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The International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO) fosters international communication among environmental history organizations and #EnvHist scholars.
Website: https://iceho.org
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ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · Oct 18
✨Call for Proposals for the 2029 World Congress Venue✨

ICEHO is now calling for proposals from parties from any part of the globe interested in hosting the conference, preferably in July or August of 2029.

More info: www.iceho.org/wceh

#envhist #envhum #envstudies
Call for Proposals for the 2029 World Congress Venue!
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lindaaburnett.bsky.social
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
Poster showing the seminar schedule. The image is of Louis XVI giving instructions
January 22, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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carsoncenter.bsky.social
Across a century and a half, colonial, private and government salt farming at Sambhar has transformed the ecology of India's Sambhar Lake, affecting both wildlife and livelihoods. Read Deborah Sutton's new Arcadia article to learn more!
@debssutton.bsky.social #EnvHist
Between Salt and Water: The Environmental Crisis at Sambhar Lake, Rajasthan, India
Across a century and a half, colonial, private and government salt farming at Sambhar has transformed the ecology of the lake and caused a slow cataclysm of pollution, affecting wildlife and livelihoo...
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January 19, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
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...

#zoo #envhist #animalhistory
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...
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January 20, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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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.
#histtech #histstm #envhist #envhum #museum #museumstudies #heritagestudies
January 16, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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lisaonaga.bsky.social
Center for Art, Science, and Biocultural Ecologies Directorship call! This Center in Singapore also collaborates w Max Planck Inst. History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social. Pls share w folks committed to putting interdisciplinary research results into action! #HistSci #art #EnvHum Deadline 5 Feb
Associate/Full Professor of Curatorial Practice
Director of Centre for Art, Science and Biocultural Ecologies (CASBE) Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Young, research intensive, and outward-looking Nanyang Technological University, Singa...
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January 16, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
Our 1st #envhum #book talk of 2026 is on Monday, 19 Jan, 16:00 CET/15:00 GMT.
Join us to hear Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social discuss her book A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930.
All are welcome!
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Isabelle Gapp, A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930. Cover of book with northern lights over arctic scene on right.
January 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
"Remnant: Urban Prairie Teaches Lessons in Loss" by Carmen Gilmore is the fourth post in our Urban and Environmental Dialogues series, published in collaboration with The Metropole - @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

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#envhist #urbanhistory #yxe #skhistory #sask
Remnant: Urban Prairie Teaches Lessons in Loss
Volunteering revealed urban conservation’s failures as Saskatoon Grasslands lost biodiversity, accountability, and fescue prairie, prompting calls for memorialization and justice.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
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

niche-canada.org/2026/01/15/c...

#envhist #histmed #histnursing
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...
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January 17, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
Radioactive Governance with @maximepolleri.bsky.social - Cultures of Energy Podcast

#envhist #nuclear #energyhistory #energy
Cultures of Energy
Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy tra...
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January 17, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
"I argue that this visual regime of Arctic melt itself is performative. It produces a kind of slow violence—not through physical destruction, but through infrastructural oversight and the erasure of context and nuance." - Audrey Medaino-Tardif

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#envhum #arctic
Violence of Melt: Visual Infrastructures and Erasure in the Arctic
The Arctic is melting. In the visual culture of the Arctic and environmental research, melt is affective. It is treated as an object of aesthetic and study, a symbol of urgency. Most prevalent images ...
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January 17, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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melinabuns.bsky.social
The @greenhouseuis.net is slowly awaking from hibernation and is starting off the year with book talks by @issygapp.bsky.social and @kbruisch.bsky.social (as always online and open to all) and a special event to celebrate the Gad Rausing Prize 2025 awarded to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social!

