Current state of mind

Join us online for Chris Jones discussing his book The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Came to Believe a Dangerous Delusion (Univ of Chicago Press, 2025) in the Greenhouse #envhum #book talk series tomorrow (Monday, 2 February 2026), 16:00 CET / 10:00 EST.

*Neu*: Stipendien für Scholars in Residence am Archiv für Zeitgeschichte der ETH Zürich

Want to organize the 2026 ESEH Summer School in Environmental History? Check out our new call: eseh.org/call-for-pro... #EnvHist #EnvHum

Our book is out today! 🎉 "Cultural Landscapes of Energy" adds a historical perspective to current debates on energy transition by bringing together conflicting histories around work, habitation and leisure in landscapes impacted by energy production across Europe.

The link already expired, click here for full access: www.academia.edu/152457657/Co... 'Cold War Ecology. Socialist Environmental Reflexivities from the “Club of Moscow” to Harich's “Degrowth Communism” in the GDR' Thread Part 1 bsky.app/profile/mbic... Thread Part 2 bsky.app/profile/mbic...

Excellent new book arguing that we need to take the early modern household more seriously in order to understand the emergence of fossil-fuel based societies. An important addition to energy history scholarship #skystorians lup.be/book/fossil-...

Job: 1 Wiss. Mitarb. „Berlin Anthropocene Lab“ (TU Berlin) https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-159983 Berlin, 01.04.2026-31.03.2028, Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte / FG Technikgeschichte, Bewerbungsschluss: 27.02.2026 …

Job: 1 Sammlungsleitung (m/w/d) "Energie und Montanwesen" (Technisches Museum Wien) https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-160028 Wien, , Technisches Museum Wien; Östereichischer Mediathek, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.02.2026 Wiss. Mitarb. für den Sammlungsbereich Energie und Montanwesen (m/w/d)

This is where the fracked US LNG is coming from & who's buying it ieefa.org/resources/eu... @grueneeuropa.bsky.social @eppgroup.bsky.social @socialistsanddemocrats.eu @reneweurope.bsky.social @left.eu Time to end the dependency! @tadziomueller.bsky.social @parentsforfuture.de

Noch einen Monat, um einen Abstract für unseren Workshop einzureichen! Ich freue mich schon!

CFP: The History of Agrochemicals and International Development: Knowledge, Politics, and Business, 1940s to the Present https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-159926 Florence, 06.11.2026-06.11.2026, Elife Biçer-Deveci, Geneva Graduate Institute; Amalia Ribi Forclaz, Geneva Graduate Institute; …

Job: 1 Akad. Rät:in / Wiss. Mitarb. (w/m/d) "Umweltgeschichte" (Univ. Freiburg) https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-159930 Freiburg, 01.04.2026-01.04.2029, Historisches Seminar Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Bewerbungsschluss: 02.02.2026 Vollzeitstelle Akad. Mitarb. oder Akad. Rat/Rätin …

We are now accepting proposals from scholars interested in applying for the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships program in 2026. This is a great program for early career (<8 yrs from PhD) scholars to be with @greenhouseuis.net for 2 years on own project. www.uis.no/en/research/...

2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at the University of St Andrews on my project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science" www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #philosophy #philsci

Join the European Society for Environmental History! We are our members, and with a modest yearly fee (25 or 10 €) you will contribute to the community and our next conference. And there are benefits! You can also help by spreading the word! Read more here: eseh.org/membership/h... #EnvHist #EnvHum

Our early-career network is growing! Join us if you are interested in #EnvHist in or about Europe. You will then be added to our listserv and receive updates on events and opportunities, and you will also be able to contribute to the network. Send us a DM with your email to be added.

#job #HistMed #HistSTM #Vienna 3 fixed-term positions in the ERC project "Beyond Thalidomide" are open at University of Vienna. Deadline February 9, 2026. 1x PhD (3 ys) jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... 2 x Postdoc (each 2 ys) jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

DFG erlaubt Einsatz von KI in der Begutachtung. Wenn wir jetzt noch die AI dazu kriegen, die komplette Forschung zu machen, haben wir den Menschen komplett von der Last des Forschungsprozzeses befreit und er kann sich komplett auf wichtige Dinge wie Reisekostenerstattungsanträge konzentrieren.

Delighted to see that my friend and colleague's book is out. Well done Cheryl! Well done also to Paul. Order a copy for your library!

There are still 3 days left to propose a paper for the next VAD conference „African Perspectives on Global Transformations“ happening in Basel in August. africanperspectives.ch/call-for-pap...

we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social! deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

New semester, new books! Check out this wonderful, ever changing, list of books available to review for H-Environment! #envhist #envhum #aghist #energy #climate #animalstudies #ecocrit #plantstudies #waterhist #envphil #envtech #histsci #conservation #sustainability docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Entrepreneurial expectations guide decisions in moments when information is incomplete and the future feels open. We @nkleinoeder.bsky.social + Jonathan Krautter use 2 examples: German colonial 🚂 and the post-independence ✈️ Air Afrique to examine how these expectations. tandfresearch.bsky.social

DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 16 JANAURY ! #histstm #histtech

