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UPCOMING EVENTS

 

Call for Papers: Environment and Society in East-Central Europe Conference (ESIEE), University of Ostrava, Czechia, 28-29 May 2026

The Environment and Society in East-Central Europe Conference 2026 invites scholars from history, environmental studies, sociology, geography, and related disciplines to explore how humans have shaped—and been shaped by—the environment in the East-Central European region. Does East-Central Europe have a distinguished environmental past? If so, how? 

To answer these pressing questions, this conference provides a forum for interdisciplinary exchange, encourages collaboration, and fosters new approaches to understanding the historical and contemporary environmental challenges of the region. 

The 2026 ESIEE Conference welcomes papers and panels addressing a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

  • Environmental change and resource use
  • Urban and rural transformations
  • Environmental activism and civil society
  • Borders, cross-border regions, and environmental cooperation
  • Rivers, floods, droughts, and water regimes in long-term perspective
  • Forests, woodlands, and commons management
  • Industrialization and the environment beyond pollution
  • War, militarization, and ecological transformations
  • Socialist environmentalism: concepts, actors, and strategies
  • Technology and nature: envirotechnical systems in history
  • Historical geography and environmental history interactions
  • Environmental knowledge and the Enlightenment revolution in forestry
  • “The State Against Nature”: governance and transformation in the 18th–19th centuries
  • Narratives of “slow hope” in times of crisis
  • Tracing the roots of East-Central European environmental history
  • Environmental well-being in East-Central Europe
     

Keynote speakers: Stephen Brain, Mississippi State University, USA, and Doubravka Olšáková Charles University, Czechia

Submission Information:

Individual Papers: Submit your 300-word abstract and page-long bio by 31.1.2026 to cesh(at)osu(dot)cz

Complete Sessions, Workshops, and Interventions: Submit your 300-500 word session abstract with information on approach, goal, contributors’ role, and page-long bio by 31.1.2026 to cesh(at)osu(dot)cz

ESIEE 2026 is supported by the European Society for Environmental History, Slovak Historical Society, University of Ostrava, and the Department of History at the University of Ostrava

PAST EVENTS

23–24.10.2025. TALK , INZ, Ljubljana, Slovenia

21.10.2025. TALK & WORKSHOP , Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

21.10.2025. TALK & WORKSHOP , Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Keynote at the "7th workshop on business history in central and eastern Europe," Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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21.10.2025. TALK & WORKSHOP , Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

21.10.2025. TALK & WORKSHOP , Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

21.10.2025. TALK & WORKSHOP , Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Preparatory Workshop: "How to do Environmental history: working with local communities and actors" and Keynote: "Waste in the East. Consumerism and Trash in Communist Eastern Europe"  

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27–28.11.2024. TALK & WORKSHOP , IAS, UCL, LONDON, UK

21.10.2025. TALK & WORKSHOP , Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

27–28.11.2024. TALK & WORKSHOP , IAS, UCL, LONDON, UK

Keynote and Workshop at "Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts, Research Week IV: Greening Socialism." Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, UK

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16–17.11.2023. KEYNOTE, LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA.

27–28.11.2024. TALK & WORKSHOP , IAS, UCL, LONDON, UK

Keynote at "The Natural Resources and Ecosystem Potential of the Waters of Slovenia," Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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25.5.2023. Keynote, GSESES, Regensburg

25.5.2023. Keynote, GSESES, Regensburg

"Waste in the East. Consumerism and Trash in Communist Eastern Europe" Keynote at  4th Annual Graduate Workshop of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, University of Regensburg ENVIRONMENTAL DISCOURSE AND PRACTICE IN EASTERN AND Southern EUROPE: Facing Challenges and Opportunities 25th May – 27th May 2023.  

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