Dr. Katrin Kleemann

The day has come! 🥳🎉 My book "A Mist Connection. An Environmental History of the Laki Eruption of 1783 and Its Legacy" with @degruyter_pub is now available as an open-access eBook and for purchase as a print copy: degruyter.com/document/doi/1… #Laki1783🌋 #envhist #climhist #histsci

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: dsm.museum/fileadmin/user… 🌊🚢

🚢 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 dsm.museum/fileadmin/user…

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

Hey #oceanhist crew! Please consider spending a few minutes this week helping the ICHO ZoteroFest! Improving our shared bibliography helps all of us &also newcomers to our field! Here's the announcement winfo: networks.h-net.org/group/announce…

I was awarded the 2025 William E. and Mary B. Ritter Memorial Fellowship by @Scripps_Ocean 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 #oceanhistory.

TOMORROW: Join us at 3 PM, Monday, April 21, for a free public lecture by the next Ritter Memorial Fellowship recipient, @katrinkleemann. Her presentation will explore the emergence of the German Maritime Observatory!🚢 Event details. ⬇️ bit.ly/42sdslG

Join us at 3 PM, Monday, April 21, for a free public lecture by the next Ritter Memorial Fellowship recipient, @katrinkleemann. Her presentation will explore the emergence of the German Maritime Observatory!🚢 Event details. ⬇️ bit.ly/42sdslG

Our paper on #climate, #peace, and #conflict was published in @Ambio_Journal yesterday! #envhist #twitterstorians

"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 niche-canada.org/2017/10/02/spe… #envhist #wxhistory

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. Apply by 31 January 2025. museumsbund.de/stellenangebot…

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. degruyter.com/document/doi/1… #Laki1783 #envhist #volcano #iceland @degruyter_brill

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: dsm.museum/stellenangebot… #oceanhist

My book talk on "A Mist Connection" from 2023 with @DollyJorgensen and Finn-Arne Jorgensen and the Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talk series was published as a podcast episode, which you can listen to here: newnatures.org/greenhouse/pod… #envhist #Laki1783

Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of sharing some of my research on ballooning and the Gaussberg volcano during the first German Antarctic Expedition aboard the Gauß (1901—1903) at the @AWI_de, in their really beautiful lecture theater!

En route to Oulu to talk about "Transforming the Oceans: Ocean Knowledge Transitions in a Changing World" #Water05, organized with @pkhardy, at the #WCEH2024 tomorrow! #oceanhist