This week I’m doing zine workshops with college students and it’s so incredibly inspiring. We base the zines on some of the themes developed in my PhD like chemical pollution and the Danish pesticide manufacturer, Cheminova. We’re having an exhibition on Friday in Copenhagen. Come by!

I return from Stockholm with a heart full of joy and a head full of inspiration December madness: - Zine workshop for high school students - round table with “my” initiative CSF student forum on visual methods - presenting at center for studies of science at AU - A lecture on Anthropocene history

🚨We are launching the 6th edition of the NEXTGATe Writing Support Program! Are you an early career author looking for feedback on your writing in a supportive peer-group plus expert advice? You have come to the right place! For more information and how to apply, see below 👇 #envhist #envhum

I have given my website a thorough update. You will find some of things I am interested in, like methodology and experimentation, Scandinavian humdrum and post-mining ecology in the arctic. www.sebastianlundsteen.com 📷 is from a recent field visit to the copper mine, Aitik in Northern Sweden.

The journal Environmental Humanities is still looking for midcareer/senior #envhum scholars interested in becoming a co-editor-in-chief from January 2026. You can apply as an individual and we'll find an appropriate co-editor match for you. See environmentalhumanities.org

Call for Applications! @esehnextgate.bsky.social is seeking new members to join its committee for a two-year term 2025–2027. More info below!!

New podcast and this is also BANGING! Check it out!!!

NEW DEADLINE: 15.9!!!!

Anyone knowing when exact(ish) carbon capture and storage stopped being categorized as geoengineering? It seems like it just slipped into being an ordinary feasible technology?

I am so much looking forward to this conversation!!!

Check out this guest lecture at U. of Stavanger this Friday with Professor Mathias Danbolt from Copenhagen U. "Monumental Expectations: Notes on Queer, Feminist, and Antiracist Public Memoralization in Norway." @sebmergence.bsky.social and I will have a podcast interview with him soon as well.

So many things happening during #eseh2025, but for now: 🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨 In “The pollution-industrial complex and the making of Denmark as an environmental frontrunner, 1965-1975” we explore how environmental regulation became a matter of technology rather than strict (and strictly) regulation.

Lucky to be a part of such a great team!

Come join us for a drink and a convivial time. Especially if you are attending the conference alone: feel free to hang out and get to know us (and other cool people too!)

✨️We invite early career scholars & friends for a networking event at #eseh2025! Tuesday, at 19:30, in Fjölnir student pub (check program). There will be drinks and snacks 🍺🍕. See you there! #envhist @eseh.bsky.social @sebmergence.bsky.social @palmblad.bsky.social @monabie.bsky.social

I am developing a course titled “Anthropocene Histories, History in the Anthropocene” at UCPH. My idea is to structure the it thematically through planetary boundaries. But what are the best texts around these days. I have the obvious stuff: Chakrabarty, Bonneuil & Fressoz, McNeill, Brown

I am thrilled to announce that I will be collaborating with Adam Wickberg and the brilliant group at KTH's Centre of Excellence for Anthropocene History this fall as a visiting scholar. So, if you are in proximity to Stockholm between September 1st and December 1st and want to hang out: HMU

New publication! Translucence: Some Notations on Sediments, Amber, Toxic Chemicals, and the Possibility of Returns In collaboration with my friend and sound artist Korana Jelača who composed a piece that accompanies the text. Very experimental #envhum edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4...

Mark your calendars for #ESEH2025 we'll host a networking event with drinks and snacks 🍹🍟 on Tuesday 19.08. evening. All folks welcome!! 🌿 #envhist @palmblad.bsky.social @monabie.bsky.social @sebmergence.bsky.social @tanjariekkinen.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social

‼️NEW EPISODE ALERT ‼️ This brand new episode, with my co-host @andersriel.bsky.social and guest Tone Huse, explores the colonial manifestations through architecture in kalaallit nunaat and how temporalities can reinforce the colonial project, but also be sites of resistance.

For those selected few who know Danish: I have written an article that synthesizes #envhum #envhis perspectives on pollution for a popular media platform. I use examples from my PhD written @greenhouseuis.net. I warn against seeing pollution as a domain reserved for techno-science and politicians.

