Call for Papers - Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology Resisting Abandonment will foreground the idea that languages, like ecosystems, are sites of relationality and care.

#CFP: 'Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology' Conference
Glendon College, York University
October 15–16, 2026

Deadline: June 15, 2026.

Info: niche-canada.org/2026/04/10/c...

#envhum #envhist #ecology #linguistics #ecocriticism

I have a new OA paper out in Geoforum:
🦐🌎 'What on Earth? Terraqueous Terraforming and Earth-shaping with shrimp-shells' 🌎🦐
doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

Closes today! A brilliant opportunity :-) for mid-PhDs/ECRs

Smart Cities: past and future of urban areas in our society Explore how cities evolve- from the smog-filled streets of industrial Manchester to today's digitally connected urban spaces. This event brings together ta…

As part of the upcoming Pint of Science festival, I'll be talking smells and cities on 18 May, yeah!

We'll explore factory air and labour, political history and smoke, and smelly waterways at the Taproom, near Piccadilly station in Manchester.

Info:
pintofscience.co.uk/event/smart-...

#CFP: 'Cartographier les espaces aristocratiques : Domaines, forêts, jardins (Europe, XVIe-XIXe siècles)'
22-24/10/2026, Versailles

Deadline: 01/06/2026

Info: plafon.fr/2026/03/27/a...

#envhum #envhist #histsci

#CFP: 'From the volcanic to the narrative arc: spectacles of volcanoes in humanities and geosciences', special issue Bucharest Literary Review.

Deadline: September 30, 2026.

Info: ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/call-for-art...

#envhum #envhist #ecocriticism #ecopoetics #ecolit #sts

#CFP: 'Italian Ecofeminism and Literature', collective volume edited by Nicole Dittmer

Deadline: August 1, 2026

Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

#envhum #italianstudies #ecofeminism #ecocritcism

1/3 Last week I gave a talk, Shadowtime Ecologies: Caterpillars, Bones, and Unstable Landscapes in the Painterly Imagination, at the 11th Biennial EASLCE Conference @ Utrecht University. @easlce.bsky.social
#multispeciesjustice
#EnvironmentalHumanities #EcoCriticism #ContemporaryPainting #ArtSky

Had a great time at the @easlce.bsky.social conference in Utrecht this week, enjoying a wide range of talks on seed saving, gardening, invasive species, creature features, minerals, and more, and connecting with so many #envhum people whose work I follow.

Thanks to @easlce.bsky.social for organising last week's conference at Utrecht University! I went home with lots of new questions and book recommendations.

Eva Meijer is so kind to share the powerpoint of her keynote with us. It can be downloaded here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/b1dcj...

A screen shows the title slide of a conference talk while a women stands to the side talking. The slide on the screen has botanical illustrations and reads "Flipping the parasite spectrum: Plant Humanities, meet Plant Ecophysiology". The woman has long black hear and is wearing a blue overall and glasses.

It has become my academic mission and passion to combine plant ecophysiology and the humanities. The @easlce.bsky.social conference this past week allowed me to look at parasitic plants through an ecocriticism lens and it was a blast! Now onto organizing ideas into manuscript and grant applications.

✨✨✨I’m so grateful for the interdisciplinary space and interest provided by @easlce.bsky.social!

We've published a new piece in 'Global Environment', in which Valerio Caruso interviews Steven High on 'Environmental History and Deindustrialisation Studies'; #openaccess here: doi.org/10.3828/whpg.... #envhist #deindustrialisation

Rethinking Incomplete Metaphors for the Earth System We often hear about the Anthropocene, but what if it’s not the only way to understand our impact on Earth? Ideas like the noosphere and technosphere offer striking new ways to see humanity’s role o…

Latest on EHN from @valeriazambianchi.bsky.social on metaphors for the earth system #envhist #envhum #histsci #histtech

Yesterday I was fortunate to join the Subaltern Memories Conference in Florence. It was a pleasure to present there. Everyone was super friendly and I am very grateful for the invitation!

@eui-history.bsky.social @euromemories.bsky.social

#envhist #envhum #Chernobyl #memories #Ukraine #techhist

John Scanlan, The Idea of Waste: On the Limits of Human Life. Reaktion Books, 2025. Cover of book with mountain of waste on right.

