In six months, it’ll be July—and we’re already dreaming of Rockaway Beach! ⛱️Take a break from the cold with this vintage postcard of the crowds at Jacob Riis Park, circa 1940. Who else is ready for summer?
#QPLarchives #RockawayBeachQueens #VintagePostcards
It's winter 🥶and there is a LOT going on right now...🫣 but still happy to announce a new MM publication on using water to keep cool in late 19C/early 20C London, New York and Paris 💦🥵
Join us and our NYC community partners for Heat Stories: Memory, Place and a Changing Climate, in conjunction with the Oral History MA Program at Columbia University.
Where: 56-27 2nd St Queens, NY
When: Thursday, Feb 26 from 6 pm to 8 pm EST
Free tickets here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/heat-stori...
📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities.
Apply by 30 Jan:
that is so many people, already
This Climate Week NYC, read about the work of our NYC team Kara Schlichting and Daniel Cumming on the Gotham Centre blog: www.gothamcenter.org/blog/melting...
[with brilliant photos from our Urban Archive collaboration]
NYers! Join Melting Metropolis team members Kara Schlichting and Danny Cumming at Second Sundays at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, this Sunday, 2-4pm
Full info here:
pioneerworks.org/programs/sec...
Who is in charge of tackling extreme heat in New York City? Read about @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social intern Selassie Mawuko's reseach on our blog:
www.meltingmetropolis.com/teamblog/nyc...
#nyc #climatechange #heatwave
ENRGHI conference poster on a watery background, says 'ENRGHI 2025, 7-8 October, University of Bristol; a two-day event showcasing health and wellbeing research by postgraduate and early career researchers, organised by the RGS-IBG Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group. Special strand 2025: blue bodies.'
ENRGHI 2025 is open for registration, and last chance to submit an abstract is 1 September.
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
7-8 October, University of Bristol: join a 30 year tradition of connecting PGR and ECR research across geographies of health and wellbeing.
@healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social
A 2 year postdoc research assistant job to work on the early institutional history of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, leading to the writing of a report to contribute to broader decolonising and reparative efforts. Around 40k, deadline 5 Sept 25.
app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
🗃️✨ Community Archiving Happy Hour returns on Thursday, Aug. 14, at 4pm ET ✨🗃️
5 September deadlines for 3 Royal Historical Society programmes: Martin Lynn Scholarship (PhD research) in African History (£1,500); Early Career Fellowships (up to £2,000) and Open Research Support (£500-1,000). #Skystorians
ECR 'Blue bodies' conference in Bristol, 7-8th October, @uobrisceh.bsky.social @dudleymarianna.bsky.social would love to see your students there! 🌊💦www.rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/e...
Climate change is creating more frequent & intense heatwaves.
🌡️ Poorly designed, insulated & ventilated properties trap heat, making them dangerous during the summer months.
🌡️ More than half of UK homes fail to meet the bedroom overheating criteria.
www.tcpa.org.uk/thermal-comf...
New Yorkers! Please share your photos and memories of summer with us via our Urban Archive digital map:
mm.urbanarchive.org/pr/mm
More info here:
www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-lif...
#nyc #summer #history
Children escape the heat of the East Side New York by using fire hydrant as a shower bath
Op-ed piece from team members Kara Schlichting and Selassie Mawuko:
Does NYC need a heat czar?
citylimits.org/opinion-its-...
TLDR: yes!
Essential reading in @citylimitsnews.bsky.social given the high the temperatures #NYC has experienced this summer
#heatwave
📷 LoC
At no point in this study did I use AI. This includes the literature review, logical organization, writing, analysis, and proofreading. I do not cite any studies that use AI, to the extent that it is possible to know.
Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language.
Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.
JOB: Lecturer in the Politics of Climate Change
This is a permanent post, based here in the School of Politics and International Studies at Leeds.
Application deadline 30 June, so please spread the word!
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
@polisatleeds.bsky.social
We have a ☀️NEW ☀️date for Stand of the Sun - Thursday 19 June 2025.
Still FREE, still at Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, TW1 3BL
Reserve tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...
Lots of Modern #UrbanHistory books available to review on everything from post-war architecture to atomic bombs.
Get in touch with Sam if you're interested 👇
FREE tickets are still available for Stand of the Sun: A solstice ritual for the melting metropolis, directed by Bryony Ella, with music from Bumi Thomas and choreography from Antoine Marc
8-9.45pm, 21 June 2025
Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, TW1 3BL
www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...
🎥 Open call: Films of Return by A La Luz invites film/video art on the climate crisis including ecological memory, justice & collective futures. Jurors include Climate Museum director Miranda Massie. Submit by June 15!
To learn more, visit: www.pointsofreturn.org/film
A livestream of the event ‘Temperatures Rising: Preparing and Protecting for Extreme Heat’ is taking place on 21 May 08.00 BST. Join Wellcome, The Rockefeller Foundation, the Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) and global leaders on the need to act on unprecedented and increasingly deadly extreme temperatures. Image shows a man silhouetted against the sun as he bathes on a hot summer day.
Increasing temperatures can seriously affect our health, wellbeing and work.
The good news? There are things we can do about it.
Tune in to our livestream at the World Health Assembly on 21 May to learn how we can prepare and protect against extreme heat: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4ff5ec...
A reminder of an upcoming webinar organised by ESEH UK & Ireland region on 'New Directions in Urban Climates of the Atlantic Archipelago'
May 20, 2025: 13:00 – 15:00 (GMT +1)
Presenters: @erikahanna.bsky.social @rebwright.bsky.social @chrisjpearson.bsky.social
Zoom link eseh.org/envhistoday-...
Photo of Antoine Marc and Bumi Thomas with Bryony Ella's artwork My Body is a Sundail
☀️Come to a FREE Melting Metropolis event at Orleans House Gallery on #Summer #Solstice 21 June 2025: Stand of the Sun ☀️
Art, music and dance, with Bryony Ella, Bumi Thomas and Antoine Marc
Booking essential:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...
#climatecrisis #londonart
Historians, please sign!
Drawing by Elly Bazigos depicting the Melting Metropolis Communtiy Story-Telling Partnership in London and New York
We’re seeking a documentary filmmaker to join our Community Storytelling Partnership. Co-create with six community partner organisations and four storytellers across London and New York.
Deadline: 25/04/25
drive.google.com/file/d/1Ava6...
#FilmmakerCall #ClimateJustice #DocumentaryFilmmaker
eseh.org/call-for-sub... reminder to send your submissions for the @eseh.bsky.social Bristol-Bern Prize in Public History by 1 May!
A new Melting Metropolis opportunity!
Work with @chloeduteil.bsky.social on a graphic novel/BD on summer heat in Paris 👇
This was a brilliant conference (no idea what I'm doing in the photo tho!). @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social
