Join the New Scholars Committee and Mailing List
Amrita DasGupta joined NiCHE as the New Scholars Representative in the Fall of 2025. She is pursuing a PhD from the Centre of Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University o...
The NICHE New Scholars community is a subgroup of NiCHE that brings together graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, & recent PhD graduates interested in environmental history & humanities. Get in touch with our NS Rep, @amritadasgupta.bsky.social, to get involved!
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23.01.2026 16:19 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Book Launch: From the Bog to the Cloud, with Patrick Bresnihan
Patrick Bresnihan, co-author of From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland, joins us to discuss his new book.
@pbresnihan.bsky.social will be coming to Edinburgh to discuss his new book From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland, co-authored with Patrick Brodie. 17 February, 3.30pm. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
23.01.2026 16:39 β π 15 π 8 π¬ 1 π 2
Fluid Environments & Spatial Humanities
In-Person Workshop at Lancaster Universityβ
Save the date for the "Fluid Environments & Spatial Humanities" workshop @lancasteruni.bsky.social on Feb 27 (in person only)! Details being finalized, but we have stellar speakers incl @robertsuits.bsky.social @lscholz.bsky.social @gmpala.bsky.social @hlsteyne.bsky.social & more!
23.01.2026 16:39 β π 15 π 9 π¬ 1 π 2
Beyond Progress. Substations, Informality, and Environmental Changes
Using electric company archives, Yohad Zacarias shows how Santiagoβs substations reshaped peripheral landscapes, urban growth, and unequal access to electricity.
Today we have "Beyond Progress. Substations, Informality, and Environmental Changes" by @yzacarias.bsky.social
This is the sixth post in our Urban and Environmental Dialogues series, published in collaboration with @urbanhistorya.bsky.social
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#envhist #urbanhistory
22.01.2026 15:41 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
2026 ASLE Grants are open for submissions! Five $1K subvention and translation grants for projects in the environmental humanities available, deadline to apply is June 10, 2026. Read more and apply: www.asle.org/stay-informe.... #academicsky #envhum
22.01.2026 21:55 β π 8 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
EXTENDED DEADLINE! #CFP: "Rewritten Water Myths in Times of Global Warming", arranged by Barbara Barrow (@barbarabarrow.bsky.social) and Monika Class β Lund University, Sweden, 11β12 June 2026.
ποΈ Deadline for abstracts 13 February 2026.
Further info: bit.ly/49Bbvbd
#bluehumanities #envhum
23.01.2026 08:41 β π 10 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
The seminar programme of the Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities for Hilary Term 2025/06
Our term has started and we've got another round of great Environmental History Research Seminars scheduled in Dublin. Come and join us!
Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for supporting and hosting the series!
#envhist @historytcd.bsky.social
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19.01.2026 13:15 β π 22 π 13 π¬ 1 π 0
Lake Erieβs Toxic Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp
In this blog, first published as a βSnapshotβ in Environment and History (November 2025) Eliot Fackler shows how the histories of western Lake Erie and the Black Swamp provide lessons fβ¦
There's a new post on our blog, by Eliot Fackler on 'Lake Erieβs Toxic Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp'; originally published in 'Environment and History' as a Snapshot article. Free to read here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/01/19/b... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist #algae #LakeErie
19.01.2026 16:18 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1
Reading the City Through Countermonuments of Ecology: From Mistaseni to Floodlines
Ecological countermonuments use land, water, and living systems to preserve Indigenous histories, flood memory, and settler-colonial conflicts within cities today.
Today we have "Reading the City Through Countermonuments of Ecology: From Mistaseni to Floodlines" by John Bessai
This is the 5th post in our Urban and Environmental Dialogues series, published in collaboration with @urbanhistorya.bsky.social
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#envhist #urbanhistory
19.01.2026 22:02 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Out today: a new H-Environment Roundtable Review on Lianne C. Leddy's *Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake,* with commentaries by Jessica Urwin, Joseph Masco, Robynne Mellor, and Nick Estes. Please circulate! #envhist #envhum networks.h-net.org/sites/defaul...
20.01.2026 19:44 β π 9 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
Postdocs, PhD candidates, and students interested in environmental history, make sure to join our early-career network to learn about new opportunities and conferences around Europe! #EnvHist #EnvHum
19.01.2026 00:55 β π 27 π 14 π¬ 2 π 0
Join us for the first online #envhum book talk of 2026!
For those in North America, start time is 10am eastern.
19.01.2026 05:37 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 1 π 2
2026 Conference
Foundations and Fluidity 20th Anniversary Conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC) October 10-14, 2026 | Casa Artom, Venice, Italy Deadline foβ¦
CFP 20th Anniversary Conference of the
International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC), theme "Foundations and Fluidity"
October 10-14, 2026 | Casa Artom, Venice, Italy
www.issrnc.org/conferences/...
#envhum
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I will join with a talk that sides with the Orcas, but not for misanthropic reasons, promise. Looking forward to this!
18.01.2026 09:24 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Call for Papers - Space, Place, and Patients
The American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN) invites submissions for a virtual conference on space, place, and patients from senior undergraduate students, graduate students, and early c...