Join us online Monday (20 April 2026) for John Scanlan discussing his book The Idea of Waste: On the Limits of Human Life (Reaktion Books, 2025) in the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series. Start time is 4pm Central European time / 3pm in UK / 10am Eastern.

newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Sad about the end of the #EASLCE2026 in Utrecht? Those working on Nordic #Ecocritism & #EnvHum can put in a proposal for the ENSCAN workshop later this year. enscan.net/workshops/re...

"Today, the logics of enclosure, alienation, and improvement have been masked in liberal language, now reaching well beyond enclosure of land and labour into legitimating enclosures of health, education, knowledge, social care, and other societal goods."

If anybody has a place for an environmental humanities scholar working on seed saving and storytelling, do let me know! (7/7)

I was in Utrecht this week for the @easlce.bsky.social conference. I’m taking the weekend to recover but also want to take a moment to share how good it was: inspiring talks; meeting new friends and colleagues; seeing friends for the first time in years; sneaking away to have a coffee... (1/7)

Some We Love, Some We Hate: Why It’s So Hard to Care for Invasive Species [preformed panel] | EASLCE 2026 Session: 6aDay: Friday 17 AprilTime: 9.15–11.00Room: JK2–3 1.10Chair: Eline Tabak Panel description: Cane toads in Australia, rapa whelks in the Black Sea, and grey squirrels in the United Kingdom are...

Looking forward to chairing an amazing panel on Urban Infrastructures of Hope from infrastructural, legal, and utopian perspectives! @easlce.bsky.social @univie.ac.at easlce2026.sites.uu.nl/6a/

The cover of the book shows an orange-red tin can with the book's title written on it.

🍇 New book edited by Senior Research Fellow Gabriel Rosenberg and Jan Dutkiewicz.

In “Feed the People!” both authors argue that modern technology and smart policies can improve today’s food system and make it more accessible for everyone.

🔗 buff.ly/PQGqIqO

#AgSci #EnvHum #HistSci

Ignore the questionable plaque and focus instead on the open paywall www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... and my total joy in winning the Leopold-Hidy award for the best article in _Environmental History_ published in 2025! @aseh.bsky.social

For all EASLCE attendees: We have several pertinent series that fit your research, amongst others: Nature, Culture & Literature series ( www.brill.com/NCL ), and our fully refreshed Studies in Environmental Humanities ( www.brill.com/SEH )

@easlce.bsky.social
@dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social

This second edition is essential reading - for everyone. If there’s one book I’d recommend in environmental history, it might be this.

With an introduction by @brdemuth.bsky.social! #EnvHist

Episode 16: Megadrought in Mesopotamia - The Climate Chronicles More than 4,000 years ago, a wall seems to have gone up across what is now northern Iraq.

Collapse! Mega-drought!

The 16th episode of The Climate Chronicles explores whether a wave of drying brought about the collapse of the world's first empire, 4200 years ago. It's a huge episode: more than 8000 words and 65 mins of audio. #EnvHist

theclimatechronicles.com/2026/04/07/e...

Can’t wait to read and teach this new edited volume by @mmuscolino.bsky.social, which breaks us out of the binary of the Mao era as environmentally destructive vs. sustainable!

#envhist #histstm

A future with non-kins: 
the rape of a wallaby In Aotearoa New Zealand, wallabies are invasive pests. In a world of “multispecies” relationship, what does it mean to be an invader? What forms of care, cruelty, and gendered violence emerge in th…

WE're thrilled to feature this crosspost of @katiekung.bsky.social with Feministische Geo-RundMail, an online publication by the working group Feminist Geographies, as part of their Feminist Fabulative Futures issue #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2026/03/26/a...

Train’s broken, still on my way to #EASLCE2026, on a bus somewhere between Germany and Netherlands now. Look who’s also in this together though 👀

Spilt two drinks over myself yesterday, but I've decided it's an embodied response to the watery environs & oceanic theme of #EASLCE2026. Looking forward to more not-dry talks & messy interactions with my #EnvHum community 💦