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🚨Call for Papers!
3–4 September, Universität Augsburg: 2-day workshop on "theorising uncharismatic species in environmental history". Who are they? Where are their voices in the historical record? What insights do they offer to the field of environmental history? Be there! Abstracts due 15/05/2026!

A fantastic and free medieval history conference taking place later this month at Syracuse University! Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to attend

CFA: These are wonderful 3-years postdoc projects, check them out and apply: 🐦🐮

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Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Fellow working on “Humane Exclusion: How States Justify Excluding Refugees” The Australian National University’s College of Asia & the Pacific is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations (Level A) to work on the ARC project “Humane Excl…

www.environmentalhistory-au-nz.org/2026/02/job-... @esehnextgate.bsky.social

Spring is the season of GERMINATION and we’re ready for new ideas to take root. 🌱
Submit your work now for our Spring issue!
We’re looking for fresh perspectives and research that helps new conversations grow.

Our spring deadline is March 31st for peer reviewed research.

g-ehr.com/submit/

If you missed the @sochistnathist.bsky.social Early Career Symposium last week, videos of 8 of the presentations are now available to watch online: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Check out these up and coming scholars and their exciting new work!
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Global #EnvHist community, don't miss our Verena Winiwarter Prize for the best article that contributes to global environmental history, focusing on comparisons and connections between different parts of the world or on areas outside mainstream scholarship in the field.
Deadline: 15 August 2026

📣 Two Open PhD Positions in Environmental Humanities - Exploring Biodiversity Narratives
📌 The University of Fribourg, Switzerland
These interdisciplinary PhD positions are at the intersection of literary and cultural studies, the social sciences, and biodiversity communication. #EnvHum #Envhist

Select tickets – IHA professional training workshop: Environmental Humanities – Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 IHA professional training workshop: Environmental Humanities – Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, Thu 26 Mar 2026 - This Irish Humanities Alliance (IHA) workshop is aimed at those pursui...

Free (in-person) training workshop in the environmental humanities in Dublin, 26 March! #EnvHum #EnvHist

CFP - Speculative Climates: Hauntings Of The Past Across The Humanities – EASLCE Considering the contemporary as a timespace haunted by crises rooted in the past, the workshop on Speculative Climates asks how the intricate mesh of

PhD students, check out this International Doctoral Workshop in Cologne, Germany, in November. Deadline: 30 April. #envhist #envhum

Special thanks to all the expert discussants joining us this semester to share their insights and revising strategies with us!

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🎉Our 2026 edition of the writing support program is up and running!
Organized by Mona Bieling and Prof. Andrea Gaynor, we meet once a month to discuss work in progress - and we can tell you that there's lots of exciting research in the works! 📝

Today, we would like to highlight “The Inhuman Condition: Rethinking #Anthropocentrism” by environmental humanist @palmblad.bsky.social.

In an increasingly inhumane world, this article argues that socioecological #justice can only be achieved by embracing human nature.

🌿 The Environmental History Today Series continues in March with Czechia and Slovakia
🗣️ Luděk Brož and Petr Jehlička (discussants), Doubravka Olšáková (chair)
📅 Date: 10 March 2026 (Tue), 15:00–17:00 (CET)
📍 Format: Online
ℹ️ Details on how to take part are below 👇
eseh.org/envhistoday-... #envhist

New #Speak4Nature article from the Rachel Carson Center: "The Inhuman Condition: Rethinking Anthropocentrism" by Jonatan Palmblad.

@palmblad.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social #envhum #envjust

Call for Contributions: A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering
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CFP from Cambridge University Press: "Public Humanities for Students"

This open access issue invites scholars to write rigorous, accessible articles for 14 to 18 year olds, bringing humanities ideas into the everyday concerns of young people.
Learn more and submit your papers here: cup.org/3Mf4WCp

Today at 5pm CET! "Ecocide Speaker Series: Environmental History and Geopolitics, Palestine/Israel"
zoom.us/j/96872519426

#EnvHist #EnvHum #EnvJust #Ecocide

Organize our next #EnvHist Summer School!

Beyond Governance Terraformings and Other Arts of Cohabiting and Care

CFP with short deadline: "Beyond Governance
Terraformings and Other Arts of Cohabiting and Care"

Submissions by early-career scholars welcome.

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A Classroom Called the Inland Sea: The 2025 AAEH Conference — ICEHO The First Biennial Conference of the Asian Association for Environmental History took place in Japan in the fall of 2025.

How is environmental history doing in Asia? It's thriving! Read Mu Cao's beautiful account of the Asian Association for Environmental History (AAEH) conference in Japan last year.

AAEH is a biennial conference, so keep an eye out for the next one in 2027!

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NEQ Events and Calls for Papers Environmental Histories of New England, 1600-2025 Friday, September 18, 2026 Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA New England is a region defined by its landscape, its…

Upcoming deadline (1/31): submit your proposals for 2026 New England Quarterly symposium on Environmental Histories of New England, 1600-2025. #envhist #newengland #cfp

#EnvHist Worth Reading: December 2025 Find eco-fascism, maple syrup battles, and moldy insects in the latest list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWitt.

Don't miss my picks for environmental history worth reading from December!!

niche-canada.org/2026/01/13/e...

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The deadline to submit an abstract/proposal for #ICOHTEC2026 has been extended to 28 February 2026. Please see icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr for more details.
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CALL for PAPERS for The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) at 200: Science, Society, and the Natural World, 1-3 July 2026 - Society for the History of Natural History Call for papers This three-day international meeting, held in SHNH’s 90th year, will mark the bicentenary of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and delve into its history and impact on our knowled...

CFP: The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) at 200: Science, Society, and the Natural World, 1-3 July 2026

shnh.org.uk/all-events/c...

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Poster showing the seminar schedule. The image is of Louis XVI giving instructions

New seminars on Instructing Colonial Natural History 🌿 We can look forward to papers by Yunting Gu, Adriana Craciun and @nulybranch.bsky.social. For more info see instructingnaturalhistory.com (more info will be added). #skystorians #museums #collecting #histsci #envhist

Snake Words in Estonia: Nature and Nationalism in Andrus Kivirähk The Northern Environmental History Network is thrilled to welcome Dr Alfie Howard to present on Snake Words in Estonia!

The @northernenvhistory.bsky.social's first seminar of the year is fast approaching!

27/1 2pm GMT

Sign up below!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/snake-word...

Apply to this fantastic workshop by 31 January!

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