@katrinkleemann
Postdoctoral Researcher at the German Maritime Museum/Leibniz Institute for Maritime History. Environmental historian working on volcanoes, earthquakes, oceans, history of science, and of course #Laki1783🌋🇮🇸. www.katrinkleemann.com
If you are a grad student or early career scholar, consider applying for the @histocean.bsky.social 2026 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History. Details here: oceansciencehistory.com/2026/01/06/c... #oceanhist #envhist
Excited to share that my new article on research expeditions and seafloor mapping in the Southern Ocean is now available open access in "Räume in der Internationalen Geschichte" (in German)! 🌊 Huge thanks to the editors! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #oceanhist #histsci #envhist
Our conference has been generously funded by the German Maritime Museum, the German Research Foundation @dfg.de, and it has been endorsed as an UN Ocean Decade Activity @unoceandecade.bsky.social.
Next week (22-24 Oct), the German Maritime Museum is hosting an international conference titled "Planetary Waters: A Challenge between Abstraction and Empathy." Join us for the public keynote, live (with a reception afterwards) and on Zoom. www.dsm.museum/en/calendar/... #envhist #envhum #oceanhist
Flyer from the Planetary Waters conference: a challenge between Abstraction and Empathy
Next week I will take part in the Planetary Waters conference in the German Maritime Museum, in Bremerhaven. Organized by Fabienne Will, @katrinkleemann.bsky.social and Noemi Quagliati
With @eikeheine.bsky.social we will present a paper on the Norwegian petroleum museum
Interesting conference feat. @katrinkleemann.bsky.social, @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and many brilliant minds
Young Academy Fellows 2025
💡Junge Spitzenforschung: Neun Young Academy Fellows verstärken die Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg.
Die neuen #YAFs werden bei dem Festakt der Akademie anlässlich ihres 20-jährigen Bestehens am 16.10.2025 in #Hamburg offiziell begrüßt.
Zur Pressemitteilung 👉 www.awhamburg.de/aktuell/pres...
I'm just passing along a book by @katrinkleemann.bsky.social called A Mist Connection: An Environmental History of the Laki Eruption of 1783 and Its Legacy.
Enjoy!
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Please spread the word and submit an abstract for our "Planetary Waters" conference in Bremerhaven, 22-24 October 2025. The deadline to submit an abstract is 15 June 2025. For more info, see: www.dsm.museum/fileadmin/us... 🌊🚢
#envhist #envhum #museum #waterhist #oceanhist #climatechange #biodiversity #dighum #climhist @carsoncenter.bsky.social
🚢 Planetary Waters: Call for Papers 🌊 How do we visualize the vastness of oceans while keeping the human connection?
🗓️ Oct 22-24, 2025 📍 German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, Germany
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 June 2025. Find the call here: www.dsm.museum/fileadmin/us...
Danke, lieber Floris, wir hoffen, dass du auch ein Abstract für die Konferenz einreichst und wir dich im Oktober in Bremerhaven sehen :-)
Call for Papers Conference “Planetary Waters - A Challenge Between Abstraction and Empathy” Date: 22–24 October 2025 Location: German Maritime Museum / Leibniz Institute for Maritime History Aims of the Conference: The Leibniz Institute of Maritime History (DSM) invites submissions for the conference “Planetary Waters – A Challenge Between Abstraction and Empathy”, taking place on October 22–24, 2025, at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven. This interdisciplinary event will bring together scholars, researchers, and practitioners to explore public communication strategies that integrate the planetary scale of water studies while maintaining a focus on human-water relationships at the local level. The intertwined crises of climate change and biodiversity loss urge us to incorporate a planetary perspective into our thinking and actions more than ever before. The conference “Planetary Waters” addresses this challenge by examining water in its many forms—oceans, seas, inland waters, and wetlands—through interdisciplinary dialogues that balance abstraction with empathy. Key questions include: How can the complex effects of climate change on the hydrosphere be made accessible to diverse audiences? Can the humanities and museum exhibitions integrate a planetary perspective while conveying local dimensions in an engaging and empathetic manner? What role can visualization techniques play in this process? The conference brings together scholars, science communicators, curators, and artists drawing on Blue Humanities to explore human-water relationships while advancing three central goals: deepening the planetary dimension in the humanities, fostering interdisciplinary approaches to water studies, and developing innovative public communication strategies.
