erin gill environmental journalist
& historian
Conference Papers
I have given papers at academic conferences and seminars in the UK, Europe and Japan. Below is a list, along with the full text of a selected number of papers.
- Eve Balfour: Charismatic Leader, New Age believer,
Women's History Network Annual conference, London, September 2011
- Anti-science bias and New Age religion in the early Soil Association: how the post-war British organic movement amplified its alienation
from mainstream farmers and agricultural scientists,
Rural History 2010, University of Sussex, September 2010
-The impact of the early British organic movement's anti-science bias and New Age religious beliefs on relations with agricultural scientists and policy makers,
Oxford-Nagoya Environmental History Seminar, Nagoya, Japan, September 2010
- Anti-science bias & New Age religion in the post-war British organic food and farming movement
Nottingham Trent University history research seminar, March 2010
- The International Aspirations of the early British Organic Food and Farming Movement,
First World Congress of Environmental History, Copenhagen, July 2009
(word doc. 51kb)
- The British Organic Farming Movement and 'New Age' Spirituality
Common Ground, Converging Gazes - Integrating the social and environmental in history, Paris, September 2008
- The early Soil Association & New Age Religion
British Agricultural History Society Annual Spring Conference, University of Nottingham, April 2008
- Stillborn? Organic farming in post-war Britain,
European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, February 2008
- Lady Eve Balfour: A pivotal figure in the development of the UK organic movement?
Fourth Conference of the European Society for Environmental History, Amsterdam, July 2007
- Lady Eve Balfour: a marginal figure goes mainstream
Spirit of the Age - Debating the past, present and future of life writing, Kingston University, UK, July 2007
- Careful how you classify her: Lady Eve Balfour’s single status
Single Women in History: 1000-2000, University of Western England, June 2006
- Lady Eve Balfour and The Living Soil
Organic Centre Wales, Aberystwyth, April 2006
- The Interwar Interests of Lady Eve Balfour
Rethinking the Rural - Land and the nation in the 1920a & 1930s, Royal Holloway, UK, January 2006
- The Health of the Land: Lady Eve Balfour & The Living Soil
The Land Question in Britain : 1750-1950, University of Hertfordshire, July 2005