It's already been a month since I started at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social as a @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow! I am continuing to research water management in colonial South America, now comparing Suriname with (formerly British) Guyana and (still French) Guyane 🌊

Looking forward to being back in Augsburg this weekend, and to speaking at a festival for the first time! Join Luminita Gatejel, Hajra Haider Karrar and myself for a discussion of imperial waterways in the beautiful Handwerkerhof 🗺️ waterandsound.de/liquid-histo... #waterhistory #envhist #skystorians

Join us in Paris in two weeks' time for a whole week of conferencing on "Histories of water" 💧 On Wed 20 May, I'll present a paper entitled "Sous le signe de Neptune: ambitions de contrôle des eaux dans les villes de l’Europe moderne" 🔱 #skystorians #waterhistory #envhist #envhums

Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques@cths.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Les inscriptions sont ouvertes pour le 150e Congrès du @cths.bsky.social ! L'événement aura lieu du 18 au 22 mai, sur le @campuscondorcet.bsky.social à Aubervilliers, autour du thème « Histoires d’eau ». Programme : cths.fr/co/congres.p... Inscriptions : forms.gle/XsoToBiV5QZe...

What do water and soil have in common? Can we study their histories together? Read the whole thread by @mathijsboom.bsky.social for his answer - expertly summarised and beautifully illustrated, as always 🤓 #envhist #skystorians #earlymodern #waterhistory #earthhistories

Mathijs Boom@mathijsboom.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In March 1651, a dike breach wreaked havoc just outside the walls of Amsterdam, inundating a whole polder. The damage was so spectacular that artists flocked to the site, documenting the disaster and its aftermath in sketches, oil paintings, and engravings. These by J. Asselijn and W. Schellinks 1/

Belated #WorldWaterDay celebrations coming up in Rome: I'll be one of the guests of the wonderful www.voyagingvapors.com for their Plantation Architectures conference at the Istituto Svizzero 🌴🏡 My own talk on "Thirsty Plants" is Fri 27 AM! #skystorians #envhist #envhum #waterhistory

Can't believe it's already been a month since my talk at Anton de Kom Universiteit van Suriname (AdeKUS)! A brilliant opportunity to discuss my #envhist research on colonial Suriname - thanks to E. Jagdew & J. Egger for organising, P. Dikland for sharing, and G. Pengel for photographing #skystorians

I've been working on a"new" project on the #waterhistory of colonial Suriname for over a year now 💧 This week, I've finally made it to Paramaribo: wonderful to visit Fort Zeelandia (pic) and the Nationaal Archief 🤓 Today, I present at the Universiteit van Suriname: excited to meet the real experts!

Looking forward to welcoming Prof Hélène Noizet back to @sociammulb.bsky.social next week for this lecture! On Fri 07/11, Chloé Deligne and I will also host a seminar with her on urban water histories - come join us 💧🏙️👩‍🏫 (both events in FR)

@sociammulb.bsky.social · last yr.

📆 C'est déjà la semaine prochaine ! 6/11 - Conférence sociAMM : "La Fabrique ordinaire des formes urbaines", par Hélène Noizet (Paris 8), à l'Université libre de Bruxelles. Infos et inscriptions : bit.ly/4pYlayL #ULB #Histoireurbaine #skytorians

📆 7/11 - Séminaire sociAMM : "Les villes et l’eau : renouvellement des récits historiques", par Hélène Noizet (Paris 8, UR ARSCAN), en dialogue avec Chloé Deligne et Davide Martino @davidemartino.bsky.social, à l'ULB. Inscriptions : bit.ly/48VSoIQ #ULB #histoireurbaine #envhist #skystorians #eau

Tune in to @forarthistory.org.uk's Festival next week to discuss "Art & Extraction in the Pre-Modern Period" with Cara Wolahan, Lorenzo Gatta, Thomas Balfe, and yours truly - we'll be talking about mining, woodcutting, pearls, and of course water 💧 Register at forarthistory.org.uk/events/art-a...

