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Fishbowl Catalysts of Environmental Awareness: Ecological Crises and Mobilisation in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe Which ecological crises and environmental disasters played a decisive role in the formation of environmental awareness in Eastern and South-Eastern European countries? - Through what mechanisms and practices did these issues stimulate mobilisation at the local level? - To what extent did the Chernobyl nuclear disaster function as a turning point and catalyst for the emergence and consolidation of environmental movements? - Prof. Dr. Amir Duranović, University of Sarajevo. Focus: history of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Yugoslavia, diplomacy, and environmental history. - Dr. Astrid Sahm, Head of International Centre for Education and Exchange (IBB gGmbH). Focus: energy and environmental policy, development of political systems and integration policies of post-Soviet states (especially Belarus and Ukraine) - Dr. Kacper Szulecki, Research Professor in International Climate Governance at NUPI, and a Professor II at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo (via zoom) 14th European History Forum Marking the 40th anniversary of Chornobyl, the 2026 European History Forum examines, from a historical perspective, the origins and development of environmental movements across Europe and their entanglements with the legacy of the nuclear disaster. The primary focus lies on socialist and post-socialist states, while also adopting a comparative perspective on West Germany and reunified Germany.