ESEH – European Society for Environmental History

The call for ESEH 2027 is out! Submit your proposal by 15 October. We offer standard formats like panel sessions, individual papers, book presentations, and posters, but also repeat our creative Different World Sessions! Read more here: eseh.org/cfp-14th-bie... #EnvHist #EnvHum

We've added a new post to our blog, by Doubravka Olšáková introducing her recent article in E&H: 'When Socialism Took Orders from an Insect', free to read here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/10/26/c... #envhist #beetles #coloradopotatobeetle. @eandhwhp.bsky.social

Call for contributions! “Planetary Histories and More-than-Human Politics,” special issue of História – Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. Deadline: 31 December. www.linkedin.com/posts/joana-... #envhum #envhist

Job call: Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities to lead the Greenhouse Games Lab at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Deadline: 10 November. #EnvHum bsky.app/profile/did:...

Reminding all early career scholars of this fantastic opportunity. Deadline: 6 November. #envhist

SOLCHA, the Latin American organization for environmental history, is organizing its next conference in Argentina next year. Present in Spanish, Portuguese, or English. #envhist Panel deadline: 31 October: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Talk deadline: 30 November: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Review a book!

Very glad to start a new week with the release of a new article: "Trading the Globe's Flora from the German Provinces: The Unio Itineraria in Esslingen, 1825-1845" (Itinerario) and co-written with the lovely Ella D. Müller ✨ #envhist #histsci #collections Available OA: doi.org/10.1017/S016...

In April of 1191, a gyrfalcon from the far north flew over Acre. How did it get there? Did it feel hot? Can one use scant medieval sources to explore the experiences of a bird that lived mora than eight centuries ago? Read Ryan Mealiffe's new Arcadia piece to learn more! #envhist #envhum #animalhist

Tomorrow, 28 October, we are co-organizing this event together with ASEH! Sign up here: aseh.org/event-6823081 . Join Mu Cao, Mark Madison, Matthias Schumann, Teresa Joshy, and Roberta Biasillo in their discussion on "More-Than-Human Habitats." #envhum #envhist Photo: Faheem Ahmed

CfP: "Recentering the Margins of the World Economy in Past and Present – Natural Resources, Commodity Frontiers and Political Ecology in Eurasia" in Regensburg, Germany. Deadline: 15 December. #envhist #envhum leibniz-ios.de/en/knowledge...

Update: this will take place on the 3rd of November, not hte 2nd as originally stated. We hope to see many of you there! #EnvHist #EnvHum

Students from outside of the EU can apply for our Masters in Public Environmental Humanities program in November. It's a very short application window, so watch the date! Our tuition for non-EU students is very reasonable: less than £5000 / $6500 per year www.uis.no/en/studies/p... #envhum

Our President Claudia Leal joined the Chinese workshop "Shared Destiny: The Web of Life in Environmental History" in July this year. Board member Mu Cao has written a report on the discussions and on the work of bringing #EnvHist initiatives together around the world.

Two PhD positions in Forest History in Finland! Deadline: 15 November. @mtoiv.bsky.social #envhist #envhum

CFP: Towards a Posthumanistic Mountain Humanities, Online Workshop 11 December 2026. shorturl.at/wnsS8 #Mountains #EnvHist #EnvHums #HistGeog #IndigenousKnowledge #AnimalHist #NewAnimism #NewMaterialism #AssemblageTheory #Posthumanism

Join us on 28 October, 15:00–16:00 CET, for the next online Instructing Natural History seminar! Christoffer Basse Eriksen (@cberiksen.bsky.social, Aarhus University) presents “Botanical Bureaucracy: The Fall of Georg Christian Oeder and the Survival of the Flora Danica.” 🧵 1/3

Our postponed zine workshop will take place on 2 November! Join us for a workshop that explores the potential + value of zines as an alternative method of research + publication for the environmental humanities. #EnvHum #EnvHist #zines Sign up for free via the link below. And please share!

