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New event!
📆21st April
🕛12:15pm CET

The University of Zurich hold screening of "Thabyay - Creative Resistance in Myanmar" & discussion w/ @gbutensky.bsky.social, Thet Swe Win & @sabrinahartoto.bsky.social as mod

Details:
www.ema.uzh.ch/en/register/...

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History of the Pindus Molly Greene talks about her research on the history of the Pindus mountains in Ottoman Greece.

New podcast! Molly Greene from Princeton University talks about her research on the mountain regions of northern Greece in the Ottoman period.

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mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/04/18/h...

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"Beatrix Potter wasn't one single thing. The fluffy bunnies are a very small component of what she did."

To celebrate #WorldHeritageDay, we caught up with Dr Penny Bradshaw on her newest book and exhibition at the Armitt Museum on Beatrix Potter. Read the blog: https://ow.ly/fNEm50YKQYP

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Review — The Treatise on Elves by Ólafur of Purkey That took a lot. Due to our lovely tariffs (on which I’ve ranted here and here), the post office in Finland no longer ships parcels to the…

I overcome tariff nonsense to review a newly discovered 19th century Icelandic treatise on elves! medium.com/@danharms_29...

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1/7. We Americans have a hard time seeing ourselves in the world, and so even when we want to criticize our fascist oligarchs we fail to see the international networks of which they are nodes.

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Haiku can be a uniquely powerful tool to bear witness to the often-invisible dimensions of loss and healing for people experiencing disasters. For Research Counts, Ibrahim Nureni proposes the "haiku-eye"—an inspiring new research perspective and observational method: bit.ly/4sGhTnX

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Concubines in Public Cambridge Core - East Asian History - Concubines in Public

New book alert from a stellar gender historian - we had the privilege to hear Shi Xia give a talk on the last chapter last June in Paris and her analysis of the politics of exclusion at stake in 1920s Chinese feminism was just ✨💫

www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

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Visiting Chinese vice-premier calls Tibet mega dam safe and top priority, but fails to allay major concerns - Tibetan Review (TibetanReview.net, Apr14’26) –Can the world’s largest dam be designed and built to withstand a catastrophic earthquake of the kind the Himalayan region is all too familiar with, including the one whi...

Doubts persist over the dam’s ability to withstand Himalayan #earthquakes or avoid reservoir‑induced seismicity, concerns that linger despite Vice‑Premier Zhang Guoqing reaffirming #China’s commitment during his #Tibet visit.
www.tibetanreview.net/visiting-chi...

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Call for Papers - Mountains, Danger, and Endangerment Danger and endangerment have long been central to the experiences, knowledges, and governance of mountain environments.

CFP Mountains, Danger, and Endangerment
12-13 November 2026
Geneva (Switzerland)
Proposal Deadline: 30 April 2026
niche-canada.org/2026/03/30/c...

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'It’s big. It’s old. It’s going to outlast us, no matter how much of the world we reduce to dollars and dust.'

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Declassified files expose RCMP's secret surveillance of Indigenous people
Declassified files expose RCMP's secret surveillance of Indigenous people YouTube video by CBC Indigenous

Declassified files expose RCMP's secret surveillance of Indigenous people

"Newly declassified documents obtained by CBC Indigenous confirm that the RCMP infiltrated and sought to disrupt legitimate political Indigenous organizations in the 1970s..."

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Magical Nominalism A bold and wide-ranging study across centuries, examining the conflict between “conventional” and “magical” nominalism in philosophy, history, aesthetics, political theory, and photography. In this ma...

Martin Jay, Magical Nominalism: The Historical Event, Aesthetic Reechantment, and the Photograph - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, January 2025
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Four portraits of Minnesota residents inside and outside their homes. From left to right: A woman in a hijab, an older woman wearing a red whistle, an elderly couple in winter coats standing in the snow, and a woman wearing a buttoned-up cardigan and dark blue jeans.

Four portraits of Minnesota residents inside and outside their homes. From left to right: A woman in a hijab, an older woman wearing a red whistle, an elderly couple in winter coats standing in the snow, and a woman wearing a buttoned-up cardigan and dark blue jeans.

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis.

My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives?

So I picked up my camera 👇

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This is a fantastic watch.

What really came across for me was the connection mountain communities have to their landscape and how they bring that to the way they interact with history.

