New ESEH early-career network!
Jonatan Palmblad
To join, please send me an email and let me know what email address you would like me to add.
Jonatan Palmblad,
ESEH Nextgate
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Dear Nextgate network,
2026 will be a promising year for environmental history, as you will see in the long list of events and opportunities below. We aim at updating this list on a monthly basis, marking new items with an asterisk (*).
Want to help out? If you know of anything that could be of interest to others who do research in or around environmental history, in or about Europe, you can post it via the Google group or send it to Jonatan Palmblad. Your contributions will help build this network.
Best wishes,
Jonatan Palmblad and ESEH NEXTGATe
Conferences/Workshops
Cattle Commodification in Global History: Capitalism, Science and Empire, in Ghent, Belgium, 3–5 June. Deadline: 23 January.
* “Yuck?: Historical Approaches to Unwanted Nonhuman Life,” workshop in York, UK, 9–10 April. Deadline: 31 January.
* EcoAssemblages: New Perspectives on Environmental Humanities, 5–6 March, Málaga, Spain. Deadline: 5 February.
* The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) at 200: Science, Society, and the Natural World, London, 1–3 July. Deadline: 6 February.
“SHARED WORLDS: Concepts, Conflicts, and Connections in Human-Animal Studies,” online conference on 1 August. Deadline: 9 February.
* Panel on “Conservation Histories and Humanities: Understanding the Present, Unearthing the Past” for the European Congress of Conservation Biology in Leiden, Netherlands, 6–10 July. Deadline: 9 February.
* Knowledge, Resilience and the Environment in the Mediterranean, 1–1000CE, 8–10 September, Venice, Italy. Deadline: 22 February.
* Panel on “Meeting invasions halfway: Reimagining futures with invasive species through STS” for EASST in Krakow, Poland, 8–11 September. Deadline: 28 February.
* Towards a Just and Habitable World: Exploring the Role of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, 2–5 June. Deadline: 15 February.
* Queer Ecologies across Socialisms, in Regensburg, Germany, 15–16 October. Deadline: 15 February.
* History and Geopolitics of Nuclear Deindustrialization in Turin, Italy, 11–12 June. Deadline: 28 February.
International Congress of the History of Technology, in Alexandroupolis, Greece, on 8–11 October 2026. Deadline: 28 February (extended).
* Urbanity and Beyond: Narratives and Practices in Vilnius, Lithuania, 24–26 September. Deadline: 15 March.
* Foundations and Fluidity, 20th Anniversary Conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, Casa Artom, Venice, Italy, 10–14 October. Deadline: 15 March.
* The History of Agrochemicals and International Development: Knowledge, Politics, and Business, 1940s to Present, in Florence, Italy, 6 November. Deadline: 16 March.
* Environment and Histories: From Antiquity to the Present Day in Calabria, Italy, 3–5 September. Deadline: 30 March.
Calls for Contributions
* Contributions to the upcoming volume After Permafrost: Thinking with Frozen Earth on a Thawing Planet. Submit a proposal before 15 February.
Courses and Summer Schools
* Imperial Seas: Space and Societies from the Adriatic to the Black Sea (Summer school) in Istanbul, Turkey, 7–11 September. Deadline 31 January.
* “Climate Change and Adaptation on Ecosystems and Societies” (Free MOOC course, online). Flexible.
* “Anthropocene in Venice” (Free MOOC course, online). Starts 23 February.
Online Seminars
* The Greenhouse Book Talks, ongoing, January through March.
* Seminar series on “Instructing Colonial Natural History,” 28 January to 26 March.
* Seminar series on “Collection Ecologies,” 5 February to 2 April.
* Seminar series on “Health and the Urban Environment,” 5 February to 4 June.
* Seminar series on “History of Ocean Science, Technology and Medicine,” 17 February to 21 July.
Postdoc/Job Opportunities
* Postdoctoral fellowships, Practicing Transcultural Art Histories under the Conditions of Ecological Crises and Digital Transformations: India, Latin America, and Europe, via Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz, with positions in Calcutta and Bogotá. Deadline: 31 January.
* Academic Advisor / Research Associate in Environmental History (German language skills needed), University of Freiburg. Deadline: 2 February.
* Head of Collection, “Energy and Mining,” Vienna Technical Museum (German language skills needed). Deadline: 15 February.
* Research curator for the DFG/AHRC project “Toxic Heritage” (German language skills * needed), Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum. Deadline: 15 February.
* Research Associate, Berlin Anthropocene Lab at TU Berlin (German language skills needed). Deadline: 27 February.
* Postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Deadline: 28 February.
PhD, MA, and BA opportunities
* MA in Public Environmental Humanities, The Greenhouse, University of Stavanger, Norway. Deadline: 1 March (EU citizens) / 1 April (Nordic countries)
The Institute for the History of Science (iHC) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) is about to open a call for 3 full-time 4-year doctoral contracts in the history of science and technology, or related fields. Deadline: 28 February.
MA in Environment and Society, Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany. Deadline: 10 March.
MA in Environmental Humanities, University of Bristol, UK. Deadline: 27 August.