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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · 11d

Apply by writing to @monabie.bsky.social: [email protected] with a 400 words letter: 1) a brief introduction, 2) motivation 3) potential ideas for an initiative (not mandatory) and 4) a CV (4 pages maximum). The application deadline is 15th of October 2025, 4 PM (CET)

Questions? feel free to HMU!

Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · 11d

Call for Applications!

@esehnextgate.bsky.social is seeking new members to join its committee for a two-year term 2025–2027.

More info below!!

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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · 27d

New podcast and this is also BANGING! Check it out!!!

Song Yeonjun/Anders Riel Müller @andersriel.bsky.social · 27d

New episode of our Challenging Nordic Innocence Podcast is out today. This time @sebmergence.bsky.social and I are joined by Anne Nørkjær Bang to talk about her PhD dissertation "Dissolving the Pill: Imagining the #birthcontrol pill in contemporary #Denmark. nettop.guru/wordpress/di...

Dissolving the Pill: Imagining the Birth Control Pill in Contemporary Denmark

In this episode we are joined by Anne Nørkjær Bang – a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark. This summer, Bang defended her dissertation titled “Dissolving the Pill:…

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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · Sep 4

NEW DEADLINE: 15.9!!!!

Song Yeonjun/Anders Riel Müller @andersriel.bsky.social · Aug 14

Abstract submission deadline is approaching (Sep. 1) for our Ghost of Empire in the North Sea workshop. Read more below or on our website where you also find a submission link (You have to scroll down below the introduction text on the website). www.uis.no/en/research/...

Poster with the workshop call text and abstract submission guidelines. These can also be found on our website.

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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · Sep 3

Anyone knowing when exact(ish) carbon capture and storage stopped being categorized as geoengineering? It seems like it just slipped into being an ordinary feasible technology?

Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · Sep 2

I am so much looking forward to this conversation!!!

Song Yeonjun/Anders Riel Müller @andersriel.bsky.social · Sep 1

Check out this guest lecture at U. of Stavanger this Friday with Professor Mathias Danbolt from Copenhagen U. "Monumental Expectations: Notes on Queer, Feminist, and Antiracist Public Memoralization in Norway."
@sebmergence.bsky.social and I will have a podcast interview with him soon as well.

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Song Yeonjun/Anders Riel Müller @andersriel.bsky.social · Sep 1

Check out this guest lecture at U. of Stavanger this Friday with Professor Mathias Danbolt from Copenhagen U. "Monumental Expectations: Notes on Queer, Feminist, and Antiracist Public Memoralization in Norway."
@sebmergence.bsky.social and I will have a podcast interview with him soon as well.

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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · Aug 22

So great to get your thoughtful insights!

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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · Aug 22

So many things happening during #eseh2025, but for now:

🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨

In “The pollution-industrial complex and the making of Denmark as an environmental frontrunner, 1965-1975”
we explore how environmental regulation became a matter of technology rather than strict (and strictly) regulation.

www.tandfonline.com

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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · Aug 20

Lucky to be a part of such a great team!

ESEHNextGate @esehnextgate.bsky.social · Aug 19

Our team at #eseh2025 ✨️ having a good time ❤️

@monabie.bsky.social
@sebmergence.bsky.social
@palmblad.bsky.social
@monicavasile.bsky.social

#envhist
@eseh.bsky.social

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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · Aug 16

Come join us for a drink and a convivial time.

Especially if you are attending the conference alone: feel free to hang out and get to know us (and other cool people too!)

ESEHNextGate @esehnextgate.bsky.social · Aug 16

✨️We invite early career scholars & friends for a networking event at #eseh2025! Tuesday, at 19:30, in Fjölnir student pub (check program). There will be drinks and snacks 🍺🍕. See you there!

#envhist

@eseh.bsky.social
@sebmergence.bsky.social
@palmblad.bsky.social
@monabie.bsky.social

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ESEHNextGate @esehnextgate.bsky.social · Aug 16

✨️We invite early career scholars & friends for a networking event at #eseh2025! Tuesday, at 19:30, in Fjölnir student pub (check program). There will be drinks and snacks 🍺🍕. See you there!

