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Katie Kung
@katiekung.bsky.social
📍PhD candidate | Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich
👀Troubled care and invasive species, history of ideas, multispecies STS, environmental humanities, conservation & ecology
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September 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Any narratives/rhetorics on invasive species management/eradication/marketing folks want to share their projects? (and thanks Hal Herzog for the title😁)
The @easlce.bsky.social deadline for Utrecht is fast approaching and @katiekung.bsky.social and I are still looking for one paper for a panel on care & invasive species tentatively titled: “Some we love, some we hate, some we kill: why it’s so hard to care for invasive species” #ecocriticism #envhum
September 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Happening soon: gonna be speaking about how to kill kindly in Aotearoa at 4S Seattle.. looking forward to the discussion with other presenters and the convenors Hannah Star Rogers and Matthew Eisler! @4sweb.bsky.social 15:40 in Seattle, midnight in Germany, let’s go!
September 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Oh it just came out: I wrote this short essay shortly after the research trip in Aotearoa recalling a very.. strange.. experience of a field day catching wallabies. Three were caught that day, many let go because they weren’t big enough. I still think about them sometimes. 🫧
August 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Anthropomorphizing is...a tough topic. For scientists and writers! Because the thing is: Animals aren't just like us. They don't see the world the way we do.

But also people don't want to CONSERVE something they don't identify with. brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/what-is-hu...
What is "human-like" depends on where humans live
And why it matters for conservation
brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Great session yesterday at #eseh2025 #boardgaming empathy and uncertainty in the Anthropocene with Sven Seelinger (Uni Augsburg). So much fun! #envhist
August 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Still decompressing from #ESEH2025 week but hey was it good!
@elinetabak.bsky.social @chriskla.bsky.social @charrlotte.bsky.social, Sven Seelinger plus @aberehrlich.bsky.social
(Go “invasive species”! I guess…)
August 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Shout out and HUGE thanks to some of the amazing, inspiring, and kind women I've met this week, the likes of Aline Leite, Stefania Barca, Gaia Giuliani, Caroline Kreysel, @elinetabak.bsky.social and @katiekung.bsky.social
August 23, 2025 at 7:15 AM
It was such a great panel and all the presentations complement so well to each other. What a pleasure to be part of it!
this was such an amazing experience 💚 the organisers @katiekung.bsky.social @elinetabak.bsky.social, the presenters, AND the audience were so engaging.
Chairing this fabulous #PlantStudies panel today: "Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging" 🌿🌲🌾

Join us at 14.00-15.30 & 16.00-17.30 in room 21.011 for some planty goodness
August 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Chairing this fabulous #PlantStudies panel today: "Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging" 🌿🌲🌾

Join us at 14.00-15.30 & 16.00-17.30 in room 21.011 for some planty goodness
August 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Tomorrow! 🌱
Who am I seeing at ESEH in *checks notes* less than two weeks?

Very much looking forward to the "Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging" panels I’m organising with @katiekung.bsky.social 🌳🌱
August 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The past 5 weeks I’ve been in different forests (“the bush”) in Aotearoa New Zealand’s North Island. Studying “invasive” and protected animals control/monitoring and the role of kindness in killing, emotions in science.. How can you not be emotional in such beauty??
February 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Well done you two! So happy to see results from our previous environmental aesthetics workshop, was much fun!
Our newest addition to 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴 is a compelling article on the scenic beauty of Santiago by @fwinckel.bsky.social and @alicemurphs.bsky.social.

Read the full article: seeingthewoods.org/2024/11/21/o...

#rccpublications #seeingthewoods #environmental #aesthetics #academic #santiagodechile
November 22, 2024 at 1:01 PM
12 ✨paid✨ PhD positions in environmental humanities - co/organised by Uni Augsburg and LMU. I’m also an affiliate there - check out the call: rethinking-environment-idk.de
November 20, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Had a great time earlier this week in the “invasive species” workshop in Zurich - so wonderful to meet all the people in this field! Great papers and great walk in Sihlwald to think about how nativeness and invasiveness are used for different agendas! @angecass.bsky.social @mattholmes.bsky.social
November 14, 2024 at 8:07 AM
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Just saw that the #ESEH2025 deadline has been extended to Nov 15, so there's still plenty of time to propose an abstract for our (@katiekung.bsky.social + me!) panel on 'Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging' 🌿🌺

#envhum #envlit #PlantStudies
October 29, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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Any green historian, vegetal ecocritics or (critical) plant scholars interested in submitting an abstract for a hybrid panel for #ESEH2025 in Uppsala, Sweden? 🌿🌾

@katiekung.bsky.social and I are drafting a panel proposal on "Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging"
October 7, 2024 at 1:52 PM