Inspiring week of excellent papers, new books, and beautiful Budapest at the #iasil2026 conference! I learned so much from all, especially my fellow panelists Esther Borges and Victor Pacheco on the translation and migration panel. Perfect way to start a summer of research and writing!

I am super excited to share the second episode of our new podcast, Living Culture, Making Heritage, which I co-host with @scopeland.bsky.social This episode delves into Irish natural and cultural heritage with Michele Horrigan. I hope you enjoy! www.diggitmagazine.com/index.php/st...

Stigma Damages: Counter-Archives, Art, and Irish Natural Heritage

Michele Horrigan's commitment and connection to the region give her unique insights into the local natural and cultural heritage and their histories. In the latest episode of Living Culture, Making He...

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Our Govnt tell us it is necessary for our FDI economy, outside Ireland we are a basket case. “The Irish case should be a warning for Europe: letting big tech expand data centres unchecked will have massive ripple effects on the economy and European households." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘Hidden datacentre tax’ costing Irish households millions, report says

Datacentres used 22% of country’s electricity last year, pushing up household bills, study suggests

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#newpublication: 'Irish Ecomedia. Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland' by EASLCE Kate Huber! Info: upress.virginia.edu/title/10163/ @ecocritickate.bsky.social #ecomedia #ecocriticism #environment #colonialstudies #envhum #irishstudies

This paper reveals how and why #Wikipedia falls short of its promises to be a neutral, all representing encyclopedia, by demonstrating what a singular #Suriname edit-a-thon can add to the platform. www.diggitmagazine.com/writing-agai...

Writing against the status quo: What can a Suriname edit-a-thon add to the Wikipedia public sphere?

Many may think of Wikipedia as the public town square of the internet, the one place we can all go to receive and contribute to the chronicling of our world as we construct it (see Arendt, 1958). I ce...

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Join us May 7th to discuss heritage, environment, and justice @tilburguniversity.bsky.social! I will launch my book with a response from @lcollins232.bsky.social and host a roundtable with @mcorporaal.bsky.social @philpaiement.bsky.social @s-starrenburg.bsky.social & Wessel Ganzevoort. Register 👇

Last year, Michele Horrigan shared her Stigma Damages project at @tilburguniversity.bsky.social, teaching us about how art has the power to expose injustices. With the recent headlines, I'm revisiting Horrigan's powerful work on Aughinish Alumina. Check out her work and this issue in the links👇

Interesting piece but left wondering why there hasn't been any similar reporting on the US use of Shannon, illegal overflights, role of data centres in Gaza genocide, dual use goods and the arms industry in Ireland. Only for work of @wereontheditch.bsky.social. www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Investigation: How raw materials from Aughinish Alumina in Limerick enter Russia’s weapons supply chain

Alumina made in Aughinish, Co Limerick is exported to smelters that sell aluminium to a trader supplying Russian arms manufacturers, an investigation has found. The project analysed confidential docum...

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This article explores the tension between biodiversity loss and traditional farming in rural Ireland, specifically the #Beara Peninsula. Drawing on folklore, it foregrounds complex interactions between environmental protection, heritage, and colonialism. www.diggitmagazine.com/farming-and-...

Farming and Folklore in Beara: A Landscape between Tradition and Loss

Earth is in the midst of a climate crisis. Whilst fossil fuels dominate headlines, there are also more subtle disruptions at play in the form of biodiversity loss. Overgrazing is causing the loss of m...

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Such an honor to host @nafissn.bsky.social @tilburguniversity.bsky.social last November! Her keynote lecture is now online. Check it out in the link below. Nafiss Nia offers an inspirational overview of her artistic practice and the making of her powerful 2023 film Die Middag (That Afternoon).

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In November 2025, filmmaker and writer Nafiss Nia visited @tilburg-university.bsky.social to talk about her 2023 film Die Middag (That Afternoon). This lecture explores how she became a filmmaker, and how she created this highly acclaimed and poignant film. www.diggitmagazine.com/paper-screen...

In November 2025, filmmaker and writer Nafiss Nia visited @tilburg-university.bsky.social to talk about her 2023 film Die Middag (That Afternoon). This lecture explores how she became a filmmaker, and how she created this highly acclaimed and poignant film. www.diggitmagazine.com/paper-screen...

From Paper to Screen: The Making of That Afternoon

The cold and dark of a Dutch winter day is palpable in the film's depictions of the politics of language, migration, identity, and belonging today. Die Middag (That Afternoon) conveys the intense stru...

