The programs have now been released for two upcoming conferences that will contain substantial water history contributions.  Our Living Rivers Conference in Ottawa, June 14-17, sponsored by Heritage Rivers Canada contains many papers bridging public history, academic work and government research.  The World Congress of Environmental History in Copenhagen, August 4-8, to which the International Water History Association, the Network in Canadian History and Environment and the American Society for Environmental History will all contribute as participating organizations, will contain a range of water history papers from around the world.

Humanistic scholars who usually work in silos might find interesting and challenging a new and wide-ranging collaborative research program, DEHI/Danube Environmental History Initiative.   Transnational in design, and drawing together research teams from across Europe, the project seeks to analyze the environmental history of a large and complex social and natural system.  The associated research team has already collaborated to design the research plan, generate funding from EU sources and begun to publish early results.  It will be interesting to see how the project develops.

The Danube at Bratislava, Slovakia  (Wikimedia Commons)