So much to look forward to in the programme for #ESEH2025! You should of course all come to our double panel on "Colonial climates and environments" on Fri AM with @poxygraduate.bsky.social, @nphellstrom.bsky.social,‬ @gianamar97.bsky.social, @lindaaburnett.bsky.social, @jamborg.bsky.social & more 🎙️

Our special issue is (partly) out! I'm co-editing "Negotiating Water Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" with Lavinia Maddaluno & Giacomo Savani for Notes & Records @royalsociety.org - articles will drip feed over 2025, starting with this by Felicia Else 💧 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

‪Great to finally hold a paper copy of Water Cultures, the collection of essays I co-edited with Charlotte Ladevèze & Eva Rothenberger! To read us in 🇬🇧, 🇫🇷 & 🇩🇪 you don't even need a physical copy: PDF open access at www.academicpress.ch/fr/cultures-... #waterhistory #skystorians #envhist #envhums

Comme une sensation de déjà vu? Pendant plus de 100 ans, la France a envoyé ses prisonniers politiques et autres indésirables au bagne en Guyane. Au lieu d’annoncer la fin de la colonisation française, on préfère renouer avec lex vieux symbôles et être du mauvais côté de l’histoire 😢

Le Monde@lemonde.fr · last yr.

Gérald Darmanin prévoit l’ouverture d’une prison de haute sécurité dans la jungle guyanaise d’ici 2028

Still in some disbelief at having been selected to be part of this stellar line-up 🤯 2025 is a good time to think about problems of social order and knowledge, as Simon Schaffer and Steven Shapin did 40y ago in Leviathan & Air-Pump! Do join us @sciencemuseum.org.uk if you're in London next Monday

UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS)@stsucl.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are thrilled to announce a joint UCL STS - Science Museum conference titled: "Leviathan and after". Taking place on 12 May at the Science Museum. For more details and how to book: www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/ev...

If you're in Brussels next month, come help me think through the first steps of my new project on #envhist and #waterhistory of colonial Suriname! Talk will be in 🇫🇷 bit.ly/3GaepaJ

@sociammulb.bsky.social · 2y ago

📆 6/05 - Séminaire sociAMM : "Qui a vidé la terre d'eau ? Une histoire environnementale du Suriname colonial à l’époque moderne", par Davide Martino @davidemartino.bsky.social (ULB/Fondation Wiener-Anspach) - Infos & présentation : bit.ly/3GaepaJ #ULB #histoire #environnement #envhist #skystorians

Excited (& terrified) to be thinking about "Making architectural history through the prism of environmental and decolonial issues" as part of this brilliant workshop later this week @ieadeparis.bsky.social, organised by ENSA-Malaquais: www.paris-iea.fr/en/events/fa...

On board (my first ever) Amtrak to Boston to attend #RSA2025 #RenSA25 🚂 @caromurph7.bsky.social & I have organised a panel on "Administrative Cartography" with Lorenzo Gatta, Natsumi Nonaka & @hannahmgk.bsky.social 🗺️ And of course I'll be talking Neptune again with @frederickcrofts.bsky.social 🔱

If a mine yields (far, far) more water than silver, should we call it a silver mine? Or a water mine? I had some fun thinking about this and other questions of #waterhistory and #mininghistory in "Mining for water", my new article just out in Early Science & Medicine: doi.org/10.1163/1573... 💧⛏️

Mining for Water? Underground Sources of Hydraulic Knowledge and Expertise in Early Modern Europe

Abstract From Antiquity onwards, the need to keep mines dry has given rise to the development of water-raising machines. In early modern Europe a series of technological innovations, such as suction-l...

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Yale Classics Library@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 2y ago

New issue of Early Science and Medicine Vol. 30, No. 1 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @davidemartino.bsky.social

What was up with Neptune 400 years ago? @frederickcrofts.bsky.social and I have been trying to find out: we had a great research stay @zikg.eu! While we cross our fingers for the article (under review), you can find out more about the project, and the small exhibition we co-curated, here:

Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte@zikg.eu · 2y ago

#ZISpotlight 💡 Frederick Crofts & Davide Martino on „The Age of Neptune“: Art and the Power of Water, c. 1520–1650 www.zispotlight.de/frederick-cr...

Join us in Leipzig next month to think and talk about urban-fluvial symbioses - or fluvial anthropospheres, as #envhist colleagues there say 💧 @unileipzig.bsky.social #waterhistory #urbanhistory #skystorians

New year, new social network, new job! 2024 summary: articles on liquid streets (rb.gy/du95nc), lost gardens and fountains (rb.gy/tfbk3y), and time-traveling maps (rb.gy/rjv2nn) - plus great people @unibern.bsky.social, and lots of 🚂(see pic)! Now excited to join @ulbruxelles.bsky.social 🤓

The Age of Neptune: Art and the Power of Water, c. 1520-1650 Projektvorstellung von @davidemartino.bsky.social und Frederick Crofts morgen um 12:00 Uhr im ZI 🧜‍♂️ www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/ve...