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Overview of the events at the Greenhouse in January. More info on uis.no/en/greenhouse. For the book talks, see also https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/.
January 12, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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mmiernecka.bsky.social
#CfP alert! “Queer Ecologies Across Socialisms" – conference in Regensburg on Oct 15-16, 2026. Deadline: 15 Feb 2026 queersocialism.net/2026-confere...
#queerstudies #envhum
2026 Conference – CfP
Queer Ecologies Across Socialisms 15-16 October 2026 University of Regensburg, October 15-16, 2026 | CfP deadline: Feb 15, 2026Organizers: Martyna Miernecka, Paweł Matusz In literary and arts resea…
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January 12, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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eseh.bsky.social
Join the European Society for Environmental History! We are our members, and with a modest yearly fee (25 or 10 €) you will contribute to the community and our next conference. And there are benefits! You can also help by spreading the word! Read more here:
eseh.org/membership/h...
#EnvHist #EnvHum
January 12, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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ysabelm.bsky.social
REDES Conference
Place: University of Iceland, Reykjavik. 18-20 June, 2026.
Theme: Reimagining the Future: Counter‑hegemonic Aesthetics and Epistemologies in Latin America.
Keynote speakers: Mayra Santos-Febre and Moira Millán
Abstract deadline: 15 January, 2026.
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#Envhum #LatAm #futures
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REDES III Ráðstefna REDESÞriðja ráðstefna norræna samstarfsnetsins REDES verður haldin við Háskóla Íslands dagana 18. - 20. júní 2026.REDES hefur að markmiði að stuðla að og viðhalda víðtækum samráðsv...
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January 8, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Kaitlin Thurlow's review of Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick's "Enraptured Space: Gender, Class, and Ecology in the Work of Paula Meehan," published in 2025 by West Virginia University Press; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum #ecocrit #poetry
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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January 8, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Adam Hogan's review of Robert B. Keiter's "Conserving Nature in Greater Yellowstone: Controversy and Change in an Iconic Ecosystem," published in 2025 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum #nationalparks #envhist
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January 9, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
"How does it feel to be a worker in an oil-and-gas industry and a Canadian petrostate amid the climate crisis and the early stages of a transition away from fossil fuels?" - Melanie Dennis Unrau

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#envhist #envhum #fossilfuels #labour #poetry
New Book - The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry
How does it feel to be a worker in an oil-and-gas industry and a Canadian petrostate amid the climate crisis and the early stages of a transition away from fossil fuels?
niche-canada.org
January 9, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, looks back on our most popular images and other media in 2025.

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#envhist #envhum #cdnhist #histgeog
NiCHE's 2025 in Images and Media
Our most popular media and images from 2025 indicate a great deal of popular interest in arctic and polar topics.
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January 9, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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envirohistory.bsky.social
Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Megan Ann Black's "The 'Eco-Phony' World’s Fair: Expo ’74 and the Bind of Being Friends of the Earth" from the January 2026 issue. #envhist #envhum #environmentalism

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The “Eco-Phony” World’s Fair: Expo ’74 and the Bind of Being Friends of the Earth | Environmental History
Abstract By the summer of 1974, David Brower had turned his environmental organization Friends of the Earth into a leading proponent of global environmentalism. However, after returning from the secon...
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January 9, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Some interesting notes from a 1968 issue of "Science": Science in Antarctica: Problems and Opportunities "On the Ice"
#histsci #envhist #STS
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Science in Antarctica: Problems and Opportunities
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January 9, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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monicavasile.bsky.social
CFP 📢 Join us for a panel on conservation histories for the European Congress of Conservation Biology in Leiden @eccb26leiden.bsky.social If you're interested, email @georgeholmes.bsky.social or me with an abstract by Feb 9.

#envhist #histsci #animalhist
#conservationhumanities
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January 10, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
Check out the schedule for the Rural History Roundtable – Speaker Series Winter 2026 - History Department, University of Guelph

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#envhist #cdnhist #ruralhistory #ruralstudies #aghist
Rural History Roundtable - Speaker Series Winter 2026
January - March 2026 - Join the History Department at the University of Guelph for the Winter 2026 Rural History Roundtable series.
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January 10, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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bordergroves.bsky.social
24 hours later. Lake Michigan is one moody body of water. Love it.
January 10, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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bordergroves.bsky.social
Chicago skyline
January 9, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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bordergroves.bsky.social
#AHA26 brought the sunshine to Chicago! If you have a chance get outside and see the city.
January 9, 2026 at 5:50 PM