The USA is increasingly shipping toxic waste to Mexico.

 

The British newspaper The Guardian quoted Simone M. Müller in one of its most recent articles. It sums up the problem the USA causes by shipping off their toxic waste to Mexico – “out of sight, out of mind” like Simone M. Müller accurately describes it.

Simone M. Müller, Matthias Schmidt and Kirsten Twelbeck have published a new book together. Many scientists have come together to offer a systematic, interdisciplinary analysis of today's ecological changes.

The workshop “Matter and Meaning” investigates both material histories and the intricate relationships that exist between societies and their material and ecological environment. It is informed and yet seeks to move beyond the ‘constructivist- essentialist impasse’ that has long dominated environmental history, for instance.

 

 

This is the second workshop in a series of three, in a collaborative sequence between the Universities of Augsburg, Konstanz, Tübingen, Basel and ETH Zürich, and takes place on September 30 and October 1, 2024 at the Environmental Science Centre (WZU), Room 101

 

 

At the Water & Sound Festival organized by the City of Augsburg, Dr. Sasha Gora speaks at the Panel "Atlantic Appetites + The Nigerdelta Experience".

 

How do fish, the culture of their catch and their preparation create and change the Atlantic and Mediterranean world? Cultural historian L. Sasha Gora and artist Rafram Chaddad share research, stories and snacks about Atlantic cod in a mixture of conversation and culinary presentation: “the fish that changed the world”. Their conversation weaves together stories about cod, movement and migration, cuisine and belonging, and ends with a tasting, both with and without fish.

 

The event will be held partly in English. Admission is free. Seat reservations are recommended at: info@waterandsound.de

 

August 02, 7.30 p.m. - Augsburg Environmental Education Center

 

Find out more here: WaterandSound

How has human-made climate change changed the Arctic Humanities, as an interdisciplinary field of research? What can the topics, research questions, and methods that emerge in this context contribute to the common perception of and the scientific debates about the Arctic? What is the role of the humanities in dealing with the socio-ecological transformation processes taking place in the Arctic? To what extent do the disciplines involved challenge the stereotypical concept of the Arctic as a static and extra-societal region that exists outside of history?

 

Based on their own work in the field, Prof. Dr. Sverker Sörlin (Environmental History), Dr. Juliane Egerer (Scandinavian Studies), Anne-Sophie Balzer (Literary Studies) and Floris Winckel (History of Technology) will discuss these and other questions during our roundtable discussion on April 30 from 10:00 to 12:00 in Building D, Room 4056.

 

The event is open to the public.

The interview with Paul Sutter in "Edge Effects" is online as of February 15. The digital magazine focuses on environmental issues and is produced by students at the Center for Culture, History and the Environment (CHE), a research center of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

You can stream or download the episode here:

 

https://edgeeffects.net/simone-muller/

Dr. des. L. Sasha Gora, project director of the international research group “Off the Menu: Appetites, Culture, and Environment” is delighted to invite its first guest researcher to the University of Augsburg: Maya Hey. As part of her visit to Bavaria, Maya Hey will present a public lecture at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich on Wednesday 28 February 2024 (at 16:30), organized together with the RCC Fermentation Group, and a workshop at the WZU at the University of Augsburg on Thursday 29 February 2024 (from 10:00 to 17:30).

 

Maya Hey is an expert on human-microbe relations in food settings, with degrees in dietetics, food studies, and communications. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the Centre for the Social Study of Microbes at the University of Helsinki.

Brian Hamilton, chair of the Department of History and Social Sciences at Deerfield Academy, talks with Simone M. Müller about her new book on his New Books Network - Environmental Studies podcast.

 

In "The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade" (University of Washington Press, 2023), Simone M. Müller uses the voyage of the ship as a lens to illuminate the global trade in hazardous waste - the transport of materials ranging from obsolete consumer goods and pesticides to barges carrying all kinds of toxic waste - from the 1970s to the present.

 

https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-toxic-ship

The University of Augsburg has appointed historian Prof. Dr Simone Müller, an expert on global environmental history and environmental humanities, as new DFG Heisenberg Professor. The sought-after historian, who works in an advisory capacity for the Polish National Science Council, the Academy of Finland, and the Swedish Research Council, researches globalisation processes and the relationship between ecology and economy. In 2017, she was nominated by the German Research Foundation as a leading researcher in her field (Academia.net).