If of interest to anyone, I've shared (possibly temporarily) a talk I made for a Bronte course on adapting Wuthering Heights. It's based on an earlier talk I gave called 'Adapting Heathcliff; or The Gothic has an Anti-Romani racism problem.' youtu.be/gfxLTB2IBvo?...

Please join the @asleuki.bsky.social online seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature & Environment. Thur 29 Jan, 15:00-19:00 GMT. With me, Eric Gidal, James Metcalf, Nicolle Jordan, Alessio Mattana, Annette Hulbert, Jodie Matthews, & @tobiasmenely.bsky.social. Register at asle.org.uk/events/semin...

Our editor Philip Gooding chose “Violence of Melt: Visual Infrastructures and Erasure in the Arctic" by Audrey Medaino-Tardif as an Editor's Pick! niche-canada.org/2025/10/27/v... #envhist #envhum #arctic #glaciers #climatechange

It's great to see so many signing up for the @asleuki.bsky.social Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, on 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT, but there's still room for more! Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...

📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications! We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections. Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... 📆Closing date: 5 January 2026 #UofGLibraryFellows

If any of you want to analyse the new Frankenstein film, let us know!!! It would work great in the Romanticism Now/Romantic Reimaginings blog series or on the TikTok 👀 (And of course any other ideas you have! But I've just finished watching Frankenstein lol)

Deadline extended to 16 November! @asle-us.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @advancesjournal.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social @bacls.bsky.social

Call for Contributors: Volcanic Materiality: Cultural Phenomena in the Age of the Anthropocene, edited by Dewey H. Hall. Abstracts of 2-300 words due by 30th November 2025. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6205

This #GreenLibrariesWeek, explore our range of titles on nature, environment and sustainability across art, colonial history, economics, politics and more in the UK and across the world: tinyurl.com/environment-list #nature #environment #sustainability

Reminder: CfP closes for BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham, UK, and online on 30 November. Details below: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...

Reminder that I am chairing an online event tomorrow night on 'Volcanic Romanticism'. Featuring talks by @katlion.bsky.social, @womanofclouds.bsky.social, Dilara Kalkan, and Chloe Melvin. You can register for free at the link below. @bars.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/bars-digit...

CfP: Tourism, Memory and Heritage Conference (2026), Amsterdam and Wageningen, The Netherlands. Full details: lnkd.in/ebPHRqgM

CFP: 'Poetry's Environments', University of Leeds, June 2026. About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied. Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December. conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...

excited to share the call for the workshop EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025, 
made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social deadline: 10 September! full call below ⤵ #envhist #envhum

@gigitang.bsky.social and Katie Donnelly from the Minerals team are organising this fantastic symposium on Critical Minerals @ucdhumanities.bsky.social in November. Find the CFP here with a deadline of 31 August: imperialminerals.ie/events/criti...

⛈️New in Geo!⛈️ 'The window of opportunity: Linking climate history and storms' by A. Jardine, K.A. Selby & @davidhiggins.bsky.social This paper uses the Royal Charter storm of 1859 to explore the implementation of long-term risk reduction measures following disasters. doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Southern Europe swelters under deadly heatwave as temperatures pass 40C #Climate

We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year. The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)

New Arcadia article by Andrea Csendom! Learn about how the 1783 Mount Asama eruption and the Tenmei Famine were reimagined through humor in early modern Japanese satire. #envhist #ecocrit #envhum

A MASSIVE WIN AT NEWCASTLE UNI ICU

There's no doubt that editors for academic publishing need more help and support to keep things going. But my god, this isn't it. I've published in a number of OUP outlets. This would force me to reconsider. I suspect other #SkyStorians will, too.

Free online course from the University of Leeds, please re-post: www.futurelearn.com/courses/clim...

*CfP: “Planetary Waters - A Challenge Between Abstraction and Empathy”* An exciting conference organised by three wonderful scholars this autumn - do check it out! 📆22-24 October, 2025 📍Bremerhaven, GER 🔜Paper submissions due 15 June, 2025

The Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre is holding a small conference to mark our twentieth anniversary. It's on the 26 and 27 June, and Linda Colley will be there (as will brilliant Birmingham colleagues like Karen Harvey, Kate Smith, and Hiroki Shin). Join us! blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2025/05/...

Applications are now open for the BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship - up to £4000 to research the culture, history, and identity of the North East of England and the Scottish Borders in the long eighteenth century. Find out more at www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

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“It seems that nature has devised quantum technology before us…” We’ve been puzzling at the mysteries of avian migration for millennia—the answers now emerging about how migrating birds navigate thousands of miles with pinpoint accuracy are…mind-blowing. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Notifications for #ESEH2025 have been sent out --check spam or with session organiser if you haven't heard anything-- BUT there are 10 days left to apply to the @eseh.bsky.social summer school taking place on an island out in the Stockholm archipelago! 🌊 #envhist #envhum #anthropocene ⤵

Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field? Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities! We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here: environmentalhumanities.org Contact us if you have any questions.

CfP: ESEH 2025 Summer School in Environmental History Anthropocene Histories KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden August 25-28, 2025, right after #ESEH2025 Deadline: 28 February #envhist #envhum #anthropocene @eseh.bsky.social 🌿 More information👇 eseh.org/call-for-par...

Hi pals. Today I wrote about the unsettling mismatches between what climate models say should be happening and what is actually happening. We're pushing the Earth past the limits of our physical understanding. This is a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

🌿 Calling all nature poets! Share your love for nature through poetry. Submit a poem to the #NatureOfOurTimes, a creative companion to the National Nature Assessment. Let’s blend science & art to inspire action. Deadline is coming - 1/15/25. Spread the word! 1 natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org

The German Maritime Museum invites applications for 3-9 month-long fellowships to work on interdisciplinary object-based research focussing on the cultural & political significance of the relationship between humans and the sea. Deadline 31 January 2025. More info: www.museumsbund.de/stellenangeb...

Check out the CFP, and calls for panels, for the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference "Collective Atmospheres" July 8-11, 2025 at Univ of Maryland. Deadline for submissions is Jan. 3, 2025. Please share! #envhum #environmentalhumanities www.asle.org/conference/b... www.asle.org/conference/p...

#c18th Need a podcast to get you through your holiday? Coffeehouse Perspectives just dropped a new episode, and it's on QUEER PIRATES, and it's fun! urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...