2025 ESEH CONFERENCE IN UPPSALA, SWEDEN (18.-22. AUGUST 2025) - IMPRESSIONS
2025 ESEH CONFERENCE IN UPPSALA, SWEDEN (18.-22. AUGUST 2025) - IMPRESSIONS

Summary/Abstract: Somehow ESEH conferences manage to shock me every time. Maybe I am too much used to small, specialized conferences and workshops, meetings with small circle of (same) people from the same research field, that I simply forget how it is to experience these global gatherings. With over 611 onsite participants and over 100 online participants from different continents, not to mention all the listenersand visitors of the different panels organized into 14 (!) parallel sessions in just 4 days, the ESEH 2025 Climate Histories Conference surely did have a global dimension, if not a global impact (well, at least the carbon footprint is always present!). Jokes aside, it was an effort from the organizers to manage such a large conference and the accompanying activities in a short time so thanks to people from Uppsala University, KTH and Stockholm University and other local and ESEH Committees for putting their backs into this conference to work. The only issue I had was finding my way through the maze of corridors and (for me) illogical numbering of the university buildings to find the right session room, but with collective effort, willpower, experience, good stamina, local guides (thanks Anton!) and enough caffeine sustenance even this obstacle proved conquerable. There was also a slight confusion with name tags at the beginning of conference, which perceived as an annoyance by some, I actually found very amusing and a good way for a socializing ice-breaker event, where a collective effort is given to find the right name tag, along which you meet other people that you may have never actually had the chance of meeting or speaking to at the conference at all.

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