We bring you the October 2024 issue of the Oceans Past Newsletter (No. 30).

Previous issues of OPN are available at https://oceanspast.org/newsletter.php. 

For more on Oceans Past, please visit the website: https://oceanspast.org/. 

The series of online events organised by the Council of Regional Representatives continues to offer a platform for all the ESEH regions and their scholarly achievements.
Save the date for the next meeting! On Tuesday 29 October 2024 at 15:00-16:30 CET, members from the Croatia-Serbia-Slovenia Region will discuss the edited volume “Environmental Histories of the Dinaric Karst”, vol. 17 in the series Environmental History, Springer, 2024.
Interested in the volume? Check out the Open Access chapters and take advantage of the 20% discount available on the book.
More on the seminar series and how to register: http://eseh.org/envhistoday-webinars/environmental-history-today-webinars-2023/ 

Call for Submissions: ESEH-RCC 2025 Turku Book Prize
The Turku Book Prize is a joint prize of the ESEH and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC). The Turku Book Prize is intended to identify and encourage innovative and well-written single-authored monographs published in 2023 or 2024 in the field of European environmental history.
Full call at this link: http://eseh.org/call-for-submissions-turku-book-prize-2025/

Call for Submissions: ESEH 2025 Tallinn Dissertation Prize
The prize aims to support early career environmental history scholars based in Europe or those based outside Europe but whose work contributes to European environmental history. Through the Prize, ESEH encourages early career scholars to be involved in the community of environmental historians in Europe. The prize enhances the visibility of PhD students and post-docs in environmental history and the environmental humanities and strengthens intergenerational ties within the ESEH.
Full call at this link: http://eseh.org/call-for-submissions-eseh-2025-tallinn-dissertation-prize/

Call for Submissions: ESEH 2025 Bristol-Bern Prize (2Bs Prize) in Public Environmental History
This prize seeks to encourage researchers to build public engagement into their projects from the outset. There is no restriction on the format of work submitted for the prize; judges will be able to evaluate and commend work in environmental history that engages the public through workshops, websites, audio-visual productions, popular publication, theatre or other forms of performance, visual arts collaboration, and mixed or multi-modal forms.
Full call at this link: http://eseh.org/call-for-submissions-2025-bristol-bern-prize-in-public-environmental-history-2bs-prize/

Call for submissions: ESEH 2025 St Andrews Article Prize in European Environmental History
The prize rewards innovative and well-written article-length research in the field of European environmental history. Articles (or book chapters that are to be read as a stand-alone work) published in 2023 or 2024 on any subject in European environmental history, including Europe’s (post)colonial impact on the global environment, and in any European language, are eligible. We welcome applications from senior and junior scholars from all over the world, though some preference may be given to junior scholars.
Full call at this link: http://eseh.org/call-eseh-2025-st-andrews-article-prize-in-european-environmental-history/