The 13th Biennial European Society for Environmental History Conference will take place at Uppsala University, Sweden, from 18 to 22 August 2025.
Next week, the ESEH is held for the 13th time. Just as the World Congress of Environmental History, which took place for the fourth time last August, the ESEH is an important venue for environmental historians and for the development of the field. For the first time this year, the Greenhouse will organise a social event after the conference welcome. Below you can find an overview of the sessions with Greenhouse members.
Monday, 18 August, 19.30-21.00, Location: Williams Pub, Åsgränd 5C, 753 10 Uppsala
Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities Social Event
Join us for an informal evening with old and new Greenhouse friends.
Tuesday, 19 August, 11.00-12.30, Location: 6-K1031
Animals and Infrastructure (S01-05)
Johannes Ellingsen, “Not a nest, but a home: Kittiwakes and infrastructure in Tromsø, 2015 – 2023”
Tuesday, 19 August, 11.00-12.30, Location: 16-0042
As Above So Below: Verticality, Environmental History, and the Anthropocene (S01-13)
Charlotte Wrigley, “Fiery depths: burn restoration, zombie reanimation, and re-earthing history”
Tuesday, 19 August, 11.00-12.30, Location: 22-0031 Hybrid
The Environmental Historian Photographer: Exploring the Place of Photography in Environmental History Practice (S01-14)
Malin Kristine Graesse, “Discerning change: re-photography for tracing environmental change”
Finn Arne Jørgensen, “Sensing cameras and embodied photographers in environmental history practice”
Tuesday, 19 August, 14.99-15.30, Location: Hall X Hybrid
Tracing Untold Stories: Museum Ecologies, Care and the Ecological Crisis (1/2) (S02-1)
Eike-Christian Heine, “Making the Invisible Visible in Museums of Technology: Petroculture, the Challenge of Progress, and the Case of the Technikmuseum Berlin”
Marie-Theres Fojuth, “Slow Care and the Environmentalism of Museums”
Tuesday, 19 August, 14.00-15.30, Loation: Hall IX
Energy Scapes and Energy Transitions: Spaces, Temporalities and Scales of Energy Transitions (2/2) (S02-12)
Melina Antonia Buns, “Postnuclear Landscapes: The Afterlives of the Former Uranium Mine Ranstadverket”
Wednesday, 20 August, 11.00-12.30, Location: 22-0031
The ESEH 2025 Climate Histories Museum (S05-13)
with Eike-Christian Heine, Marie-Theres Fojuth, Katla Brandt
Wednesday, 20 August, 11.00-12.30, Location: 3H
Poster Session (S05-11)
Johannes Ellingsen, “Fiery Landscapes, coastal heathlands and the revival of heath burning in western Norway”
Thursday, 21 August, 11.00-12.30 Location: 6-0022
Waste Issues Around the Globe in the 20th Century (S09-07)
Yaron Jorgen Balslev, “Waste Challenges in Palestine under British Rule”
Dmitrijs Porsnovs, “Harnessing Waste: The Initiation of U.S. Artificial Reef Building in the 1960s and 1970s”