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European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE)
Find out more about us here: https://www.easlce.eu
Account managed by @manonraffard.bsky.social (primarily) and @tiaglova.bsky.social
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Hear ye, hear ye Ecocriticarians all around!

The EASLCE BSky account has a new managing team: @manonraffard.bsky.social and @tiaglova.bsky.social.
Please send us all relevant annoucements to @easlce.bsky.social or using the hashtag #easlce!
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#summerschool: 2026 Plant Humanities Summer Program (Hybrid, Oak Spring Garden Foundation)

Deadline for applications: Feb 15th 2026

Info: www.doaks.org/research/fel...

#envhum #planthum #hstm #histsci #ecolit
2026 Plant Humanities Summer Program
July 20–July 31, 2026 (virtual), August 3-August 14 (in person) | Program for graduate students and advanced undergraduates with an interest in plants from the perspectives of botany, botanical explor...
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January 21, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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Our term has started and we've got another round of great Environmental History Research Seminars scheduled in Dublin. Come and join us!

Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for supporting and hosting the series!
#envhist @historytcd.bsky.social

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January 19, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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There's a new post on our blog, by Eliot Fackler on 'Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp'; originally published in 'Environment and History' as a Snapshot article. Free to read here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/01/19/b... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist #algae #LakeErie
Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp
In this blog, first published as a ‘Snapshot’ in Environment and History (November 2025) Eliot Fackler shows how the histories of western Lake Erie and the Black Swamp provide lessons f…
whitehorsepress.blog
January 19, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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If you are a grad student or early career scholar, consider applying for the @histocean.bsky.social 2026 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History. Details here: oceansciencehistory.com/2026/01/06/c... #oceanhist #envhist
CFP Announcement: 2026 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History
The DHST Commission on the History of Oceanography (ICHO) announces the annual Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize for outstanding papers addressing some aspect of ocean history, …
oceansciencehistory.com
January 19, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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Today we have "Reading the City Through Countermonuments of Ecology: From Mistaseni to Floodlines" by John Bessai

This is the 5th post in our Urban and Environmental Dialogues series, published in collaboration with @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2026/01/19/r...
#envhist #urbanhistory
Reading the City Through Countermonuments of Ecology: From Mistaseni to Floodlines
Ecological countermonuments use land, water, and living systems to preserve Indigenous histories, flood memory, and settler-colonial conflicts within cities today.
niche-canada.org
January 19, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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Out today: a new H-Environment Roundtable Review on Lianne C. Leddy's *Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake,* with commentaries by Jessica Urwin, Joseph Masco, Robynne Mellor, and Nick Estes. Please circulate! #envhist #envhum networks.h-net.org/sites/defaul...
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January 20, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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Postdocs, PhD candidates, and students interested in environmental history, make sure to join our early-career network to learn about new opportunities and conferences around Europe! #EnvHist #EnvHum
Join our new Early-Career #EnvHist Network! We have created a listserv for opportunities related to environmental history (broadly conceived), and we welcome students, PhD candidates and post-docs interested in what happens in Europe. To join, send us a Private Message.
Members can also contribute!
January 19, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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Join us for the first online #envhum book talk of 2026!

For those in North America, start time is 10am eastern.
Our 1st #envhum #book talk of 2026 is on Monday, 19 Jan, 16:00 CET/15:00 GMT.
Join us to hear Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social discuss her book A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930.
All are welcome!
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
January 19, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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CFP 20th Anniversary Conference of the
International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC), theme "Foundations and Fluidity"
October 10-14, 2026 | Casa Artom, Venice, Italy

www.issrnc.org/conferences/...
#envhum
2026 Conference
Foundations and Fluidity 20th Anniversary Conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC) October 10-14, 2026 | Casa Artom, Venice, Italy Deadline fo…
www.issrnc.org
January 20, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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I will join with a talk that sides with the Orcas, but not for misanthropic reasons, promise. Looking forward to this!
January 18, 2026 at 9:24 AM
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Call for Papers - Space, Place, and Patients
2nd Annual Virtual Conference for Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers - @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social
February 19-21, 2026, via Zoom
Abstract Deadline: January 23, 2026

niche-canada.org/2026/01/15/c...

