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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 1d

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Telling a Different Story - Religion, Extractivism and (Green) Colonialism in Europe - Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm

Welcome to a conference that explores the intersections of religion, spirituality, colonial legacies, and ecological sustainability in European contexts. It encourages a conversation across discipline...

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 2d

Join us and others as members of ICEHO!

ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 2d

Join us! ICEHO exists thanks to its members, which can be centers, associations, journals, and other institutions. Check out who is already a member here: www.iceho.org/members

#EnvHist

Members — ICEHO

www.iceho.org

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 2d

The GV film series presents environmental documentaries and includes discussions with directors, experts or film critics. The series is a cooperation between the RCC, DOK.fest München, and the Münchner Volkshochschule.

More info on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...

Film Screening + Discussion: <i>Plastic Fantastic</i> - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich

www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow, we will open the Green Visions film series winter lineup with 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤.

A discussion with Alexandra Caterbow (NGO HEJSupport) will follow the screening. The screening is free and open to the public.

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 6d

👉more info: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...

The Ecological Bootprint: Past & Future Impacts of the Military Machinery - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich

www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 6d

CfP: “The Ecological Bootprint: Apprehending the Military-Environmental Nexus” (conference)
📆17–19 March 2026
✍️Submission Deadline: 15 November 2025

This #conference seeks to critically examine the entanglements between the #military and the #environment.

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 7d

We are happy to share that we have just published a #new #virtual #exhibition on the Environment & Society Portal! "Wetland Times" by Enaiê Mairê Azambuja, Blake Ewing, and Nicola Thomas investigates the complexity of time in wetland spaces.

Browse it: www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/...

The graphic shows a collection of images from the virtual exhibition "Wetland Times" together with the logos of the Env&Soc Portal and the Virtual Exhibitions and a QR code that redirects to the full exhibition.

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 12d

New 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article by Hatib A. Kadir! Starting in the 1970s, Indonesian state experts introduced invasive species in West Papua, a deliberate ecological disruption that advanced a colonial agenda disguised as development. Read more on our Environment & Society Portal

#envhist #envhum #multispecies

Freshwater Fish Invasion as Deliberate Neglect: Unpacking Multispecies Colonialism in West Papua

Indonesian state experts introduced invasive species into West Papua, a deliberate ecological disruption that advances a colonial agenda disguised as development.

www.environmentandsociety.org

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 12d

Former RCC fellow Claudia Leal, now president of ICEHO, has summed up her take-aways from this year's SOLCHA conference. SOLCHA is Latin America's major environmental history conference, which this year took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 12d

Latin America's regional environmental history conference, SOLCHA, took place in July this year in lovely Rio de Janeiro. Read the report by ICEHO President Claudia Leal on our website! And take note: in 2027, SOLCHA will take place in Mendoza, Argentina.

#envhist #historiaambiental

Alive and Kicking: Solcha's 12th Symposium — ICEHO

The 12th symposium of SOLCHA in Rio de Janeiro, 2025, was a huge success boding well for the future of environmental history in Latin America.

www.iceho.org

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 13d

We are a project partner of 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝟒𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, an EU-funded research project on ecological justice. You can now follow it on Bluesky:
bsky.app/profile/spea...
#EnvHum #EnvJust #EnvLaw

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 15d

Check out the winner of the 2025 Turku Book Prize!

ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 15d

Congratulations to Netta Cohen, whose monograph 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘯: 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘡𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦 is the winner of the 2025 Turku Book Award. Read the full motivation here: eseh.org/turku-book-a...

#EnvHist #EnvHum

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 20d

In this insightful exploration, author Misria Shaik Ali explores the concept of #embodiedharm at the intersection of mining and agriculture southwest of the Cuddapah Basin in #AndhraPradesh, India.

A contribution to the planetary health series on 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴: seeingthewoods.org/2025/09/18/t...

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 20d

Please find more information on the position and how to apply on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...

Student Assistant (6h/week, 12 months fixed-term) - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich

www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 20d

🚨CfA: student assistant
ℹ️Dr. Francesca Mezzenzana’s project “Learning #Nature(s): A Cross-Cultural Investigation of #Children and Nature(s)”
📆start date: 1 December 2025

📧application deadline: 7 October 2025

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 20d

We have just added a new #bookprofile to the Environment & Society Portal: 𝘎𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺: 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘱𝘴𝘦 by Dr. Sayan Dey.

You can now read the full book via our Multimedia Library: www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/garbocra...

#rccportal #envhum #envhist #india #garbage #openaccess

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲: The deadline for submissions has been extended to 31 October 2025.

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · Aug 4

We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year.

The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)

The graphic shows cultivated lands bordering on a river/wetland and collections of trees (credit: AXIO-IMAGES from Getty Images) in the background of text bubbles. The text summarizes key details of the conference. Please read the description and the full call on the RCC website for this information.

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲: The deadline for submissions has been extended to 31 October 2025.

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 23d

The three-day RCC #conference in July 2026 will host a Young Scholars Forum, “Repressed Pasts, Crossed Borders, Just Futures: #Environmental, Social, and Political Perspectives,” for which it invites tandem presentation proposals to be submitted by 1 October.

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Péter Szabó @pszaboenviro.bsky.social · 26d

Are you at the beginning of your career and interested in environmental history? This is the best way to get involved 👇

ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 26d

Are you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 22d

The full text of 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘊𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘢𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 by Gabriela Jarzębowska is now available on our Environment & Society Portal!

#envhist #envhum

Species Cleansing: The Cultural Practice of Rat Control

Excerpt from Species Cleansing: The Cultural Practice of Rat Control by Gabriela Jarzębowska.

www.environmentandsociety.org

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 23d

Please see the full call on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

Call for Papers: “The Past and Future of the Environmental Humanities” - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich

www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 23d

The three-day RCC #conference in July 2026 will host a Young Scholars Forum, “Repressed Pasts, Crossed Borders, Just Futures: #Environmental, Social, and Political Perspectives,” for which it invites tandem presentation proposals to be submitted by 1 October.

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 23d

Here is a reminder that proposals for this July 2026 conference can be submitted until October 1.

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · Aug 4

We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year.

The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)

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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 26d

Are you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 28d

JOB: One-year postdoctoral research fellowships at The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry on 2026-27 theme of “habitat”, Emory University (USA).
Appropriate for #envhist & #envhum scholars!

networks.h-net.org/jobs/69069/e...

Emory University - Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-2027: Habitat | H-Net

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 28d

New 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article: "𝘙𝘰ç𝘢𝘴 and 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘴: Changing Landscapes of Fire in Twentieth-Century Portugal" by José Miguel Moura Ferreira, Miguel Carmo, Inês Gomes, and Marta Silva. www.environmentandsociety.org/node/9983
#EnvHist #EnvHum #fire

Roças and queimadas: Changing Landscapes of Fire in Twentieth-Century Portugal

In 1966, historian Albert Silbert highlighted the longstanding importance of fire in the traditional Portuguese rural economy, at a time when such practices were being erased from the landscape.

www.environmentandsociety.org

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