Great lecture from Jason W. Moore
"Slaveship Earth: Capitalism’s Secret 500-Year Climate History"
"The climate crisis didn’t begin with factories, smokestacks, or fossil fuels. It began with slave ships."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lykF...
#envhist #climhist #anthropocene
Cool opportunity to work at the intersections of climate/environmental history and history of medicine!
History and Medicine – Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure – McMaster University
Apply by March 31st
niche-canada.org/2026/03/05/h...
#envhist #histmed #climhist #cdnhist
ALERT - The deadline for our Canada's Great Acceleration series has been extended to FEBRUARY 25th!!
Send us your pitches!!
niche-canada.org/2026/02/06/c...
#envhist #cdnhist #energyhistory #climhist
"In this episode of Weathered, host Maiya May investigates what history reveals about system collapse, failed cities, and civilizations that didn’t survive climate shocks. Were they doomed? Or did they miss warning signs we’re seeing today?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4pS...
#envhist #climhist
Scientists Discover A Volcano Caused the Black Plague
"The volcano triggered crop failures, forcing Italian merchants to import grain from the Black Sea. But that grain was infested with plague-carrying fleas..."
www.youtube.com/shorts/p5NrA...
#envhist #histmed #climhist
Call for Contributions: A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering
Editors: @rhiggitt.bsky.social @tamaracaulkins.bsky.social & @lottaleiwo.bsky.social
Proposal Deadline - 4 September 2026
niche-canada.org/2026/02/10/c...
#envhist #climhist #histsci #weather
NOVEMBER 30TH = The deadline to apply to attend the 2026 Canadian History of the Environment Summer School (CHESS) in Prince Edward Island in June. The theme is Climate & History.
niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
#envhist #cdnhist #climhist #envhum #histgeog
Call for Chapters: The Montreal Moment
Roosevelt Institute for American Studies
Deadline: 30 September 2025
"The Montreal Protocol represented more than a landmark multilateral environmental agreement; it marked a cultural transformation."
niche-canada.org/2025/09/13/c...
#envhist #climhist
2) "ESEH 2025 Online Conference in August" by Nicole Miller - niche-canada.org/2025/06/28/e...
#ESEH2025 #envhist #envhum #climhist
ICYMI:
Local #ESEH2025 planners have developed a curated 3 day program of artistic events, creative workshops, and art interventions based on the conference theme of Climate Histories.
niche-canada.org/2025/07/26/c...
@eseh.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #climhist #climateart
ICYMI:
Virtual #ESEH2025 attendees get access to all four of the conference's keynote addresses.
Learn more from our editor and conference organizer, Nicole Miller, here:
niche-canada.org/2025/06/28/e...
@eseh.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #climhist
"Madame de Sévigné’s references to weather were, in fact, complaints about conditions we might expect today: a cold snap in winter, and a heat wave in summer!" - @dagomardegroot.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/03/24/s...
#envhist #climhist #wxhistory
Climates of Empire: Environmental Historians in Conversation with Climate Change Researchers
Centre for World Environmental History
26-27 June 2025 – A 108, Arts A, University of Sussex & Zoom
niche-canada.org/2025/06/21/h...
#envhist #climhist #climatechange
"Settlers began, starting in the mid-19th century, to appropriate the pervasive discourse of climatic determinism to support their own identity." - @blairstein.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2015/09/28/i...
#envhist #cdnhist #climhist
Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, breaks down our most-read articles published in March!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uePp...
#envhist #cdnhist #climhist #envhum #animalhistory #indigenoushistory
1) "Seeing the Climate’s Past for What It Really Was: The Case of Madame de Sévigné’s Changed Seasons" by @dagomardegroot.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2025/03/24/s...
#envhist #climhist #cdnhist
#envhist #envhum #museum #waterhist #oceanhist #climatechange #biodiversity #dighum #climhist @carsoncenter.bsky.social
If you would like to write about any of these developments for our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series, check out the CFP: niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...
#envhist #climhist #climatechange
Now here's a cool #ClimHist visualization, nice work @hausfath.bsky.social and @thirstygecko.bsky.social!
Virtual Event – Narrating Climate History: A New Podcast and Multimedia Project with @dagomardegroot.bsky.social
Wednesday – 30 April 2025 – 12pm EDT
@aseh.bsky.social Connects
niche-canada.org/2025/04/22/v...
#envhist #climhist
ICYMI:
"Madame de Sévigné’s references to weather were, in fact, complaints about conditions we might expect today: a cold snap in winter, and a heat wave in summer!" - @dagomardegroot.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/03/24/s...
#envhist #climhist #climatechange #wxhistory
Today on our site @dagomardegroot.bsky.social revisits a well-known 17th century climate history source in "Seeing the Climate’s Past for What It Really Was: The Case of Madame de Sévigné’s Changed Seasons" - niche-canada.org/2025/03/24/s...
#envhist #climhist
Hey, reminder that you have until this Saturday March 15th to get your 100-300 word proposal in for our Finding Humour in the Environmental History of the Climate Crisis series!
niche-canada.org/2025/02/06/c...
#envhist #envhum #climhist #climatecrisis
"The temperature spreads in temperate North America were extreme even for the temperately acclimatized British, Irish, and Hessian troops who fought for the British Crown." - @erinspinney.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2024/04/12/t...
#envhist #histmed #climhist #brithist
This is the introduction to an entire series that we co-published with @activehist.bsky.social on historians confronting climate change, which you can peruse here: niche-canada.org/tag/historia...
#envhist #climhist #climatechange
It was a big week for publishing papers. @ambio-journal.bsky.social published our paper "Climate, peace, and conflict—past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research" yesterday! 🥳 #envhist #climhist #climatechange #skystorians
ICYMI:
"This kind of interdisciplinary work is essential for creating long-term historical baselines on which to model future climatic changes under global warming." - Philip Gooding
niche-canada.org/2025/01/30/c...
#envhist #climhist #climatechange #climatescience
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