This week I’m doing zine workshops with college students and it’s so incredibly inspiring. We base the zines on some of the themes developed in my PhD like chemical pollution and the Danish pesticide manufacturer, Cheminova.
We’re having an exhibition on Friday in Copenhagen. Come by!
Besides planning our PhD course in January on environmental history, a BA course also on the Anthropocene and preparing for work as a science policy fellow.
Lots of exciting stuff is also in the pipeline. Stay tuned!!
I return from Stockholm with a heart full of joy and a head full of inspiration
December madness:
- Zine workshop for high school students
- round table with “my” initiative CSF student forum on visual methods
- presenting at center for studies of science at AU
- A lecture on Anthropocene history
Field history!
🚨We are launching the 6th edition of the NEXTGATe Writing Support Program!
Are you an early career author looking for feedback on your writing in a supportive peer-group plus expert advice? You have come to the right place!
For more information and how to apply, see below 👇
#envhist #envhum
I have given my website a thorough update. You will find some of things I am interested in, like methodology and experimentation, Scandinavian humdrum and post-mining ecology in the arctic.
www.sebastianlundsteen.com
📷 is from a recent field visit to the copper mine, Aitik in Northern Sweden.
The journal Environmental Humanities is still looking for midcareer/senior #envhum scholars interested in becoming a co-editor-in-chief from January 2026. You can apply as an individual and we'll find an appropriate co-editor match for you.
See environmentalhumanities.org
Apply by writing to @monabie.bsky.social: bielingm@hsu-hh.de with a 400 words letter: 1) a brief introduction, 2) motivation 3) potential ideas for an initiative (not mandatory) and 4) a CV (4 pages maximum). The application deadline is 15th of October 2025, 4 PM (CET)
Questions? feel free to HMU!
Call for Applications!
@esehnextgate.bsky.social is seeking new members to join its committee for a two-year term 2025–2027.
More info below!!
New podcast and this is also BANGING! Check it out!!!
NEW DEADLINE: 15.9!!!!
Anyone knowing when exact(ish) carbon capture and storage stopped being categorized as geoengineering? It seems like it just slipped into being an ordinary feasible technology?
I am so much looking forward to this conversation!!!
Check out this guest lecture at U. of Stavanger this Friday with Professor Mathias Danbolt from Copenhagen U. "Monumental Expectations: Notes on Queer, Feminist, and Antiracist Public Memoralization in Norway."
@sebmergence.bsky.social and I will have a podcast interview with him soon as well.
So great to get your thoughtful insights!
So many things happening during #eseh2025, but for now:
🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨
In “The pollution-industrial complex and the making of Denmark as an environmental frontrunner, 1965-1975”
we explore how environmental regulation became a matter of technology rather than strict (and strictly) regulation.
Lucky to be a part of such a great team!
Come join us for a drink and a convivial time.
Especially if you are attending the conference alone: feel free to hang out and get to know us (and other cool people too!)
✨️We invite early career scholars & friends for a networking event at #eseh2025! Tuesday, at 19:30, in Fjölnir student pub (check program). There will be drinks and snacks 🍺🍕. See you there!
#envhist
@eseh.bsky.social
@sebmergence.bsky.social
@palmblad.bsky.social
@monabie.bsky.social
Yes! But it also made me wonder if 1st and 2nd year history students are up for dense stuff like yusoff.
Fantastic, Sandra!
To clarify: texts by anyone but white dudes
Extra points for texts by non-white dudes
I am developing a course titled “Anthropocene Histories, History in the Anthropocene” at UCPH.
My idea is to structure the it thematically through planetary boundaries.
But what are the best texts around these days. I have the obvious stuff: Chakrabarty, Bonneuil & Fressoz, McNeill, Brown
I am thrilled to announce that I will be collaborating with Adam Wickberg and the brilliant group at KTH's Centre of Excellence for Anthropocene History this fall as a visiting scholar. So, if you are in proximity to Stockholm between September 1st and December 1st and want to hang out: HMU
I am really proud to see this thing out and it’s only because @smueller.bsky.social and Livia Cahns amazing work (and patience)
New publication!
Translucence: Some Notations on Sediments, Amber, Toxic Chemicals, and the Possibility of Returns
In collaboration with my friend and sound artist Korana Jelača who composed a piece that accompanies the text. Very experimental
#envhum
edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4...
Mark your calendars for #ESEH2025 we'll host a networking event with drinks and snacks 🍹🍟 on Tuesday 19.08. evening. All folks welcome!! 🌿
#envhist @palmblad.bsky.social @monabie.bsky.social @sebmergence.bsky.social @tanjariekkinen.bsky.social
@eseh.bsky.social
‼️NEW EPISODE ALERT ‼️
This brand new episode, with my co-host @andersriel.bsky.social and guest Tone Huse, explores the colonial manifestations through architecture in kalaallit nunaat and how temporalities can reinforce the colonial project, but also be sites of resistance.
For those selected few who know Danish: I have written an article that synthesizes #envhum #envhis perspectives on pollution for a popular media platform. I use examples from my PhD written @greenhouseuis.net. I warn against seeing pollution as a domain reserved for techno-science and politicians.