DEADLINE today (15 October)! Submit your proposal by 23:58 CET. Individual submissions are also considered, and we also offer experimental formats: posters, transdisciplinary workshops, "Teaching Environmental History", "Meet a Scientist", and more! #EnvHist #EnvHum

A friendly reminder that the deadline for submissions to the ESEH 2027 Conference is 15 October 2026. Please note that the deadline is final and will not be extended. Please share the call with colleagues and networks who may be interested in participating. Full call in the link! #EnvHist

Mark your calendars for next week : Monday, 19 October, 10am in Norway / 9am in UK Becca Voelcker will discuss her book Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction ( @ucpress.bsky.social 2025) in the Greenhouse online #envhum book talk series. All are welcome to join! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Former ICEHO President Verena Winiwarterhas been awarded for her contributions to environmental history in Austria! #envhist

The deadline for next year's ESEH conference in Salzburg is approaching! Our early career network has set up a spreadsheet for all to use (also senior scholars!) to find panelists and panels. Please share! #EnvHist

Our early-career network offers another round of its popular Writing Support Program with Andrea Gaynor! #envhist

The Fifth World Congress of Environmental History is Coming to Toronto in 2030! We are excited to welcome @iceho.bsky.social and environmental historians from around the world to Canada! niche-canada.org/2026/09/18/t... #envhist #envhum

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Sharing this, please circulate and join us if you can! @eseh.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social @iceho.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @greenhouseuis.net @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social

We’ve published ‘Global Environment’ issue 19.3, #openaccess here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/cu... #envhist #envhum @globalenvironment.bsky.social

The next World Congress is now announced! We hope to see you all in Toronto, Canada, in 2030. The venue will be at York University, Toronto, and Toronto Metropolitan University and McMaster University will also be a part of the planning, which is headed by Jennifer Bonnell. Read more below! #envhist

Look at this! New opportunity in Munich. #envhist

Five more days to apply for the Environmental Studies Certificate Program for the 2026–27 winter semester! More info: www.sprachlit.lmu.de/carsoncenter... #envhum #envhist #graduatestudies #certificate #CfA

Here's some European #EnvHist for you!

On 15 September at 6 pm CEST, Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, David Pellow, and Rob Nixon will discuss Armiero's book Vajont: A Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster. The talk will take place on the YouTube channel of Radical Environmental Humanities. #envhist #envhum

New open-access book by former ESEH President Marco Armiero!

#HISTSTM #Envhist hive mind: If you were to offer ugrad students any introductory text on art & natural history in the context of travel & empire in the 19c what would you choose? Hoping for examples that raise important introductory questions before proceeding on to key examples in the seminar…

Christof Mauch, ESEH President between 2011 and 2013, is retiring. Christof has been an immense influence on #EnvHist, and we, too, are sure he will continue to shape the field in Europe and beyond!

Early-career researchers and researchers from low-income countries need your help. @eseh.bsky.social has launched a campaign to raise funds for travel grants for the next conference in Salzburg in 2027. Donate now! #envhist #histtech www.betterplace.org/en/projects/...

CfP: "Resources and Their Histories: Commodification, Resistance, and the Making of Material Worlds" in Bern Switzerland, just before ESEH 2027. Deadline: 15 January. #EnvHist hist-ecosoc.ch

Wondering about all the Colossal de-extinction hype and how it meshes with history and natural history? We have a new Viewpoint piece in Bioscience out today: "The return of an imaginary bluebuck" doi.org/10.1093/bios... #envhist #extinction

Extended deadline! Submit by 23 August. #EnvHist

My review of Frank Uekötter's book 'The Vortex. An Environmenal History of the Modern World' is now available in 𝐼𝑠𝑖𝑠. 𝐴 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑆𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑦 (only accessible with a subscription): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #histsci #envhist

our special issue on Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling is out. What started in Berlin in 2022 as a collaboration between me and Tom Turnbull grew into a larger project running over several years, featuring three workshops in Berlin, Stockholm and Venice tinyurl.com/3uudrmw9 #envhist

A reminder about the upcoming ASEH 2027 deadline on 16 August. The convenors are encouraging the submission of complete panels. Need to find someone to fill out your panel? Check this list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #envhist @aseh.bsky.social

$12.47 for an ebook right now or you can use the discount code McCa6648 for 50% off the physical book #histsci #histSTM #envhist #Antarctica

I wonder if folks in the #envhist community would be interested in a “engineering for environmental history” introduction course… is there such a thing already? @eseh.bsky.social @leruche.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

Excited to share my latest research article, published in Germinate: Environmental History Review @g-ehr.bsky.social , an open-access, digital publication of the @aseh.bsky.social . Read the full piece here: doi.org/10.65131/GPS... #envhist #rachelcarson #silentspring #spain #francoistspain

4 new AOP articles! In 'Unity in Diversity?', Patrick Kupper and Jana Piňosová examine the neglected history of Habsburg nature conservation in the larger context of early 20th century European conservation. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist #history

Help environmental history prosper by supporting young scholars! Donations small and large are very welcome. #EnvHist #fundraiser