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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 10h

Latest piece out today from Adrienne Brown; a safety briefing for research in #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2025/10/07/p...

Pre-Flight Safety Briefing: Researching the Environment in the U.S. without Being Detained at the Border

It is a turbulent time to be an international scholar in the United States: So before you embark on your next trip to the U.S., let’s make sure you are ready for take-off.

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 23d

If you value what we do, please consider contributing to support our website hosting and volunteer editors: ko-fi.com/envhistnow #envhist #envhum

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · Sep 6

Any narratives/rhetorics on invasive species management/eradication/marketing folks want to share their projects? (and thanks Hal Herzog for the title😁)

Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · Sep 6

The @easlce.bsky.social deadline for Utrecht is fast approaching and @katiekung.bsky.social and I are still looking for one paper for a panel on care & invasive species tentatively titled: “Some we love, some we hate, some we kill: why it’s so hard to care for invasive species” #ecocriticism #envhum

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · Sep 4

Happening soon: gonna be speaking about how to kill kindly in Aotearoa at 4S Seattle.. looking forward to the discussion with other presenters and the convenors Hannah Star Rogers and Matthew Eisler! @4sweb.bsky.social 15:40 in Seattle, midnight in Germany, let’s go!

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · Aug 27

Oh it just came out: I wrote this short essay shortly after the research trip in Aotearoa recalling a very.. strange.. experience of a field day catching wallabies. Three were caught that day, many let go because they weren’t big enough. I still think about them sometimes. 🫧

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · Aug 25

Anthropomorphizing is...a tough topic. For scientists and writers! Because the thing is: Animals aren't just like us. They don't see the world the way we do.

But also people don't want to CONSERVE something they don't identify with. brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/what-is-hu...

What is "human-like" depends on where humans live

And why it matters for conservation

brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com

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Wilko Hardenberg @wilko.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 23

Great session yesterday at #eseh2025 #boardgaming empathy and uncertainty in the Anthropocene with Sven Seelinger (Uni Augsburg). So much fun! #envhist

Overview of the board, a dice, and a couple of cards

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · Aug 23

And special shoutout to the pizza trailer.

Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · Aug 23

Still decompressing from #ESEH2025 week but hey was it good!
@elinetabak.bsky.social @chriskla.bsky.social @charrlotte.bsky.social, Sven Seelinger plus @aberehrlich.bsky.social
(Go “invasive species”! I guess…)

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · Aug 23

What a pleasure! Thank you! So grateful for KTH sponsoring it @robgioielli.bsky.social and Danny was a great chair!

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Luiza Teixeira-Costa @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social · Aug 23

Shout out and HUGE thanks to some of the amazing, inspiring, and kind women I've met this week, the likes of Aline Leite, Stefania Barca, Gaia Giuliani, Caroline Kreysel, @elinetabak.bsky.social and @katiekung.bsky.social

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · Aug 23

My pleasure Luiza! So nice meeting and I am excited to see what comes next!

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · Aug 23

it’s moments like this when all stars aligned and it’s just so… satisfying. well done partner! You were an amazing chair!

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · Aug 21

It was such a great panel and all the presentations complement so well to each other. What a pleasure to be part of it!

Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social · Aug 20

this was such an amazing experience 💚 the organisers @katiekung.bsky.social @elinetabak.bsky.social, the presenters, AND the audience were so engaging.

Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · Aug 20

Chairing this fabulous #PlantStudies panel today: "Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging" 🌿🌲🌾

Join us at 14.00-15.30 & 16.00-17.30 in room 21.011 for some planty goodness

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · Aug 20

Chairing this fabulous #PlantStudies panel today: "Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging" 🌿🌲🌾

Join us at 14.00-15.30 & 16.00-17.30 in room 21.011 for some planty goodness

Powerpoint slide acting as a poster. There's a transparent image of japanese knotweed as the background with dark green text:

Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging
ESEH 2025: Thursday 20 August, 14.00-15.30 & 16.00-17.30, room 21.011
organised by Katie Kung (LMU) and Eline Tabak (Oulu)

Session 1 (14.00-15.30)
Christopher Klapperich (Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich) – Normalizing invasion in an altered archipelago. New debates about the belonging of native and exotic trees in Philippine reforestation
Charrlotte Adelina (Freie Universität Berlin) – Phytosociological Constructs and Pragmatic Targets in Restoration Practice
Katie Kung (Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich) – Naturalised citizens or noxious immigrants? Caring for ‘invasive’ plant species in a changing world
Session 2 (16.00-17.30)
Martin Schmitt (Paderborn University) – Sustainable foreigners to repair European natures? Experimental cultivation of foreign tree species and their use in reforestation in Spain and Prussia
Sven Seelinger (University of Augsburg) – Artificial Bramble. Barbed Wire and the Changing Human-Artefact-Biota Relationships on the Great Plains (1873–1933)
Roundtable discussion with all participants

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · Aug 19

Tomorrow! 🌱

Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · Aug 7

Who am I seeing at ESEH in *checks notes* less than two weeks?

Very much looking forward to the "Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging" panels I’m organising with @katiekung.bsky.social 🌳🌱

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · Feb 11

The past 5 weeks I’ve been in different forests (“the bush”) in Aotearoa New Zealand’s North Island. Studying “invasive” and protected animals control/monitoring and the role of kindness in killing, emotions in science.. How can you not be emotional in such beauty??

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · Nov 22

Well done you two! So happy to see results from our previous environmental aesthetics workshop, was much fun!

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

Our newest addition to 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴 is a compelling article on the scenic beauty of Santiago by @fwinckel.bsky.social and @alicemurphs.bsky.social.

Read the full article: seeingthewoods.org/2024/11/21/o...

#rccpublications #seeingthewoods #environmental #aesthetics #academic #santiagodechile

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · Nov 20

12 ✨paid✨ PhD positions in environmental humanities - co/organised by Uni Augsburg and LMU. I’m also an affiliate there - check out the call: rethinking-environment-idk.de

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · Nov 18

I’m so, so sorry. Hugs ❤️‍🩹

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · Nov 14

Learnt so much about Coypu, knotweed, phylloxera, discourses that I didn’t know before about invasivising domesticates etc. so wonderful. I finally wrote something about my Troubled Care project for the first time - so much fun!

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · Nov 14

Had a great time earlier this week in the “invasive species” workshop in Zurich - so wonderful to meet all the people in this field! Great papers and great walk in Sihlwald to think about how nativeness and invasiveness are used for different agendas! @angecass.bsky.social @mattholmes.bsky.social

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Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social · Nov 12

Woah. What a great workshop. Been so much fun!!

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · Oct 29

Just saw that the #ESEH2025 deadline has been extended to Nov 15, so there's still plenty of time to propose an abstract for our (@katiekung.bsky.social + me!) panel on 'Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging' 🌿🌺

#envhum #envlit #PlantStudies

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · Oct 7

Any green historian, vegetal ecocritics or (critical) plant scholars interested in submitting an abstract for a hybrid panel for #ESEH2025 in Uppsala, Sweden? 🌿🌾

@katiekung.bsky.social and I are drafting a panel proposal on "Vegetal (hi)stories: more-than-human narratives of invasion and belonging"

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