CfP: "Burning, Biting, Blooming: Rethinking Politics Across the Range of More-Than-Human Struggles" at Charles University in Prague, 5-6 November. Deadline: 15 May.
resisterra.org/en/materials
Engrossing!
Image from Bjorn Billing's article. #envhist #icebergs #arctic #nature #ice
@whitehorsepress.bsky.social
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
We're pleased to note that Björn Billing's recent article in 'Environment and History', "Visualising Icebergs: Early Modern Depictions, ca 1570–1770", is now available #openaccess: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpe... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist #icebergs
We warmly congratulate Postdoc @chanelle.bsky.social on receiving the @eseh.bsky.social 2025 Bristol-Bern Prize in Public #EnvHist for her "outstanding" project "Ghost Tours: The Haunt of #EnvironmentalDegradation and #Colonialism." 🌿
🔗 buff.ly/sRq1Etg
Read this great summary of the recent ASEH conference in Kansas City, Missouri!
Marco Armiero's ERC project welcomes PhD candidates and Postdocs! A PDF in English is available at the bottom of the page. The project is called "CATCH: The Catholic Church and the Environment"
#envhist #envhum
There are now two complementary essays on environmental history in Sweden and beyond, by Sverker Sörlin and Jonatan Palmblad. We look forward to the continuation of this series! #envhist
New podcast! We talk to Harriet & Rob Fraser, environmental artist working collectively as SOMEWHERE NOWHERE about their place-based walking practices in #Cumbria #LakeDistrict
shorturl.at/NHHjI
#Poetry #Photography #Walking #Art #Placemaking
@iceho.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social
JOB: Full Professor Political History of contemporary (post-1945) Europe, SciencesPo, France.
They are open to people working on environmental politics.
Application deadline 13 April 2026.
www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fil...
#envhist
Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, is back with her picks for environmental history worth reading (and watching) from February!
niche-canada.org/2026/03/19/e...
#envhist
I was lucky enough to take part in this film project by Bevis Bowden, exploring climate change, placemaking and loss on the River Isis in Oxford.
Marginalia: Song to the River
shorturl.at/8Q4M7
#EnvHist #EnvHums #Film #Poetry
@asleuki.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @iceho.bsky.social
I was very lucky to be part of this amazing book. I've co-authored a piece on natural history collections and climate change with Martha Fleming (Natural History Museum of Denmark) as part of @collecol.bsky.social. Looking forward to finally seeing it in print! ✨🌿 #nathist #envhist #collections
Registration for our new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities is still open for Nordic students (either citizens or did bachelors in a Nordic country). Please pass along this great tuition-free study opportunity!
www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
#envhum #envhist #ecocrit
New podcast! Talking with Caroline Schaumann about Humboldtian science in the mountains - feeling, failure, and queer sensibilities + 19th C. mountaineering in print, archive and film #EnvHist #HistSci #Mountaineering #Alps #Andes
shorturl.at/tVj9T
@nichecanada.bsky.social
@eseh.bsky.social
🚨Call for Papers!
3–4 September, Universität Augsburg: 2-day workshop on "theorising uncharismatic species in environmental history". Who are they? Where are their voices in the historical record? What insights do they offer to the field of environmental history? Be there! Abstracts due 15/05/2026!
Book cover of the third volume of an Environmental history of France, "Les natures du productivisme", published by La Découverte.
Pour accompagner la parution du 3e tome d'histoire environnementale de la France, "Les natures du productivisme", une bibliographie et une chronologie sont mises à disposition sur le site @leruche.bsky.social :
leruche.hypotheses.org/une-histoire...
@eseh.bsky.social
Join the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental #DH Seminar on March 11 @ 3pm UK (online) for a talk by @jimclifford.bsky.social & @historyjacob.bsky.social:
"Solving OCR: Using olmOCR to Follow Commodities across the British World"
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/solving-oc...
#dhist #ocr #envhist 🗃️
Spring is the season of GERMINATION and we’re ready for new ideas to take root. 🌱
Submit your work now for our Spring issue!
We’re looking for fresh perspectives and research that helps new conversations grow.
Our spring deadline is March 31st for peer reviewed research.
g-ehr.com/submit/
Video now also on Youtube:
Includes some of my favourite bits from my #envhist #medievalsky #earlymodern research into Alpine & Animal history, like the mysterious exploding pigs Andeer & retirement homes for cows from the title & more, like the iron eating cows of Disentis
youtu.be/t3xiWUfztmk
We're pleased to see this positive review of 'Nordic Climate Histories' in @hnetreviews.bsky.social: www.h-net.org/reviews/show... The book is available in paperback and #openaccess here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhist
New Environmental History Today webinar!
Date and Time: March 10 2026, 15:00 – 17:00 (CET)
Zoom: universiteitleiden.zoom.us/j/6722564220...
#EnvHist
Are you interested in organizing the 2026 ESEH Summer School in Environmental History? ESEH offers advisory and financial support to the selected proposal. Consider submitting a proposal by 15 March 2026!
eseh.org/call-for-pro...
#EnvHist
Global #EnvHist community, don't miss our Verena Winiwarter Prize for the best article that contributes to global environmental history, focusing on comparisons and connections between different parts of the world or on areas outside mainstream scholarship in the field.
Deadline: 15 August 2026
Check out Claire Campbell's review of "Nordic Climate Histories: Impacts, Pathways, Narratives," published in 2025 by
@whitehorsepress.bsky.social; review now available
@hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #climate
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
We've got a fascinating seminar coming up next week on embodied environmental histories of danger in Dartmoor! Join us at 2PM GMT next Tuesday (the 10th) for some dangerous discussions... #envhist #environmentalhistory #nationalparks #envhum #dartmoor #Devon
📣 Two Open PhD Positions in Environmental Humanities - Exploring Biodiversity Narratives
📌 The University of Fribourg, Switzerland
These interdisciplinary PhD positions are at the intersection of literary and cultural studies, the social sciences, and biodiversity communication. #EnvHum #Envhist
📧 Lev Centrih: lev.centrih@fhs.upr.si (Eastern and Southern Europe, Early Modern and Modern periods)
📧 Davide Cristoferi: davide.cristoferi@ulb.be (Western and Southern Europe, Antiquity, Medieval and Early Modern periods)
📧 Harm Zwarts: h.zwarts@rug.nl (Western and Northern Europe, Modern period)
Possible topics include, but are not restricted to:
- global food needs
- rural heritage
- management of natural resources
- productivity change in agriculture
- transfer of property
- rural organization.
Paper and panel proposal can be submitted via the link. You can contact the co-chairs here:
📣 Call for Papers: Rural History Network at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC)
📍 Lyon, France
📅 21–24 April 2027
⏳ The deadline for submissions is 15 April 2026
We will post more info below. #EnvHum
Bord Gáis advertisement titled "Putting Natural Gas to work for Ireland" that depicts an offshore drilling platform, gas cooker, electricity generating station, fertiliser spreader, and milk bulk tank as a network of industrial applications for Irish natural gas.
My PhD thesis 'Carrying Capacity: Nitrogen and the Intensification of Irish Pasture Systems, 1945-2007' is finally finally finally finalised!!
I'm very proud of it so if you're interested in Irish histories of industrialisation, the Nitrates Directive, natural […]
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