On Friday, May 9, 2025, the 4th Network Meeting of Environmental History will take place from 12 to 2 p.m. in seminar room 201 of the Alte Universität (Eichleitnerstr. 30). In this context, Dr. Lisa Kolb will give a keynote speech on the topic "Salpeter - ein kritischer Rohstoff im Dreißigjährigen Krieg".

The book "The Toxic Ship – The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade" by Simone Müller, University of Augsburg, has been awarded two international academic prizes. These are the Harold & Margaret Sprout Award of the International Studies Association (ISA) and the Hagley Prize awarded by the Business History Conference (BHC) and the Hagley Museum and Library.

The working group “Wetlands in History: Histories from the quaking zone, 1630-1997” receives support from SEED funding from the University of Augsburg and can thus continue and expand its work.

Here you can find the author's personal impressions of the Schneefernerhaus: "In the con­text of the mas­ter's semi­nar “Is Win­ter still Com­ing?”, I had the op­por­tunity to talk about glaci­er poetry with the stu­dents on site and then stay a little longer on my own. The poem was writ­ten dur­ing a two-day stay in Janu­ary 2025."

The Toxic Ship by environmental historian Simone Müller receives the Harold & Margaret Sprout Award. Since 1972, the award has been given annually to the best book in the field of international environmental problems -- a book that contributes to theory and interdisciplinarity, demonstrates accuracy and coherence in research and writing, and offers accessibility and practical relevance.

The USA is increasingly shipping toxic waste to Mexico.

 

The British newspaper The Guardian quoted Simone M. Müller in one of its most recent articles. It sums up the problem the USA causes by shipping off their toxic waste to Mexico – “out of sight, out of mind” like Simone M. Müller accurately describes it.

Simone M. Müller, Matthias Schmidt and Kirsten Twelbeck have published a new book together. Many scientists have come together to offer a systematic, interdisciplinary analysis of today's ecological changes.

The workshop “Matter and Meaning” investigates both material histories and the intricate relationships that exist between societies and their material and ecological environment. It is informed and yet seeks to move beyond the ‘constructivist- essentialist impasse’ that has long dominated environmental history, for instance.

 

 

This is the second workshop in a series of three, in a collaborative sequence between the Universities of Augsburg, Konstanz, Tübingen, Basel and ETH Zürich, and takes place on September 30 and October 1, 2024 at the Environmental Science Centre (WZU), Room 101

 

 

At the Water & Sound Festival organized by the City of Augsburg, Dr. Sasha Gora speaks at the Panel "Atlantic Appetites + The Nigerdelta Experience".

 

How do fish, the culture of their catch and their preparation create and change the Atlantic and Mediterranean world? Cultural historian L. Sasha Gora and artist Rafram Chaddad share research, stories and snacks about Atlantic cod in a mixture of conversation and culinary presentation: “the fish that changed the world”. Their conversation weaves together stories about cod, movement and migration, cuisine and belonging, and ends with a tasting, both with and without fish.

 

The event will be held partly in English. Admission is free. Seat reservations are recommended at: info@waterandsound.de

 

August 02, 7.30 p.m. - Augsburg Environmental Education Center

 

Find out more here: WaterandSound

How has human-made climate change changed the Arctic Humanities, as an interdisciplinary field of research? What can the topics, research questions, and methods that emerge in this context contribute to the common perception of and the scientific debates about the Arctic? What is the role of the humanities in dealing with the socio-ecological transformation processes taking place in the Arctic? To what extent do the disciplines involved challenge the stereotypical concept of the Arctic as a static and extra-societal region that exists outside of history?

 

Based on their own work in the field, Prof. Dr. Sverker Sörlin (Environmental History), Dr. Juliane Egerer (Scandinavian Studies), Anne-Sophie Balzer (Literary Studies) and Floris Winckel (History of Technology) will discuss these and other questions during our roundtable discussion on April 30 from 10:00 to 12:00 in Building D, Room 4056.

 

The event is open to the public.

The interview with Paul Sutter in "Edge Effects" is online as of February 15. The digital magazine focuses on environmental issues and is produced by students at the Center for Culture, History and the Environment (CHE), a research center of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

You can stream or download the episode here:

 

https://edgeeffects.net/simone-muller/