22. Regionalizing IHOPE: A Global Conversation Chair/moderator: Carole Crumley, Anthropology, University of North Carolina, USA Panel Members: Robert Costanza, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont, USA Libby Robin, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University (Historian of Science) and visiting fellow, Danish National Museum, Copenhagen in 2008 Mike Smith, Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia (archaeologist) Will Steffen, Director of the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University (Earth Systems science) Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology, and Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden. Sander van der Leeuw, Human Evolution & Social Change, Arizona State University, USA Paul Warde, University of East Anglia, UK Verena Winiwarter, Social Ecology, Klagenfurt University, Vienna, Austria Description: How do you write fully global history on different time scales without simplifying the narrative to dominant voices and major data sets? Since 2006, a small group based at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU Canberra, has been working towards a ‘regional’ response to the international IHOPE project. The exceptional nature of Australia lends itself to a strong ‘counter-narrative’ that works on rather different scales.The panel will present a short overview of the Australian case as an example and then consider the broader question of how to bring regional perspectives into a global conversation.