A person sits on a boardwalk alongside a peaceful lake. The sun is shining warmly and the person appears to be deep in thought.

A recent study from Miles Richardson highlights how human relationships with nature have changed over the last 200 years. By evaluating nature words in publications, Richardson found that our connection to nature has declined by more than 60% since 1800. doi.org/10.3390/earth6030082

Josephine Quinn · Born on the Beach: Ancient Coastlines Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say the...

‘Even if the coastline we know is young – its features only relatively stable for the last five or six thousand years – mental traces of earlier configurations survive.’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social on the ancient coast: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A 2,000-Year-Old Pompeii Garden Springs Back to Life Pompeii Archaeological Park has unveiled the restored Garden of Hercules , freshly planted with violets, ruscus plants, and antique roses.

The Pompeii Archaeological Park has recreated an ancient perfume garden—right down to its antique roses.
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New issue of Arethusa Vol. 58, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55020 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social Animals Under Empire

Please submit a proposal for the 2025 Symposium Cumanum! Information as to how to do this below. Please share and spread the word! You all need to spend 3-4 days in Italy, right?

‘Imagining Queer Ecologies’ BSLS Winter Symposium 2023 ‘Imagining Queer Ecologies’ is a free, one-day, online symposium hosted by the British Society of Literature and Science.

Register now for the ‘Imagining Queer Ecologies’ symposium, hosted by the British Society for Literature and Science, happening Friday 01 Dec 2023!

Check out the programme and get your thickets to the free, one-day online symposium focussed at #PGR students and #ECR here: shorturl.at/byV57

"Environmental History of Antiquity (3000 BC – 800 CE[!!!!!]) across Western Eurasia and North Africa. This appointment calls for interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and teaching that bridges Classical and Environmental Studies."

CfP Dark Green Spiritualities and Ideas of the Nature Sacred in European societies since the 18th century, IEG Mainz, 25-27 April 2024. Deadline for abstracts 15 Oct 2023, tinyurl.com/2dzn8yuu 🦤

CFP via Matthew Edney on Mastodon: The Journal of Historical Geography editors invite you to submit a proposal for [...] the virtual special issue “Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea” guest edited by Federico Ferretti: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

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“If there is indeed a movement toward hiring purely with teaching classes in mind, that tendency would also explain the relative (and absolute) dearth of jobs for premodernists”

This assumption doesn’t fly w me. Our premodern classes (medieval world, Islamic civ, East Asian civ, Roman world) fill.

Seriously... - Lego Overboard - BBC Sounds Five million pieces of Lego are washed overboard. Meet the beachcombers looking for them.

This is a really good listen if you’re interested in contemporary archaeology, the Anthropocene or similar

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