Popping in to add: Globalizing Wildlife is open access!! I knew that was part of the publishing agreement but I didn't find the link until now 🦜 📖 🔓
All the chapters including mine on otters and logistics should be here:
https://www.jstor.org/content/pdf/oa_chapter_edited/10.5149/9781469688879_debont
Happy pub day to Globalizing Wildlife!! edited by @rafdebont , Vanessa Bateman, and Tom Quick, with an essay by me on otters, shipping, oil, and the California coast
(I tried to snap it "in the wild" but had to settle for a backdrop of my neighbor's shrubs)
More on the book here: https://uncpress.org/9781469694757/globalizing-wildlife/
Things are starting to feel real: the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has sent me the confirmation letter that in the fall I can start my #Heisenberg position at the University of Potsdam !
I’ll work on building the framework for what I call an environmental history of knowledge. Stay tuned! #envhist #knowledgeHistory
#JobKlaxon: Doctoral Position in European Global Studies / Global History (environmental history focus) at the University of Basel
jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/doctoral-position-in-european-global-studies-global-history/04aa6519-a4d9-4fdb-855d-4a95d2b1dbfc
The programme and Book of Abstracts for the Environment and Society in East-Central Europe Conference (ESIEE 2026) are now available online.
The conference will bring together scholars from across Europe and beyond to discuss environmental history, rivers, industrial landscapes, infrastructure, environmental governance, socialist modernity, energy transitions, borders, activism, and many other themes connected to the environmental past and present of East-Central Europe.
The organisers are especially excited by the extraordinary breadth of panels and the interdisciplinary dialogue emerging across history, geography, sociology, political ecology, and environmental studies.
Ostravská univerzita, Czechia
28–29 May 2026
Programme and Book of Abstracts: https://ff.osu.eu/esiee/programme/
Programme - Environment and Society in East-Central Europe Conference - Dare to Explore. The University of Ostrava is a young and rising university, ranked well among central European Universities. We offer Quality, Affordability and Hospitality in our English taught Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degrees.
ESEH Online Seminar in Environmental History: "Colonisation and Russia’s 'Green' Civilising Mission in the Far East"
Presenter: Mark Sokolsky (Royal Military College of Canada)
Discussant: Maria Pirogovskaya (LMU Munich)
Organizer and moderator: Anna Mazanik (Max Weber Network Eastern Europe)
May 20, 16:00 CET (online) #LastMinute
Registration required. Click here to register: https://forms.gle/2LNsthLwwSWEdjde6
Presenter: Mark Sokolsky (Royal Military College of Canada) Discussant: Maria Pirogovskaya (LMU Munich) Organizer and moderator: Anna Mazanik (Max Weber Network Eastern Europe) May 20, 16:00 CET Abstract: Many environmental transformations of the modern and early modern periods have been deeply connected to imperial expansion and colonialism. At the same time, nature-protection has also, in many contexts, been intertwined with imperial and state power. In this talk, Mark Sokolsky will discuss the intersections of empire and conservationism in the Russian Far Eastern Maritime Territory (Primorskii krai, or Primor’e) during the late tsarist and early Soviet eras. Far from evincing a “conquest of nature” mentality, Sokolsky argues, tsarist-era officials, naturalists, and other observers demonstrated remarkable concern for the region’s environment(s) from an early stage. Their anxiety stemmed in part from their belief that (unwanted) ecological changes were a result of backwardness and barbarism on the part of migrants from elsewhere in Russia, and, especially, those from China, Korea, and Japan. Conversely, tsarist elites tended to associate environmental stewardship with (European) civilisation and believed it was the empire’s responsibility to bring rational, civilised nature-use to the region. This “green” civilising mission was remarkably consistent during the late tsarist era and continued, with some modification, into the early Soviet period. Mark Sokolsky is a specialist in Russian and global environmental history. He has a PhD from Ohio State University with a dissertation on the environmental history of the Far East and now works at the Royal Military College of Canada. Maria Pirogovskaya is a researcher at LMU Munich and a PI in the DFG-funded research project "Socialist Panaceas" that studies medical heterodoxies in the long Soviet era, with a specific focus on Eastern Siberia. Please register to get the Zoom-link. The link will be sent on the day of the event. If you have not received the link one our before the event, please contact Anna Mazanik directly at [email protected]
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