Check out this article on chemical pollution in Denmark and the displacement effects it has created across space, time, and species lines. #envhist #envhum #envjus www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What’s happening in the US is starting to feel more like a hacking than an election, with Trump basically cast as the idiot who clicked on the phishing email that let the ransomware guys in. Struck by how crucial tech not politics reporters are to us understanding it

I will share some thoughts about transforming my PhD into a graphic novel. Come by, if you are in Copenhagen or share if you know someone who might be interested. #envhist #envhum

“At five o’clock, oddly enough, tennis balls I had ordered online were delivered. It seemed to me, in these areas filled with toxic air, that people should be encouraged to stay home. I could have waited for the tennis balls.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series now has 165 recorded episodes! newnatures.org/greenhouse/ Yes, you read that right: one hundred sixty-five hours of amazing scholarship in #envhum #envhist #ecocrit & more. Feel free to use our videos in courses as well as watching yourself.

Another part of my dissertation has hit the streets! “In Praise of Ambivalence” explores environmentalist’s emotions in their struggle for a less polluted environment. Ambivalence signifies a specific engagement in environmental conflicts. #envhum #envhis www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Check it out: New episode just dropped!!!!

Check out this very important and enriching initiative.

Read more about @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social's book here: niche-canada.org/2024/09/05/n... And a review by @sebmergence.bsky.social here: niche-canada.org/2024/11/25/r... #envhist #cdnhist #book

This is going on my reading list!

Hello #sts, #envhum, #envhist folks! I am on the job market! In addition to job opportunities, I am also interested in learning more about how folks are thinking about their research statements and teaching statements. If you are willing, please share some examples for me to learn from!

We have launched our new Energy Lives! project! A great team led by @melinabuns.bsky.social will explore how people have lived with energy transitions in the Nordic countries over the past 150 years. #envhist #envhum #energyhistory

Check it out! I did a review of @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social recent book that explore an area through a large body of water (Lake Ontario). My reading primarily focused on pollution, but if you are interested in US/Canadian history, blue humanities/water history, I bet you will find it interesting.

Check out the latest episode of @andersriel.bsky.social and my podcast “Challenging Nordic Innocence” where we discuss Georgia DeLeeuw and her work on green steel mining, the welfare state and environmental (in)justice in Sweden through Sarah Ahmed #envhum #envhist podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/m...

Im sharing to remember!!!

I still got some invitations if y’all be interested

Check out this amazing event with one of the most intriguing scholars @apasek.bsky.social. I became fascinated by Anne’s work through my interest in low carbon methods and the intersection between data and environmental justice. If y’all don’t know Pasek’s work yet, I suggest you go check it out!

Hi everyone. I just want to share that last week I got a funding application rejected. It is important to share our successes as well as our rejections.

It’s wild how international media and scholars can get so wrong in understanding Danish green politics. Following the domestic debate, the majority of commentators and NGOs are deeply skeptical by the green tripartite. Basically it’s another case of greenwashing. Apparently it works.

Check it out! I can’t possibly think of someone who is more generous, curios, inspiring, passionate, and intelligent as @smueller.bsky.social I would easily do a second PhD in her company if only time allowed me.

Check it out! I can’t think of anyone more supportive and generous scholar than Simone. So if I could do a second PhD I would definitely do one with her!

Check it out: community support is (still) important. Help this amazing initiative.

Copenhagen! Check it out: Monday I am hosting a conversation about pollution and the welfare state with Liv Duvå - a cool author who have written about toxicity in buildings, a legal scholar and me. It’s free and lesser academic, so there is really no excuse. cape.ku.dk/kalender/202...

Check it out!

We still have spots available to attend our week-long PhD course “Play and the Environmental Humanities”, 2-6 December 2024. The registration deadline has passed but contact me directly and we’ll add you! www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhum #envhist

Check out this initiative for this who supervise or being supervised. #envhis #envhum

🚨 📆Thursday, November 7th, from 15 to 16 CET @esehnextgate.bsky.social throws the first of several online events called “The Elusive Art of Ph.D.’ing.” This session “What is Supervision” @finnarne.me and @lenamschlegel.bsky.social discuss various aspects of supervision. eseh.org/the-elusive-...

NEW DEADLINE=LESS STRESS

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR #ESEH2025! 15 November, 23:59 CET, is final though, so make sure to submit your proposals by then! #envhist 🌿