Call for Papers - Space, Place, and Patients
2nd Annual Virtual Conference for Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers - @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social
February 19-21, 2026, via Zoom
Abstract Deadline: January 23, 2026
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#envhist #histmed #histnursing
17.01.2026 14:36 β π 14 π 11 π¬ 0 π 1
#envhist and environmental humanities folk near Lake Erie, this event may be of interest to you!
Wyandotte storytellers will narrate their stories inspired in their ancestral homelands in northern Ohio.
Sat. Feb. 21st, 2β3pm in Wintergarden Woods Nature Preserve, Bowling Green, Ohio.
17.01.2026 22:36 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
I'll join the uprising with a talk on "Flipping the parasite spectrum: #PlantHumanities meet eco-physiology".
Stay tuned for a communion among #ParasiticPlant ecology and physiology, literature, and social history!
17.01.2026 10:53 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
CB190: Meeting invasions halfway: Reimagining futures with invasive species through STS
Bringing together ecologists and STS scholars, this combined panel+workshop examines invasion science as an eco-social practice, exploring cultural meanings,
#CFP: panel "Meeting invasions halfway: Reimagining futures with invasive species through STS", conference EASST 2026, Krakow, 8-11/09/2026
DL: 28/02/2026
Info: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
#sts #envhist #envhum #histsci #hstm #ecology #ecolit #ecocriticism
16.01.2026 10:43 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Connected Teams
#academicjob: "Practicing Transcultural Art Histories under the Conditions of Ecological Crises and Digital Transformations: India, Latin America, and Europe"
PD FELLOWSHIPS (2026β28)
DL: 31/01/2026 (PST)
Info: www.khi.fi.it/en/forschung...
#arthistory #museology #museumscience #envhum #envhist
16.01.2026 10:39 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
#CFP: "History and Geopolitics of Nuclear Deindustrialization", conference (11-12 June 2026)
DL: 28/02/2026
Info: www.denuclit.unito.it/newsandevents
#envhist #envhum #geography #hstm #histsci
16.01.2026 10:36 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
#CFP: "Botanical Life in Art, Science, and Imagination", 3rd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities (8-10 May 2026)
DL: 15 March 2026 at 5pm IST
Info: www.globalplanthumanities.com/2026cfp
#planthum #envhum #envhist #hstm #histsci #ecocriticism
16.01.2026 10:30 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
An Anthropological Gender Historian who researches on climate exile and trafficking in mangroves of the Indian Ocean Deltas. Teaches @LSE and guest lecturer and Landhaus Fellow @RCC LMU Munchen.
Historian: #econhist #envhist . Mexico, the midwest and North America in general, 18th to 21st centuries. Department of History at Bowling Green State University. https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2784-6506
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In one sense, yes, I am writing a book about anthropocentrism in early modern England for Routledge and here for scholarly vibes but in a real & much more accurate sense I yearn for silliness.
The Anthropocene, multispecies studies, environmental literature, psychogeography, energy humanities, wildlife. See "Wild Faces," https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/issue/17/1
Academic, (outer) Space Governance at Northumbria University. Legal geography and environmental humanities of space governance (space resources, planetary protection, astrobiology, settlement etc). Working on project 'Life the Ultimate Frontier'. He/him.
Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh. World History, Atlantic History, Iberian Empires and many other things, too. Editor, Journal of Early Modern History. Author, American Baroque (Omohundro/UNC Press, 2018)
Undisciplined academic. Currently writing about inland mermaids, wetlands, politics, nationalism, and the environment. Sociology|Criminology|Folklore. Regular human, too. In spite of the current profile pic not much of a beer drinker.
Jason KΓΆnig / Professor of Classics, University of St Andrews / https://mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ / Literary and archaeological heritage of the mountains of Greece / 21st-century challenges for mountain landscapes and communities
PhD candidate, Department of English, Queen's University
Researcher, Strathy Language Unit, Queen's University
Definer, Canadian English Dictionary
Environmental Historian. Author of Vanishing America (Harvard UP, 2016). Researching global history of human interactions with sharks.
PhD in English Literature from the University of Sheffield β£ Researching intersections between contemporary literature, scientific methodologies and unpredictability in ecological systems β£ Climate&Energy β£ ASLE-UKI PG/ECR Officer β£ #envhum #envlit #litsci
Prof at Uni of Liverpool and artist. I write on photography, media, museums, ISOTYPE, modernism, environment & atmosphere. Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018) & A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog & Empire, Chicago UP (Fall 2025)
Podcast https://mountainstoriesmountainfutures.buzzsprout.com/
Web https://msmf.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
Curated
@mountainsofgreece.bsky.social
@jonwestaway.bsky.social
@profpitches.bsky.social
#MountainHums #MountainHist #EnvHums #EnvHist
The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
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Postdoctoral Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Phd in Geography from Univ. of Lausanne
History, haunt and healing
Environmental Historian working on nature conservation, land, borders, animals, and landscapes in Southern Africa and beyond.
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environmental history / historical archaeology
slavery in RΓ©union and Mauritius
Historian of Environment, Agriculture, Science, Medicine. New Project: Vulnerable Harvests: Emergency Conservation in the Cold War Great Plains (Nebraska Press). My posts and views are my own.
Postdoctoral researcher in the "Light On! Queer Literatures and Cultures under Socialism" research group at the University of Regensburg