Presented a paper titled "To Quarantine or not to Quarantine? Debates and Origins of Ottoman Quarantine at the Onset of Cholera (1831-1838)" at the Bilkent History Grad Symposium, 7-8 May. Wonderful audience and gracious hosts!

Among the latest major contributions to Ottoman environmental history. I hope to order it for the library and review it!

Summer school: Thinking with Islamicate Manuscripts: Critical Approaches to Historical Methodology, History of Collections, and Digital Tools in Islamic Studies Course date: June 30–July 11, 2025 Location: Vienna Application deadline: February 14, 2025 summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/2025...

Israel's relentless brutality against Kamal Adwan Hospital continues unabated. Take action: www.map.org.uk/campaigns/em...

If you're in Oxford come join us for a banger of a panel on Telling Microbial Histories. Tuesday 4-5:30pm at St Anne's College. With @emilywebz.bsky.social and a host of fine fellows.

War criminal

#HistoryTalks #BookTalk The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire by Nir Shafir 6 November Wednesday, 1:00 PM Teoman Duralı Hall, Başakşehir Campus Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul Join us!

Thanks to James Dunk and @ruthamorgan.bsky.social for arranging this workshop on writing planetary histories - in Canberra 12-13 November 2024. I'll be there, along with Libby Robin, Tom Griffiths and Sverker Sörlin. Call for expressions of interest: #skyhistorians #sts #histsci #histstm #envhum

One of the common misperceptions about ancient armies was that ancient soldiers were all Super Buff and as a result, ancient military equipment was very heavy. So how heavy was ancient military kit (not as heavy as you think!) - a thread! 1/ (Cross-posted from The Bad Place)

Alongside "who built Hadrian's wall?", another great example of knowledge falling foul of 'common understanding' is scurvy. The Royal Navy discovered the cure for scurvy, won the Napoleonic War, humanity then lost that knowledge without realising, then got saved by two Norwegian guinea pigs 🧵 /1

The Israeli genocidal forces have committed countless horrific crimes but the targeted killing of a doctor who had documented Israeli snipers specifically shooting children in the head, along with her newborn children, while her husband was getting their birth certificates, is the definition of evil

As humanity collectively suffers another terrible summer, I just finished reading "The Great Derangement" by Amitav Ghosh. The book is an excellent & accessible explanation of challenges & paranoia preventing us from doing anything abt climate change, whether in action or creative expression.

In two weeks, 2 July: "Crisis under a Microscope: The Black Death, Multidisciplinarity, and the Global Middle Ages," #IMC2024, Leeds (UK): imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2024/pre.... #PandemicThinking #MedievalSky 🧪

A reminder that Spectacles of Waste is now available 'everywhere', it seems. From Polity/Wiley or your preferred book provider. Sad to say, I'm already working on the sequel: waste in space, or spaceshit earth! www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... #STS #histSTM

Erasing history is a very hard task and takes the commitment of entire states 🗃️

Enjoyed an excellent presentation by Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky at İHU where he presented on his new book Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman Empire. I ordered a copy for İHU library; inshaAllah students will read&review. @vhtroyansky.bsky.social Hayırlı olsun.

Though not "field defining," if you'd like 20% off my forthcoming book on archives, human difference, and the early modern British empire, you can order it from Tertulia using the code EMPIRE from now through August 31. You don't have to have a membership. tertulia.com/book/the-arc...

Monday 27 May @ special early time 10am in Norway & most of Europe / 9am UK / 6pm Australia Eastern, Greenhouse book talks will host Ruth Morgan to talk about Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, Global Change, and Environmental Justice. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... 📗

Air conditioning is not a luxury - it’s life saving and makes it possible for people to remain healthy and alert in a warming climate.

🩺 Three years after COVID infection, adults had an increased risk of all major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events including heart attack, stroke, heart failure, atrial fibrillation and myopericarditis with an odds ratio of 1.73. buff.ly/3yuEM7y 🛟🧪😷 #EpiSky #IDsky

UN experts "horrified at details emerging from mass graves unearthed in the Gaza Strip. Over 390 bodies have been discovered at Nasser & Al Shifa hospitals, including of women & children, w/ many reportedly showing signs of torture & summary executions, & potential instances of people buried alive.”

