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Call for Proposals: “Premodern Ecologies” Seminar Series 2025-26 at the Newberry Library (Chicago, USA).
Deadline: July 7

http://eseh.org/call-for-proposals-premodern-ecologies-seminar-series-2025-26-at-the-newberry-library-chicago-usa/

This seminar provides a forum for new approaches to classical, medieval, and early modern studies, allowing scholars from a range of disciplines to share work-in-progress with the broader community at the Center for Renaissance Studies.
#earlymodernhistory #envhist #ClassicalHistory #medievalhistory

Just like today, the flounder (P. flesus) was found in estuaries all round early modern Britain & Ireland. And note the inland refs too, the fish loved to sneak up the Thames and the Severn! 😹 Often eaten in the past, but is now regularly discarded. 🎣 #AtlasOfEarlyModernWildlife #oceanspast #envhist

Map shows historical records of the flounder (Platichyhys flesus) from between the years 1529-1772 CE. The fish was found around the coasts in every region of Britain and Ireland, with records corresponding to the best-recorded areas. It was also often recorded swimming up large rivers, especially the Thames and the Severn.

Am heutigen #TagDesMeeres der UN geht es v.a. auch um #Meeresschutz – daher unser Lesetipp:
➡ Sven Bergmann/Philipp Grassel, #Mikroplastik und #TNT. Unterschiedliche Regime der Problematisierung von #Meeresmüll, #WerkstattGeschichte 85/2022, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-85-sven-bergmann-und-philipp-grassel/

@envhist @envhum @histodons @historikerinnen

#Meer #Ocean #histodons #WorldOceansDay #Umweltgeschichte #envhist #envhum #envhumanities #Müll #Abfall #waste #garbage #pollution #oceanpollution #MarinePollution

The Depths of the Sea
by Robert Titus
The Catskill Geologist
#EnvHist #EnvironmentalStudies #NewYork #geology
https://thecatskillgeologist.com/2025/06/03/the-depths-of-the-sea/

Joyously in the #Archives today. In #Devon Heritage Hub to explore the #NineteenthCentury records of Tiverton #Sewage #Farm. #EnvHist #History (transcriptions in image Alt-text)

Black cloth book cover with cream label with fancy hand-written title ‘Sewage Farm’.

Sample of handwritten text. Reads ‘Broom asks for tool for drilling in with Mangold seed & the same was ordered.’

@eseh this looks like a really nice opportunity to further a discourse on the #envhist of #resistance. A pity that I haven't anything new to say in respect to what I wrote already in the final chapter of my book on the Gran Paradiso NP _A Monastery for the Ibex_ (https://upittpress.org/books/9780822946359/). Definitely not enough to write a full new article for the proceedings by Novenber 30.

The Italian #envhist society SISAM is sponsoring a workshop on the environmental history of Italian #resistance to be held in Imperia in October. Direct link to the call: https://genovadalbasso.nohost.me/nextcloud/s/p69ADtoyz6KNqgE

h/t @steko
https://historians.social/@steko@scholar.social/114625876261389341

In the upcoming ESEH Notepad for Environment and History I commit to make the Society more present here on Mastodon. So, stay tuned for more #envhist news!

We are the European Society for Environmental History! Our society encourages the comparative study of European #EnvHist and fosters communication between all who share our interest in past relationships between human culture and the environment. You can read more about us on our About page: http://eseh.org/about-us/mission/
Our next conference will take place in Uppsala in August 2025: https://www.eseh2025.com #PinnedForReference #update #repost

New Book Series in #envhist edited by Stephen Brain & Viktor Pal is up and running at CEU Press!
Get in touch with the editors and share your book proposal.
More info:

Environmental History in Central and Eastern Europe
Series editors: Stephen Brain, Mississippi State University; Viktor Pál, University of Ostrava

This new series reflects the burgeoning interest in the environmental history of Central and Eastern Europe. The series editors welcome new proposals for monographs and for edited volumes on topics related to the environmental history of Russia, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Ukraine, the Baltics, and the Balkans. The series provides a venue for the publication of new work looking at forest histories, water histories, the histories of pollution and discard studies, and the histories of conservation and nature protection and the legacy of socialism and dictatorship. The series will also explore the unique legacies created by the imposition of socialist economic planning and one-party rule. Regardless of national or temporal focus, each volume in this series takes nature seriously as a critical element in human affairs, and places in the foreground the relationship between humans and the non human world.

Editorial Advisory Board: Melanie Arndt; Laurent Coumel; Luminita Gatejel; Per Hogselius; Jiri Janác; Kati Lindström; Slawomir Lotysz; Doubravka Olsáková.

For further information and to submit a proposal please contact Jen McCall, Acquisitions Editor, CEU Press mccallj@-press.ceu.edu.

Save the date for the last (but very exciting) ESEH online seminar in environmental history of the 2024–2025 season, "Hooked: A History of the Black Sea in Six Animals," with Taylor Zajicek and Constantin Ardeleanu. Register here: https://forms.gle/pyjgCXSWJcdkqQJp6

#envhist #blacksea

Poster for the Hooked: A History of the Black Sea in Six Animals event on June 5 at 16:00 CEST. Presenter: Taylir Zajicek, discussant: Constantin Ardeleanu.

Background image represent a fisher with their fishing nets in stark black and white.

