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Cover of the book ‘The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective. Volume 1’, edited by Luís Manuel Mendonça de Carvalho and published by Springer.

📗 Luís Mendonça de Carvalho edited the book ‘The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective. Volume 1’ (Springer), which provides us with a 'unique re-evaluation of the Victorian Age and presents a new historiography based on plants'.
👉 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The Centre that swims together… CEH Field Trip 2025 On the 17-18th of June 2025, members of the Centre gathered for our annual field trip, which took place in South Wales in glorious sunshine.  Our first stop was the Big Pit National Coal Museum in …

This week we've been descending into mines, scaling coal-spoil tips, and swimming under waterfalls. Read about our recent CEH field trip in our latest blog post: environmentalhumanities.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/06/20/t... #envhum

Gardens and Empires | British Library The histories of plants and gardens are deeply entangled with the histories of empires. This conference investigates the impacts of these global connection

#GARDENS & #EMPIRES - booking open! International conference @britishlibrary.bsky.social 27-28 June Convened by #BL, @rbgkew.bsky.social & @englishheritage.bsky.social Speakers include
@advollyr.bsky.social @sathnam.bsky.social & @corinnefowler.bsky.social
Booking: events.bl.uk/events/garde...

Excited to be organising a session with Matthew Beach on ‘Practicing Vegetal Geographies: Creativities and Beyond’ for the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham, 26-29th August 2025. Please take a look at our CFP if you are interested in plants, creativities, more-than-human geography! 🌱

Digital Plant Encounters: Integrating Critical Plant... The distinction between nature and technology is a western dichotomy that is slowly being eroded. As we are continuously confronted with humanity’s...

I am so glad to finally have this piece published with the wonderful Heather Rogers. Open access, so no excuse to not check it out.

Digital Plant Encounters: Integrating Critical Plant Studies with Digital Environmental Humanities sciendo.com/article/10.2...

🥳 Behold! The CEH Termcard has landed and it's packed full of exciting events -- from workshops to walkshops, lectures to moth expeditions. We're so pleased to have @chrisjpearson.bsky.social back to deliver our annual lecture on the 26 February, along with many other brilliant speakers!

Looking forward to meeting you in Bristol!

South Africa’s rare succulent plants are threatened by illegal trade – how to stop it Over 1 million of South Africa’s rare succulents have been illegally harvested since 2019.

@ahubschle.bsky.social and I have a new article out in @theconversation.com about how to approach the illegal succulent trade in South Africa through the lens of conservation justice.
theconversation.com/south-africa...

Huge thanks to Harry Fitzpatrick-Grimes and @austinread.bsky.social for co-organising the event at different stages 🥹 And thanks @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social and Negar Elodie Behzadi for constant guidance and the funding support from the Political Ecologies Research Group and Bristol Doctoral College

From Archives to AI: Researching and Imagining Socioenvironmental Relations An in-person workshop that covers conceptual, methodological and interdisciplinary contributions to research on socioenvironmental relations

Please register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-archi...

Our workshop ‘From Archives to AI: Researching and Imagining Socioenvironmental Relations’ will be held at Bristol on 12 Feb 2025, which includes talks by @oliviamason.bsky.social @mattinbiglari.bsky.social @jwyg.bsky.social & a panel discussion chaired by Mark Jackson! 🤩

Please find details below!

One more reading for next term’s Plants and Geographies reading group 🤩🍃🌳

I've written a piece on biofuels and the potential for plants to help us rethink relationships between energy, growth and productivity – just out in Environmental Humanities 🌿🌳🌾

Thanks to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social & Franklin Ginn for making space for this!

read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

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Marion Ernwein and I have a new paper out in EPE: Nature & Space:

"Making the mos(s)t of nature? Cleantech, smart nature-based solutions, and the ‘rendering investable’ of urban moss"

Hopefully of interest to vegetal geographers and critical NBS scholars 🌿🌱🌳🌍

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...