The European Conservation Humanities Network
As we come to rethink conservation today – what conservation is, what it aims to do, and how it can best go about doing it – it seems incumbent on us to draw, not just on the natural and social sciences, but also on the insights provided by humanities disciplines.
Holmes et al., 2021/ European Conservation Humanities Network, 2021
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- Bavarian Environmental Award for Laura KuenPhoto credits: Katharina Kuhlmann und Charles Kenwright We are pleased to share that EuCoHN member Laura Kuen has received the 2025 Environmental Award of the Bavarian State Foundation (Umweltpreis der Bayerischen Landesstiftung). Laura is one of the curators of the Land.Schafft.Klang exhibition that focuses on the soundscapes of the Bavarian countryside and on the waysContinue reading “Bavarian Environmental Award for Laura Kuen”
- New Research by EuCoHN MembersGeorge Holmes has published an article in the journal Conservation Letters. Who Let the Frogs out? Illicit and Unregulated Species Translocations investigates the unregulated human-assisted movement of species and its ecological, social, and political implications. You can find the article in open access here. Monica Vasile has published an article about approaching wildlife and theContinue reading “New Research by EuCoHN Members”
- Wetland Times virtual exhibition now onlineEuCoHN network member Nicola Thomas together with network associates Blake Ewing and Enaiê Mairê Azambuja have published a virtual exhibition on wetlands. The Wetland Times project investigated how time is understood, lived, and represented in wetland environments across three geographically and culturally distinct sites: Morecambe Bay in the UK, the Wadden Sea in northern Europe, and theContinue reading “Wetland Times virtual exhibition now online”
- EuCoHN at the ESEH 2025 in UppsalaEuCoHN had a strong presence at the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) conference that took place this August in Uppsala, Sweden. Eight members of our network participated, with Sabine Höhler serving as a member of the program and local organizing committees. We convened four panels between us, on topics ranging from environmental governance andContinue reading “EuCoHN at the ESEH 2025 in Uppsala”
- New Species-Reintroduction ArticleMonica Vasile has published a new article in Environmental Humanities. Beyond Homecoming: The Reintroduction of Seven Przewalski’s Mares in the Gobi Desert traces the stories of and the metaphors around seven horses flown into Mongolia in the 1990s to argue that reintroducing endangered species is less a triumphant and reassuring “homecoming” than a slow, uncertainContinue reading “New Species-Reintroduction Article”
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