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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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✨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

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For the New Year, we're running a SALE of 25% off all books on our site. Use code WHP2026NY on anything listed here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... || Thanks to M. Johnson for painting these aconites, blossoming near Cambridge even in deep midwinter. #envhist #envhum #pastorialism #plantstudies
January 5, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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#academicjob: "2026 Walter S. Rosenberry Graduate Fellowship in Forest and Conservation History"

Info: foresthistory.org/awards-fello...

Deadline: 15 March 2026

#phdfunding #envhist #envhum
Rosenberry Graduate Fellowship - Forest History Society
Walter S. Rosenberry (1931-2005), a long-time supporter and Forest History Society Board member, provided the Society’s first endowment in support of its awards program. Rosenberry received a BA degre...
foresthistory.org
January 2, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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#CFP: “Historical Maritime Ecologies” for the NASOH conference. Panel organized by Derek Lee Nelson, Adam Sundberg & Brooke Grasberger.

Deadline: 15 January 2026

Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Conf link: nasoh.org/conferences

#envhum #envhist #bluehum @estuaryharbour.bsky.social
Call for Panelists: Panel on “Historical Maritime Ecologies” at NASOH | H-Net
Dear colleagues,We’re looking for panelists whose research centers the history of mutually-influential relationships between humans and non-humans in maritime spaces. We are organizing a panel tentati...
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January 2, 2026 at 10:03 AM
“Environmental history has grown broader, more porous, more ambitious—and, crucially, more willing to experiment with forms of knowledge that sit beyond the archive.” - @wildpasts.bsky.social & Marco Armiero

Read more on our website: www.iceho.org/news/2025/12...

#envhist
January 2, 2026 at 8:37 PM
6th Annual International Sustainable Development Dialogue (ISDD) - June 2026
Call for Papers - Deadline February 15, 2026
Global Affairs and Sustainable Development Institute, Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria

#envhist #globalsouth #sustainabledevelopment
January 2, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Thanks to everyone who joined us in celebrating and supporting global environmental history scholarship this past year!

#envhist #envhum
January 2, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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And a bonus review essay on “The Challenge of Early Modernity” in the new Special Issue of the JEMH on Environment & Empires! #earlymodern #envhist #envhum
Lastly, we have a review essay by Alan Strathern entitled "India as the World: The Challenge of Early Modernity."
brill.com/view/journal...
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December 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Great news to start off 2026: Audio versions of all episodes of the Greenhouse #envhum book talks -- that's 188 episodes! -- are now available for you to listen to.

Audio feed you can subscribe to: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...
(also available via many standard podcast listening services)
January 1, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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Thanks to our circle on Bluesky!

Here's to another year of sharing environmental knowledge and building community.

#envhist #cdnhist #histgeog #envhum
January 1, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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If you are looking for #polar #Arctic #Antarctic materials for the classroom, check out this material that I assembled for the @newberrylibrary.bsky.social at the end of 2024. #envhist #histsci 🐋❄️🦭🌊⚓🌌🐧
dcc.newberry.org?p=23646
Polar History at the Newberry Library – Digital Collections for the Classroom
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January 2, 2026 at 6:39 AM
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Today we have "Finding Black Lung in the Archives" by @drheathergreen.bsky.social and Kaley MacMullin

This post is part of the Mining Danger Project

niche-canada.org/2026/01/02/f...

#envhist #histmed #mininghistory #cdnhist
Finding Black Lung in the Archives
Coal mining’s overlooked slow disaster, black lung, devastated workers, remained dismissed, archivally absent, and resurfaces through community memory and activism.
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January 2, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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This episode of CBC's The Current reminded me of my discussion of fear in this @nichecanada.bsky.social blog post from 2019.

"Humans and Dogs and Bears, Oh My! – A Summer Podcast Reflection" - niche-canada.org/2019/08/08/h...

#envhist #animalhistory #bears #humananimalrelations
January 2, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Join us! We are the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations and we hope to expand our reach and representation in 2026. We consist of ssociations, networks, centers, institutions, publishers, and journals. Check out the page below to see our current members. #EnvHist
Members — ICEHO
www.iceho.org
December 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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We've added a new post to our blog, by Björn Billing on 'Visualising Icebergs in the Early Modern Period'; read it here: whitehorsepress.blog/2025/12/22/v... #envhist @eandhwhp.bsky.social #iceberg #arctic
Visualising Icebergs in the Early Modern Period
Today’s blog by Björn Billing introduces his recent article in Environment and History (online first, December 2025), Visualising Icebergs: Early Modern Depictions, ca 1570–1770 and shows how…
whitehorsepress.blog
December 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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ESEH Vice-President Sandra Swart and former ESEH President Marco Armiero have written a great summary of our last conference in Uppsala, Sweden!

