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Robert Groß
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Human ecologist by training, environmental and energy historian by doing @univie.ac.at‬

URL: https://robertgross.org/
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krekberg.bsky.social
Nordic scholars. Join us at NESS, Submit your abstracts on climate obstruction here

@cssn.org
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@environmentalpol.bsky.social
krekberg.bsky.social Kristoffer Ekberg @krekberg.bsky.social · 17d
Next year, Tero Toivanen and I are organizing a workshop for the Nordic Environmental Social Science conference on questions of how we understand climate obstruction / opposition! Submit your idea to the workshop 14 over here:
Workshops - Uppsala University
www.uu.se
November 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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kaltenbrunnera.bsky.social
Ein Lieblingsprojekt (wieder) online. www.arbeiterzeitung.at Mehr als 200.000 Zeitungsseiten von 1945 - 1989 digital offen. Mit Volltextsuche von Politik bis Sport. Von 2004 bis 2021 gab es 2 Millionen Recherche-Cases. (Leider) weiterhin die einzige derartige zeitgeschichtliche Primärquelle.
Startseite | Archiv der Arbeiter-Zeitung
www.arbeiterzeitung.at
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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carsoncenter.bsky.social
To what extent did the unveiling of gas leaks “scale up” a Romanian technical problem into an EU environmental issue? Read the latest 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article by Ariane Desroches-Touchain to find out! #envhum #envhist
Making Methane Visible: From Local Leaks to EU Regulation
To what extent did the unveiling of gas leaks “scale up” a Romanian technical problem into an EU environmental issue?
www.environmentandsociety.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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botstiberinstitute.bsky.social
The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies is now accepting grant proposals up to $25,000 for research and projects that promote an understanding of the historic relationship between the United States and Austria.

Deadline: March 31, 2026

botstiberbiaas.org/grants/resea...
Research & Project Grants | The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies
The BIAAS seeks grant proposals for research or projects aimed at promoting an understanding of the historic relationship between the United States and Austria, including Habsburg Austria.
botstiberbiaas.org
October 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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haushoferl.bsky.social
This one’s for you writers - for November, a colleague and I are organizing short (30min) online morning writing sessions- just a quick (5min) writing prompt/warmup and then 20 min free writing time. From Mon-Thu 8.30-9 am CET (sorry US/Canada friends!). Message if you’d like to join. #AcWriMo
kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter .
Alt: kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter .
media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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greenhouseuis.net
The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English.

Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!

Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
Poster for Masters in Public Environmental Humanities. Our 2-year masters program in beautiful Stavanger, Norway, invites you to study today's environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history. Key aspects: • Combine critical thinking with hands-on engagement • Work across humanities fields • Put learning into action through an internship • Taught entirely in English • Free tuition for students from EU/EEA/Switzerland and affordable for others If you believe community-engaged humanities can help build a more sustainable future, this is the place to start. GET MORE INFO & APPLY FOR FALL 2026 Questions? Email PEH@uis.no
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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wilko.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
for my seminar "Cultures of the Environment" I am working towards student spending a session mapping an #environment of their choice, as a way to kickstart discussion about selective #representation and #mapping as #environing. Does anybody have suggestions for a reading to assign to students […]
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hcommons.social
November 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
robertgro5.bsky.social
Passend zur nahenden Saisoneröffnung durften die großartige Edith Hessenberger und ich ein wenig über unsere Forschung zum alpinen Wintertourismus plaudern: //topos.orf.at/truestories-macpherson100?didomiConfig.notice.enable=false
Die Beschleunigung des Alpentourismus - ORF Topos
Nach 1945 begann der Tourismus in den Alpen zu boomen und wurde identitätsstiftend für Österreich. Während viele Bergregionen zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts mit Armut und Abwanderung zu kämpfen hatten...
topos.orf.at
November 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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elisabeth-piller.bsky.social
I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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levkeharders.bsky.social
Great #JobOffer in #History at #UniInnsbruck in the ASTRA-Projekt “Provincializing #Coloniality. A Global History of Twentieth Century Tyrol”. One #PostDoc position and two doctoral postitions. Deadline is November 25, 2025:
www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
1 Postdoc + 2x 0,75 Dissertationsstellen "Provincializing Coloniality. A Global History of Twentieth Century Tyrol" (Univ. Innsbruck)
1 Postdoc + 2 Doc Stellen im Forschungsprojekt "Provincializing Coloniality. A Global History of Twentieth Century Tyrol" (Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Universität Innsbruck)
www.hsozkult.de
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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conteurohistory.bsky.social
📣 New Voices continues with a blog from Rosie Charles, @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social.

