From Monday April 19^th to Tuesday April 20^th 2021 the history department of Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg in cooperation with the “Austrian Economic and Social Historians (AESH)”, the “Environmental History Cluster Austria (www.ehca.at)” and the “European Society for Environmental History (ESEH)” hosts the annual Austrian PhD-conference on economic, social and environmental history (online event). The “environmental” parts of the conference contribute to the international Environmental History Week, organized by the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH).

We invite you to attend the conference online, especially we would like to draw your attention to the keynote lecture on “The place of gender in contemporary Austrian and European environmental history“, which will be delivered by Anna-Katharina Wöbse (Giessen), who is a renowned environmental historian and curator, with research interests including environmental movements and environmental biographies, animal-human relations, as well as women and gender. The lecture starts on Tuesday April 20^th at 5:30 PM.

If you are interested in attending the online paper-presentation and/or the keynote, please give a short note to .

For further information on the conference program visit:  https://www.ehca.at/?cat=6

For further information on the Environmental History Week visit:  https://aseh.org/Environmental-History-Week