Call for Papers - The 10th Tensions of Europe Conference

Aarhus University, Denmark

29 june –1 July 2022

Conference theme: Technology, Environment and Resources

Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2021

The 10th Tensions of Europe Conference will as usual be open to all topics and themes. The special theme of this conference will be the history of interactions between technology, the environment and resources. It aims to explore connections between aspects such as scientific exploration, technological development, resource exploitation and use, resource markets and environmental change by investigating both scientific and technological practices as well as narratives and perspectives related to natural resources and environmental issues. The conference places particular emphasis on processes of circulation and appropriation of knowledge, ideas, technologies and resources across space and time in all historical periods and at local, regional and global scales.

Proposals can be submitted via the conference website (https://conferences.au.dk/toe10/) from 1 September 2021.

"In this project the Society explores alternative ways to showcase stories, environments, and landscapes from throughout Europe (and potentially beyond). We have focussed our attention on (digital) postcards as medium. You can visit our exhibition at @eseh_postcards on Instagram.

Our postcards are intended to be windows of opportunity that may provide alternative readings of the world in times of crisis and radical change. The authors use their skills as environmental historians and humanists to speak to the future from the present, the present from the past, or the past from the future. Our hope is to present stories that may contribute to a sense of the incommensurable scale of the changes we are facing. To use Arundhati Roy’s metaphor, we aim at offering portals into another world. And, to cite Andri Snær Magnason, we explore what words we can use to effectively describe such a world.

The @eseh_postcards account has been launched during ASEH’s 2021 Environmental History Week. We are still on the outlook for further postcards. If you have a postcard you want to discuss, get in touch with us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.."

http://eseh.org/resources/postcards-for-unstable-times/

"As plantas são respigadoras e forrageadoras, não amontoam o que respigam, ao invés deixam-no ir como partes de si mesmas. Não me refiro unicamente à humidade e à energia solar acumulada. Na zona de exclusão de Chernobyl, as árvores recolhem as partículas radioativas do solo e voltam a deixá-las cair quando mudam as suas folhas, antecipando o inverno. A estação do outono é o tempo da chuva radioativa, de novo, tempo de reviver-relembrar o trauma da terra e tudo o que acarreta."

"Chernóbil Herbarium", de Michael Marder e Anaïs Tondeur (Ned Ediciones, 2021)

https://www.culturgest.pt/pt/media/energia-invisivel/

Between March and July ESEH is hosting an on-line seminar series, open to everyone.

Registration for each session via the link in attachment: https://forms.gle/Ui1vvJatVPFMP6Bk7

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Those registered will receive a link two days before the seminar