CFP for a great conference of the Centre for Transimperial History, taking place in Leipzig next year 19-21 May. Organised by Nadin Heé, Daniel Hedinger & me. Subject: Geopolitics and Empire, revisited from transimperial perspective. Please send in your abstracts! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Working on resources, extraction, resistance, capitalism or ecologies? Bern, Sept. 2027, with fantastic keynotes by Katja Bruisch (@kbruisch.bsky.social) & Debjani Bhattacharyya. Travel & hotel funded. Do Apply! hist-ecosoc.ch

Here's an AHRC-funded PhD project I'm involved with on 'Walking the Energy Transition'. Come and work with me, Jo Vergunst and Jen Clarke in Aberdeen and investigate walking, heritage, art and landscape on the North Sea coast. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

NHT-DFA: Walking the energy transition: art, anthropology and heritage at the North Sea coast at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - NHT-DFA: Walking the energy transition: art, anthropology and heritage at the North Sea coast at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

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“The Cold War is everywhere and nowhere these days...” I reviewed Penny von Eschen’s Paradoxes of Nostalgia networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

I wrote a book that’s part bio of the troupe behind this photo, part Germany’s history fr above, part reflection on how we relate to risk & ruin. Preorder now from the wonderful @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social & support small publishers that give it their all secure.cabinetmagazine.org/store/produc...

It's online! Maureen Healy, Howard Louthan, Katya Motyl, Robert Nemes, Jonathan Singerton, and Daniel Unowsky each share their impressions from last year's CEHC in Vienna on @ahy-history.bsky.social. Read it here! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"the reader is inevitably left wanting more – an indication not of limitation, but of the richness and generative potential of the questions the book raises" - contributing to this project was truly inspiring and it is a pleasure reading these reviews

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How about I make a thread of the reviews Integration and Collaborative Imperialism has got / gets, for housekeeping reasons. First out the door was, I believe, Christian Stenz in HSozKult:

It has been brought to my attention that the forest fires around Bordeaux are burning up the pine plantations set up on drained wetlands there in the 19thC, a project widely admired and imitated around the world. In case someone wants to fund my global history of pine project.

#newbookalert Daniele Valisena's "Italian Lives, Belgian Coal: An Environmental History of Labour and Migration" will be published this fall with @upittpress.bsky.social #envhist 👇 upittpress.org/books/978082...

Wrote a review essay of four new-ish books on Soviet energy and resource history for @kritikajournal.bsky.social. They're different in terms of scope, archival depth, and the extent to which they take the materiality of resources into account – but I enjoyed them all! muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...

Coming late to @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social’s Burnout, which is an impressively thoughtful, expensive and moving exploration of how left-wing movements have coped with defeat. The concept of a historically conscious mournful militancy seems especially relevant to our current context.

Dear #envhist community, good news! The CfP for the 2027 @eseh.bsky.social conference is out. Spread the good news, organize panels and submit your proposals. See you in Salzburg next year! eseh.org/cfp-14th-bie...

It took me months to figure out how to extract 30,000 careers from the Colonial Office List; it took a little over a day to repeat the full process for the Indian Office List. The visualization now shows the very different global geography of these two bureaucracies in the British Empire.

Switzerland, final results: No to Switzerland of 10 Million (Initiative) Support: 45.21% Oppose: 54.79% Turnout: 58.86% NB: This vote also requires double-majority (People & Cantons (Regions)) to pass. ➤ europeelects.eu/switzerland #CHvote #Abst26 #Votazioni #Votaziuns

Aaah! My first book, based on my PhD thesis, will finally be published on August 17! I’m very happy and excited www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...

Between Global Standards and Unequal Treatment

This book investigates the development and impact of racialised labour policies and discourses within the International Labour Organization (ILO) from its founding in 1919 to the late 1950s. Drawing o...

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Massive protests now in @wien.gv.at now against planned budged cuts of the #University sector. #unisretten. Speeches now in front of @univie.ac.at main building.

Alle Demos nächste Woche: Wien: Mi, 27.05., 13 Uhr, Uni Wien Linz: Do, 28.05., 16 Uhr, Hauptplatz Graz: Do, 28.05., 14 Uhr, Wilhelm Fischer Allee Salzburg: Do, 28.05., 14 Uhr, Kapitelplatz Klagenfurt: Do, 28.05., 10 Uhr, Uni-Vorplatz www.oeh.ac.at/info/unisret... #UnisRetten @nuwiss.bsky.social

Sparkurs stoppen - #UnisRetten! - Österreichische Hochschüler_innenschaft (ÖH)

Milliardenkürzungen bei den Unis? Nicht mit uns! Gemeinsam mit den Universitäten gehen wir als Studierendenvertreter_innen auf die Straße.

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Iva Lučić’s and my introduction to our Timber Colonialism special issue with the Journal of Historical Geography went online today: “Thinking through forests: Colonialism, capitalism, and the global timber trade” #envhist authors.elsevier.com/a/1n8X2_6yx5...

What a beautiful place to conclude this week's student excursion in Prague

Registration to the 12th Tensions of Europe Conference, taking place at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 8-10 July 2026, is now open! Join us to discuss the meaning of the past in sustainable futures! www.eindhovenhistorylab.nl/toe-2026/

My Inaugural Lecture is now online. Why a new Swiss History requires a new history of European Empire: www.youtube.com/live/lN5CnfN...

Inaugural Lecture: Where Were the Swiss? Switzerland & Making of European Empire - Prof. Dr B. Schär

YouTube video by UniDistance Suisse

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We have visitors from the University of Toronto next week! Come join us for a conversation about Landscapes of Energy and Extraction. Schwarzman Centre, 12:00-1:30pm. Light lunch will be served.

Wow - these are right up my alley! Not one, but TWO new articles by Anna Sokolova on labour, gender and rural settlement in the Soviet forestry industry 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

*Globalizing Wildlife* is OUT THIS MONTH (!) with @uncpress.bsky.social “An essential and timely intervention… exciting, cutting-edge vantages on crucial global histories” -Daniel Vandersommers Edited by @rafdebont.bsky.social myself, & Tom Quick #animalhist #globalhist #HistSci #envhist

Heute Abend am #Zeitgeschichtetag in Linz geht es für die Keynote von Ute Frevert zur @voestalpine.bsky.social

📣Join us at the next Minescapes working group meeting!⛏️📚 SCARCE shares work-in-progress from their case studies in the Saxon Ore Mountains, Idrija/Venice and Habsburg Hungary - centering on methodological challenges🔧🔬 🗓️ April 13, 7 pm CEST 👉 more info: bit.ly/Minescapes #Scarce #HistSci

It's real! @lsupress.bsky.social #skystorians lsupress.org/978080718678...

nice easter surprise: book has arrived 🪺🪺 its about the rise of cultural development in europe’s peripheries (in german). will be available OA in a few weeks here: www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383536056...

Call for Papers – Mountains, Danger, and Endangerment 12-13 November 2026 Geneva (Switzerland) Proposal Deadline: 30 April 2026 "Danger and endangerment have long been central to the experiences, knowledges, and governance of mountain environments." niche-canada.org/2026/03/30/c... #envhist

Call for Papers - Mountains, Danger, and Endangerment

Danger and endangerment have long been central to the experiences, knowledges, and governance of mountain environments.

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NEW BLOG! Read Nina Vodopivec's latest blog, examining how the experiences of Slovenian industrial (textile) workers were systematically silenced during the post-socialist transition, with their demands dismissed as “nostalgia” while deindustrialization was portrayed as inevitable.