Dear #envhist community, good news! The CfP for the 2027 @eseh.bsky.social conference is out. Spread the good news, organize panels and submit your proposals. See you in Salzburg next year! eseh.org/cfp-14th-bie...

#Envhist folks, I know that this #conference season is only getting started but: Mark your calendars for the 2027 @eseh.bsky.social conference in Salzburg!!! The #cfp is out now: eseh.org/cfp-14th-bie...

www.eseh2027.at Call is out now! See you in #Salzburg ! @eseh.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social #EnvHist #EnvHum

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

🚨 JOB KLAXON #skystorians #envhist #envhums Cover for some of my teaching next year - 0.5 FTE at University of Liverpool. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE899/l...

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 @joshuarushton8.bsky.social and I are holding an online colloquium 'Environmental Approaches to the Reformation World' on 30 Sept 2026 🌳 🌊 ⛪ 🐄 Deadline for submissions 1 September.

Each issue of Environment and History features a "Notepad" by the ESEH. The latest issue features a piece by our early-career network NEXTGATe. Check it out and learn about how the network will focus on craft and creativity!

Job Alert! Two-year postdoctoral position (100%, Jan 2027-Dec 2029) on the biological & social history of enteric pathogens in post-war France: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/448818 (1/4)

Environmental conferences have an environmental cost, and ICEHO therefore decided to support a grassroots initiative in the wake of the World Congress of #EnvHist. Read board member Micheline Cariño's new piece on what Las Guardianas de Conchalito in Mexico did with our financial support. #envhum

Super happy to embark on this new editorial project: the Smell Studies Journal! Currently examining abstracts for our first two issues :) #smellstudies #envhum #sensoryhistory #sensorystudies #chstm

An amazing resource: The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) www.theguardian.com/environment/... @biodivlibrary.bsky.social #envhist #envhum

CfP for all Nordic-facing #ecocritics! You have just a few more days to put in an abstract for the 2026 ENSCAN workshop on the topic of #resilience. enscan.net/workshops/re... What is the role of resilience in Nordic literature & culture? #EnvHum #Ecocriticism #økokritikk

PhD student position in History of Ideas & Science, Gothenberg University, Sweden. 4 year paid position. Environment is one of the possible areas to research. web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... #envhist

I'll be speaking at the Cabinet of Natural History seminar at @hpscambridge.bsky.social on 15 June from 1-2pm in the Gonville and Caius Fellows' Garden, the first day of my @camglamresearch.bsky.social Natural History Humanities Visiting Fellowship ✨ #envhist #envhums #collections #histsci /1

Thanks @libbydeq.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @whitehorsepress.bsky.social for the opportunity to acknowledge scholars who inspire my work. I hope you love Kylie Stevens’ art.

We are excited to share a new article by former Fellow Dr. Irus Braverman: “The New Jewish Shepherd: Land Grabbing and Redemption in the Occupied West Bank.” Read the full article at: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #envhum #research #environment #WestBank #fieldwork

The newest issue of 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 (@globalenvironment.bsky.social) is guest edited by PhD candidate Lijuan Klassen & RCC Director Christof Mauch! It brings an environmental humanities perspective to planetary health: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/current #envhist #envhum

There is still time to read a new book this summer! Check out the list that I have for review with H-Environment #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #climate #sustainability #conservation #envtech #plantstudies #animalhist docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Today Katrine Ehnhuus helps us make sense of Europe's Arctic energy dilemma. This is the latest in our new series which unpacks current events through the lens of #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2026/06/05/m...

We've added a new blog post by Margaret Cook - part of Global Environment's series in partnership with ICEHO. Margaret responds to a recent essay by Libby Robin in GE. whitehorsepress.blog/2026/06/09/i... @globalenvironment.bsky.social @iceho.bsky.social #envhist

Organized by @viktorpal.bsky.social, Ostrava held the largest international #envhist conference in Czechia since @eseh.bsky.social 2003 in Prague: ff.osu.eu/esiee/. We put together a whole session on crisis discourses, local conflict and forest ecosystem change.

