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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 6h

Apply now for a free week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities organized by the Greenhouse and the project Energy Lives! project run by @melinabuns.bsky.social

Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025

www.uis.no/en/research/...

#envhum #envhist #energy

Apply for PhD Course on Energy Humanities

5 ECTS PhD course ‘Themes within Environmental Humanities’ to be held in Stavanger, 1-5 December 2025. This year’s thematic focus is the developing field of the Energy Humanities.

www.uis.no

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11h

'In a time of ecological crisis and economic inequality, the authors argue that closing off inquiry into alternatives to GDP growth is not just anti-scientific but dangerously regressive.'

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 2d

In a day in which those who perpetrated a genocide and those who were complicit gather to pat themselves on the back as peacemakers, I recommend two books.

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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 4d

We are hiring! Prospective PhD students in environmental history, history of science, history of technology and STS interested in the climate and environmental impacts of AI look here. Please share in your networks. #envhist #histsci #AI #anthropcoene

Center for Anthropocene History @anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 7d

Open PhD position at KTH: "AI Planetary Futures: Climate and environment in Silicon Valley's AI paradigm". Apply by Oct 23! lnkd.in/dCs8eZjb

The project analyzes the climate and environmental aspects of Silicon Valley-based general-purpose AI systems developed by Big Tech companies.

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 5d

Quarry Farm Symposium, my favorite event on our annual calendar, kicks off tonight with a discussion of everyday ecofascism with @aprilanson.bsky.social & Alexander Menrisky.

This year’s theme is Energy Studies, co-organized with @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social.

marktwainstudies.com/2025-quarry-...

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John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 13d

The deadline for submissions to the next Northeast Victorian Studies Association conference is just two weeks away! Just because the theme is “Silences”doesn’t mean you should let this CFP pass by you in silence—go ahead and submit!

northeastvictorianstudies.wordpress.com

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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · 13d

The deadline for Curran Fellowships is fast approaching: Oct 15 (letters due a week later). Who doesn't want money for travel & research? So much exciting work to do on British/empire periodicals of the long 19th c!

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Aug 16

📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website!
rs4vp.org/awards/curra...

The Curran Fellowships – RSVP

The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...

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Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social · 15d

Deadline today!

Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social · Jul 2

📢CFP -- "Mediating Medicine: Health and Illness in the Victorian Age", 5 December 2025, Online Workshop

Send us your proposals for 15min papers or 5min flashlight talks by 30 Sept!⚕️💉👨‍⚕️🚑📖📰

PGR, ERC & NeoVictorian contributions very welcome 🫶

#MedHum #19Century #Victorian

shorturl.at/ePhU5

Mediating Medicine CfP_final.pdf

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Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social · 16d

Our series of essays and commentary relating to the ongoing genocide in Palestine is free to read, share and download until tomorrow, 30 September 2025. @jich.bsky.social #FreeAccess

Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social · Aug 3

Our series of essays and commentary relating to the ongoing genocide in Gaza is free to read, share and download until the end of September 2025. #OpenAccess @jich.bsky.social

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● Raz Segal, "Settler Colonial Genocide" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)

Israeli Settler Colonial Genocide

The article examines the combined violence of settler colonialism in Israel and the US in two parts. The first part discusses the Jewish supremacism at the heart of Israeli settler colonialism, foc...

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 16d

Do you want to be a part of our mass digitisation project, and potentially have your research shared more widely?

As we wrap up on this momentous project, we’re keen to showcase how Kew’s data is being used in research across the globe 🌍

Could you help us tell this story? ✨

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Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social · 27d

Friendly reminder that you can still send us your proposals! 📝🩺

The workshop is free and open to all 🙌

Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social · Jul 2

📢CFP -- "Mediating Medicine: Health and Illness in the Victorian Age", 5 December 2025, Online Workshop

Send us your proposals for 15min papers or 5min flashlight talks by 30 Sept!⚕️💉👨‍⚕️🚑📖📰

PGR, ERC & NeoVictorian contributions very welcome 🫶

#MedHum #19Century #Victorian

shorturl.at/ePhU5

Mediating Medicine CfP_final.pdf

cloud.uni-konstanz - creative.together

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Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · Sep 11

A reminder that if you’re in the UK, you can directly support Palestinian farmers and manufacturers by buying @zaytouncic.bsky.social Fairtrade/fairly traded olive oil, freekeh, almonds, maftoul, soap, za’atar, dates - from most Oxfam shops or the Zaytoun website: zaytoun.uk/products/

Products - Zaytoun

zaytoun.uk

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 28d

Action against the slave trade from 1807 enabled British colonisation, but Jane Lydon shows here how achieving the abolition of slavery in 1833 and expanding territory through conquest were also interrelated, not separate, processes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Forced Free Labour’: Connecting the Abolition of Slavery and Settler Colonisation in the Thought of Henry George Grey

This article investigates the connections between emancipation in Britain’s slave colonies and settler colonisation through the policies of Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (styled Viscount Howick ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · Sep 15

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate:

www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

Stuart Hall Essay Prize reopens to submissions - Stuart Hall Foundation

The second Stuart Hall Essay Prize is reopening to submissions. The new submission window is open from now until Monday 3 November. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, ...

www.stuarthallfoundation.org

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · Sep 12

Hey you. Wanna apply for a fellowship on collections? the AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural & heritage institutions are open!

The Natural History Museum priorities are below.

If you wanna talk birds, hit me up. Collectors, colonialism, Canada, Australia & more

www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · Sep 11

Small mining companies with African operations will often have on their boards former European government ministers, retired senior military figures and businessmen whose personal wealth is not dissimiliar to the GDP of the country they are investing in.

Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · Sep 11

It is difficult to reconcile the apparent lack of importance of African mining to the global economy with the fact that some of the world's most powerful and well-connected people regularly get involved in mining deals in Africa.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Sep 9

I know people are already teaching these episodes, as I can see the backlinks from LMS. To assist such efforts, as I did with the HBCU arc from earlier in the season, I've created a landing page for the "Technofeudal Trilogy" with accessible readings by @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social & many others.

What is Technofeudalism?

A landing page for teachers, students, and scholars.

theamericanvandal.substack.com

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · Sep 9

JOB: One-year postdoctoral research fellowships at The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry on 2026-27 theme of “habitat”, Emory University (USA).
Appropriate for #envhist & #envhum scholars!

networks.h-net.org/jobs/69069/e...

Emory University - Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-2027: Habitat | H-Net

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · Sep 8

RALLY TO SAVE MEANJIN

Thursday 11 Sep 9am
Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton.

A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution

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Sarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social · Sep 8

In this episode, Megan and I speak to the Irish artist Luke Casserly about his performance piece 'Distillation', growing up in the Irish midlands, and how to start important conversations about the climate crisis. It was an absolute joy to learn from Luke. Enjoy! soundcloud.com/ucd-humaniti...

Extracts - Episode 1. Luke Casserly

Luke Casserly is a multidisciplinary performance maker from Longford, Ireland. His work weaves together ecological research, autobiography, sound art, and site as a way of carving out space for new p

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Sarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social · Sep 8

As part of the Extractivist Landscapes project, Megan Kuster and I interviewed artists from around the world to learn how they are working to reimagine the potential futures of mined, excavated, and extractivist landscapes. And today is launch day of our first episode!

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Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · Aug 28

Sorry to miss you, but hopefully there will be opportunities to connect in the future!

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Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · Aug 28

Please do!

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