Im Thementeil "reizende gerüche", hg. v. Benjamin Brendel, 5 Artikel zu kultureller & sozialer Konstruktion olfaktorischer Wahrnehmungen & damit verbundener Emotionen im histor. Wandel, v. Sarah-Maria Schober (@sms), William Tullett (@wrtullett), Julia Gebke, Christoph Lorke & Benjamin Brendel:
We also have EXTENDED THE DEADLINE to the ECR summer school focused on academic writing and publishing led by Antti Silvast & Heta Tarkkala as editors of the journal Science & Technology Studies New deadline is April 12th.
Looking forward to reading Dominic Boyer’s new book No More Fossils @UMinnPress. Somehow appropriate to have a Formica tabletop as the background for this snapshot
Might any of the #urbanstudies#envhum#anthropology#sts colleagues here know of any interesting critique or analysis of "nature-based solutions" and their growing prevalence in contemporary urban arenas worth reading? Thanks in advance!
Hey folks in #envhist and #envhum: I have a new article out: Check out "Canary in a Coal Mine: From Mine Safety Technique to Animal Metaphor" in Comparative American Studies. Inside you'll learn about the real birds miners used to detect poisonous gases, the transformation of this bird technology into a common metaphor, and the subsequent use of that metaphor in horror and science fiction films. Let me know if you'd like one of my 50 free "eprints." https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14775700.2023.2278374
Am Internationalen Tag gegen Luftverschmutzung verweisen wir auf unsere aktuelle #WerkstattGeschichte 87/2023 "reizende gerüche"; im Thementeil, hg. v. Benjamin Brendel, geht es im Kontext der Geschichte kultureller & sozialer Konstruktion olfaktorischer Wahrnehmungen u.a. auch um #Geruchsbelästigung durch #Luftverschmutzung:
My latest publication is open access now—an analysis of frontier mythos, masculinity, and hidden corporate landscapes in the TV show Gold Rush. You can find it in this great new volume “To the Last Drop” on sentimentality, culture, and extraction. Link to my article and the TOC are below. #envhist#envhum#mininghistory
Our faculty is offering six PhD positions, with a deadline of 1 Oct. This year applicants must express an interest in one of the faculty's research groups (listed on a linked page). My group is the Environmental Humanities Research Group, FYI. But there are lots of good ones listed.
This is a proper salaried position, with benefits and no non-thesis work or teaching required. Please boost and/or forward to interested folks.
Hi #histodons I'm sharing the calls for paper for two panels at major conferences that I'm involved with for next year, both on infrastructural history:
First, Modern Infrastructural Histories and the Global South, part of the World Congress of Environmental History (19-23 August 2024, Oulu, Finland). Call for Papers open now until 18 September https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/wceh2024/p/13472
Second, Borders, Infrastructures and Places in the Modern City, main session M11 at the European Association of Urban History conference (4-7 September 2024, Ostrava, Czechia). Call for Papers open now until 30 September https://eauh2024ostrava.osu.eu/main-session/
Please share as widely as possible! Happy to answer any questions
for any environmental, colonial, infrastructure history geeks out there: a junior researcher at my institute is defending their PhD on Dutch colonial infrastructure projects this tuesday upcoming, June 20, starting at 10.15 Oslo time.
the whole thing is open to the public and livestreamed, both the defense and the trial lecture, so you can all log in and follow if you're interested.
New #introduction! After many months of planning to do so, I finally moved instances to @historians.social. I'm a #histodon of the U.S. West and Midwest who does research on environmental history, food, energy, and popular culture. I'm working on a book about the portrayal of mining in popular culture (songs, TV, movies, video games, digital metaphors). I tend to post about laundry, dishes, and other mundane but important tasks. #envhist#envhum#histodons#mininghistory