With her book “The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade”, Prof. Dr. Simone M. Müller made it to the final of the Fleck Prize 2025. [Global Environmental History and Environmental Humanities]

On Friday, May 9, 2025, the 4th Network Meeting of Environmental History will take place from 12 to 2 p.m. in seminar room 201 of the Alte Universität (Eichleitnerstr. 30). In this context, Dr. Lisa Kolb will give a keynote speech on the topic "Salpeter - ein kritischer Rohstoff im Dreißigjährigen Krieg". [Global Environmental History and Environmental Humanities]

José Francisco Sánchez Labrador (1717–1798) was one of the most prolific Jesuit authors of his time in South America. However, his magnum opus, a comprehensive three-part encyclopaedic description of Gran Paraguay, has never been printed in its entirety. Now, a DFG-funded project is examining the third part of the trilogy: the manuscript Paraguay Cultivado.

[University of Augsburg]