Sabine Höhler (Center for Anthropocene History, KTH Stockholm) wrote a great report on our recent conservation workshop in Lusatia. The region is worth the visit for ecological reasons. www.kth.se/anthropocene... #envhum #envhist @eseh.bsky.social @untamed.bsky.social @pavlasimkova.bsky.social

Our early-career network is organizing a workshop on 16 June! #envhist

Don't miss! Next week ethnobiologist and forest education teacher Anna Varga will give a workshop on charcoal burning. Find out more: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_... #envhum #envhist #charcoal #forests

The ASEH 2027 Call for Proposals just dropped today! I’ve gone ahead and started an open sessions spreadsheet for anyone looking to find panelmates: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #envhist #envhum @aseh.bsky.social @asehearlycareer.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social @iceho.bsky.social

The CfP for ASEH 2027 is out! "ASEH at 50: Exploring the Roots and Boundaries of a Field" in Richmond, Virginia. Deadline: 16 August. #envhist @aseh.bsky.social www.aseh.org/ASEH-2027-Ca...

New open-access book: The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal, by @alejandrofabregastejeda.com. Download it via our Environment & Society Portal! #envhist #histsci #envphil

Join the BNL Environmental History Today online seminar tomorrow, Wednesday (27 May), between 15:30 and 17:00. Dr. Wout Sealens will present his recently published book Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries. #envhist @eseh.bsky.social

Next Wednesday, 27 May, this #Speak4Nature seminar will take place in Munich, Germany. #envhum

Lovely essay by @palmblad.bsky.social developing the sense of environing - a verb - that does things to us (all organisms) rather than just something out there (to be managed), or an adjective that decorates something else. Environment with grit... @carsoncenter.bsky.social @aehhub.bsky.social

Our colleagues at the Rachel Carson Center have contributed with a new deliverable for our project: The Cultural Roots of Ecological Justice. Read it to learn about the history ecological justice, its perils, and how to reconcile it with social justice. ec.europa.eu/research/par... #envhum #envhist

Le mardi 26 mai prochain, on pourra discuter olfaction et pollution de l'air (en ligne & en français) grâce à une invitation de l'association Olf'active! Au menu: tanneries, rivières, usines, carburants et autres joyeusetés 🙊 Info: www.helloasso.com/associations... #envhist #envhum #airpollution

Some new European environmental history!

We have a new logo! Made by Gilberto Mazzoli, who has also designed the official logo of the ESEH, and who moreover is a part of NEXTGATe. By the way, join our listserv with a monthly newsletter on #EnvHist and #EnvHum opportunities by sending us your email address in a DM!

New ESEH seminar on 20 May, 4pm CET: "Colonisation and Russia’s 'Green' Civilising Mission in the Far East," with Mark Sokolsky and Maria Pirogovskaya. Register and read more here: forms.gle/2LNsthLwwSWE... #envhist

Interested in herbaria, plants and digitization? Come work with us! 3 PhD & Postdoc Positions in History & Phil. of Biology & Digital Humanities! #ERC Project BOTLEG; @ruhr-uni-bochum.de! Deadline: 25 May '26 #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio #EnvHist #DigitalHumanities #AcademicSky #PhDSky Details below 👇

More recent ahead-of-print articles! In 'Regulating the Wood Trade and Forestry', Cristiano La Lumia examines political & social tensions over timber tariffs in Imperial Germany. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️

We're delighted to report that Giacomo Bonan's book 'The State in the Forest: Contested Commons in the Nineteenth Century Venetian Alps' is now #openaccess, thanks to support from the University of Turin. Available here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhist #alps #venice #italy #forestry

The Climate History Network and the Oslo Centre for Advanced Study NORLIA project have created an online course on "The Nordic Little Age." The target group is highschool and undergraduate students, but this can surely be interesting to others too! #envhist www.climatehistory.net/the-nordic-l...

Join us in Paris in two weeks' time for a whole week of conferencing on "Histories of water" 💧 On Wed 20 May, I'll present a paper entitled "Sous le signe de Neptune: ambitions de contrôle des eaux dans les villes de l’Europe moderne" 🔱 #skystorians #waterhistory #envhist #envhums

An exciting workshop in the making @eseh.bsky.social @leruche.bsky.social

New lecture series on "Soviet Biology in Changing Environments: Nature, Knowledge, and Life under Transformation," with Anna Mazanik, Stephen Brain, Dmitriy Myelnikov, and ALexandra Noi. #EnvHist #EnvHum

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