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Honored to be giving the keynote at this exciting workshop on "Conservation and Contagion." Greatly looking forward to hearing and learning from others scholars working on the historical intersections of nature protection, biodiversity loss, and infectious disease.
#medhist #envhist #envhum
julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 2d
CFP: Conservation and Contagion: Nature Protection, Biodiversity Loss and Infectious Disease.
First Workshop of the Conserving Global Health Project, 17-18 June 2027.
Abstract deadline, 1 February 2027
All disciplines welcome. More information here: conserveglobalhealth.org
Please share widely.
Conservation and Contagion: Nature Protection, Biodiversity Loss and Infectious Disease · Conserving Global Health · Conserving Global Health
conserveglobalhealth.org
November 4, 2026 at 2:57 PM
arnoldke.bsky.social
🚨 CFP! 'Conservation and Contagion: Nature Protection, Biodiversity Loss and Infectious Disease' on 17-18 June 2027 at
@liverpooluni.bsky.social. We're looking for 250-word abstracts by 1 February 2027.

Please share to your networks! 🐀 /1

www.conserveglobalhealth.org

#envhist #histsci #envhum
Image called "Friend of the Farmer. Conserve Owls".
November 2, 2026 at 9:41 AM
prof-christmas.bsky.social
Online talk by John Lee (Durham) introducing Korean sources c. 1392–1910 in environmental history housed at Harvard-Yenching Library on November 5, 4:30–5:30PM EST

Zoom link: korea.fas.harvard.edu/event/john-s...

#envhist #envhum #medievalsky #earlymodern
November 2, 2026 at 1:21 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
If you're interested in learning more about environmental games, check out the Playing Inside series that our editor @theliftline.bsky.social edited last year.

niche-canada.org/tag/playingi...

#envhist #envhum #envstudies #boardgames #gaming
November 4, 2026 at 3:29 PM
carsoncenter.bsky.social
Congratulations to Dr. Mengxi Kou, who just defended her PhD thesis at the Rachel Carson Center! The dissertation was titled “Wild Boars in Your Yard: Cultural Perception, Policy History, and the Governance of Human-Wild Boar Conflict in China.” We look very much forward to the book version! #envhum
November 3, 2026 at 10:43 AM
carsoncenter.bsky.social
Alberto Acosta and Enrique Viale will be at the Amerikahaus tonight to celebrate the German publication of their book, 𝘋𝘪𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘵𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳. The evening will feature by music by Grupo Sal.

More info at www.amerikahaus.de/ausstellunge...

#envhum #environmentaljustice #rightsofnature
November 4, 2026 at 11:25 AM
easlce.bsky.social
#jobs: 'Connected Teams. Practicing Transcultural Art Histories under the Conditions of Ecological Crises and Digital Transformations: India, Latin America, and Europe' Postdoctoral #Fellowship

DL: 13/11/2026 (PST)

Info: www.khi.fi.it/en/forschung...

#envhum #envhist #postdoc #globalstudies
Connected Teams
www.khi.fi.it
November 3, 2026 at 11:07 AM
carsoncenter.bsky.social
Tomorrow’s “Thinking, Imagining, Building Future Environments” lecture is with Karen Pittel (LMU), who will present on “Security—Sustainable, and Integrated”: www.sprachlit.lmu.de/carsoncenter....

#envhum #envhist #sustainability #economics
November 4, 2026 at 1:56 PM
greenhouseuis.net
This week’s Greenhouse #envhum research talk is with our very own postdoc Karin Lillevold, who will be presenting her project “Making disturbance visible”. We’re very excited to have her join the Greenhouse!
Woman in front of wall screen with pic of mountains
November 4, 2026 at 1:17 PM
farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out John Barry's review of Katherine M. Huber's "Irish Eco-media: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland," published in 2025 @uvapress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum #ecocrit
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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November 4, 2026 at 1:07 PM
farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out David Zandvliet's review of Andrew Martin's "The Ecology of Higher Education: Perspectives of an Ecologist as Educator," published in 2025 by @sunypress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum #ecology
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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November 3, 2026 at 1:49 PM
dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
Coming up Monday, 2 November 2026 at 16:00 Central European time:
Dominika Dzwonkowska will discuss her book Virtue Ethics and the Environment (Routledge, 2025) in the online Greenhouse #envhum book talk series.

Join us online:
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talks #206. Cover of Virtue Ethics and the Environment
November 1, 2026 at 1:24 PM
easlce.bsky.social
#jobs: “Energy Cultures in Transition” PhD Fellowship at the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Info: tu-dresden.de/gsw/schaufle... /

Deadline: November 24 2026

#energyhumanities #envhum #envhist #ecocriticism #ecolit #hstm #sts
Stipendienausschreibungen des Schaufler Kollegs zur 3. Förderphase "Energiekulturen im Wandel"
tu-dresden.de
November 3, 2026 at 11:03 AM
nichecanada.bsky.social
ICYMI:

"The more-than-tree approach seeks the neglected and uncharismatic beings that are in the background of a resource-focused industry archive." - @clairewwood.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2026/10/30/m...

