Dr. des. Jonatan Palmblad
Project Coordinator & Lecturer, Rachel Carson Center
Ecological humanist interested in human–environment interaction and the role that cognition, ideas, and technology play therein. Philosophy, history, and whatever gets the job done.
ICEHO
ESEH
- Reposted by Dr. des. Jonatan PalmbladHow is environmental history doing in Asia? It's thriving! Read Mu Cao's beautiful account of the Asian Association for Environmental History (AAEH) conference in Japan last year. AAEH is a biennial conference, so keep an eye out for the next one in 2027! #envhist #envhum #history
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- Reposted by Dr. des. Jonatan PalmbladOur early-career network is growing! Join us if you are interested in #EnvHist in or about Europe. You will then be added to our listserv and receive updates on events and opportunities, and you will also be able to contribute to the network. Send us a DM with your email to be added.
- Join our new Early-Career #EnvHist Network! We have created a listserv for opportunities related to environmental history (broadly conceived), and we welcome students, PhD candidates and post-docs interested in what happens in Europe. To join, send us a Private Message. Members can also contribute!
- Join the ESEH! As a member, you will contribute to environmental history in Europe, including our next conference in Salzburg, 2027.
- Join the European Society for Environmental History! We are our members, and with a modest yearly fee (25 or 10 €) you will contribute to the community and our next conference. And there are benefits! You can also help by spreading the word! Read more here: eseh.org/membership/h... #EnvHist #EnvHum
- Reposted by Dr. des. Jonatan PalmbladNew #Speak4Nature essay by 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐮𝐜𝐡, director of the Rachel Carson Center. Originally published in 2024, this Spanish-language article tells the story of Rachel Carson's ground-breaking 1962 book. Read it here for free: www.fuhem.es/wp-content/u... #EnvHist #EnvHum #EnvJust #RachelCarson
- Interesting event organized by VIT-AP University in India. I will present on "Environmental Humanities at the Crossroads: A Constructive Critique." We #EnvHum scholars are critical almost by definition, but any critical theory must also (re-)investigate its own assumptions. This will be my attempt.
- I just published an #envhum essay in Spanish on "Instrumentality and ecological personality." An ecological self understanding, I suggest, reveals that instrumental value is not a problem in itself, but becomes one when technology and modern society turn our use values into "abuse values." ... (1/4)
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- Not sure if obvious or a provocation, but an environment is not a place. It is often used synonymously to "natural place," whatever that is, but it really is the world relative to an organism, or that which environs an organism. To think relationally in concrete terms, we must be organismocentric.
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- As of today I will serve as Associate Editor for the 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 journal together with Jessica DeWitt, Giulia Champion & Jonny Turnbull. Having followed EH since its early days, this is a great honor! @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social @giuliachampion.bsky.social @jonnyjjt.bsky.social #envhum
- As a part of ESEH NEXTGATe, I am glad that we are once again organizing a writing support program for early-career scholars! Credits to my colleague Mona Bieling for organizing this together with Andrea Gaynor. Although an ESEH initiative, we also accept applicants from other parts of the world.
- AI does not "hallucinate," it provides statistically plausible results that sometimes are completely incorrect. I think it is important to recognize that "hallucination" is an anthropomorphizing metaphor. LLMs do not think, although that is what the AI companies want us to think.
- I just got back from a workshop on "Multispecies Intellectual History" at the University of Oxford. Philosophy, history, physics, botany, anthropology, art, and other fields were represented in the discussions, and a publication on this is to be expected. Read more here: cas.au.dk/en/umih #envhum
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- The next Radical Environmental Humanities lecture will be in Spanish. Join us today at 4pm CET to listen to Raul Zibechi on "La descomposición de las sociedades latinoamericanas." You can also watch it later, but join to be able to ask questions! Link: www.youtube.com/@RadicalEnvi... #EnvHum
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- The latest Resistance lecture, this time with Nnimmo Bassey, in Marco Armiero’s Radical Environmental Humanities series can now be watched on YouTube. Subscribe to the channel to see upcoming talks and have a look at the past ones. #EnvHum
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- Finally figured out how easy it is to turn off the annoying "AI Assistant" when reading PDFs in Adobe Acrobat in the browser: the three dots → preferences → uncheck "Enable generate AI feature in Acrobat". AI can be useful, but unwanted assistance is not... Analyzing on my own is how I learn.
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- Today at 6pm CET! Can be watched later, but join and you'll be able to ask questions. www.youtube.com/@RadicalEnvi... #envhum
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- My article on the usable past has been reposted by @whitehorsepress.bsky.social, and it's now illustrated. Mobilize the past: "In history, there is no lack of voices forgotten, neglected, ignored, silenced and oppressed – and many of these voices still have much to say!"
- My friend and colleague Alison Pouliot has co-written an important book on "wild mushrooming," and I'm glad that we at the Rachel Carson Center can publish an excerpt. You will also find a part of her 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘪 on our Portal, and soon an excerpt from 𝘔𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘴.
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- Tomorrow I'll be moderating this interdisciplinary talk. You are welcome to join online (check the link and send me an email), but please mind that the time (2pm–4pm) is in Central European time. Here's a converter: www.worldtimebuddy.com/cet-to-germa... #envhum #envjust #envphil
- The Radical #EnvHum talk "Reshaping Worlds – Beyond the Capitalist Horizon" by Nidvedita Menon just started.
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- On 21 January, 6pm CET, the collective behind 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦: 𝘈 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 will host this online lecture with Malcom Ferdinand. Save the link: www.youtube.com/@RadicalEnvi... #envhum
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- Reposted by Dr. des. Jonatan PalmbladIt’s really out in the world! 🗃️ You can get The Craft of Historical Research as an ebook or a paperback from your favorite bookseller. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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- My small contribution to the ESEH is to run this cool project. This is a 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 project and anyone can contribute, not just historians. Moreover, the theme does not have to be European, it could even be extra-terrestrial if you like. Just make sure it somehow reflects on "unstable time."