Great news to start off 2026: Audio versions of all episodes of the Greenhouse #envhum book talks -- that's 188 episodes! -- are now available for you to listen to. Audio feed you can subscribe to: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f... (also available via many standard podcast listening services)

Check out our CFP below! #envhist #envhum #histsci #polar #alpine #climate networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Auf unserer Website gibt es tausende Artikel zu politischen, historischen und gesellschaftlichen Themen. 🙌 Aus diesen könnt ihr einen eigenen Reader nach euren Wünschen zusammenstellen und im EPUB- oder PDF-Format herunterladen: www.bpb.de/245498

💼 Au 1er semestre 2026, le projet #ETRANHET du @cired.bsky.social recrute un·e stagiaire niveau Master SHS pour étudier comment les économistes ont pensé la ❓énergétique pendant la décolonisation 🇫🇷 (1946-80). 🗓️ Candidature avant le 15/01/2026 Tous les détails : www.centre-cired.fr/wp-content/u...

We are thrilled to share this! 🎉 Our PhD student & Santorio Fellow @sarahseinitzer.bsky.social has a new post on @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social blog Forma Fluens: “Bergsucht and Miner’s Chest” ⛏️🫁—about miners’ health, morbi metallici, & early social care. Go give it a read! #HistMed #Mining

📢 JOB: PhD student / research position at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland 📌 The position is a part of the project “Understanding the Collapse of the System: Crisis and reconstruction of socio-ecological systems in pre-modern Brandenburg and Greater Poland”, directed by Adam Izdebski #Envhist

📣 Die nächste Jahrestagung der #GWMT findet vom 9. bis 11. September 2026 in #Prag statt und steht unter dem Titel "Epistemische Passagen: Wissen in Translation". CfP und Einreichung von Abstracts bis zum 15. Februar 2026 hier: www.gwmt.de/veranstaltun... #histsci #histtech #histmed #histsts

More here: gwd.hypotheses.org/1814.

Call for Papers: "African Perspectives on Global Transformations." The conference will take place in Basel, Switzerland, in August 2026, and the submission deadline is 11 January. There are plenty of panels for #EnvHist scholars: africanperspectives.ch/call-for-pap...

CfP: International Congress of the History of Technology, to take place in Alexandroupolis, Greece, on 8–11 October 2026. Deadline: 31 January. icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr #EnvHist #HistTech #STS

We look forward to meeting in Salzburg in 2027! Original photo by Marina Ahammer Unsplash, unsplash.com/photos/city-... #EnvHist

“Verwaltete Umwelt” mit Nils Güttler nächsten Dienstag in Konstanz:

Job: 2 years Post-Doc Fellowship at the University of Bayreuth, on the history and sociology of USAID

An der Professur für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- u. Umweltgeschichte des Historischen Seminars @uni-freiburg.de ist eine Stelle als Akad. Rätin auf Zeit zu besetzen. Ein ganz sympathisches Team und bei einer meiner liebsten und klügsten Kolleginnen - gerne teilen! uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

An der Professur für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte im schönen Freiburg ist eine 3+3 Postdocstelle ausgeschrieben: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

Job: Professurvertretung W3 (m/w/d) "Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte" (Univ. Regensburg) https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-159281 Regensburg, 01.04.2026-31.03.2027, Universität Regensburg, Bewerbungsschluss: 07.01.2026 Professurvertretung Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte (m/w/d)

Don't miss the chance to submit to Germinate! The winter deadline for our peer reviewed section is December 31st. Submissions are welcome between 1,200 and 2,000 words that connect the environmental present to its past. We're excited to read your work! g-ehr.com/submit/

Here's a preview of the cover and contents of 'Global Environment' 19.1 (2026), a special issue on 'Global Fat Resources' edited by Elena Kochetkova, Matthias Heymann and Ines Prodöhl; #openaccess thanks to the KOALA Consortium and all our subscribers! @globalenvironment.bsky.social #envhist #fat

CFP: New Histories of the “North-South Conflict” https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-159287 Wien, 07.07.2026-09.07.2026, Eva-Maria Muschik, Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.01.2026 New Histories of the “North-South Conflict”

New ep of Cultures of Energy! We talk to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz about whether the history of energy is about transitions or accumulations. tinyurl.com/yc2bz6cy @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social PS next month is our 10th anniversary. Send a note!

#Petition zum Erhalt des Oberösterreichischen Landesarchivs in #Linz. Die für 2029 geplante Übersiedlung des #OÖLA von Linz nach Feldkirchen an der Donau isoliert das Archiv und steht der demokratischen Teilhabe entgegen! www.vda-blog.de/blog/2025/11...

Are you an early-career environmental historian or interested in the challenges aspiring environmental historians face? Join our panel discussion with @askehn.bsky.social @kathiescharf.bsky.social @tidetales.bsky.social and @wilkohardenberg.bsky.social et al., hosted by @eseh.bsky.social #envhist

🚨Join Christophe Bonneuil’s online talk “Historicizing Planetarity: Trans-imperial Circulations, Western Elites and Planetary Environmental Knowledge and Alerts around 1900”! Co-hosted by SCARCE and History of Science & Knowledge. 🎓✨ ⏰ Tomorrow, 11:30 CET More info: bit.ly/3Ml9OFw #histSci