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!
New podcast! We talk to historian of science @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social about early 19th C. imperial science in the #Himalaya & the emergence of a 'vertically oriented view of the world' where altitude comes to define mountains #HistSci #EnvHist
shorturl.at/51fJe
@peterhhansen.bsky.social
New podcast! We talk to historian of science
@lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social about early 19th C. imperial science in the #Himalaya & the emergence of a 'vertically oriented view of the world' where altitude comes to define mountains #HistSci #EnvHist
shorturl.at/51fJe
@calmandfearless.bsky.social
New podcast! We talk to historian of science
@lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social about early 19th C. imperial science in the #Himalaya & the emergence of a 'vertically oriented view of the world' where altitude comes to define mountains #HistSci #EnvHist
shorturl.at/51fJe
@adambutterworth.bsky.social
Ah yes, I've seen these. Also very helpful in smoothing the transition from the 'other' platform to here!
Cheers Alisa! Dipping my toes back here finally - this is really helpful in terms of the pinned feed etc, many thanks!
The cover of Vol 1 of Climates and Cultures in History, featuring a painting of an inferno engulfing buildings and countryside.
Delighted to see that my review of David N. Livingstone's The Empire of Climate is now out in @whitehorsepress.bsky.social's exciting new journal Climates and Cultures in History: doi.org/10.3197/whpc...
📢Please join us for our next Monday Colloquium on June 17 ➡️ tinyurl.com/mvzkd5ab ! Our speaker is Rebekah Higgitt (National Museums Scotland) @rhiggitt.bsky.social, who will be presenting on “Using Digital Tools to Explore and Visualise the Colonial Histories of Scientific Instrument Collections.”
Finally out:
Formative Spaces of Empire: Masculinities and Outdoor Experiences c. 1860-1960
Special Issue 2024 for the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Co-edited with Tomás Bartoletti
Case Studies on India, Malaysia, Sumatra, Iran
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...
📢Please join us online today at 4:30 pm for our next Montagskolloquium! ➡️tinyurl.com/mvzkd5ab Lachlan Fleetwood (LMU/global dis:connect) will talk about "Imperial Geography, Climate Science and the Habitability of the Silk Roads." In his presentation he examines how Central Asia’s lost cities ...
It was a huge pleasure to coordinate the @carsoncenter.bsky.social Lunchtime Colloquium series with suggestions & help from so many. Open to the public - everyone is welcome! ✨
Join us for so many great speakers @wildpasts.bsky.social @dominikhhh.bsky.social @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social
📢 Please join our Montagskolloquium series in Spring! In this collaboration between the Deutsches Museum & @globaldiscnct.bsky.social Fabienne Will, Roland Wenzlhuemer, and I have organized a program at the intersection of Envirotech History, Global History, and Museum Studies ➡️ tinyurl.com/mvzkd5ab
We're organising a workshop!
🌍Defining and Using Aesthetics in the Environmental Humanities
📆 10-11 April, 2024
📍 Munich
🏁 Register by 28 Feb, 2024
If you can't make it in person, consider registering for the online keynote by Emily Brady!
defining-and-using-aesthetics-workshop.eventbrite.de
So unbelievably pleased to be able to review a book I've found totally inspiring and helpful as I begin to write my own. The third review is for my friend @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social's recent 'Science on the Roof of the World' with @bshsnews.bsky.social 🏔️ #envhist #envhum #histsci
CFP: Agriculture and the production of the Global South, 1900s-1960s.
Please send your proposal and CV by 22 December 2023.
You find more information and the entire call here: www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...
Reminder: just over a week left to get your abstracts in for this workshop!
CFP: "Climate Change, Empire and the Legacies of Environmental Determinism," LMU Munich, 18-19 March 2024
#histsci #histenv #histgeog #envhums
Two first episodes of the 'global dis:connect' podcast are out! With great contributions by Roland Wenzlhuemer and @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social on 19th-c. telegraphy and globalisation & imperial thinking on climate stability and the 'lost cities' of the Taklamakan: open.spotify.com/show/6SuroxN...