Mit der Großen #Halligflut begann heute vor 200 Jahren eine der schwersten #Flutkatastrophen an der #Nordseeküste.
Wir erinnern daher an eine Sammelbesprechung zur historischen Naturkatastrophenforschung:
Uwe Lübken, Zwischen Alltag und Ausnahmezustand. Ein Überblick über die historiographische Auseinandersetzung mit Naturkatastrophen, #WerkstattGeschichte 38/2004, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/antisemitismus
The paper also attempts to popularize(?) the term "slothwashing", coined in a Twitter discussion of #California oil lobbyist behavior!
Out now in Communication, Culture & Critique 
#MediaStudies #Petrocultures #EnvHum (?)
@commodon
That link 
is open access right now but I don't know if it's limited in how many clicks, etc. If it's not working & you want to see the paper, lmk!
"Beaches and ports are among the twentieth century’s most significant and polyvalent cultural geographies. The fates of these spaces sharply diverge, however, as the rise and consolidation of the leisure beach coincides with the cultural forgetting of ports."
https://read.dukeupress.edu/comparative-literature/article/73/2/131/173462/Beaches-and-Ports
Bathing in oil? Hard to think of something that better fits the definition of a "petroculture." #envhist #envhum https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/world/europe/cop29-azerbaijan-oil-baths.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20241122&instance_id=140332&nl=the-morning®i_id=69402200&segment_id=183860&user_id=2b602167ebc3bcf4c1fabc1d2e3bdd5b
New Polyculture Podcast episode!!
Lena and I are talking about ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE, looking into the ways energy systems in Ireland, Vermont, and beyond shape our lives and the possibilities for zero-carbon energy.
Take a listen: https://linktr.ee/polyculture
NEW ESEH DEADLINE: 15 November!
Submit a proposal for a panel, paper, roundtable, or why not our new format, a "Different World" session? Next year's conference will take place in beautiful Uppsala, Sweden, and we hope to see you there!
http://eseh.org/cfp-13th-biennial-european-society-for-environmental-history-eseh-conference/
We have a new blogpost! An account of our project’s participation in #WCEH2024, this year’s World Congress of Environmental History in Oulu, Finland (with a musical intermission) http://www.soundofnature.eu/2024/09/23/son-project-at-the-wceh-2024/ #envhist #soundhistory #envhum
Sadly hilarious satire of how it feels to try to make energy-conscious decisions when you’re just one person. #energy #envhum https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-department-of-energy-wants-you-to-know-your-conservation-efforts-are-making-a-difference
The city of shades (with Santiago Orrego)
This issue of Tarde proposes an ethnographic program for the study of urban shades, and proposes a preliminary set of devices for studying them as crucial elements for urban habitability in times of climate mutation
Heute vor 55 Jahren landete ein Sack #Müll auf dem #Mond! Und ein Foto davon, die erste Aufnahme Neil Armstrongs von der Mondoberfläche, landete auf dem Cover von #WerkstattGeschichte 85/2022 mit dem Thementeil "müll", hg. von Wiebke Kolbe & Monika Sigmund:
https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/muell/
@histodons @historikerinnen @envhist @envhum @politicalscience @sts
In a paper published in the Journal of Ethnobiology, Marta Macedo examines "how cannabis was part and parcel of the lives of peoples from Angola recruited to São Tomé and, consequently, of the island's plantation worlds in the late nineteenth century." 
#OpenAccess:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02780771231222335
Join us on Friday at 11:30 AM (CEST) via Webex to discuss the environmental consequences of Russia's war on #Ukraine with Dr. Maryna Ladyka (NUBiP) and Dr. Darya Tsymbalyuk (NEC) #envhum https://www.b-tu.de/fg-technikwissenschaft/aktivitaeten/ansicht/26770-21062024-colloquium-on-technology-and-science-research-dr-francesc-rodriguez
Ein Lektürehinweis zum heutigen #Weltumwelttag:
Mit #WerkstattGeschichte 85/2022 "müll" blicken wir im Thementeil, hg. von Wiebke Kolbe & Monika Sigmund, auf die #Geschichte des #Recycling, des deutschen #Giftmüll-#Müllkolonialismus sowie auf #Mikroplastik & #Militärmüll im #Meer: https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/muell/
@histodons @historikerinnen @envhist @envhum @politicalscience @sts
ASMI 2024 conference Call for Papers is out! This year's theme is "Italy and its environments”
#italianstudies #envhum #envhist #modernitaly https://asmi.org.uk/asmi-2024-conference-call-for-papers/ Deadline July 1
Still a little time to submit your proposal for the Third Baltic Conference on the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences (BALTEHUMS III)
THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL MAY 31, 2024!
http://eseh.org/call-for-papers-third-baltic-conference.../
#balticsea #baltics #envhist #envhum
we did it again: two blog posts in two days #envhum
some musings by our project team on our methods and the significance of researching sound through text https://www.soundofnature.eu/2024/05/29/textual-recordings-as-research-objects/ #soundstudies #envhum
We have a new blogpost! A brief account of an interdisciplinary panel on the sense of hearing held at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in March of this year: https://www.soundofnature.eu/2024/05/26/the-sense-of-hearing-an-account-of-an-interdisciplinary-panel/ #soundstudies #envhum
My work "Waveform" and the (soon to be released) "Lines of Flight" is discussed in this newly published article with Electronic Book Review, "Ecocritique between Landscape and Data" https://electronicbookreview.com/essay/ecocritique-between-landscape-and-data-the-environmental-audiotour/
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