‘There is an undeniable symmetry between surges in drug use in the US and the country’s covert operations overseas. The wars in Indochina gave the US heroin epidemics; Latin America, a plague of powder and crack cocaine.’
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Some colleagues in my old department in Trondheim are recruiting a PhD candidate in Gender Studies and/or STS on the "Imagining Positive Energy Futures" project. 3 years, fully funded. Norway's a good place to do a PhD and Trondheim's a nice place to live!
This two-day workshop will explore several questions. How can environmental history complement or offer alternatives to existing historiographical narratives and periodisations in British history? What new actors, events, or phenomena might come to the fore? How should it foster engagements with places beyond its national borders or with other disciplines? Is environmental history different from longstanding traditions of ‘landscape’ or ‘urban’ histories of Britain? What contributions can historians make to environmental advocacy and policymaking? And how might a focus on the environment reshape teaching in British history? To take part, participants should submit a 300 word proposal for a short ‘position paper’ (approx. 2500 words) that will be pre-circulated at the workshop. These position papers will address the place of environmental approaches and themes within modern British history (1800 to the present) from the perspective of the participant’s own research. Participants will orally summarise their papers at the workshop. The event is free to attend and includes lunch and refreshments. Submissions are welcomed across a range of perspectives and topics, including but not limited to: energy, extraction, non-human actors, pollution, toxicity, rural and urban landscapes, everyday environmental histories (including how they are shaped by class, gender, and race), imperialism and decolonisation, ‘green’ policy, activism, and the political economy of the natural world. Please send proposals and a one-paragraph biography in a single PDF to andrew.seaton@manchester.ac.uk by 15 May 2026. Please also direct enquiries to this address. This event is organised by Dr. Max Long (Oxford) and Dr. Andrew Seaton (Manchester).
CALL FOR PAPERS - Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'.
A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May.
Details in poster below, please share.
Call for Contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather & Weathering teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c...
Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜
I write on the #EU #India deal and the ongoing geopolitical realignments in @theguardian.com today
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In this latest addition to the JHI Blog’s Forum on political economy, Arielle Xena Alterwaite turns to C.L.R. James’s classic reading of Moby-Dick to reflect not solely on the substance of intellectual history and political economy, but also on the various styles in which this history can be told.
In the final episode of our ‘Aftershock’ podcast, @danielsoar.bsky.social is joined by Patrick Cockburn, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social and @tomstevenson.bsky.social for a live discussion.
What is the legacy of America’s ‘forever wars’ in the Middle East? Listen here:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
It was a pleasure to review Reeju Ray's Placing the Frontier in British Northeast India: Law, Custom and Knowledge for Law and History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
= ensivormental history = HAS GROWN BROADER. MORE POROUS, MORE AMBITIOUS - AND, CRUCIALLY, = more willing to experiment with FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE THAT SIT BEYOND the archive. - sandra seart & marco armiero
“Environmental history has grown broader, more porous, more ambitious—and, crucially, more willing to experiment with forms of knowledge that sit beyond the archive.” - @wildpasts.bsky.social & Marco Armiero
Read more on our website: www.iceho.org/news/2025/12...
#envhist
new article by me out in jrai: ‘loose sediments’ rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9655.70016 where I trace the Chure Himalayas’ deep geological past and its infusion with the recent political, economic, and environmental history of riverbed mining in Tarai Nepal.
The fundamental problem of our age is that 20th c writers created all this brilliant dystopian science fiction and we read/watched it and understood it to be a warning for undesirable futures and the techbros saw it and thought “ooh humans could be turned into food!”
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
Assistant Prof job in history of science (related to water?) at Madison. Strong program, nice town (aside from winter)
jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456
Exactly a year ago, Ellen Wohl, @parriblue.bsky.social and I spent two days in Providence thinking about #rivers and how we conceptualize them & live with them. Here’s the result of history and fluvial geomorphology teaming up. #envhist
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
We're delighted to announce a new book, forthcoming in March: 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities', edited by Emily Brownell; now open for pre-orders. More information: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist #soil
How did socialist projects of making antibiotics and building atom bombs amount to the primitive accumulation of "scientific capital" in the People's Republic?
🗓️ Tuesday, November 11
🕥 10:30–11:45 am Eastern Time
📍 Over Zoom
Register: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histsci #sts 🧪
#ArticleSnapshot📸: Vera Keller's "Entangling Knowledge and Ignorance" examines Alain Corbin's Terra Incognita: A History of Ignorance in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2021).
Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...
Good, clear article that allows me to propose once again one of my fave mantras:
If you think mitigation politics is hard, you haven’t thought enough about the toxicity of adaptation politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Spread the word about this brand new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities with me and The Greenhouse crew in Norway.
For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!
*New Review Article*: After Coasts: Cartography,Desiccation, and Dwelling in Amphibious Worlds
#openaccess 1/6
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Always absolutely mind blowing how much of the deficit & national debt is framed around not wanting to incur costs for the future generations but our gerontocracy would rather incur trillions of climate debt than spend a nickel on cutting carbon.
Now listening to the 4th Annual Alchemy Lecture:
Sound—at the Interregnum.
First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science
listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy
The 2020 coastal land use map of Great Nicobar showed coral reefs hugging its shores. In the 2021 version, the reefs vanished from the coast and reappeared in the middle of the sea.
Experts told Vaishnavi Rathore they doubt the map’s authenticity.
scroll.in/article/1087...
Article in the Norwegian newspaper for higher education on AI and the Anthropic settlement includes some quotes from me.
One point I make is that it is unacceptable that universities are buying into AI tools even though the tools have been built so unethically.
www.khrono.no/akademikere-...
Hehehehe
I'll be hosting an online event on encountering extinction in the archives with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social as part of The National Archives' Research Routes series.
Come along to hear about researching animal histories in the archive!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/extinction...
Today we have "People, Stones, and Japanese Canadian Politics of Nature" by Jane Komori
This post highlights Komori's recent @radhistreview.bsky.social article.
niche-canada.org/2025/10/16/j...
#envhist #cdnhist #japanesecanadian #japanese #bchistory
Social scientists have been arguing for decades that race and gender cannot be viewed through the teleological lens of progress, and never in my lifetime has that been more clear and important to understand than now.
How did Korean firms like Hanjin carry containerization from Vietnam’s Cam Ranh & Qui Nhon to Busan, transforming ports & unsettling U.S. contractors like Lusteveco? 🚢
John DiMoia @ Harvard #STinAsia, Tue Oct 14, 10:30 ET
Zoom registration: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histtech 🧪
