Hey #histodons, wondering if there are any folks who have found use in getting green revolution and big science ideas to talk to eachother? #HistoryOfScience #Envhist

"Creating Chernobyl" article out now!

#Chernobyl #nuclearEnergy #envhist #shockoftheold

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00048-025-00424-6?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nonoa_20250731&utm_content=10.1007%2Fs00048-025-00424-6

Call for Applications: European Summer Academy on "Memories of Landscape. On Traces of Violence in Nature" (Genshagen Castle, Germany, 2-5 September 2025)

The call addresses professionals aged 25 to 35 from Croatia, France, Germany, Poland, Ukraine and the Western Balkan countries.

Apply by 1st July

https://www.stiftung-genshagen.de/en/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungen-2025/kuku/memories-of-landscape

The University of Stavanger (Norway) invites applicants for a position as Associate Professor in Environmental History.

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/281801/associate-professor-in-environmental-history

The deadline for application is 7 August 2025.

The “windscreen phenomenon”, #earlymodern edition.

Es sind geschichtsreiche Zeiten, dennoch möchte ich heute gern mit dem #Bienstag Nummer 13 weitermachen. Heute beschäftigen wir uns mit einer Diskrepanz zwischen Rohstoff und üblicher Vorstellung vom Produkt und den dazwischen liegenden Arbeitsschritten.
#Imkerei #Biene #Apiculture
@histodons #Geschichte #EnvHist

Happy news! It's official. I have a contract for my forthcoming book, Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution (current title) with @uwapress.bsky.social (2026).

(1/4) Is 50 years a long time for a closed mine? This article discusses the continuing selenium pollution associated with a closed coal mine in Canada. Yet our researchers are investigating how pollution from mining can be visible after 500 years.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/06/02/Coal-Mines-Crowsnest-Pass-Killing-Fish/

‘No traces of life’: Israel’s Ecocide in Gaza 2023-2024
Forensic Architecture
"examining the systematic targeting of orchards and greenhouses by Israeli forces since October 2023. Our analysis reveals that this destruction is a widespread and deliberate act of ecocide that has exacerbated the ongoing catastrophic famine in Gaza and is part of a wider pattern of deliberately depriving Palestinians of critical resources for survival"
#EnvHist #EnvironmentalStudies #Gaza
https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/ecocide-in-gaza

H-Oceans just published a very kind review by Christine Keiner of my book Sea Level: A History (University of Chicago Press, 2024).

What I can definitely agree on are the compliments to the jacket designer, Rae Ganci Hammers, for a stunningly beautiful cover.

https://networks.h-net.org/group/reviews/20071022/keiner-hardenberg-sea-level-history

Call for Proposals: “Premodern Ecologies” Seminar Series 2025-26 at the Newberry Library (Chicago, USA).
Deadline: July 7

http://eseh.org/call-for-proposals-premodern-ecologies-seminar-series-2025-26-at-the-newberry-library-chicago-usa/

This seminar provides a forum for new approaches to classical, medieval, and early modern studies, allowing scholars from a range of disciplines to share work-in-progress with the broader community at the Center for Renaissance Studies.
#earlymodernhistory #envhist #ClassicalHistory #medievalhistory

Am heutigen #TagDesMeeres der UN geht es v.a. auch um #Meeresschutz – daher unser Lesetipp:
Sven Bergmann/Philipp Grassel, #Mikroplastik und #TNT. Unterschiedliche Regime der Problematisierung von #Meeresmüll, #WerkstattGeschichte 85/2022, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-85-sven-bergmann-und-philipp-grassel/

@envhist @envhum @histodons @historikerinnen

The Italian #envhist society SISAM is sponsoring a workshop on the environmental history of Italian #resistance to be held in Imperia in October. Direct link to the call: https://genovadalbasso.nohost.me/nextcloud/s/p69ADtoyz6KNqgE

h/t @steko
https://historians.social/@steko@scholar.social/114625876261389341

We are the European Society for Environmental History! Our society encourages the comparative study of European #EnvHist and fosters communication between all who share our interest in past relationships between human culture and the environment. You can read more about us on our About page: http://eseh.org/about-us/mission/
Our next conference will take place in Uppsala in August 2025: https://www.eseh2025.com #PinnedForReference #update #repost

Our special issue in the Journal of Literature and Science, the project’s main output, is now out in open access: https://www.literatureandscience.org/volume-17-number-2-2024/ #envhist #envhum #literature #soundstudies

Les résultats du projet #FIREUSES, sur l'histoire des grands incendies de forêt au Portugal, sont également parvenus à la presse française par l'intermédiaire de @CourrierInternational

https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/les-feux-de-foret-un-heritage-de-la-dictature-de-salazar-au-portugal_230472

@histodons
@envhum
@envhist

Before we celebrate our Freedom Day, we'll have the opportunity to learn about the main results achieved by the #FIREUSES project team. The conference will take place at the National Library of Portugal on 24 April.

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/burning-landscapes-2025/

@histodons
@envhist

The closing conference of the #FIREUSES - Burning Landscapes project will take place at the National Library of Portugal on 24 April. Throughout the day, main results will be presented combined with other perspectives and geographies of fire.

FREE ENTRY

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/burning-landscapes-2025/

@envhum
@envhist

Zum heutigen #Bienstag gibt es mal wieder etwas Längeres zum Lesen. Auf dem Blog ist der letzte Woche erwähnte Beitrag zu einem bienenhaltenden Apotheker des 15. Jahrhunderts online gegangen. Lest gern mal rein und lasst mir eure Gedanken dazu da!

https://bienen.hypotheses.org/1314

#Imkerei #Biene #Mittelalter #Sachsen #Geschichte #Kamenz #Oberlausitz #EnvHist
@histodons