📢 Deadline Extended! We’ve received requests for late submissions, so the deadline for the Critical Minerals Symposium has been extended until 31 August. Inspiring abstracts are already coming in from across the globe. Don’t miss the chance to add your voice to the conversation!

It has been a profoundly challenging experience, both emotionally and linguistically, to work on this extraordinary piece of carceral writing. I tried translating it into vernacular Cantonese but had to give up after a few pages. How malleable language can be when under the bend of lived experience!

⏱️TWO MORE WEEKS to submit your abstract to our critical minerals symposium!!!

📢 Call for Papers! Katie Donnelly and I are organising an interdisciplinary symposium on Critical Minerals. 🗓️ Deadline: 15 August 📍 University College Dublin @ 7 November 2025 Please share widely! #CFP #CriticalMinerals #EnvironmentalHumanities #ThresholdOfKnowledge #TransnationalisingHumanities

A real pleasure chairing the Minerals Roundtable series and engaging with the incredible research shared by our speakers - thank you so much for your contribution! If you missed it, the sessions are now available as a podcast - tune in and let us know what you think!

you guys @sarahcomyn.bsky.social has developed an absolutely incredible research center on extractive practices & cultural production the C19 British world system, a model for comprehensive sociopolitical and aesthetic analysis— if you haven't checked it out, do: imperialminerals.ie/about/

The coming Monday at 9 am!

I just finished this by @siobhanangus.bsky.social, please all read it so we can talk about it. It's insightful and thought provoking and hits many of my interests (material-led histories of media, science, exploration and extraction). Now mentally curating the exhibition of the book...

Our final online Minerals roundtable will explore extractivism and material histories on Monday 28 April, 9am (Dublin). Our fantastic line-up of speakers: Dr Madhavi Jha Dr Oliver Tappe Dr Nicholas Y. H. Wong Register here 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minerals-o...

Looking forward to meeting our speakers and hearing their research on extractivism and material histories! The last three roundtables in this series were incredibly insightful—if you missed them and are interested, the recordings of the first two are available now on the Minerals Project website!

I'm thrilled to say that to celebrate the launch of my new book, I'll be doing two events in the DC area later this month: Thurs, 4/24, 6 pm @ People's Book, Takoma Park / @peoplesbooktakoma.com Sun, 4/27, 3 pm (w/ novelist Rabih Alameddine). Politics & Prose, DC / @politicsprose.bsky.social 🌿

Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalisms by Finbarr Barry Flood and Beate Fricke is the Winner of the International Center of Medieval Art Book Prize! Learn more about this beautifully illustrated book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Job vacancy! We are looking for an Outreach Programme Manager (maternity cover). Email [email protected] for the full job description. Please share with your networks! jobs.guidantglobal.com/job/outreach...

🦌It‘s TODAY!!!

In two week’s time! Our third minerals roundtable on April 7 at 3 am Dublin time! Online!

So delighted to witness my senior colleagues deep investment in the principles of EDI. Ever grateful for the support and the kind words too. @nlireland.bsky.social

Today, we're delighted to introduce the next member of our Editorial team here at Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research: General Editor, Kirstin Mills, from Macquarie University Australia 📚 #INCSA

Please write to me on [email protected] to RSVP

A new CFP from the Victorian Institute: vi2025.wordpress.com

Join our online roundtable on April 7th and explore how literature, art, and more represent the stories of extraction with experts!!

Truly enjoyed the fabulous discussion, with a lot of take ways; excited to share that the podcast recording is now available!

DEADLINE EXTENDED to January 14th!! Call for Writing Support Programme 2025 – @esehnextgate.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/01/02/c... #envhist

First read of the new year is this excellent little volume, which uncovers the debates and arguments that accompanied the emergence of the word ‘Capitalism’. Wishing you all a year of good books and much reading.

So cool! This is near where I work in Antarctica. “Scientists estimate that [glass sponges] can live for more than 10,000 years, possibly 15,000 years maximum. One glass sponge observed by researchers in the Ross Sea, a bay of Antarctica, is thought to be the oldest living animal on the planet.”

Looking forward to our second Minerals Online Roundtable, 'Extraction and Racial Capitalism', happening this Thursday! 🤗

Hey #academicsky, there's a great opportunity for a visiting fellowship for someone from the Global South in Arts and Humanities, to spend time at Cambridge. Do pass on! www.cai.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/vi...

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This is full, so I have started a second starter pack for academics and organizations focused on the #19th century: see it here go.bsky.app/3W3Ykpe

📢Our Minerals Online Roundtable II: 'Extraction and Racial Capitalism' is happening on Nov 21, 3-4:10 pm (Dublin time)! Join us for a discussion with our brilliant speakers. Don't miss it! Please register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minerals-r...

Roundtable II in our 24/25 series will be on Thurs 21 November at 3pm (GMT): 'Extraction and Racial Capitalism' featuring: Dr Danielle Kinsey, Carleton University Dr Rebecca Macklin, University of Aberdeen Dr Nick McGee, Durham University Please register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minerals-r...

You can register for the roundtable here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minerals-o...

Amazing snapshot of a multiracial & polyglot extraction zone: petitions submitted to South African mining corporations by indentured laborers from China, c 1900-1910. What a fabulous project

imperialminerals.ie/2024/09/20/w... A blogpost by me about a recent research trip to South Africa’s archives where I consulted petitions by Chinese indentured labourers on the mines. Amazed by these writings. Many thanks to IRC for funding this trip and my superior Dr Sarah Comyn for her support.

I'm thrilled to share that Dr Jarrod Hore, from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, will deliver a seminar titled 'Earth Science from the Geological South', for our MINERALS project, at UCD and online, tomorrow (Jun 19) at 2 pm, Dublin time. imperialminerals.ie/events/earth...

Happy to announce that my book is available for pre-order! 📗🙌 If are interested in entering a conversation between the environmental humanities, border studies & Scottish literature; & if you believe literary forms matter - this may be for you! #BorderStudies #EnvHum #ScotLit @scotlit.bsky.social

Looking forward to our last Minerals seminar in our methodology on extraction series, ‘Photography and extraction: Ways of seeing/ways of knowing’, by Dr Siobhan Angus of media studies at Carleton University! Join us in person at UC Dunlin or online!

*Petitions and Petitioning from the Late Medieval Period to the Present* 🗃️ Book launch and conversation about the #PowerOfPetitioning, Thursday, May 23rd, 4pm, online! Register for free here: royalhistsoc.org/calendar/pet...

Fully funded PhD Studentship: Colonial Natural Historical Collecting in the South Asian Indian Ocean, University Museum of Zoology and University of Cambridge.

The fifth Minerals seminar on Methodologies concerning Extractivism will be given by Dr Adam Bridgen (Durham) on Wednesday 17 April at 4pm (Dublin). Join us in person or online: ‘Underworlds and undercurrents: Approaching extractive history from below’ imperialminerals.ie/events/under... #19thC

Finally recovered from Christmas? Then this may be the perfect time to read a wonderful new blog post by Minerals postdoc, Ge Tang, on the many Santas that populate the Australian goldfields according to Henry Lawson: imperialminerals.ie/2024/01/05/s...

Research highlight so far is this scrapbook giving me gold (😉)! Amazing #19thC newspaper clippings from the SA goldfields. Does anyone know anything about the game ‘Spoof’?!