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Human ecologist by training, environmental and energy historian by doing @univie.ac.at‬ URL: https://robertgross.org/

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

12.12.2025 09:55 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Job: 2 years Post-Doc Fellowship at the University of Bayreuth, on the history and sociology of USAID

12.12.2025 08:40 — 👍 33    🔁 29    💬 1    📌 2
Universität Freiburg

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...

11.12.2025 10:40 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
Universität Freiburg

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

11.12.2025 07:51 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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)

10.12.2025 18:04 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Photograph of a tree with snow with text stating the winter deadline to submit to Germinate is December 31st.

Photograph of a tree with snow with text stating the winter deadline to submit to Germinate is December 31st.

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/

10.12.2025 14:40 — 👍 13    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 2
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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

10.12.2025 19:00 — 👍 13    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

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”

10.12.2025 18:11 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Cultures of Energy: 244 – Energy Transition (feat. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz) In honor of cookie week, your co-hosts tackle an age-old question: are brownies cookies are not? Then we process the fact that next month will be the 10th anniversary of Cultures of Energy (wow!) Ther...

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!

08.12.2025 14:21 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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Petition zum Erhalt des Oberösterreichischen Landesarchivs am Standort Linz Das Hauptgebäude des Landesarchivs in Linz (Foto: Makupix, Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv, CC BY-SA 4.0)Das Oberösterreichische Landesarchiv soll 2029 von seinem derzeitigen Standort in Lin

#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...

09.12.2025 14:25 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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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

24.11.2025 19:46 — 👍 26    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 1
Historicizing planetarity. Trans-imperial circulations, Western elites and planetary environmental knowledge and alerts around 1900 Joint meeting with the History of Science and Knowledge Colloquium Speaker: Christophe Bonneuil (CNRS-EHSS) University of Vienna Online Event

🚨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

08.12.2025 10:05 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Ja und nein. Sprache ist auch Distinktion. Man könnte den Prozess auch einfach Einschreibung statt Immatrikulation nennen.

07.12.2025 15:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ja und nein. Meiner Erfahrung wird der Startnachteil dort am wirksamsten, wo man mit Akademikerkindern um Ressourcen (also bezahlte Stellen) konkurriert. Das mach Unis zu Elitenreproduktionsmaschinen, mit wenig Sensibilität für die Bedürfnisse von Erstakademiker:innen.

07.12.2025 14:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

@esehnextgate.bsky.social @mmeiske.bsky.social @zug-wien.bsky.social @scarcerc.bsky.social

05.12.2025 17:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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***CfP*** Die mit der @eseh.bsky.social assoziierte D-A-CH-AG Umweltgeschichte lädt zum zweiten Nachwuchsworkshop diesmal an die @unibe.ch in der schönen Schweiz!

Deadline für die Abstracts ist der 15.2.2025
#envhist #histtech

Mehr unter: www.hist.unibe.ch/unibe/portal...

05.12.2025 16:59 — 👍 14    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 0

energy scholars, join us! www.eventbrite.ca/e/roundtable... @nichecanada.bsky.social @shastingssimon.bsky.social @jeffmanuel.bsky.social @pamelabanting.bsky.social

04.12.2025 18:45 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Prize — ICEHO

www.iceho.org/prize First Verena Winiwarter Prize for global environmental history will be awarded in 2027 - articles published between 2024 and 2026 to be considered! Share widely @iceho.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @austhistassoc.bsky.social

02.12.2025 18:46 — 👍 10    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) at University of Warwick Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History.
🗃️

Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!

See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...

12.11.2025 12:15 — 👍 59    🔁 77    💬 0    📌 4
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📢 CfP „Un|Sichtbarkeiten – Energiegeschichte zwischen Materialität, Praxis und Repräsentation“ - Jahrestagung der
gtg gtg-histtech.info/tagungen/ in Koop. mit PITCH pitch-horizon.eu & dem LWL‑Museum Zeche Zollern, Dortmund, 7.–9. Mai 2026 -
Wir freuen uns über zahlreiche spannende Einreichungen!

30.11.2025 17:17 — 👍 8    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

CFP: Un/Sichtbarkeiten – Energiegeschichte zwischen Materialität, Praxis und Repräsentation

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-159054

Dortmund, 07.05.2026-09.05.2026, Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte e.V. gtg, Bewerbungsschluss: 11.01.2026 Un/Sichtbarkeiten – Energiegeschichte zwischen …

30.11.2025 21:15 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

#PetraKelly would have turned 78 today.

29.11.2025 12:56 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Interested in a tenure track position to work with us in environmental history at SEC and BOKU University in Vienna? Deadline to apply is Jan, 6 next year, details here: boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...

27.11.2025 08:49 — 👍 5    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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ICOHTEC 2026: Call for Proposals is now open!
The next Annual Meeting will take place 8–11 October 2026 at the Democritus University of Thrace (Greece), in collaboration with the Lab of Technologies, Research & Applications in Education and the Ethnological Museum of Thrace.

Thread: 1/4
#histtech

26.11.2025 10:12 — 👍 6    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
Cover reveal for my book, Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution (University of Washington Press, forthcoming July 2026). Cover is a photograph of Hong Kong at night with trees in immediate foreground, bright urban nightscape, and skyglow bleeding into black-ish night.

Cover reveal for my book, Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution (University of Washington Press, forthcoming July 2026). Cover is a photograph of Hong Kong at night with trees in immediate foreground, bright urban nightscape, and skyglow bleeding into black-ish night.

😀

07.11.2025 19:11 — 👍 114    🔁 14    💬 13    📌 4
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Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.

Join us for inspiring conversations on research, collaboration, and the future of environmental history!

Zoom-Meeting: uni-graz.zoom.us/j/65353372842

24.11.2025 22:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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the reason I am taking part in an event titled "Early Career Scholars in Environmental History: Panel Discussion and Book Presentation" is that I wrote a piece for the book that is being presented: "Umwelt–Technik-Wissen: Verflechtungen vom 18.
Jahrhundert bis heute" (Transcript, 2025). It is in […]

24.11.2025 21:48 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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ESEH (@eseh@hcommons.social) Attached: 1 image The Environmental History Today Series continues on December 10 at 16:00 CET with "Early Career Scholars in Environmental History: Panel Discussion and Book Presentation" Full details are available at: http://eseh.org/envhistoday-webinars/environmental-history-today-webinars-2025/ #envhist #DACH #histodons #histodonDE

I'll be talking (briefly) about the #envhist of knowledge at the next ESEH Environmental History Today webinar on December 10

https://hcommons.social/@eseh/115606794178275094

24.11.2025 21:39 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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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

24.11.2025 19:46 — 👍 26    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 1
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"Das Anthropozän als Ereignis" - das ist Thema der Konferenz der Doctoral School PhilKult der @univie.ac.at am 27. und 28.11.2025 in Wien. Ich darf am ersten Tag um 18 h eine Keynote geben (Livestream: univienna.zoom.us/j/6457951400...). Ich freue mich auf die Diskussion!

#anthropocene #soyfacts

24.11.2025 07:42 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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