"How can scholars in environmental history and the environmental humanities tell the stories of post-Carson forms of “toxic colonialism” as they happened both in the Global South and behind the Iron Curtain? How have new generations of pesticides and new actors in the global trade and governance of toxicants, such as China, contributed novel challenges and solutions to human health and the environment? What role have agrochemical companies played in the dilution of regulations? What mechanisms in the production of knowledge have helped to spread doubt about the long-term impacts of their products on human bodies and the global web of life? To what extent has this renewed geographical, social, gender, racial, and generational asymmetries in the “contamination of the Earth”?"

The conference will address some of the above queries and explore issues arising from the following larger, and overlapping, thematic fields:
- Industries, sciences, and “chemical wars”
- Markets and the global circulation of pesticides
- Ecologies and toxic colonialism
- Toxic bodies and the health of the planet
- Contestations, mobilizations, and alternatives

We welcome proposals with a historical approach but also from diverse disciplines such as environmental studies, anthropology, political science, and others. Collaborative projects and proposals with alternative writing formats are also welcome. Please send a proposal of no more than 500 words and a one-page CV to: conferences@carsoncenter.lmu.de.

The deadline for submissions is 15 May 2022. Participants will be notified of acceptance as soon as possible.

Link: https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-116176

Organizer: School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)
London / United Kingdom
16.06.2022 - 17.06.2022
Deadline: 07.05.2022

How was the socialist modernity and its ideology materialised in the global rural and urban territories? What are the social and political transformations that have occurred in the post-socialist villages and towns after socialist projects?

Reflecting on the above question this conference will bring together practitioners, activists, artists, architects, community organisers, and researchers from all disciplines who work with any aspects of modern ruination and rural/urban decline.

https://www.connections.clio-online.net/event/id/event-117140

1 Wiss. Mitarb. (Postdoc) "Umwelt- und/oder Technikgeschichte"

Aufgabengebiet:

- Co-Organisation von internationalen wissenschaftlichen Veranstaltungen
- Unterstützung in der regionalen und überregionalen fachlichen Vernetzung der Professur
- Mitwirkung in der Lehre im Umfang von grundsätzlich 3,0 Trimesterwochenstunden
- Möglichkeit zur wissenschaftlichen Weiterqualifikation (z.B. Habilitation oder Second Book) mit thematischem Bezug zum Profil der Professur, insbesondere aus den Bereichen der Umweltgeschichte und/oder der Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung. Ausdrücklich erwünscht sind dabei transnationale oder globalhistorische Bezüge

Bewerbungsschluss ist der 8. Mai, Stellenantritt im September 2022.

https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-117099

"In the fall of 1961, President Kennedy somberly warned Americans about deadly radioactive fallout clouds extending hundreds of miles from H‑bomb detonations, yet he approved ninety‑six US nuclear weapon tests for 1962. Cold War nuclear testing, production, and disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima have exposed millions to dangerous radioactive particles; these millions are the global hibakusha. Many communities continue to be plagued with dire legacies and ongoing risks: sickness and early mortality, forced displacement, uncertainty and anxiety, dislocation from ancestors and traditional lifestyles, and contamination of food sources and ecosystems. Nuclear Bodies weaves these seemingly distinct legacies into a comprehensive global history, examining the colonialism(s) with which nuclear weapon states "select the irradiated," the political use of medical models to render their harm invisible, and the millennia-long legacies of our embrace of nuclear technologies". (nuclearbodies.com)

Links: https://www.academia.edu/75114731/Global_Hibakusha?email_work_card=thumbnail
https://nuclearbodies.com/

Atomreaktoren - Planung nach Ländern weltweit 2022:

Im Jahr 2022 plant China 35 Atomreaktoren, die innerhalb der nächsten acht bis zehn Jahre in Betrieb gehen sollen. Im weltweiten Vergleich plant das genannte Land somit die meisten Atomreaktoren, gefolgt von Russland und Indien. Im Jahr 2020 gingen zuletzt vier Atomreaktoren weltweit in Bau.

Veröffentlicht von A. Breitkopf, 18.02.2022.

Link: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/157767/umfrage/anzahl-der-geplanten-atomkraftwerke-in-verschiedenen-laendern/