Summer School in: Environmental History: European and Global Perspectives

• Students of history, social sciences and related fields
• Graduates or students in their last year
• Any nationality

The applicants are not limited to EU member states and we welcome extra-European participants. Applicants should be working towards or have completed a master's degree. Except under special circumstances, PhD students will not normally be admitted.

Enrolment numbers are limited and admission is based on merit.

Whether you are interested in political, social, cultural, intellectual or economic history, it will give you a unique opportunity to broaden your research interests and methodological reflection.

Registration fee for selected participants: EUR 60

Fee waivers are available for selected applicants from countries included in the EUI Widening Europe Programme

17-19 September 2025 (online)

Conveners: Profs Glenda Sluga, Corinna Unger

Programme Outline

Presentations

• The history of environmental history: Who writes environmental history, why, and how?
  Prof. Corinna Unger, EUI
  
  
• Planetary history, the history of capitalism, and the environment
  Prof. Glenda Sluga, EUI
  
  
• Environmental history sources in the Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU)
  Dr. Valérie Mathevon, HAEU
  
  
• Knowing the environment in nineteenth-century Latin America: Humboldt, Darwin, and the less ‘great men’ of science
  Dr. Tomás Bartoletti, ETH Zurich
  
  
• Italian fascism and African colonial environments between planning and disarray (1922-1943)
  Dr. Roberta Biasillo, University of Utrecht
  
  
• Famines, epidemics, and environmental catastrophes in East European and Eurasian history
  Dr. Karolina Koziura, EUI
  
  
• Protecting and developing natural resources: the oil palm in West Africa
  Dr. Giovanni Tonolo, University of Florence
  
  
• Seeing from the Sea: Anticolonialism and Environmentalism in Oceania
  Dr. Emma Kluge, University of Exeter
  Group work: archival research sessions

The summer school will entail several research sessions, based on digitized archival holdings of the Historical Archives of the European Union.

These include textual, visual, and oral history sources from the European Court of Justice, the European Investment Bank, the European Environment Agency, and others.

Participants will carry out group work and design posters to present their findings.

• Attendance at all sessions is mandatory
• A certificate of participation is issued at the end of the course