At a glance:
• A works-in-progress seminars for ERCs in Environmental History with pre-circulated papers and invited discussants
• Running online monthly, two groups/month January-June 2026, 45’ per paper / 2 papers per session
Our chairs are:
Dr. Andrea Gaynor – Professor of History at The University of Western Australia
Dr. Mona Bieling – Postdoc at the Chair of the History of Knowledge of Modern Societies, Helmut-Schmidt University Hamburg
Our ECR participants are:
Max Bautista-Perpinyà, Katrin Kleemann, Caroline Kreysel, Brinda G. Krishnan, Saumya Ranjan Nath, Kalayath Mohamed Shemil, Laurence Stewart, Luiza Teixeira-Costa, Amanda Wells , Floris Winckel
Our established scholar discussants are:
Brett Bennett, Andrea Gaynor, Marcus Hall, Jackson Jack, Sebastian Lundsteen Nielsen, Haripriya Rangan, Alexis Rider, Awadhendra Sharan, Sandra Swart, Monica Vasile
Discussed topics:
Climate science, biodiversity conservation, forest engineering in Spain, India’s extractive frontier, animal history, Australian citrus histories, air pollution and electrification in Soweto, South Indian cardamom production, plant parasitism
Organizers:
Andrea Gaynor, Mona Bieling and the 2026-2027 Nextgate cohort.
Latest news
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