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“Dave Foreman at UW Oshkosh with Bron Taylor” The lecture features environmental activist Dave Foreman, introduced by Bron Taylor at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh in 1990. The event situates Foreman’s ideas within the emerging discourse on ...

Former Carson Fellow Bron Taylor has made available some lectures and talks that might interest historians of environmentalism. First out is this lecture by Dave Foreman (Earth First!) from 1990, introduced by Bron himself.

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Assistant Professor- Tenure Track Position- Department of History - University of Prince Edward Island The Faculty of Arts at the University of Prince Edward Island, Department of History, welcomes applications for a tenure-track position, Assistant Professor level, beginning on July 1st, 2026, in the...

Assistant Professor- Tenure Track Position- Department of History – University of Prince Edward Island

Closing date for applications is March 13th, 2026.

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Call For Papers – Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum (NEAR-EH) 2026 The Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum (NEAR-EH) brings together a group of scholars exploring the environmental history of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States.

Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum
Call for Papers, Twelfth Annual Workshop

Friday, July 10 and Saturday July 11, 2026
Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Deadline: April 24, 2026

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📣 Call for Papers: Rural History Network at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC)
📍 Lyon, France
📅 21–24 April 2027
⏳ The deadline for submissions is 15 April 2026
We will post more info below. #EnvHum

Book cover based on stylised painted art of someone digging in a large pile of soil with a shovel.

We're delighted to announce publication of 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for The Environmental Humanities' (E. Brownell, ed.) – exploring #soil as a vessel of human #history and point of view for inquiry. Available print or #openaccess here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist

Are you interested in organizing the 2026 ESEH Summer School in Environmental History? ESEH offers advisory and financial support to the selected proposal. Consider submitting a proposal by 15 March 2026!
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Learn about Cogent Arts & Humanities Learn about Cogent Arts & Humanities aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.

The 🌿Environmental Humanities🌊 section of Cogent Arts & Humanities is now open for submissions with @tstorey.bsky.social as Senior Editor 🎉 Read more about this vital new #openaccess section & how to submit here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/oaa... @tandfresearch.bsky.social #envhum #envhist

www.kth.se/anthropocene... Naomi Oreskes in Stockholm! Great news for #Anthropocene people @iceho.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social

A Paradise in Spring: An Ecological Account of Birds, Fishes and Hunters in the Bāburnāma Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur’s autobiography anticipates an ecological and multispecies way of understanding the environment, highlighting confluence rather than divergence between humans and nonhumans...

New Arcadia article by Smarika Nawani on how the autobiography of Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur (1483–1530), the first Mughal emperor, anticipates an ecological and multispecies understanding of the environment, highlighting confluence rather than divergence between humans and nonhumans.

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Prize — ICEHO

Read more on our website: www.iceho.org/prize

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

Embodied Environmental Histories of Danger in a British National Park Lena Ferriday discusses danger and wildness in Dartmoor

Join us in a couple of weeks when @lenaferriday.bsky.social will be discussing the narratives of danger that lurk on Dartmoor in the imaginations of the last two centuries. Come along online on 10/03 at 1400. To Sign-up, see here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/embodied-e...

📣 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

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

编译｜殖民时期槟城乔治市的天气、公共卫生与城市治理

A 2020 E&H article by Fiona Williamson was translated into Chinese by Li Ruipeng. Read "生活在污秽与对健康的漠视之中” (‘Living in a State of Filth and Indifference to … Their Health’) here: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/MDYJqHU2W1... 🗃️ #envhist #chinesehistory

New open access ahead-of-print article! In 'Landscapes of Caste Exclusion', Nivedita Nath evaluates the role of caste in the colonial transformation of entangled subcontinental landscapes of forests and fields. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... 🗃 #envhist

A heavy and complex #heritage - Amazing example of close connection between #environment, natural resources, #pollution and colonial history in #Wales.
#envhist #pb #lead #metal #mining #Romans #geology #AmgueddfaCymru #archaeology #history #Ceredigion #ingot 🐖

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ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

I’m embarking on a new collaborative research project that deals with a part of the USA I haven’t studied much. #Skystorians , what are your favorite books and articles about #envhist , science, and technology in the Mountain West/PNW?

(This project is mostly about Idaho.)

I have a new article out in Environment and History on Deutsche Bank's role in reshaping the geography of water in Ottoman Anatolia. #envhist

Water’s Worth: Reconsidering Deutsche Bank’s 1907 Konya Plain Irrigation Project | Environment and History www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

The @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social version of "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean" is out today! It includes an audiobook, which I recorded last December at a sound studio here in Washington, DC. Now you can read or listen to the book, even if you live outside of the US and Canada. #History 1/2

Call for Applicants - Corsini Fellowship in Canadian History The Wilson Institute is happy to announce that is once again accepting applications for the Corsini Fellowship in Canadian History.

Call for Applicants – Corsini Fellowship in Canadian History, Wilson Institute, McMaster University

Applications must arrive by 1 April 2026.

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Our Director of Communications, Jonatan Palmblad, has written an entry on environmental history for the Speak4Nature project's Dictionary on Ecological Justice. #envhist

New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest.
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Read former Carson fellow Mu Cao's report from the Asian Association for Environmental History conference!

🌿 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 👇
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"This innovative spirit was matched by an ambition for temporal and spatial synthesis. Scholars deftly constructed connections between local micro-sites and global systems, weaving narratives that linked community experiences with oceanic histories, colonial networks, and climate change."

Read Mu Cao's full report from the 2025 Conference of the Asian Association for Environmental History (AAEH), "A Classroom Called the Inland Sea: The 2025 AAEH Conference," on our website: www.iceho.org/news/2026/1/...

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Check out Mohammed Muharram's review of Sarah Dimick's "Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures," published in 2024 by @columbiaup.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum #ecocrit #climate #envhist
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