Rosie's blog explores superphosphate manufacturing by the British and French empires, charting the impact of fertiliser production on imperial expansion and agricultural practices.

www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
Empire in the Soil: Superphosphate and the British and French Imperial Manufacture, 1914-1937 « History# « Cambridge Core Blog
The history of European imperial agriculture has often been told through the lens of technological innovation, such as the development of the agricultural automotive industry or the application of adv...
www.cambridge.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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hsozkultservice.bsky.social
Stip: 2x "Heinrich Winkelmann Stipendien" (Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum)

https://www.hsozkult.de/grant/id/stip-158269

Bochum, , Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Leibniz-Forschungsmuseum für Georessourcen, Bewerbungsschluss: 04.01.2026
www.hsozkult.de
October 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
There are now 183 videos of our Greenhouse #envhum book talks available to view via our Vimeo showcase. This includes our most recent talks.

You can also listen to the audio-only podcast, which is slightly behind with 154 episodes available: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...
Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talks
Book talks with authors of recent books in environmental humanities, with the authors in discussion with Dolly Jørgensen and Finn Arne Jørgensen, University of Stavanger, Norway. The book talks are he...
vimeo.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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maxgrund.bsky.social
Bei uns ist an der @uni-jena.de ist eine Professur für Globale #Umweltgeschichte ausgeschrieben. ⤵️

berufungsportal.uni-jena.de?showProcedur...
Welcome - Login | Appointment Portal
berufungsportal.uni-jena.de
October 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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anthro-commons.bsky.social
BOOK LAUNCH: ENERGY’S HISTORY
𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺’𝘴 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺: 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘢 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘯?

🗓️ 3. Nov 2025
⏰ 16.00 – 17.30
📍 Berlin, Germany

👉 Join us at 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 to celebrate this book launch, followed by a talk by the historian 𝗝𝗲𝗮𝗻-𝗕𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝘇.

🔗 Please register: spore-initiative.org/en/programmi...
Energy’s History: From colonialism, to anti-colonialism, and back again?
spore-initiative.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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hsozkult.bsky.social
CFP: Working Nature – Exploring Intersections of Labour History and Political Ecology

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158294

Linz, 17.09.2026-19.09.2026, International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH), Bewerbungsschluss: 30.01.2026
www.hsozkult.de
October 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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uclssees.bsky.social
Please join us for this event to hear more about @kbruisch.bsky.social's new book 'Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy' (@universitypress.cambridge.org).

Discussants: Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and @robertsuits.bsky.social.

🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm
➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s
Event poster for 'Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy' with an image of the book cover. In-person event.
October 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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fwenninger.bsky.social
Der Sonderberichterstatter der UN bringt es auf den Punkt: das jahrzehntelange Aushöhlen der westlichen Sozialsysteme hat den Aufstieg der extremen Rechten massiv befördert. Wer die Demokratie erhalten will, muss den Sozialstaat verteidigen.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says
Exclusive: Poverty rapporteur says governments must rethink welfare state as essential to fabric of society
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
Apply now for a free week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities organized by the Greenhouse and the project Energy Lives! project run by @melinabuns.bsky.social

Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025

www.uis.no/en/research/...

#envhum #envhist #energy
Apply for PhD Course on Energy Humanities
5 ECTS PhD course ‘Themes within Environmental Humanities’ to be held in Stavanger, 1-5 December 2025. This year’s thematic focus is the developing field of the Energy Humanities.
www.uis.no
October 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
robertgro5.bsky.social
***Call for Papers***
Dissertant:innen-Tagung Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte 2026 @univie.ac.at

#envhist
October 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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gwu-bielefeld.bsky.social
GWU-Member @czumbragel.bsky.social contributed to the radio feature “100 Years of Energy Transition–How Germany Almost Became Renewable Once Before”
The episode explores how people once imagined a different energy future
open.spotify.com/episode/3W18...
#energistories #UniBielefeld #energyhistory
Energiewende 1925 - Als Deutschland fast schon einmal erneuerbar wurde
open.spotify.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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wilko.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
A petition to the German government to reform the anachronistic #privatdozentur (a stage in the German system where you are “allowed” to teach without payment) is being circulated. Please sign: support by international colleagues would be much appreciated. The letter will be presented to the […]
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hcommons.social
October 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
The journal Environmental Humanities is still looking for midcareer/senior #envhum scholars interested in becoming a co-editor-in-chief from January 2026. You can apply as an individual and we'll find an appropriate co-editor match for you.

See environmentalhumanities.org
Environmental Humanities – A journal published by Duke University Press
environmentalhumanities.org
October 21, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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finnarne.me
Here’s the link to the archive, there’s more than 170 book talks there now! We’re always happy when people check them out, and especially when people use them for teaching!
The Greenhouse – Center for Environmental Humanities
newnatures.org
October 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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wilko.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
A lot is happening on the @eseh feed. Check it out for Calls for Papers, job opportunities, and society news! #envhist
October 17, 2025 at 9:48 AM