#envhist

@eseh.bsky.social
@sebmergence.bsky.social
@palmblad.bsky.social
@monabie.bsky.social

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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · Aug 14

Yes! But it also made me wonder if 1st and 2nd year history students are up for dense stuff like yusoff.

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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · Aug 14

Fantastic, Sandra!

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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · Aug 14

To clarify: texts by anyone but white dudes

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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · Aug 14

Extra points for texts by non-white dudes

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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · Aug 14

I am developing a course titled “Anthropocene Histories, History in the Anthropocene” at UCPH.
My idea is to structure the it thematically through planetary boundaries.

But what are the best texts around these days. I have the obvious stuff: Chakrabarty, Bonneuil & Fressoz, McNeill, Brown

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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · Aug 14

I am thrilled to announce that I will be collaborating with Adam Wickberg and the brilliant group at KTH's Centre of Excellence for Anthropocene History this fall as a visiting scholar. So, if you are in proximity to Stockholm between September 1st and December 1st and want to hang out: HMU

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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · Jul 30

I am really proud to see this thing out and it’s only because @smueller.bsky.social and Livia Cahns amazing work (and patience)

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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · Jul 30

New publication!

Translucence: Some Notations on Sediments, Amber, Toxic Chemicals, and the Possibility of Returns

In collaboration with my friend and sound artist Korana Jelača who composed a piece that accompanies the text. Very experimental

#envhum

edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4...

Edizioni Ca' Foscari

Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Venice University Press

edizionicafoscari.unive.it

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ESEHNextGate @esehnextgate.bsky.social · Jul 22

Mark your calendars for #ESEH2025 we'll host a networking event with drinks and snacks 🍹🍟 on Tuesday 19.08. evening. All folks welcome!! 🌿
#envhist @palmblad.bsky.social @monabie.bsky.social @sebmergence.bsky.social @tanjariekkinen.bsky.social
@eseh.bsky.social

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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · Jun 12

‼️NEW EPISODE ALERT ‼️

This brand new episode, with my co-host @andersriel.bsky.social and guest Tone Huse, explores the colonial manifestations through architecture in kalaallit nunaat and how temporalities can reinforce the colonial project, but also be sites of resistance.

Song Yeonjun/Anders Riel Müller @andersriel.bsky.social · Jun 11

Check out our latest podcast episode where @sebmergence.bsky.social and I talk to Tone Huse about the Danish colonial modernization project in Kalaallit Nunaat (aka Greenland) whih she explores in her recent article "Temporal Displacement: Colonial Architecture and its Contestation".

Colonial architecture in Greenland and the material politics of time

In this episode we talk to Dr. Tone Huse about her article “Temporal displacement: colonial architecture and its contestation” where she explores and analyses the Danish state’s attempt to ‘moderni…

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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · May 28

For those selected few who know Danish: I have written an article that synthesizes #envhum #envhis perspectives on pollution for a popular media platform. I use examples from my PhD written @greenhouseuis.net. I warn against seeing pollution as a domain reserved for techno-science and politicians.

Søren Torbjørn Svendsen @sorentsvendsen.bsky.social · May 25

God forskerartikel skrevet af @sebmergence.bsky.social om kemikalier og miljøforurening.

Politisk er det oftest ikke ligetil, at føre en grøn bæredygtig linje. Men det har langsigtede store konsekvenser som vi har sværere at forholde os til.

#dkgreen

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Jorden er giftig! Hvorfor vejer økonomiske hensyn tungere end et sundt miljø?

Miljøministeriet har længe undladt at gribe ind over for Cheminovas forurening, mens dyr, mennesker og økosystemer har lidt skade. Kan vi tolerere det?

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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · Mar 10

The piece is a strong contribution to the prevalent discussions within the environmental justice literature and chemical/pollution humanities where terms like "slow violence," "shadow places," and "multispecies justice" are some of the major references.

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Sebastian Lundsteen @sebmergence.bsky.social · Mar 10

The article suggests other kinds of sensibilities that might help us reckon with the devastating consequences of living in a permanently polluted world where toxic exposures become harder to experience immediately.

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