#envhist #foresthistory #envhum #archives #multispecies
Seeing the Forest Deeper Than the Trees: A More-Than-Tree Approach to Forest History
Extractive timber archives reveal hidden ecological histories when analyzed using a "more-than-tree" approach to uncover silent, "uncharismatic" ecosystem actors.
niche-canada.org
November 2, 2026 at 9:52 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
"The innate wildness of the environs I inhabit made me ponder upon the multiple meanings of the word wild." - Ipek Sahinler

niche-canada.org/2022/06/23/t...

#envhist #envhum #texas #queerecology #borderlands #borderstudies
Teaching "Wild Things" in Texas
Students in Ipek Sahinler's rhetoric class at UT Austin go in search of "wild things" and create their own.
niche-canada.org
November 4, 2026 at 7:33 PM
dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
Great news!

You can listen to our conversation with Sarah Dimick about Unseasonable on last season’s @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks:
newnatures.org/greenhouse/p...
philipleventhal.bsky.social Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 12d
Congratulations to Sarah Dimick, whose book, UNSEASONABLE: CLIMATE CHANGE IN GLOBAL LITEARTURES, is the winner of the 2026 SLSA Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize! tinyurl.com/rem46f6b @litsciarts.org @columbiaup.bsky.social
October 29, 2026 at 7:36 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
We are gearing up for a website redesign/update in 2027.

We used to archive audio recordings and other materials from conferences. Is this a service we should think of reviving?

Here's the archive: niche-canada.org/resources/co...

#envhist #envhum #histgeog #cdnhist
Conference & Workshop Archive
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November 2, 2026 at 8:18 PM
greenhouseuis.net
Today our PhD student Dmitrijs Porsnovs defends his PhD thesis "Extractive Environmentalism: Construction of Waste Reefs in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico in 1946–1980" @unistavanger.bsky.social #envhist #envhum www.uis.no/nb/om-uis/ar...
Disputas for Dmitrijs Porsnov
Dmitrijs Porsnov disputerer for doktorgrad ved Fakultet for utdanningsvitskap og humaniora.
www.uis.no
October 30, 2026 at 7:55 AM
nichecanada.bsky.social
Have you checked out our merch shop?!

Our new crewneck sweatshirt is only $36 CAD (~$25.75 USD)!

And members get a discount on merch. More reasons to join us as a member!

niche-canada.org/2026/11/03/g...

#envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog
Get Your 2026 NiCHE Sweatshirt Today!
The 2026 NiCHE Sweatshirt is Here! And for the first time, it's a crewneck! (and only $36 CAD). Members get a discount.
niche-canada.org
November 4, 2026 at 3:36 PM
melinabuns.bsky.social
November at the Greenhouse! 🍂

#envhum
Overview of the events happening at the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities during November 2026. For more information about the center, visit the website https://www.uis.no/en/greenhouse. For information about the book talk series, see also https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/
November 2, 2026 at 7:58 AM
whitehorsepress.bsky.social
We've added a post to our blog by Mauritian artist and craftivist Nathalie Leung Shing, about her hand-stitched botanical artwork: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/11/03/l... #plantstudies #envhum #craft #waste @plantperspectives.bsky.social
From Fallen Leaves to Handstitched Art
This blog by Nathalie Leung Shing, Mauritian Craftivist is presented in association with Plant Perspectives. Nathalie Leung Shing is a self-taught Mauritian artist and craftivist whose practice com…
whitehorsepress.blog
November 3, 2026 at 1:28 PM
carsoncenter.bsky.social
On Monday, doctoral candidate Mengxi Kou will defend her dissertation “Wild Boars in Your Yard: Cultural Perception, Policy History, and the Governance of Human-Wild Boar Conflict in China“: www.sprachlit.lmu.de/carsoncenter...

#envhum #envhist #wildboars #animals #conflicts #governance #policy
October 30, 2026 at 10:50 AM
nichecanada.bsky.social
Appreciate our work? Want to support our ability to house two decades of environmental scholarship?

Consider becoming a member! We are just over the halfway mark of our first-ever membership drive: niche-canada.org/2026/10/27/b...

#envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog
November 2, 2026 at 8:22 PM
carsoncenter.bsky.social
New open-access book on our Environment & Society Portal: "Urbanizing the Future: A New City Project in Agrarian South India" by Carol Upadhya. #Envhum
Urbanizing the Future: A New City Project in Agrarian South India
Full book of Urbanizing the Future: A New City Project in Agrarian South India by Carol Upadhya.
www.environmentandsociety.org
November 2, 2026 at 12:20 PM
farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Josh Garrett-Davis's review of Stevie Ruiz's "Stewards of the Land: Race and Reclaiming Environmental Labor in the American West," published in 2026 by @uncpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #westernhist
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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October 30, 2026 at 3:24 PM