Grégory Quenet

Professor of Environmental History University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

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Grégory Quenet is one of the pioneers of environmental history and the environmental humanities in France. Since 2012, he has been a professor of environmental history at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Paris-Saclay). Founder of the French portal for environmental humanities, he organized the eighth European Society for Environmental History Conference in Versailles in 2015. Since its creation in 2024, he has been codirector of the Environmental Humanities research department at the Collège des Bernardins, where he held the Laudato si’: For a New Exploration of the Earth chair from 2021 to 2023. His latest book, Histoire de la pensée écologique (History of Ecological Thought), was published by PUF in May 2025. Since 2021, he has served as a scientific advisor for the Environmental History program at LUMA Arles.

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Environmental History IV

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Grégory Quenet: "What is environmental history?"

What is environmental history? What are the weaknesses of environmental movements? After his intervention at the Environmental History symposium, Grégory Quenet, professor and environmental historian, answers these questions.