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smueller.bsky.social
Global Environmental Historian. Into toxicity, env. justice & the economy; waste, wetlands & verticality. Author of Wiring the World (2016) & The Toxic Ship (2023)
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We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist

Von Asphalt als „Kulturpflanze“, brüchiger Infrastruktur, planetaren Veränderungen und sich wandelnden Mensch-Umweltbeziehungen spricht Historikerin Simone Müller von der Uni Augsburg im Vortrag „Der asphaltierte Planet“: 📅 Di., 1. Juli 🕰️ 18 Uhr 📍 Halle/Online www.leopoldina.org/veranstaltun...

dear literary and environmental folks, I'm cobbling together a syllabus (not reportage, not scholarship) on "water" in all its forms: fog, ice, rivers snow, rain, etc. and/or its hazards. examples: The Yellow House by S. Broom (hurricanes) or Is A River Alive? by R. Macfarlane. Ideas?

Environmental justice goes global! Join us for an intriguing #HagleyHistoryHangout where we discuss the Hagley Prize winning book The Toxic Ship with author @smueller.bsky.social! Here or wherever you find your podcasts: youtu.be/F1LGP_MBVI0?...

Heute ist der #TagdesWanderns. Deutsche Politiker:innen haben sich insbesondere im Sommerurlaub oft gerne bei Wanderungen gezeigt, und Helmut Schmidt ist dabei keine Ausnahme: Er hatte sogar seinen Freund und Fotografen Jupp Darchinger dabei.

Students have until tonight (April 22) to apply to our conference. Organised and run by students of the Master in Digital and Public History at @uni.lu www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news... @c2dh.uni.lu @ncph.bsky.social #PublicHistory #History

Our introduction, w/ @smueller.bsky.social, about the planetary age in environmental and international history is online! Check out the Forum articles by Perrin Selcer, Andrea Westermann, Liesbeth van de Grift & @smacekura.bsky.social Let's begin the debate about the visions of the one planet 🌍

Wie schreiben Historiker*innen Geschichte im #Anthropozän? Wie sinnvoll erscheinen die fest eingeübten Zeit- und Epocheneinteilungen noch? Sandra Maß @ruhr-uni-bochum.de hat dazu kürzlich ein Buch vorgelegt. Einen Auszug hat sie nun bei uns im Blog veröffentlicht. @dehypotheses.bsky.social

Heute startet die gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte und des IGTG des VDI im Technikmuseum Berlin

We have a few more spaces on the program for "Fragile Environments in a Digital Age: Technologies, Aesthetics, Socialities", the closing conference of the DigiFREN project, in Bohinjska Bistrica, Slovenia, 26-27 June 2025. See www.facebook.com/events/93558... for info and get in touch! #envhum

For #envhum #envhist early career scholars: I would be open to hosting a MSCA Postdoctoral fellowship application with @greenhouseuis.net @unistavanger.bsky.social this year. We have a very good track record with these grants. Our uni arranges applicant courses.

Ein voller Raum gestern in Augsburg beim Abend der @de-ua-gesellschaft.bsky.social in Erinnerung an Volodymyr Vakulenko und Victoria Amelina. Vielen Dank an unsere Kooperationspartner Jana Osterkamp (Bukowina-Institut), Constantin Groth (Thomas-Dehler-Stiftung) & Kateryna Matey (🇺🇦 Verein Augsburg)!

⏰ Noch 2 Wochen bis zum Anmeldeschluss für die Jahrestagung gtg/VDI-IGTG 2025 „Un:chaining: Mikrogeschichten des multilokalen und globalen Fertigens“, die vom 3.-5. April in Berlin stattfindet. Wir freuen uns auf Euch! 👉Anmeldung: shorturl.at/JJXMI #technikgeschichte #histtech #histsc #envhist #sts

We have been asked to spread the word about the upcoming Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA PEC) in Bologna: "Green(ing) War: Military Build-Up, Warfare, and Socio-Environmental Wounds." Event page: eisa-net.org/pec-2025/ #rccnews #conference #green #war #military #envhum

Two salaried 4-year PhD positions open at the Department of History of Science and Ideas in Uppsala, one in idéhistoria (intellectual/cultural history, broadly speaking), the other in history of science: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Call for papers! In November, we'll be coorganizing this workshop on "Melting Mountains: Society and the Vertical Climate Frontier in the Mountainous Peripheries." Deadline: 15 June 2025. #envhist #envhum @andreivinogradov.bsky.social @montecordio.bsky.social

There is a website, so it must be real: "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy", an #envhist of peat in imperial & Soviet Russia, will drop in September in Studies in Environment & History @cambridgeup.bsky.social #energysky 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

Save 30% on #NewBook "Artery" by @azeiderman.bsky.social , which relates the fraught past and future of Colombia’s Magdalena River to global entanglements of race, nature, and capital. #LatinAmericanStudies #Anthropology https://buff.ly/4ihOpbe

gettin' ready for an extremely busy March at the @greenhouseuis.net with talks by among others @kyliecrane.bsky.social, @mattholmes.bsky.social and @eikeheine.bsky.social, a conversation on publishing within #envhum, and @jacobleetom.bsky.social's PhD defence! 🌿

We are soft relaunching our podcast for the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory. Starting with a great talk with Timothy Mitchell, who was in town last December for the Archipelago Lecture.

