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July 22, 2025

Publication of the special issue of the Lagoonscapes magazine: “Cracking the Surface”

The latest issue of Lagoonscapes (Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities): “Cracking the Surface” was created under the collaboration of Prof. Simone M. Müller and Livia Cahn (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich).

[Global Environmental History and Environmental Humanities]

Prof. Dr. Simone M. Müller is a finalist for the Fleck Prize 2025

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]

4th Network Meeting of Environmental History

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]