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Call for Proposals: Environment & Society Portal Exhibitions

06.06.2012

The Environment & Society Portal is a nonprofit education and research project that aims to make environmental humanities materials freely and openly accessible. We have recently launched with a small but fascinating selection of digital multimedia and interpretive features. Our goal is to cultivate the spirit of exploration and serendipity that characterizes research in the humanities, allowing users to find—in a digital environment—unexpected results.

We are now on the outlook for proposals for further exhibitions to be published in the 2013-2014 biennium. Format and size of the exhibitions is flexible, but they should be based upon an existing or expressly created collection of media and documents (20-100 images, video/audio files, primary sources) and include an interpretive, not necessarily linear, hypertext (2000-15000 words), as well as a bibliography and metadata (keywords and spatial/temporal locations).

The Portal’s media-rich online exhibitions feature in-depth contextualization of archival documents. The first exhibition, “Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad” by Eric Olmanson is already one of the Portal’s most popular features and will soon be joined by exhibitions on the international impact of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring; on diverse meanings of “wilderness”; on “Hazardous Chemicals”; and another on Alfred Wegener’s polar expeditions as described in his previously unpublished diaries.

Call for Proposals (pdf, 130 KB)