#envhist #histmed #histnursing
Call for Papers - Space, Place, and Patients
The American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN) invites submissions for a virtual conference on space, place, and patients from senior undergraduate students, graduate students, and early c...
niche-canada.org
January 17, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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#envhist and environmental humanities folk near Lake Erie, this event may be of interest to you!

Wyandotte storytellers will narrate their stories inspired in their ancestral homelands in northern Ohio.

Sat. Feb. 21st, 2–3pm in Wintergarden Woods Nature Preserve, Bowling Green, Ohio.
January 17, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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I'll join the uprising with a talk on "Flipping the parasite spectrum: #PlantHumanities meet eco-physiology".
Stay tuned for a communion among #ParasiticPlant ecology and physiology, literature, and social history!
January 17, 2026 at 10:53 AM
#CFP: panel "Meeting invasions halfway: Reimagining futures with invasive species through STS", conference EASST 2026, Krakow, 8-11/09/2026

DL: 28/02/2026

Info: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

#sts #envhist #envhum #histsci #hstm #ecology #ecolit #ecocriticism
CB190: Meeting invasions halfway: Reimagining futures with invasive species through STS
Bringing together ecologists and STS scholars, this combined panel+workshop examines invasion science as an eco-social practice, exploring cultural meanings,
nomadit.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 10:43 AM
#academicjob: "Practicing Transcultural Art Histories under the Conditions of Ecological Crises and Digital Transformations: India, Latin America, and Europe"

PD FELLOWSHIPS (2026–28)
DL: 31/01/2026 (PST)

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

#arthistory #museology #museumscience #envhum #envhist
Connected Teams
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January 16, 2026 at 10:39 AM
#CFP: "History and Geopolitics of Nuclear Deindustrialization", conference (11-12 June 2026)

DL: 28/02/2026

Info: www.denuclit.unito.it/newsandevents

#envhist #envhum #geography #hstm #histsci
www.denuclit.unito
January 16, 2026 at 10:37 AM
#CFP: "Botanical Life in Art, Science, and Imagination", 3rd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities (8-10 May 2026)

DL: 15 March 2026 at 5pm IST

Info: www.globalplanthumanities.com/2026cfp

#planthum #envhum #envhist #hstm #histsci #ecocriticism
January 16, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Camden Burd's Gallery Essay "Playing Gaia: Simulation, Science, and the Significance of Video Games for Environmental History" from the January 2026 issue. #envhist #envhum

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Playing Gaia: Simulation, Science, and the Significance of Video Games for Environmental History | Environmental History
Abstract In 1990, video game publisher Maxis released SimEarth. Designed by Will Wright, the game tasked users to consider atmospheric, geologic, and biological variables to simulate a global system. ...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
January 13, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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"Militarization was creeping in, quietly at work even before 1939, with European navies cruising Greenland’s coast. The Arctic was changing, and Creston was documenting it." - Anatole Danto

niche-canada.org/2025/11/03/t...

#greenland #envhist #envhum #arthistory #arctic
The Unclassifiable Arctic: René-Yves Creston and his Boreal Representations: Ethnology, Art, Marine Studies, and Polar Visuals
René-Yves Creston combined art and ethnology to document Arctic life in the 1930s, capturing cultural change and early modernization.
niche-canada.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Any #envhum #envhist #ecocrit thoughts on this?
I'm teaching a 200 person intro climate course and the textbook has a nice quote attributed to Mark Twain "Climate is what you expect; weather is what you get".

The problem is that, as far as I can tell, Mark Twain never said those words.
January 14, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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In "Chasing Flames: Roving Methodologies and Narratives Towards Future Pyrosocial Worlds," @aadita.bsky.social shares some thoughts that didn't make it into her broader dissertation.

niche-canada.org/2026/01/14/c...

#envhist #histstm #fire #wildfire #envhum #histsci
Chasing Flames: Roving Methodologies and Narratives Towards Future Pyrosocial Worlds
Aadita Chaudhury's dissertation uses fire, phlogiston, and speculative methods to expose racial capitalism, valuation, and more-than-human knowledge worlds globally.
niche-canada.org
January 15, 2026 at 5:34 PM