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#CfP for the journal Worldwide Waste
#JobKlaxon: Doctoral Position in European Global Studies / Global History (environmental history focus) at the University of Basel
jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/doctoral-position-in-european-global-studies-global-history/04aa6519-a4d9-4fdb-855d-4a95d2b1dbfc
The programme and Book of Abstracts for the Environment and Society in East-Central Europe Conference (ESIEE 2026) are now available online.
The conference will bring together scholars from across Europe and beyond to discuss environmental history, rivers, industrial landscapes, infrastructure, environmental governance, socialist modernity, energy transitions, borders, activism, and many other themes connected to the environmental past and present of East-Central Europe.
The organisers are especially excited by the extraordinary breadth of panels and the interdisciplinary dialogue emerging across history, geography, sociology, political ecology, and environmental studies.
Ostravská univerzita, Czechia
28–29 May 2026
Programme and Book of Abstracts: https://ff.osu.eu/esiee/programme/
ESEH Online Seminar in Environmental History: "Colonisation and Russia’s 'Green' Civilising Mission in the Far East"
Presenter: Mark Sokolsky (Royal Military College of Canada)
Discussant: Maria Pirogovskaya (LMU Munich)
Organizer and moderator: Anna Mazanik (Max Weber Network Eastern Europe)
May 20, 16:00 CET (online) #LastMinute
Registration required. Click here to register: https://forms.gle/2LNsthLwwSWEdjde6
#JobKlaxon! The “Convivial Waterfronts: Reimagining Urban Coastal Conservation for Just Sustainability Transformations” (TU München) project is looking for two PhD researchers
#CfP: Special Issue titled "Towards a Transnational History of the #BalticSea: Thinking With the Environment, the Arts, and Material Culture" for the Journal of Baltic Studies
Deadline for proposals: June 1, 2026
ESEH's Next Generation Action Team NEXTGATe has a new logo, designed by Gilberto Mazzoli.
NEXTGATe is a valuable and inspiring part of ESEH. It aims to strengthen the presence and influence of early career scholars in environmental history across Europe and beyond.
You can contact the NEXTGATe team to join the listserv for a monthly newsletter on environmental history opportunities.
#Symposium - 40 years after #chornobyl, the MWNO and the Aleksanteri-instituutti - Aleksanteri Institute want to reflect on historical constellations and aftereffects of man-made disasters with a focus on nuclear, military and petrocultures in Eastern Europe and Northern Eurasia from the Cold War until today.
May 28th, 2026, 12:45 pm EET
Helsinki and online
You can consult the program of the symposium here: https://mwseasteurope.hypotheses.org/files/2026/05/Program-28th-of-May-Man-Made-Disasters.pdf
To participate, please, register in advance: https://shorturl.at/5kKCT
#LectureSeries: „Soviet Biology in Changing Environments: Nature, Knowledge, and Life under Transformation“ (online via Zoom)
The lecture series is organized by Sergei Shevchenko as part of the Gerda Henkel Foundation project Biological Instability and Its Management: A Soviet History, 1920s–1950s.
Programme
- 12.05.2026 4:00 PM CET
Dmitriy Myelnikov (University of Cambridge) – Body as Environment in Soviet Medicine
- 19.05.2026 5:00 PM CET
Stephen Brain (Mississippi State University) – The Last Reform Before Collectivization: Biocentric Agriculture in the Soviet Union
- 09.06.2026 5:00 PM CET
Alexandra Noi (University of California, Santa Barbara) – Biology as Ideology: The Ideas of Human Plasticity and Soviet Carceral Practices
- 16.06.2026 4:00 PM CET
Anna Mazanik (Max Weber Network Eastern Europe) – Viruses, Vectors and Soviet Medicine in the Pacific Borderlands
Wrench and Occupy Climate Change! invite you to a three-days interdisciplinary #summerschool titled “Reshaping Memory and Nature. Commons in the Face of Climate Change”, addressed to everyone interested in exploring Climate change, Heritage and Commons, from a #climatejustice, #envhum and #politicalecology perspective.
#CfP: Online Roundtable Series on the Colonial Histories of Energy
Researchers specialising in #energyhistory and #colonialhistory are invited to participate in a series of online roundtables on the colonial histories of energy
The roundtable(s) are set to take place online in early September 2026
The deadline for submissions is 15 July.
#jobKlaxon! Two postdoctoral researcher positions at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Both positions are part of the ERC Project "Living with Drought: Human-Environment Relationships in Drying European Landscapes"
Position 1: focus on Germany
Position 2: focus on Spain
Closing date: 25 May 2026
@jobKlaxon: Postdoc fellowships in Haifa, Israel! 👇
Calling for excellent postdocs in Mediterranean History at Haifa for next year! see all info here: https://hcmh.haifa.ac.il/2019/01/08/post-doc-fellowships-2/
Environmental History Now is looking for new content and review editors!
https://envhistnow.com/2026/04/23/call-for-content-and-review-editors-2
"Ancient Weather Perspectives: Perceptions, representations and realities (400-700)"
International and transdisciplinary conference at Soeterbeeck, the Netherlands, on 24-26 June 2026
Conference program and details are available here: https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-projects/ancient-weather-perspectives
The Environmental History Today Series continues in May with the BeNeLux countries
Book presentation: Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries (Leuven University Press, 2026)
Speaker: Wout Sealens (University of Antwerp)
Chair: Simone Schleper (Maastricht University)
Date: May 27, 2026, 15:30-17:30 (CET)
Format: Online
Details on how to take part are available here: https://eseh.org/envhistoday-webinars/environmental-history-today-webinars-2025/
ESEH's committees for the current biennium are now fully constituted. Curious about who's shaping the society's work?
#CfP Symposium:
Burning, Biting, Blooming: Rethinking Politics Across the Range of More-Than-Human Struggles
https://www.resisterra.org/en/materials#material-42
Place: Charles University, Prague
Date: 5-6 November 2026
Deadline for submissions: 15 May 2026
#CfP: Workshop: "Forecasting the Weather between Divination and Science (Antiquity to the Present)"
University of Oxford, 9 October 2026
Submission deadline: 27 May 2026
Simon Dolet and Michelle Pfeffer are organising a workshop that aims to explore the evolution of weather forecasting practices from Antiquity to the present day.
The workshop seeks to move beyond a strictly intellectual approach by also investigating the reception and practical uses of such forecasts across time, situating them within their political, economic, social, and cultural contexts.
Image credit: First live broadcast on French television of a weather bulletin presented by Paul Douchy, 17 December 1946, © Météo-France
We set up a multilingual #envhist starter pack (with a dash of #envhum) on @fedidevs@fosstodon.org: https://fedidevs.com/s/NjYz/
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