yes we did! expect it to be published by Fall 2026 #envhist

We are very excited to announce a new #EnvHist award: the 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞! In honor of longtime contributor to the field and former ICEHO president Verena Winiwarter, this prize will serve to promote global environmental history articles. Read more here: www.iceho.org/prize

ESEH 2027, “Environmental History Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries,” will take place on 6–10 September in beautiful Salzburg, Austria! #ESEH2025 #ESEH2027 #envhist #envhum @mknoll.bsky.social

Gaia Giuliani’s Keynote “Monsters, catastrophes and the Anthropocene. For a postcolonial critique of violent bio- and necropolitics” #ESEH2025 Giuliani is not shying away from topics like Palestine and Ukraine. People left the room when she started talking about Palestine and showed this slide

This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace. It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate. They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.

Note that the “free speech on campus” people like Friedersdorf, Chait, Weiss, still blame this on “the excesses of woke.” Not a one - to my knowledge - has admitted they were actually wrong.

Birer birer eksileceğimizi sandınız ama biz milyon milyon büyüyoruz! Bu kadar kolay mı sanıyorsunuz? Bu şahsi bir mesele diye mi düşünüyorsunuz? Bu büyük bir milletin yürüyüşüdür. Elinizden geleni ardınıza koymayın. Artık korku duvarları yıkıldı.

Historical research shows how Leiden University and city council benefitted from colonialism www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Artist Murat German has been released from custody after giving his statement to the prosecutor. The arrest warrant for him appears to have been issued due to his support for economic boycotts organized by the political opposition. Source: bsky.app/profile/birg...

Gözaltına alınan fotoğraf sanatçısı ve mimar Murat Germen serbest kaldı

Murat Germen kent suçlarını kayıt altına alırken ona yer açan müze ve kültür kurumları bu hukuksuz gözaltına sessiz mi kalacak?

bu ne be! gemi azıya aldılar iyice

Üniversite öğrencilerinin akademik boykotuna destek verdiği için tutuklanan akademisyen Levent Dölek hakkında tahliye kararı verildi. Günün tek güzel haberi bu.

Alarming new anti-LGBT+ law planned in Turkey. Includes jail for people found guilty of “publicly encouraging, praising or inciting behaviour or attitudes contrary to biological sex... and general morality” President Erdogan today again vowed measures against what he calls "perverted movements"

Here's a little glimpse into what we read in my Urban History and Development Research Seminar, part of the graduation semester of BA Urban Studies. @leidenhumanities.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social

JOB 🚨 4-year Postdoctoral Researcher position in Ottoman History at the Amsterdam School for Historical Studies. The position is part of the “Daily Bread: A Comparative Urban History of Early Modern Food Protests” project ⤵️ werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Useful for Canada too, in this absurd moment. Faire du social: invest in universities, community health, research and development, reconciliation, creative arts and journalism. Welcome refugees.

Very excited to be listening to our dear Reşat Kasaba in The Hague www.iss.nl/en/events/em... #menasky #history

Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

論文　オスマン帝国末期イスタンブルのエネルギー経済 Tok, Alaaddin. “Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun Son Döneminde İstanbul’un Enerji Ekonomisi”. YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 6, Aralık (Aralık 2024): 31-50. otmn dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/yilli...

Are you an early modernist & working on the History of Ideas? There is an exciting 3-month new fellowship for an ECR who wants to do research in Amsterdam in 2026: thijssen-schoute.nl/fellowship/ It comes with a stipend of €2000 per month & a workplace at @huygensknaw.bsky.social Deadline: May 15th.

2024 daily temperatures compared to past years. A frightening graphic from the BBC. #ClimateEmergency

Global Western colonialism is so infused in media that this DealBook article frames Greenland as a “deal” to “approach.” Capitalism involves assessing and quantifying land while removing the people- Inuit are mentioned nowhere in these media articles. 1/

論文　上野雅由樹「イスタンブルを浄化する：ギリシア独立革命、人口調査、非ムスリム宗教権威」 Ueno, Masayuki. “Purifying Istanbul: The Greek Revolution, Population Surveillance, and Non-Muslim Religious Authorities in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2025. OA otmn doi.org/10.1017/S001...

#envhist #urbanhistory

For a 1st year method course in Urban Studies, I will assign some excerpts from Ray Williams' The Country and the City. Any recommendations for specific chaps? I'm considering the 1st (Country and City) and the last (Cities and Countries), but if you tried others that worked well, let me know pls!

A new year, and a new volume of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies! The online version is open access: dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/yilli... And the print version will soon be available, too.

I talked to Rashid Khalidi for the new issue of the New York Review of Books

‪■ Christmas Celebration of Christians in the Ottoman Empire. Christmas Procession in #Bethlehem the Place Where the Virgin Mary Gave Birth to Jesus (pbuh) (Palestine), 1900 #history #palestine #christmas

I wrote a review of Görkem Akgöz's impressive book, In de Shadow of War and Empire, for @urbanhistory.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Tomorrow!

Find out what happened to them and what kind of a historical imagination their destruction led to in this article: brill.com/view/journal...

Send us your paper proposals on James Baldwin's Istanbul! I'm happy to be a co-convener of this year's Keyman Modern Turkish Studies conference alongside İpek Kocaömer Yosmaoğlu. We're looking forward to a great conference in Istanbul with the support of Sabancı University.

Dear academics We could dramatically reduce our administrative workload if we all just agreed not to ask for reference letters until we made our list of finalists. This is massive collective action problem has already been solved by… *checks notes* …every other industry on earth.

Happening in a few hours!

Today, we and three of our journals are stopping activity on Twitter and making BlueSky our main home for short form social media. If you'd like to follow three great HSS journals with an environmental slant – as well as a few of our editors and partners! – try our starter pack: go.bsky.app/RFN2hTw

next week! #envhist #envhum #urbanhist #urbanstudies

#EnvHist job at the KTH in Stockholm!

The fourth edition of the Yavuz Sezer Memorial Lectures will take place in the ANAMED auditorium in Istanbul, with Elizabeth Key Fowden. So sorry to be missing it, but so happy that we continue to celebrate the life and work of Yavuz with such a successful series.

Apaçık Radyo mobil uygulaması da çıktı. Merhaba Canım kayıtları da mevcut efenim. apacikradyo.com.tr/mobil-uygulama

Erdoğan’a Filistin protestosu 📍TRT World Forum'daki konuşması sırasında Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan "Gemiler Gazze'ye bomba taşıyor" sözleriyle protesto edildi. bianet.org/haber/erdoga...

144 jobs to be lost at the Faculty of Humanities www.mareonline.nl/nieuws/144-b...

📣 2 PhD positions at Leiden - book- and/or art historians to join the NWO OC Research Project "Images on the Move. Early Modern Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks (1550-1700)" Deadline 8 December. #BookHistory #ArtHistory #EarlyModern #PhD www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

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