Abstract: What makes a region? Historians have different ideas. For many, a region is a cluster of cultural, linguistic, and historical traits. Others point to commerce, or geography. But what happens when these networks break down-or when the ecology itself changes? This talk will introduce one such region in flux: the Black Sea. It will trace the Black Sea's evolution, as both a geopolitical and physical space, through its history of fishing. More specifically, the presentation will explore the interaction of six kinds of animals: three fish, one marine mammal, an invasive comb jelly, and us. Aquatic wildlife shaped the diets and cultures of the Black Sea's humans for millennia. Yet in recent centuries, these creatures acquired new economic, scientific, and diplomatic catastrophic) consequences for the Black Sea environment. The presentation (based on fieldwork in Italy, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, and the US) will reconstruct this historical arc, from Antiquity to the Cold War and will conclude with a discussion of the Black Sea's ongoing precarity, as a home and battlefield.
Please register to get the Zoom link: https://forms.gle/pyigCXSWJcdkqQJp6
Organizer and contact person: Anna Mazanik anna.mazanik@mws-osteuropa.org

@mwarsh.bsky.social is always a great read. Congrats, Molly! 🗃 #earlymodern #envhist #histsci

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5wl6zd7isokoaefzbnue2vrn/post/3lptyfclo5s2u

Despite being slow, gigantic, high cuisine, the Mute Swan 🦢 remained widespread in early modern Britain & Ireland (incl. Shetland!) It was protected as property, though tales of sole ownership by monarch / capital punishment are myths. Map from #AtlasofEarlyModernWildlife 📗 #envhist #animalhistory

Map showing where mute swans were recorded in reliable historical sources 250-500 years ago (from 1529 - 1772 C.E). There are records from most regions of Britain and Ireland except there are no records from Wales and only an unreliable record from the Midlands of England. There are also records from Scilly, Orkney, Shetland and the inner and outer Hebrides. This may reflect a wide distribution across both Britain and Ireland, with gaps reflecting low recorder-effort.

Our special issue in the Journal of Literature and Science, the project’s main output, is now out in open access: https://www.literatureandscience.org/volume-17-number-2-2024/ #envhist #envhum #literature #soundstudies

No dia 19 de Maio, receberemos na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal a Marlon Brandt, que apresentará a palestra "Paisagens Caboclas nas Florestas com Araucária do Sul do Brasil".

ENTRADA LIVRE

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/paisagens-caboclas/

#Histodons #EnvironmentalHistory #EnvironmentalHumanities #EnvHist #Brasil #Brazil #Araucaria #LandcapeManagement #GestãoDaPaisagem #Forests #Florestas

Cartaz da palestra “Paisagens Caboclas nas Florestas com Araucária do Sul do Brasil”, com Marlon Brandt, da Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul. 19 de Maio de 2025, às 17 horas, na Sala Multimédia da Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. O cartaz inclui uma fotografia de araucárias.

Mesmo mesmo a terminar, o #FIREUSES ainda vai promover mais uma palestra: Marlon Brandt vai estar na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal no dia 19 de Maio para apresentar "Paisagens Caboclas nas Florestas com Araucária do Sul do Brasil".

ENTRADA LIVRE

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/paisagens-caboclas/

#Histodons #EnvironmentalHistory #EnvironmentalHumanities #EnvHist #Brasil #Brazil #Araucaria #LandcapeManagement #GestãoDaPaisagem #Forests #Florestas

Les résultats du projet #FIREUSES, sur l'histoire des grands incendies de forêt au Portugal, sont également parvenus à la presse française par l'intermédiaire de @CourrierInternational

https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/les-feux-de-foret-un-heritage-de-la-dictature-de-salazar-au-portugal_230472

@histodons
@envhum
@envhist

#Histodons #HistoryInThePublicSphere #Wildfires #EnvHist #EnvironmentalHistory #SciComm #HistóriaNaEsferaPública #Fogos #FogosFlorestais #HistóriaRural #HistóriaAmbiental #FeuxDeForêt #Paysans #HistoireAgricole #Incendies #EstadoNovo

📰 Na Visão desta semana, uma reportagem com Miguel Carmo e José Ferreira acerca dos resultados do projecto #FIREUSES, que revelou como as políticas florestais do #EstadoNovo e o desprezo pelo saber popular foram grandes factores para o surgimento dos grandes #incêndios em Portugal.

Já nas bancas!

#Histodons #HistoryInThePublicSphere #Wildfires #EnvHist #EnvironmentalHistory #SciComm #HistóriaNaEsferaPública #Fogos #FogosFlorestais #HistóriaRural #HistóriaAmbiental #SciComPT

Cabeçalho da reportagem com o título "Grandes Incêndios: Um legado do Estado Novo" e o subtítulo "Uma equipa de investigadores concluiu que as políticas de florestação e a perseguição às práticas tradicionais de fogo agrícola, ao longo do século XX, transformaram Portugal no barril de pólvora incendiária que é hoje. Os resultados do projeto FIREUSES - Paisagens de Fogo são apresentados nesta quinta-feira". O autor é Luís Ribeiro.

Research grants in #mininghistory! The American Mining History Association provides research grants each year of up to $1,000 to fund research on any topic related to mining’s past, including #histSTM, #envhist, #histtech, #laborhistory, #bizhist. Due date: May 1st! @micaamy @HistoryNystrom https://mininghistoryassociation.org/ResearchGrants.htm

Before we celebrate our Freedom Day, we'll have the opportunity to learn about the main results achieved by the #FIREUSES project team. The conference will take place at the National Library of Portugal on 24 April.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/burning-landscapes-2025/

@histodons
@envhist

#Histodons #EnvHist #EnvironmentalHistory #SocialHistory #RuralHistory #Wildfires #Portugal #Landscapes #Incêndios #HistóriaAmbiental #HistóriaSocial #HistóriaRural #EstadoNovo #GestãoFlorestal #PráticasAgrícolas