CFP: 13th Biennial European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference 2025
The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) is pleased to invite proposals for sessions, individual papers, roundtables, posters, and other, more experimental forms of communicating scholarship for its upcoming biennial conference in Uppsala, Sweden, 18 to 22 August 2025.
The theme of the conference, “Climate Histories”, aims to synthesize historical research on climate variability with present-day lived experiences, to further discourse and enrich perspectives on contemporary climate change. The conference theme puts narratives at the center to represent experiences of living with climate uncertainties. These include climate reconstruction and climate-society histories, the historiography of climate research, oral history and storytelling, as well as counter-narratives to the Eurocentric Anthropocene narrative. How might we rethink the written and material records of social adaptabilities and transformations to understand better what it means to live through an era of rapid climate change? How can we understand such experiences? How has unpredictability been explained and discussed in the past? How can written sources be used to reconstruct climate variabilities and their responses? The historical disciplines, with their vast record of human experience, provide excellent means of understanding how humans mitigated and responded to climate variability, the influence of the rate and scale of change, and the importance of individual action and social structure for shaping responses.
We warmly welcome papers, provocations and presentations on environmental history on as well as beyond the conference theme. We also invite contributions to teaching and communicating environmental history to a wider public (e.g., schools, university pedagogics, public outreach, and citizen science). Furthermore, we encourage submissions from related academic disciplines and interdisciplinary fields.
All proposals have to be submitted through our online submission system by 31 October 2024, 23:59 CET.
For the entire call including more information on proposal formats as well as the link to the online submission system, please see the conference’s website: https://eseh2025.com/call-for-papers/