DéPOT 2026: Deindustrialization and the Environment in Post-Socialist Europe

Deindustrialization and the Environment in Post-Socialist Europe with Ondřej Ševeček and Vítězslav Sommer, Nina Vodopivec, Emese Dobos, Juliette Ronsin and Loman-Pierre Charrier and Mathis Gronau. What can the study of deindustrialization add to our understanding of environmental history? And conversely – what can the study of environmental history contribute to deindustrialization studies? Answering these questions will be the focus of the 2026 Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DePOT) annual conference, whose theme is “Deindustrialization and the Environment.”