Katja Bruisch

A new episode of Future Histories!

This time I talk to Cédric Durand (@cedricdurand.bsky.social) about ecological planning, institutional utopias, and the idea of bifurcation.

Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...

#FutureHistories #Podcast

👇Call for Abstracts for a workshop on 'The Whole and its Sum: The Communication of Energy Knowledge in Contemporary History' at ZZF Potsdam with Rüdiger Graf and Marco Bianchini, 3-4 December 2026

www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

Screenshot of the ReCentGlobe Druckfrisch website featuring a link to the book talk video and an image from the event

I thoroughly enjoyed talking about 🔥 Burning Swamps 🔥 with Jan Zofka @gwzo.bsky.social in Leipzig earlier this year. Thanks to @recentglobe.bsky.social for including me into the excellent Druckfrisch series. You can now watch our conversation online 👉 recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/globebook

#envhist

Screenshot of the ReCentGlobe Druckfrisch website featuring a link to the book talk video and an image from the event

I thoroughly enjoyed talking about 🔥 Burning Swamps 🔥 with Jan Zofka @gwzo.bsky.social in Leipzig earlier this year. Thanks to @recentglobe.bsky.social for including me into the excellent Druckfrisch series. You can now watch our conversation online 👉 recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/globebook

#envhist

Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities Full open-access volume Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities (2026), edited by Emily Brownell.

New #EnvHum book! Read Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities by Emily Brownell for free on our Environment & Society Portal. This is sure to come in handy for lecturers in the field.

Mentions several times that we need to protect digital infrastructure from extreme weather but nowhere that the expansion of resource-hungry digital infrastructure is part of the problem ...

🌿 The Environmental History Today Series continues in February with Russia
🗣️ Anna Mazanik and Andrei Vinogradov present their books
📅 Date: 26 February 2026 (Thu), 14:00–16:00 (CET)
📍 Format: Online
ℹ️ Details on how to take part are below 👇
eseh.org/envhistoday-...
#EnvHist #Envhum

and good luck with your essay!

what a coincidence. the image is right at the beginning!

ha, that's the second time I am seeing this image today. Just picked up Kate Brown's book!

Kafka and Dr Karma are my absolute favorites among the various versions of my first name in student emails. Time to retire.

I have a whole week on energy and extraction planned for H-Environment Reviews! #envhist #envhum #extraction #mining 🔋🪫🛢️🪨

Cover of Kate Brown's book Tiniy Gardens Everywhere. Graphic cover image featuring a row of apartment block in the front, garden plants growing over it and a watering can

small green broad bean plants in a raised bed

The broad beans in our allotment are raising their heads ... time to pre-order Kate Brown's new book "Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present and Future of the Self-Provisioning City." Out next week: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

#newbookalert #envhist

We need to electrify society to reduce emissions, but how we undertake that transition really matters.

This week @triofrancos.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss all the mining needed to go “green” and how that’s playing out across the world.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/315_...

2 new ahead-of-print articles live now! In 'The Fugitive Steppe', Jackie Erlon-Baurjan examines how Russian imperial ambitions to transform the Kazakh steppe between 1840 and 1914 were shaped by and in turn reshaped understandings of climate. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... 🗃️ #envhist

Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928* Abstract. This article examines changes in the bodies and environment of labourers carrying timber imported into London’s docks in the 1860s to the 1920s t

On advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928"

by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Wow. What an incredible find!!! This one here is perfect for my upcoming class on Soviet environmentalism - "Global ecological problems" from 1987 produced for Soviet 10th graders

Check out Hanieh, Crude Capitalism; Mitchell, Carbon Democracy; Yergin, The Prize

we're waiting for your book:) ... and for this particular event, my focus is on oil, gas, coal, and, well, peat...

PPT slide featuring covers of scholarly books in Russian energy history

Preparing a lecture thinking the visual literature review should be recognized as a genre

yay! I have fond memories of your panel in Oulu!

It’s the Economy, Stupid | Environmental History: Vol 31, No 1

A few of us got together for a forum on degrowth in
@envirohistory.bsky.social. Here is my bit: "It's the Economy Stupid." And check out the entries from
@fredrikjonsson.bsky.social, @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social, and

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

In case we thought that ecological disasters were a special talent of modernity, let’s talk about how the 13th-century peat trade of Norfolk made it permanently vulnerable to flooding, including 3 catastrophic floods just since 2013.

#medievalstorytime

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Jeremy Morris: "Viele versuchen, sich auf das Schlimmste vorzubereiten" Was denken Russen wirklich? Jeremy Morris ist einer der letzten westlichen Wissenschaftler, der in Russland Feldforschung betreibt. Er hat Einblicke jenseits von Zensur.

www.zeit.de/kultur/2026-...

An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class will be published by Verso in October!

Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!

Cultural Landscapes of Energy: Constructing Histories of Power, Prosperity, and Decline in Europe This volume explores the contested heritage of landscapes impacted by energy production. It offers a comparative perspective across Europe on different energy resources and reveals the hidden historie...

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.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch!!! Freue mich schon sehr darauf

what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.

New paper in CNS:

'Cold War Ecology. Socialist Environmental Reflexivities from the “Club of Moscow” to Harich's “Degrowth Communism” in the GDR'

This link gives full access ⤵️
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VNGYF...

An illustrated thread Part 1 ⬇️