Submission Guidelines: Interested participants are invited to submit a single PDF document containing an abstract of no more than 300 words and a brief bio by June 15, 2025. Please send submissions to all three organizers: k.kleemann@dsm.museum; noemi.quagliati@unive.it; f.will@deutsches-museum.de. Important Information: ● Abstract Submission Deadline: June 15, 2025 ● Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2025 ● 1st Draft Paper Submission Deadline (5 pages): October 10, 2025 We request first drafts as pre-circulated papers, which will form the basis for a subsequent publication in Deutsches Schifffahrtsarchiv, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal (in English or German) where we will publish our conference papers. Find more information here. Additional Information: The conference will feature two keynote speakers: oceanographer Prof. Dr. Elda Miramontes, (MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen) and art historian Dr. Anne Hemkendreis (The Greenhouse Centre for Environmental Humanities, Stavanger University). Additionally, a workshop will be held with two practitioners – environmental journalist Christian Schwägerl (RiffReporter) and artist-filmmaker Sonia Levy (Royal College of Art, London) – offering hands-on insights into visual and narrative strategies for communicating water-related issues. Practical Information: Meals and accommodation costs for speakers to Bremerhaven will be covered by the organizers, while travel costs are subject to available funding
*CfP: “Planetary Waters - A Challenge Between Abstraction and Empathy”*
An exciting conference organised by three wonderful scholars this autumn - do check it out!
📆22-24 October, 2025
📍Bremerhaven, GER
🔜Paper submissions due 15 June, 2025
I was awarded the 2025 William E. and Mary B. Ritter Memorial Fellowship by @scrippsocean.bsky.social in La Jolla. It has been an absolute pleasure and privilege to spend the last two months in California, carrying out research and thinking about #oceanhist. #envhist scripps.ucsd.edu/about/awards...
If you are near the @scrippsocean.bsky.social in La Jolla, come by to the Ritter Memorial Fellowship Lecture tomorrow at 3 pm, I will be talking about the emergence of the German Maritime Observatory (Deutsche #Seewarte).
Exciting morning in La Jolla, CA, today! We had an earthquake this morning, just after 10 am. The Shake Alert said magnitude 6.3 but it was later corrected to 5.2. #earthquake #sandiego
Yes, the DHI is now the BSH (Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie / Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency), still in the same building - although sadly not the Seewarte building from the 1880s that Neumayer had built, as it was destroyed in an air raid in 1945.
It was a big week for publishing papers. @ambio-journal.bsky.social published our paper "Climate, peace, and conflict—past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research" yesterday! 🥳 #envhist #climhist #climatechange #skystorians
New OA publication! @katrinkleemann.bsky.social and I developed an analytical tool for interdisciplinary studies that explore past nature-induced disasters using Eldgjá and Laki as case studies.
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#Volcanoes #HistSci #SciHist #EnvHist #MiddleAges
#earlyModernAge#Volcanica
@carsoncenter.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social @sfebert.bsky.social #volcanoes #iceland #interdisciplinary #skystorians #skystorian #history #laki1783 #eldgja #climhist #histsci #scihist #geology #volcanology #research #VICS archives of society #disaster
🌋 Exciting News! Stephan Ebert & I just published our new paper in Volcanica! 🌍 We've developed an analytical tool for interdisciplinary studies that explore historical nature-induced disasters. In the paper, we're using the Eldgjá & Laki eruptions as case studies. #envhist
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Der NDR hat vor kurzem einen Beitrag mit Video und Audio über die Geschichte der Deutschen Seewarte im Kontext der Flaschenposten veröffentlicht: www.ndr.de/geschichte/s... #Seewarte #hamburg #neumayer #flaschenpost
In case you are an ECR and have a recently published article or yet-to-be published article on #oceanhist: The call for this year's Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History is out! #envhist
"In the summer of 1783 individuals in many parts of the northern hemisphere witnessed blood red sunsets and a peculiar, long-lasting dry fog." - @katrinkleemann.bsky.social
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#envhist #wxhistory
#envhist #oceanhist @histocean.bsky.social
The German Maritime Museum invites applications for 3-9 month-long fellowships to work on interdisciplinary object-based research focussing on the cultural & political significance of the relationship between humans and the sea. Deadline 31 January 2025. More info: www.museumsbund.de/stellenangeb...
A Mist Connection is now available as a paperback for 24.95 Euro (it remains available open access as an eBook). Coincidentally it was a misty morning in Northern Germany today. www.degruyter.com/document/doi... #envhist #Laki1783 #volcano #iceland @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
Zotero fest 2024 is happening this week! Please consider spending a few minutes helping ICHO improve our shared bibliography. Help improve a shared resource and have a chance to win prizes! #histsci #envhist oceansciencehistory.com/2024/10/22/j...
Das Deutsche Schifffahrtsmuseum / Leibniz Institut für Maritime Geschichte hat eine Postdoktorandenstelle im Bereich Digitale Maritime Kulturen ausgeschrieben. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 15. Oktober 2024. Mehr Infos hier: www.dsm.museum/stellenangeb... #oceanhist
Danke schön, lieber Fabrice! ☺️