The first article of the Diplomatic History Forum "Visions of the One Planet" that smueller.bsky.social and I edited is online! Andrea Westermann offers an Earth-attuned - new materialist - perspective to write the history of our one planet. Watch out for more: academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...

Really thrilled to announce that I am the 2025 recipient of the Swedish Vitterhetsakademien’s Gad Rausing prize for outstanding humanities research www.vitterhetsakademien.se/nyheter/nyhe...

Notifications for #ESEH2025 have been sent out --check spam or with session organiser if you haven't heard anything-- BUT there are 10 days left to apply to the @eseh.bsky.social summer school taking place on an island out in the Stockholm archipelago! 🌊 #envhist #envhum #anthropocene ⤵

JOB: Full Professorship in “Forest History and Sustainable Development” at Freiburg University, Germany. Application deadline is 6. April 2025. #envhist uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

#ISA 2024-2025 Award Recipients are official! @isanet.bsky.social @smueller.bsky.social won ESS Sprout Award. best book in Global Environmental Politics. Having served on the committee I can say it was strong competition & The Toxic Ship is an excellent read! Congrats! 🎉

We need two people to lead Environmental Humanities into a future that needs #envhum work more than ever. Please apply 👇

#Geschichte zum #Hören - diesmal mit @vfunk.bsky.social 👇. #Hörtipp

📚🎉📚 Huge congratulations to CECS member Dr Alison O’Byrne on the publication day of her book, The Art of Walking in London: Representing the Eighteenth-Century City, 1700-1830 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social ‘Elegantly written, well-researched, and highly engaging’ and with a gorgeous cover. #18thC

If you haven’t seen this call for applications yet, come join our terrific humanities institute at The University of Connecticut as a residential fellow! Applications due February 1. humanities.uconn.edu/fellowships/...

Haha @smueller.bsky.social auch hier: walking history!

Feminismus und Plastik?! - Von Tupper zu Barbie #Plastik und #Kunststoff sind nicht #genderneutral – auch wenn es zunächst so wirkt. Würdet Ihr „Männer“ eher mit Plastik oder eher mit „#Holz“, „#Stahl“ und anderen Stoffen verbinden? Wie ist es mit „#Natürlichkeit“ und „#Künstlichkeit“ von Plastik?

Just wanted to draw people's attention to the Fellowship programme at the Greenwich Maritime Museum - it looks like a lot of fun to me. www.rmg.co.uk/collections/...

Join us in 10 days for an online roundtable discussion of our edited volume, Risk on the Table, where historians look at how food and risk cultures have evolved over the past century. Register for the event here: www.paris-iea.fr/en/events/ri.... #foodhistory

🔊*AUFRUF*: Wir,@juliahauser.bsky.social (Geschichtswissenschaften),@joergsternagel.bsky.social (Medienkulturwissenschaften) & ich (anglistische Literatur- & Kulturwissenschaften) möchten alle PDs einladen, sich mit uns zu vernetzen, um sich einerseits weiter auszutauschen & 1/4 #IchBinHanna

#theToxicShip in the @theguardian.com - illustrating the long legacies of the waste trade.

📌 Don‘t forget to apply! We are looking for broad contributions from the field, inculding archives, museums etc. Don‘t hesitate to contact us.

Early Career Ocean History Scholars! Please take a look at (& share!) the call for the 2025 ICHO Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History: oceansciencehistory.com/2025/01/06/c...

Deadline extended, January 15! #IamScouting #HenrietteHerzfellow @humboldt-foundation.de

Another part of my dissertation has hit the streets! “In Praise of Ambivalence” explores environmentalist’s emotions in their struggle for a less polluted environment. Ambivalence signifies a specific engagement in environmental conflicts. #envhum #envhis www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

We’ve added a new post to our blog: an ESEH interview with Verena Winiwarter about the Society’s early years (originally published in 'Environment and History', August 2024). Online here: whitehorsepress.blog/2024/09/16/o... @VWiniwarter @ESEHtweets #envhist

Da nun einige dazu gekommen sind, stelle ich das Straßenverlauf-Projekt nochmal vor: Straßenverlauf beschäftigt sich mit alltäglichen Orten hauptsächlich in Berlin und versucht, die Spuren von historischen Prozessen, Ereignissen und Strukturen lesbar zu machen. 🧵

If you wanna reach the historical communities of the blue skies, consider using this established hashtag that reaches out to all fields with historical perspectives: #skystorians So, users of #historians #historian #bluestorians #blustorian #history etc, join in and enjoy. Let's boost this posting