Centre for Environmental History


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Welcome to the Centre for Environmental History!


Vacancy: Lecturer in Environmental History at UCL

University College London is seeking applicants who hold a PhD in an area related to environmental history. Applications from historians working on environmental history between 1500CE and the present are invited. To encompass the various relationships between humans and non-human phenomena, Environmental history is widely defined. It could include climate history, histories of resource use and energy, histories of animal-human relations, chemical histories, oceanic histories, rural and urban histories, and histories of science and medicine. Applicants working on environmental history in any geographical region or regions, and/or from comparative, transnational or global perspectives are welcome.

Closing date for applications: April 5, 2024.

Interested applicants are welcome to contact Ms Claire Morley claire.morley[at]ucl.ac.uk with any queries.

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Vacancies in Environmental History and Environmental Humanities

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is recruiting two Humboldt Research Fellows (Post-Doc or Advanced Scholar) in Environmental History and Environmental Humanities to spend between 6 months and 2 years to work on their own research projects and become part of a growing interdisciplinary community in the Environmental Humanities at the University of Augsburg.

Applications welcome until April 5, 2024.

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New PhD Positions in Social Ecology and Environmental History of RIVERS

We are looking for environmental historians and social ecologists who would like to join us in Vienna to write a PhD thesis in a new, highly interdisciplinary doctoral program on river research. This FWF-funded program "IRL - Industrialized Riverine Landscapes" offers a total of 15 open positions (4 years). For social ecologists and environmental historians Topics 2, 9 and 10 should be particularly attractive. Take a closer look here .

Deadline for applications is April 2, 2024.

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Wachstum - Wie die Wirtschaftsidee nach Europa kam

BR Podcast / Radiowissen von Maike Brzoska, 11.1.2024

Im Interview Matthias Schmelzer und Robert Groß


CfP: Agro-Food Change through the Lens of Soy: (Sub-)National Pathways in a Global Perspective

The conference will assess agro-food globalization and its transformations through the lens of soy from a social science and humanities perspective. Contributions will aim to overcome the 'methodological nationalism' of country-focused agro-food studies as well as the globalist tendency of concepts such as food regimes. As a solution to these problems, we propose to study (sub-)national pathways of agro-food change, including the role of nation-states and regional movements as powerful actors. The (sub-)national focus should be linked to a global perspective through transnational connections and/or international comparisons. The conference will address these theoretical challenges empirically through the lens of soy, which has become the world’s largest agricultural commodity in the long twentieth century.

Due date for submissions: 31.12.2023

Ort / Place: Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Zeit / Time: 14.-15.10.2024

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Heritage Science an der BOKU

BOKU Forscherinnen und Forscher unterschiedlicher Disziplinen erforschen das Natur- und Kulturerbe Österreichs. Oft beschäftigen sie sich dabei mit Detailfragen. Doch erst durch interdisziplinäre Kooperationen können diese Erkenntnisse zu einem "großen Ganzen" zusammengefügt werden. Deshalb haben sich Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter der BOKU vernetzt und sind dem österreichweiten Netzwerk Heritage Science Austria beigetreten. Im Rahmen des Heritage Science Café wurden ausgewählte Projekte von BOKU Forscher*innen präsentiert. Der Film folgt den Forschenden ins Archiv und Labor, bei Feldforschungen, auf Dachböden und ins Bergwerk und zeigt, wie der Mensch unsere Umwelt bearbeitet, gestaltet und verändert hat. Der Blick zurück hilft uns, Antworten auf Herausforderungen der Zukunft zu finden.

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Now Online

Umwelthistorische Datenbank Österreich
Environmental History Database Austria (EHDA)

Materialien zur Umweltgeschichte Österreichs Nr. 8

In 2004, the then newly founded Centre for Environmental History (ZUG) started to systematically search and collect bibliographical data on environmental historical literature in Austria. Over the years, the data set has grown to the 3,751 entries tabulated in this volume. Until 2019, the collection then named "Environmental History Database Austria (EHDA)" was available for online searches in a custom-made environment. EHDA entries comprise works with publication dates from 1945 until 2019 and include hard-to-find grey literature and academic qualification works. Since EHDA went online about 15 years ago, digitalisation has markedly impacted scientific publishing and research. Powerful finding aids, mostly with access to full texts, full-text searches and linked searches have become available. While EHDA has been regularly updated, because committed colleagues have invested time and expertise, we have not been able to modernize the tool in terms of search possibilities and links. We have therefore taken EHDA off the Internet. This volume of the “Materialien” makes the entire content of EHDA available to all interested parties as a fully searchable pdf document with carefully preserved tags. The introduction includes search tips and explains the search possibilities we have tried to preserve or are able to now offer under the new possibilities of full-text indexing and other search engine possibilities.

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ICEHO Bulletin 19

Das Zentrum für Umweltgeschichte ist Mitglied von ICEHO und stellt das neueste Bulletin von ICEHO hier auch direkt zur Verfügung

>Bulletin 19 (pdf 2,4 MB)