Katie Kung

Pre-Flight Safety Briefing: Researching the Environment in the U.S. without Being Detained at the Border It is a turbulent time to be an international scholar in the United States: So before you embark on your next trip to the U.S., let’s make sure you are ready for take-off.

Latest piece out today from Adrienne Brown; a safety briefing for research in #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2025/10/07/p...

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Any narratives/rhetorics on invasive species management/eradication/marketing folks want to share their projects? (and thanks Hal Herzog for the title😁)

Happening soon: gonna be speaking about how to kill kindly in Aotearoa at 4S Seattle.. looking forward to the discussion with other presenters and the convenors Hannah Star Rogers and Matthew Eisler! @4sweb.bsky.social 15:40 in Seattle, midnight in Germany, let’s go!

Oh it just came out: I wrote this short essay shortly after the research trip in Aotearoa recalling a very.. strange.. experience of a field day catching wallabies. Three were caught that day, many let go because they weren’t big enough. I still think about them sometimes. 🫧

What is "human-like" depends on where humans live And why it matters for conservation

Anthropomorphizing is...a tough topic. For scientists and writers! Because the thing is: Animals aren't just like us. They don't see the world the way we do.

But also people don't want to CONSERVE something they don't identify with. brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/what-is-hu...

Group photo of board game players

Overview of the board, a dice, and a couple of cards

Further group photo during gameplay

Great session yesterday at #eseh2025 #boardgaming empathy and uncertainty in the Anthropocene with Sven Seelinger (Uni Augsburg). So much fun! #envhist

And special shoutout to the pizza trailer.

Still decompressing from #ESEH2025 week but hey was it good!
@elinetabak.bsky.social @chriskla.bsky.social @charrlotte.bsky.social, Sven Seelinger plus @aberehrlich.bsky.social
(Go “invasive species”! I guess…)

What a pleasure! Thank you! So grateful for KTH sponsoring it @robgioielli.bsky.social and Danny was a great chair!

Shout out and HUGE thanks to some of the amazing, inspiring, and kind women I've met this week, the likes of Aline Leite, Stefania Barca, Gaia Giuliani, Caroline Kreysel, @elinetabak.bsky.social and @katiekung.bsky.social

My pleasure Luiza! So nice meeting and I am excited to see what comes next!

it’s moments like this when all stars aligned and it’s just so… satisfying. well done partner! You were an amazing chair!

It was such a great panel and all the presentations complement so well to each other. What a pleasure to be part of it!

Powerpoint slide acting as a poster. There's a transparent image of japanese knotweed as the background with dark green text: Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging ESEH 2025: Thursday 20 August, 14.00-15.30 & 16.00-17.30, room 21.011 organised by Katie Kung (LMU) and Eline Tabak (Oulu) Session 1 (14.00-15.30) Christopher Klapperich (Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich) – Normalizing invasion in an altered archipelago. New debates about the belonging of native and exotic trees in Philippine reforestation Charrlotte Adelina (Freie Universität Berlin) – Phytosociological Constructs and Pragmatic Targets in Restoration Practice Katie Kung (Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich) – Naturalised citizens or noxious immigrants? Caring for ‘invasive’ plant species in a changing world Session 2 (16.00-17.30) Martin Schmitt (Paderborn University) – Sustainable foreigners to repair European natures? Experimental cultivation of foreign tree species and their use in reforestation in Spain and Prussia Sven Seelinger (University of Augsburg) – Artificial Bramble. Barbed Wire and the Changing Human-Artefact-Biota Relationships on the Great Plains (1873–1933) Roundtable discussion with all participants

Chairing this fabulous #PlantStudies panel today: "Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging" 🌿🌲🌾

Join us at 14.00-15.30 & 16.00-17.30 in room 21.011 for some planty goodness

Tomorrow! 🌱

The past 5 weeks I’ve been in different forests (“the bush”) in Aotearoa New Zealand’s North Island. Studying “invasive” and protected animals control/monitoring and the role of kindness in killing, emotions in science.. How can you not be emotional in such beauty??

Well done you two! So happy to see results from our previous environmental aesthetics workshop, was much fun!

12 ✨paid✨ PhD positions in environmental humanities - co/organised by Uni Augsburg and LMU. I’m also an affiliate there - check out the call: rethinking-environment-idk.de

I’m so, so sorry. Hugs ❤️‍🩹

Learnt so much about Coypu, knotweed, phylloxera, discourses that I didn’t know before about invasivising domesticates etc. so wonderful. I finally wrote something about my Troubled Care project for the first time - so much fun!

Had a great time earlier this week in the “invasive species” workshop in Zurich - so wonderful to meet all the people in this field! Great papers and great walk in Sihlwald to think about how nativeness and invasiveness are used for different agendas! @angecass.bsky.social @mattholmes.bsky.social

Woah. What a great workshop. Been so much fun!!

Just saw that the #ESEH2025 deadline has been extended to Nov 15, so there's still plenty of time to propose an abstract for our (@katiekung.bsky.social + me!) panel on 'Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging' 🌿🌺

#envhum #envlit #PlantStudies

Any green historian, vegetal ecocritics or (critical) plant scholars interested in submitting an abstract for a hybrid panel for #ESEH2025 in Uppsala, Sweden? 🌿🌾

@katiekung.bsky.social and I are drafting a panel proposal on "Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging"