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Call for Applications: European Summer Academy on "Memories of Landscape. On Traces of Violence in Nature" (Genshagen Castle, Germany, 2-5 September 2025)

The call addresses professionals aged 25 to 35 from Croatia, France, Germany, Poland, Ukraine and the Western Balkan countries.

Apply by 1st July

stiftung-genshagen.de/en/veran

www.stiftung-genshagen.deMemories of Landscape. On Traces of Violence in Nature: Stiftung Genshagen

Forest History Assn of BC Walking Tour of Vancouver’s Gastown & Railtown.
SUNDAY, JULY 6th, 9:00am -11:30am. Free! All welcome!

Join us for a 1.5km guided walking tour of the fascinating, multi-cultural
history of the forest industry’s presence in the old Vancouver
neighbourhoods of Gastown and Railtown. Buildings, landmarks, stories, logger poetry and photo displays – with special guests.

Please register at fhabc.org/2025/06/05/july-6th-

We are the European Society for Environmental History! Our society encourages the comparative study of European #EnvHist and fosters communication between all who share our interest in past relationships between human culture and the environment. You can read more about us on our About page: eseh.org/about-us/mission/
Our next conference will take place in Uppsala in August 2025: eseh2025.com #PinnedForReference #update #repost

eseh.orgMission – European Society for Environmental History

1897 Detroit Free Press cartoon of a California black bear making off with a pig in the moonlight while the farmer looks on, shaking his fist

(this *is* a research post but it may take me a decade to get around to the writing, if I do)

Continued thread

In #OilBeach I tried to envision what it will mean for this geography if/when #oil departs:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/b

University of Chicago PressOil BeachCan the stories of bananas, whales, sea birds, and otters teach us to reconsider the seaport as a place of ecological violence, tied to oil, capital, and trade?   San Pedro Bay, which contains the contiguous Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, is a significant site for petroleum shipping and refining as well as one of the largest container shipping ports in the world—some forty percent of containerized imports to the United States pass through this so-called America’s Port. It is also ecologically rich. Built atop a land- and waterscape of vital importance to wildlife, the heavily industrialized Los Angeles Harbor contains estuarial wetlands, the LA River mouth, and a marine ecology where colder and warmer Pacific Ocean waters meet. In this compelling interdisciplinary investigation, award-winning author Christina Dunbar-Hester explores the complex relationships among commerce, empire, environment, and the nonhuman life forms of San Pedro Bay over the last fifty years—a period coinciding with the era of modern environmental regulation in the United States. The LA port complex is not simply a local site, Dunbar-Hester argues, but a node in a network that enables the continued expansion of capitalism, propelling trade as it drives the extraction of natural resources, labor violations, pollution, and other harms. Focusing specifically on cetaceans, bananas, sea birds, and otters whose lives are intertwined with the vitality of the port complex itself, Oil Beach reveals how logistics infrastructure threatens ecologies as it circulates goods and capital—and helps us to consider a future where the accumulation of life and the accumulation of capital are not in violent tension.

We can pin posts now! Here's mine—please check out my new book, _The Land Is Our Community Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium_, available for purchase or free #OpenAccess download from UChicago Press. 🌱🐋 🌎 #EnvHist #EnvHums press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The Land Is Our Community

University of Chicago PressThe Land Is Our CommunityA contemporary defense of conservationist Aldo Leopold’s vision for human interaction with the environment.   Informed by his experiences as a hunter, forester, wildlife manager, ecologist, conservationist, and professor, Aldo Leopold developed a view he called the land ethic. In a classic essay, published posthumously in A Sand County Almanac, Leopold advocated for an expansion of our ethical obligations beyond the purely human to include what he variously termed the “land community” or the “biotic community”—communities of interdependent humans, nonhuman animals, plants, soils, and waters, understood collectively. This philosophy has been extremely influential in environmental ethics as well as conservation biology and related fields.   Using an approach grounded in environmental ethics and the history and philosophy of science, Roberta L. Millstein reexamines Leopold’s land ethic in light of contemporary ecology. Despite the enormous influence of the land ethic, it has sometimes been dismissed as either empirically out of date or ethically flawed. Millstein argues that these dismissals are based on problematic readings of Leopold’s ideas. In this book, she provides new interpretations of the central concepts underlying the land ethic: interdependence, land community, and land health. She also offers a fresh take on of his argument for extending our ethics to include land communities as well as Leopold-inspired guidelines for how the land ethic can steer conservation and restoration policy.