Faculty members of Georgetown’s history department have released the following statement about the brutal assault of one of our distinguished alum, Professor Steve Tamari, by the police. Please share. 🗃️

If 'never again' is the true purpose of studying the Holocaust and historical atrocities, educators and historians (myself included) have failed miserably. We have spent so much time focusing on the violence of 'others' that we ignored our own. Or maybe that was the point all along...

6 days until publication of this beauty! Can't wait! Out from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social on 22/4/2024 by @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social & Nathan Kwan & John Coakley www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... Available to preorder now 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ #navalhistory

historian Lee Mordechai bearing witness.

“Doses of cholera vaccine are being given to patients as fast as they are produced and the global stockpile has run completely dry, as deadly outbreaks of the disease continue to spread… the vaccine stockpile has been precariously low for years.”

Boosting this - there’s still some time left to apply for this #envhist PhD position!

Definitely must follow #histpharma #medhist #healthhumanities #medhumanities

It’s becoming increasingly clear that Gaza isn’t only the site of a genocide. It’s a laboratory for the future of warfare — one that fulfills the horrific promise of mass surveillance that we who worked on the Edward Snowden trove warned about a decade ago.

Nice but brief introduction to state archives of Turkiye. One could add others as well, including the kadi records collection (kadı sicilleri) by ISAM kadisicilleri.istanbul and yazma eserler (manuscripts) repository www.yek.gov.tr to name a few.

In this interview with Christopher Markiewicz, Nilab Saeedi asks how ideas and intellectual transfers shaped ideas about kingship in late medieval Islam. www.jhiblog.org/2024/03/18/b...

#colonialism #earlymodern

SCOOP -- we got unreported AIPAC policy talking points, which include: -abolishing UNRWA -ending Biden's pressure on feral settlers -total alignment with the Trumper far right prospect.org/world/2024-0...

More proof that India is spiralling downward into Hindutva fascism; anti-Muslim violence has become the norm, and perpetrators are free to continue amidst widespread impunity.

Please follow Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs)! They are a group of young and upcoming early-career researchers exploring connections between the Islamic and Western worlds in the early modern era, especially in fields of literature, art and history. @memorients.bsky.social

What's the leading cause of death in each country? @spoonerf.bsky.social made this map to show this. In most countries, it's cardiovascular disease or cancer. In west Africa, diarrheal disease, malaria, or neonatal causes(!). In southern Africa, HIV/AIDS. ourworldindata.org/grapher/lead...

We’re excited to finally have our Bluesky account up and running! As of March 15, H-Net will be using only BlueSky and Mastodon for social media. Make sure to give us a follow to stay updated on academic jobs and fellowships, cool and new digital resources, projects on the H-Net Commons, and more!

Any environmental historians have anything to say about this vote? Want to write about it for us? Check out our Contributor Guidelines and then contact us. niche-canada.org/guidelines-f... #envhist #anthropocene

To declare, or not to declare, that was the question, of the #Anthropocene; not that it actually mattered, only technically. #envhist

The first installment of MEMOs’ ‘Unmaking History’ series in under an hour today, at 06:00 PM GMT. MEMOs SEMINAR SERIES: Unmaking History: Courting India | MEMOs www.crowdcast.io/c/courting-i...

This is important to note amidst news of Indian workers going to Israel to take place of Palestinian wage labourers who have also been victims of Israeli aggression, apartheid, and now genocide.

This perpetual angst as we witness an unfolding genocide and yet are able to do nothing to stop it.

The Guardian compiled a map of Gaza attempting to show every building that has been damaged or destroyed by Israel since October 7, 2023. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Indian court orders Muslim mosque to allow Hindu prayers. The end goal of this is to destroy the mosque and build a temple in an exercise of Hindu supremacy. Every day gets darker in India for religious freedom, minorities, and pluralism.

There’s a genre of US war film (and it’s also why I refused to watch Oppenheimer) which manufactures sympathy for perpetrators of imperial war crimes and atrocities. Since 9/11 there are countless films of this sort. Fascinating piece on the Israeli version of it. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

"And this applies not only in history classrooms. Textbook chapters on the theory of evolution, the periodic table, environmental sustainability, and energy sources, among other topics, have been entirely removed from the respective class curricula."

How did early modern South Asian physicians try to limit the consequences of the plague? In this piece, Khushboo Rashid explains how the evolution of Greco-Arabic medicine influenced the public health policies of the Mughal state. www.jhiblog.org/2024/01/22/p...

Remembering, as historians do.