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Our friends in The Confluence Collective have made a short film of our Kalimpong exhibition.

बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” Kalimpong, India 21-27 February 2026

shorturl.at/6IbjP

#Himalaya #OtherEverests #Archives #Indigenous #Mountaineering

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Our friends in The Confluence Collective have made a short film of our Kalimpong exhibition.

बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” Kalimpong, India 21-27 February 2026

shorturl.at/6IbjP

#Himalaya #OtherEverests #Archives #Indigenous #Mountaineering

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Our friends in The Confluence Collective have made a short film of our Kalimpong exhibition.

बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” Kalimpong, India 21-27 February 2026

shorturl.at/6IbjP

#Himalaya #OtherEverests #Archives #Indigenous #Mountaineering

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Our friends in The Confluence Collective have made a short film of our Kalimpong exhibition.

बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” Kalimpong, India 21-27 February 2026

shorturl.at/6IbjP

#Himalaya #OtherEverests #Archives #Indigenous #Mountaineering

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Our friends in The Confluence Collective have made a short film of our Kalimpong exhibition.

बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” Kalimpong, India 21-27 February 2026

shorturl.at/6IbjP

#Himalaya #OtherEverests #Archives #Indigenous #Mountaineering #History

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Our friends in The Confluence Collective have made a short film of our Kalimpong exhibition.

बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” Kalimpong, India 21-27 February 2026

shorturl.at/6IbjP

#Himalaya #OtherEverests #Archives #Indigenous

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Our friends in The Confluence Collective have made a short film of our Kalimpong exhibition.

बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” Kalimpong, India 21-27 February 2026

shorturl.at/6IbjP

#Himalaya #Archives #Indigenous #OtherEverests

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Our friends in The Confluence Collective have made a short film of our Kalimpong exhibition.

बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” Kalimpong, India 21-27 February 2026

shorturl.at/6IbjP

#Himalaya #Archives #Indigenous #Mountaineering #OtherEverests #HistGeog

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Our friends in The Confluence Collective have made a short film of our Kalimpong exhibition.

बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” Kalimpong, India 21-27 February 2026

shorturl.at/6IbjP

#Himalaya #OtherEverests #Archives #IndigenousWork

Funded by @ukri.org @christophersmith.bsky.social

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somewhere nowhere with Harriet and Rob Fraser Podcast Episode · Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures · 25 March · 1hr 3min

Inspiring conversation with Fraser and Fraser Check it out podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m.... @futuremountain.bsky.social @jonwestaway.bsky.social

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2026 Mossman Lecture by Sujit Sivasundaram, Professor of World History at the University of Cambridge. Title: The Human Being and Knowledge of Nature in the Indian Ocean Arena (hybrid). Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 5:30pm - 6:45pm. At McGill University, Montreal.

2026 Mossman Lecture by Sujit Sivasundaram, Professor of World History at the University of Cambridge. Title: The Human Being and Knowledge of Nature in the Indian Ocean Arena (hybrid). Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 5:30pm - 6:45pm. At McGill University, Montreal.

📢 Register for 2026 Mossman Lecture given by Sujit Sivasundaram, Professor of World History @cam.ac.uk and Fellow @caiuscollege.bsky.social

🔎The Human Being and Knowledge of Nature in the Indian Ocean Arena
📅31 March
⏲️5:30-6:45pm (EDT)

🏢 @mcgill.ca & online

🔗 libraryrooms.mcgill.ca/event/3998357

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Fellow Athenians

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Our friends in The Confluence Collective have made a short film of our Kalimpong exhibition.

बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” Kalimpong, India 21-27 February 2026

shorturl.at/6IbjP

#Himalaya #Archives #IndigenousWork #Mountaineering #OtherEverests

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Our friends in The Confluence Collective have made a short film of our Kalimpong exhibition.

बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” Kalimpong, India 21-27 February 2026

shorturl.at/6IbjP

#Himalaya #Archives #IndigenousWork #Mountaineering #OtherEverests

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Our friends in The Confluence Collective have made a short film of our Kalimpong exhibition.

बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” Kalimpong, India 21-27 February 2026

shorturl.at/6IbjP

#Himalaya #Archives #IndigenousWork #Mountaineering #OtherEverests

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