#envhist @wildpasts.bsky.social
ICEHO's Sandra Swart and Marco Armiero have co-written a fantastic conference report for ESEH 2025! With 550 #EnvHist scholars from around the world, the hometown of Carl Linnaeus became a site for thinking about the importance of the past like never before.
@wildpasts.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social
ESEH 2025: A Conference to Remember — ICEHO
The 2025 ESEH Conference in Uppsala, Sweden, was a huge success. Read ICEHO’s Sandra Swart’s and Marco Armiero’s summary.
www.iceho.org
December 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
ICEHO's Sandra Swart and Marco Armiero have co-written a fantastic conference report for ESEH 2025! With 550 #EnvHist scholars from around the world, the hometown of Carl Linnaeus became a site for thinking about the importance of the past like never before.
@wildpasts.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social
ESEH 2025: A Conference to Remember — ICEHO
The 2025 ESEH Conference in Uppsala, Sweden, was a huge success. Read ICEHO’s Sandra Swart’s and Marco Armiero’s summary.
www.iceho.org
December 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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📢 JOB: PhD student / research position at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

📌 The position is a part of the project “Understanding the Collapse of the System: Crisis and reconstruction of socio-ecological systems in pre-modern Brandenburg and Greater Poland”, directed by Adam Izdebski
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Scholar / PhD students - competition for the project OPUS LAP " Understanding the collapse of the system: crisis and reconstruction of the socio-ecological systems of pre-modern Brandenburg and Greate...
Description of tasks:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
December 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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New 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article by Nathan Kiel. Read about how land conservation initiatives underwent rapid change in early twentieth-century Wisconsin, culminating in the protection of hundreds of local natural areas scattered across the state.
@nathankiel.bsky.social #envhist #wisconsin #conservation
State Natural Areas and the Evolution of Land Conservation in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin
Land conservation initiatives underwent rapid change in early twentieth-century Wisconsin, culminating in the protection of hundreds of local natural areas scattered across the state.
www.environmentandsociety.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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We're happy to announce that our Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH will lead the polar humanities training in the new national polar research education program funded by the Swedish Research Council!
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December 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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#CFP: Special Issue of Études Chinoises - "Humans and Nonhuman Animals in China" (ed. J. Boittout & C. K. Tong).

Deadline for abstracts: January 15, 2026

Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

#envhum #ecocriticism #envhist #animalstudies
CFP: Special Issue of Études Chinoises - "Humans and Nonhuman Animals in China" | H-Net
Call for PapersSpecial Issue of Études Chinoises"Humans and Nonhuman Animals in China" (Ancient to Contemporary Times)Guest Editors : Joachim Boittout (Université Paris Cité) and Christopher K. Tong (...
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December 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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#CFP: "Environmental and Economic Challenges in Global Asia". Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS), University of Kansas (KU), April 3–4, 2026 (Hybrid).

Deadline for abstracts: January 15, 2026

Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

#envhum #envhist #economics #environment
CFP - Environmental and Economic Challenges in Global Asia | H-Net
The Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) at the University of Kansas (KU) invites submissions for its annual spring symposium, to be held in a hybrid format—both virtually and in person—on April 3–4, ...
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December 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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#CFP: "Cattle Commodification in Global History: Capitalism, Science and Empire". International Workshop, Ghent University, 3-5 June 2026.

Deadline for abstracts: 23 January 2026

Info: cattlefrontiers.eu/workshop-cat...

#envhum #envhist #agriculture #environment #hstm #histsci
Cattle Commodification in Global History - International Workshop
Call for Papers - CATTLEFRONTIERS International Workshop, 3-5 June, Ghent University
cattlefrontiers.eu
December 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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New #Speak4Nature essay by 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐮𝐜𝐡, director of the Rachel Carson Center. Originally published in 2024, this Spanish-language article tells the story of Rachel Carson's ground-breaking 1962 book. Read it here for free: www.fuhem.es/wp-content/u...

#EnvHist #EnvHum #EnvJust #RachelCarson
December 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Four (!) new ahead-of-print articles live now! In "Sick of the City", Beth Wittmann explores the fat body politics of outdoor culture in the US, arguing that body size was a culturally impactful factor in shaping perceptions of outdoor recreation doi.org/10.3828/whpe... 🗃️ #envhist
December 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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CfP: International Congress of the History of Technology, to take place in Alexandroupolis, Greece, on 8–11 October 2026.
Deadline: 31 January. icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr
#EnvHist #HistTech #STS
December 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM