That's it. I've checked the very last proofs of the book and it's now off to the printers. I hope it will reach Hobsbawm fans, Hobsbawm sceptics, and anyone curious about the intellectual life of the left in the 20th century!
Publication: 18 Aug (US), 4 Sept (UK)
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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
I am teaching exactly this class with a group of master's students, with a 2-page syllabus, and it's been an absolute blast so far, at times even moving.
What if we just went back to reading a bunch of books and thinking about them together, and that was the class? With syllabi no longer than three pages.
being able to sit patiently with other people's thoughts, sit patiently with your own, and make both of those processes legible to someone who is not you is very valuable. if you can find a new way to do this that is fantastic news but I suspect it will at least resemble the model we've inherited
JOB: Full Professor Political History of contemporary (post-1945) Europe, SciencesPo, France.
They are open to people working on environmental politics.
Application deadline 13 April 2026.
www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fil...
#envhist
full text available as PDF here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/files/recrutement/262162_Fiches%20de%20poste-FR_EN_FINAL_Histoire-de-Europe-depuis-1945-2.pdf
Full text available as PDF here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/files/recrutement/262162_Fiches%20de%20poste-FR_EN_FINAL_Histoire-de-Europe-depuis-1945-2.pdf
Full text available as PDF here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/files/recrutement/262162_Fiches%20de%20poste-FR_EN_FINAL_Histoire-de-Europe-depuis-1945-2.pdf
The Center for History @ Sciences Po is recruiting a full professor specializing in the political history of Europe after 1945. This position is open to a mid-career researcher w/ habilitation or equivalent qualifications. Please see below for more & share widely!
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Sweet gig!
full text available as PDF here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/files/recrutement/262162_Fiches%20de%20poste-FR_EN_FINAL_Histoire-de-Europe-depuis-1945-2.pdf
Full text available as PDF here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/files/recrutement/262162_Fiches%20de%20poste-FR_EN_FINAL_Histoire-de-Europe-depuis-1945-2.pdf
Full text available as PDF here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/files/recrutement/262162_Fiches%20de%20poste-FR_EN_FINAL_Histoire-de-Europe-depuis-1945-2.pdf
The Center for History @ Sciences Po is recruiting a full professor specializing in the political history of Europe after 1945. This position is open to a mid-career researcher w/ habilitation or equivalent qualifications. Please see below for more & share widely!
www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fil...
“A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge” is so egregiously wrong that I don’t know what to say.
Chatbots have been trained on corpus of digital(ised) text - ABSOLUTELY NOT the sum of all human knowledge. Paper, experience, embodiment, oral tales all missing.
These people are fools!
Et voilà ! Merci @sklafon1.eurosky.social pour l'info !
Without considering the sources of claims, efforts at epistemic vigilance become play-acting. With LLMs, we don't know the sources.
Excellent thread from @mjcrockett.bsky.social
Watch it on a large screen if you can! The visuals are just incredible, but their power might be lost on small screens.
A shot from the movie showing the two main characters sitting and smoking, very stylishly dressed, with tall yellow grass in the background
Yesterday, I watched TOUKI BOUKI, a 1973 movie by pioneering Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty.
Easily one of the very best movies I have ever watched: outstanding story, shots, acting, editing...and a good movie to pair with F.Cooper's recent piece on "decolonization."
Title page of book proofs, Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution
#TransformingNight 🌌💡🌃 🤩
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice
#envhist #envhum #envjustice #histtech #histsci #sts #Anthropocene
It is so important to keep hammering in this point. People always ask me why I would have to go visit archives - why not just look at a scan? Because they haven’t been scanned! And they are never going to be! There are millions & millions of pieces of paper in every archive.
Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized.
And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.
Which is why I am astonished that no one has proposed a version of the Universal Basic Income idea as the only logical conclusion of the AI-boosters' model of society. Do you really want to replace all our jobs with your AI? Then we'll have to take your money.
A leading historian of decolonization, Fred Cooper, on the uses and pitfalls of the inflationary invocation of decolonization.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
After seeing the same clip of Farag* for the third time in my feed today, I need to say this:
If you repost the outrageous take of (any) fascist politician, you ARE amplifying their message, regardless of how smart or witty your takedown is. If you don't like fascists, don't broadcast fascists.
Dear friends,
We at the Center for European Studies @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social are opening a position of Assistant Professor in political science, with a focus on climate transition policies.
Please apply if you're super good (and not afraid to work with me ;).
www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
Applications are invited for a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at our Centre in Paris, starting on 1 Sept 2026. The post is in connection with the research programme on economic & environmental history. Application deadline 19 Feb 2026. Click below for further particulars & how to apply.
I don't see it anywhere in the thread, so I'd add Frank Zelko's Make it a Green Peace!
📢 We are hiring! Tenure-track position in environmental history with a focus on long-term socio-ecological research. Exciting opportunity for post-docs working at the interface of environmental history & sustainability sciences. Deadline Jan 6, please spread far and wide! boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
Félicitations! Au plaisir d'en discuter le mois prochain au CHSP @sciencespo.bsky.social
On the international dimension specifically, Nicolas Delalande's Struggle and Mutual Aid: otherpress.com/product/stru...
Several great suggestions in the thread, to which I'd definitely add A.Horowitz's outstanding book Katrina. For a case coeval to the 1906 disaster but outside the US, I humbly suggest considering the 1st part of my book, Fault Lines, on the 1908 Messina earthquake. Happy to send a PDF if interested.
