the following themes: Royal landscapes; Food consumption and production; Maritime landscapes; Religious landscapes; and Urban & Rural landscapes. Dr. Mark Gardiner, Queen's University Belfast, delivered the keynote address "New light on the late medieval houses of rural Ireland" on Friday 24th March 2017. Full programme from the event can be found here. Participants from the NorFish March workshop formally presented their research during a session on ‘Maritime Landscapes.’ Patrick Hayes, Al Matthews, Dr. Dara Fleming-Farrell and Prof. Poul Holm presented their Food Production and Consumption’ session Patrick Hayes (NorFish PhD Candidate) presented on ‘European naval diets 1400–1650: A comparative and nutritional analysis’ during ‘Food Production and Consumption’ session at Space and Settlement in the Middle Ages. Patrick Hayes, Al Matthews, Dr. Dara Fleming-Farrell and Prof. Poul Holm presented their Food Production and Consumption’ session Patrick Hayes (NorFish PhD Candidate) presented on ‘European naval diets 1400–1650: A comparative and nutritional analysis’ during ‘Food Production and Consumption’ session at Space and Settlement in the Middle Ages.

22 March 2017 - Dr Dara Fleming-Farrell, and Richard Breen, took the lead in organising a NorFish workshop on the archaeology of North Atlantic Fishing communities. The workshop focused on settlement and human interactions with marine resources during the medieval and early modern periods and provided the opportunity for the NorFish project to engage in detailed discussions on various aspects of archaeological and historical research directly relating to the project’s overall goals. The workshop included presentations from invited speakers (Dr. Ramon Harrison, University of Bergen; Dr. Aoife Daly, University of Copenhagen; Konrad Smiarowski, City University New York; Dr. Mark Gardiner, Queen’s University Belfast; Niall Brady, Archaeology Diving Company, Ireland) as well as presentations from Prof. Poul Holm. Dr. Francis Ludlow, Al Matthews, and Dr. Dara Fleming-Farrell, Trinity College Dublin.

8-9 March 2017 - Dr. Francis Ludlow presented a paper entitled "Volcanism and Variability: The Volatile Nile as Driver of Revolt and Socioeconomic Stress in Ptolemaic Egypt, 305-30 BCE". This was an invited presentation as part of 'Climate and Societies in Mediterranean during the Last Two Millennia: Current State of Knowledge and Research Perspectives' at Aix-Marseille Universite, France.

24th-25th February 2017 - The IEHN is co-sponsored a two-day colloquium, organized by Teacht Aniar and Gael Linn, entitled "The Ecological Crisis and the Construction of an Alternative Society: Transformation of Consciousness". The event took place in the Mairtin Ui Cadhain Theatre, Floor 2, Arts Block, TCD.

21st February 2017 - Prof. Donald Worster of the University of Kansas and the Renmin University of China presented a lecture, entitled "Shrinking the Earth: The Rise and Decline of Natural Abundance". It took place in the TRISS Seminar Room, Floor 6, Arts Block, from 4.45pm.

17th February 2017 - A Roundtable Discussion organised by Dr. Derek Gladwin (UBC), entitled: "Is Global Climate Action Trumped?" The event took place in Trinity College Dublin, Davis Lecture Theatre, Arts Block, from 6pm, and featured a panel including Green Party leader Eamon Ryan.

7 February 2017 - Dr. Dara Fleming-Farrell was awarded a Faculty Events Fund grant to assist in organising and running the Space and Settlement in the Middle Ages Conference.

Jan. 2017-Jan. 2018 Dr. Charles Travis was appointed Geospatial Humanities Workshop Program Committee Member, ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017 (International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems).

The 28th Public Lecture and Meeting of the Irish Environmental History Network featured a lecture by Prof. Andrew Jackson of Trinity College Dublin, entitled "Palaeoecology and Future Ecology Through the Lens of Stable Isotopes". The lecture took place in Trinity College Dublin (TRISS Seminar Room, Arts Block) on Monday, 30 January, 2017, and was Chaired by Dr. Frank Ludlow.

Dr. Charles Travis was appointed Editorial Board Member for the journal Literary Geography.