[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- "Humans and Ecosystems Before Global Development," an interdisciplinary colloquium on medieval and early modern environmental history will be held at York University, Toronto, Canada from April 18-20, 1996. The colloquium will consist of presentations and workshops that explore the paradigms, tactics and methods that might be used to help scholars reconstruct preindustrial human interactions with the rest of nature. Participants include: Oliver Rackham, Ian Simmons, Arthur McEvoy, Thorkild Kjaergaard, J. Donald Hughes, Susan Flader, William TeBrake, Donald Worster and many others. Those interested in receiving further information about the conference may consult the conference website: http://www.yorku.ca/dept/histarts/envirohist.html Or, one may contact the conference organizers, Richard C. Hoffmann or Elinor Melville at: Environmental History Colloquium Department of History, 2140 Vari Hall York University, 4700 Keele Street North York, Ontario Canada M3J 1P3 Tel (416) 736-5123 Fax (416) 736-5836 -Matthew D. Evenden, York University ************************************ Stefanie S. Rixecker Centre for Resource Management/ Department of Resource Management Lincoln University Canterbury Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (64) (03) 325-2811 x8377 Fax: (64) (03) 325-3841 ************************************