Call for Papers:
"Technologies of Making and Knowing"
Hosted jointly at Getty, LACMA, and UCLA
Los Angeles, California, March 4 - 6, 2027
www.historiansofislamicart.org/events-and-s...
Fellowships 2027/28 at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect (LMU Munich)
6–10 month fellowships for postdocs & senior scholars working on globalisation & dis:connections.
📅 Deadline: 26 July 2026
👉 www.globaldisconnect.org
Please share with interested colleagues!
On Monday, I will be at Panteion University in Athens 🇬🇷 to present the DANFront project 👇
We have a new article published in @g-ehr.bsky.social about Zionist colonization and sand mining in Palestine's coastal strip - by Dotan Halevy
g-ehr.com/peer-reviewe...
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
“Between the 1920s and Israel’s 1964 ban on coastal extraction, more than 10 million cubic meters of marine sand were removed along the 240‑kilometer coastline of Mandate Palestine and later Israel […]”
g-ehr.com/peer-reviewe...
We have a new article published in @g-ehr.bsky.social about Zionist colonization and sand mining in Palestine's coastal strip - by Dotan Halevy
g-ehr.com/peer-reviewe...
Leiden University Press has a fantastic series on Middle Eastern environmental history, and I am
part of the editorial board. You might consider submitting your manuscript or dissertation there 👇🏿
My old university NTNU in Trondheim is finally! recruiting a fully tenured associate professor in modern environmental history. This is a great opportunity for the right person. #envhist
This second edition is essential reading - for everyone. If there’s one book I’d recommend in environmental history, it might be this.
With an introduction by @brdemuth.bsky.social! #EnvHist
This is why Russia is still fighting, why the war continues and why people are dying: Because Trump and Vance encouraged Putin to believe he could win
Apart from everything else, the election results in Hungary are great news for science as well. I hope - with structural changes in place - all Hungarian scientists will again have access to EU research funding and cooperation!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Call for Proposals- Are Rivers Heritage?
A NiCHE Series
Abstract deadline: May 1, 2026
Edited by @ramya.bsky.social
NiCHE invites submissions for a blog series asking if rivers can be heritage and if so, what kind of heritage.
niche-canada.org/2026/04/08/c...
#rivers #envhist #envhum #heritage
New #OpenAccess educational resource: "Teaching Animal Mobilities: (How to) Move Animals into Your Classroom" 🐛🪼 🐘
Modules include historical sources, discussion questions, assignment ideas, and readings to explore key themes in animal mobility.
🔗 animalmobilities.org
#HistSci #AnimalMobilities
🚨And another #History Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in the History of Iberian Empires.
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Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
And do not hesitate to spread the word...
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warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...
🚨#History Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in the History of Capitalism.
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Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
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warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...
Please apply for our position, exciting professorship in development economics, ends on 22.4. 2026 @univie.ac.at
OFFICIAL from @noaa.gov today: March blew the cover off the record books here in the U.S.
❗️Average temperature: 9.4° ABOVE the 20th century normal
❗️First time ANY month exceeded 9°F above average
❗️This was the ALL-TIME WARMEST March in the 132-year record
A quick 🧵
Marco Armiero's ERC project welcomes PhD candidates and Postdocs! A PDF in English is available at the bottom of the page. The project is called "CATCH: The Catholic Church and the Environment"
#envhist #envhum
#Skystorians, Job Alert! 🥳
Am @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social sind 5 unbefristete (!) Stellen zum Aufbau unserer neuen Abteilung "Zeitgeschichte Transfer" zu besetzen. 4 Stellen in München, 1 Stelle in Berlin. Ihr wollt unser Team verstärken? Bewirbt euch, wir freuen uns! 😊
Start: 1. Januar 2027
Deadline has been extended to 7 May!
TEACHING POST-DOC: History, Cornell
2 years
"Preferred area of research is pre-1800 History with an emphasis either on religions or on climate and environment, but we will consider outstanding applicants in all areas of History."
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
If you’re in Istanbul, come join us!
I’ll be giving the keynote lecture, “Between Mobility and Control: Migration, State Power, and Individual Agency in the Late Ottoman Empire,” on Monday. @thebiaankara.bsky.social @aytekalpan.bsky.social @petercherry.bsky.social
Very happy to announce the Call for Papers – Forecasting the Weather between Divination & Science (Antiquity to the Present)
Submission deadline: 31 May 2026. Feel free to share.
Die Animalisierung des Gegners legitimiert Gewalt und Herrschaft, ein bekanntes Muster aus der Kolonialzeit 👇
CfP: Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500–2026 (Lucerne, Oct 8–10, 2026)🚨🗃️
We’re organizing an interdisciplinary conference on global histories, cultures, and legacies of hair.
Researchers from all relevant fields and early-career scholars are encouraged to apply. All costs are covered.
📆 May 15, 2026
The latest issue of Environment and History (32.2) is out now! Subscribers can read here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/32... 🗃️ #envhist
Call for Applications!
The Centre for Lebanese Studies invites PhD students to a two day PHD Retreat in Cambridge
For more info:
lebanesestudies.com/events/two-day-phd-retre...
A picture of the devastated city of Napier in the wake of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.
🚨 CFP: Disastrous Pasts And Sustainable Futures. Urban disasters and resilience in historical and social scientific perspectives.
🗓️ 29-30 June 2026
An interdisciplinary and international conference organised at the University of Warwick
For more details, see warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
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