30 October 2007
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27 June 2007
The LOC and IWHA wish to thank all the participants for joining the
5th IWHA Conference in Tampere!
Now the Book of Abstracts is available for download PDF
The International Water History Association (IWHA) will hold its fifth biennial conference in Tampere, Finland in June 2007. The event will be co-organized and hosted by University of Tampere, Department of History and by Tampere University of Technology, Institute of Environ-mental Engineering and Biotechnology. The conference programme addresses diverse topics related to the history and futures of water, and will provide an excellent opportunity for scholars and practitioners from a variety of disciplines and different parts of the world to meet and discuss the many fascinating aspects of water history and futures.
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Overall programme PDF
Detailed programme PDF
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Patron of the Conference
“President Martti Ahtisaari has accepted the invitation to act as the Patron of the Conference. Mr Ahtisaari is the Former President of the Republic of Finland (1994 - 2000) and is currently the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the UN for the future status pro-cess for Kosovo. President Ahtisaari is also the founder of Crisis Management Initiative (CMI).”
The International Water History Association
The International Water History Association (IWHA) is the leading global organization on water history. The biannual IWHA conferences in Aberystwyth, Wales (1999), in Bergen, Norway (2001), at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt (2003), and at UNESCO in Paris (2005), were attended by scholars representing different disciplines who dealt with various aspects of water history ranging from ancient waterworks to sanitation in recent times, and from indigenous water symbolism to conflicts over water resources. IWHA aims to bring together historians, geographers, engineers, archaeologists, anthropologists and water managers and is committed to bridging the gap between academics and policy makers and the water management sector. IWHA strives to ensure representation from all world regions.
On behalf of the organizers, we warmly welcome you to Tampere to witness how water history meets the future under the midnight sun.
Professor Fekri Hassan, President, IWHA Adjunct Professor Petri S. Juuti, Chairman of the Organising Committee Adjunct Professor Tapio S. Katko, Chairman of the Scientific Committee