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What do the effects of light pollution on non-human life reveal about the way anthropocentric dualism separates humans from the #environment? This analysis explores a mutualistic posthumanist perspective to find a more connected way of living with nature. www.diggitmagazine.com/light-pollut...

Light pollution in the Anthropocene: the environmental cost of illumination

What do you see, when you look up at the night sky? I grew up in a larger Dutch city and thinking back to early childhood memories, I could just point out the North Star and the Big Dipper in a clear ...

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Really enjoyed the first episode of new podcast 'Living Culture, Making Heritage.' It made me think about what open access really means (or doesn't mean!) in terms of information. Kudos to @kilmun.bsky.social @ecocritickate.bsky.social @scopeland.bsky.social www.diggitmagazine.com/colonial-leg...

Colonial Legacies and Digital Heritage with Kate Simpson

Whose heritage matters? What gets preserved, and why do we identify with certain items, places, or histories more than others? Listen to the first episode of the podcast Living Culture, Making Heritag...

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Check out the first episode of our new podcast! Kate Simpson has so many interesting things to say!

Diggit Magazine@diggitmagazine.bsky.social · 5mo ago

How does digital #heritage reproduce colonial hierarchies of power—or help resist them? Digital Humanities and archival scholar Dr. Kate Simpson (University of Glasgow) sits down with @ecocritickate.bsky.social to unpack why heritage is always political. www.diggitmagazine.com/colonial-leg...

Whose #heritage matters? What gets preserved, and why do we identify with certain items, places, or histories more than others? The podcast Living Culture, Making Heritage aims to answer these types of questions. This is its trailer. www.diggitmagazine.com/living-cultu... @ecocritickate.bsky.social

Living Culture, Making Heritage Trailer

Whose heritage matters? What gets preserved? And why do we identify with certain items, places, or histories more than others? Welcome to Living Culture, Making Heritage, a podcast that explores the d...

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Looking forward to sharing the first episode of the Living Culture, Making Heritage podcast with the world very soon! Here is a teaser to give you a glimpse of what is to come: rss.com/podcasts/liv...

Living Culture Making Heritage | Podcast on RSS.com

Living Culture, Making Heritage: Critical Conversations on Cultural Heritage and Identity. Whose heritage matters? What gets preserved? And why do we identify with certain items, places, or histories ...

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Read an interview with the author! www.upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...

Author's Corner with Katherine M. Huber, author of IRISH ECOMEDIA

<p>Today, we are happy to bring you our conversation with Katherine M. Huber, author of <em>Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Mo

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UVA Press@uvapress.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Happy #pubday to "Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland" by @ecocritickate.bsky.social! The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland’s past and future www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10163/ #readUP #booksky

Happy #pubday to "Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland" by @ecocritickate.bsky.social! The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland’s past and future www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10163/ #readUP #booksky

@ecocritickate.bsky.social's @uvapress.bsky.social book is out! 30% off paper: 10VABOOKS www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10163/

Irish Ecomedia

<p><b>The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland’s past and future</b></p><p>Ireland was Britain’s first colony and its first imperial laboratory—

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I am looking forward to hosting this @asle-us.bsky.social event on December 5th!! Please join as we hear from five amazing speakers and discuss solidarity strategies for independent and contingent scholars. And please share widely! @easlce.bsky.social @asleuki.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/asle...

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment@asle-us.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Online Roundtable: Strategies for Solidarity on Dec. 5, 2-3pm EST. Join us to take stock of the current landscape for independent/contingent scholars, and to consider how to build solidarity networks. #academicsky Read more and register: www.asle.org/stay-informe...

We are launching a new #CFP at the Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine on Climate Change and Planetary Health. More details here link.springer.com/collections/...

What’s new about #digitalart? Who can make it? How do curators and conservationists keep #digitalheritage for the future? These questions and more were addressed by curator and art historian Sanneke Huisman in her keynote lecture at Tilburg University. www.diggitmagazine.com/we-cant-save...

“We Can’t Save Everything”: Art Historian Sanneke Huisman on the Dynamic World of Digital Art

“What do you need to play a GIF in a thousand years?” This question kicked off the keynote lecture by art historian and curator Sanneke Huisman at Tilburg University. While GIFs (first introduced as “...

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My book is available to pre-order! upress.virginia.edu/title/10163/ I am so grateful to all the folks who have listened to me talk about this project over the last ten years at conferences, seminars, & beyond 🙏 @asle-us.bsky.social @asleuki.bsky.social @efacis.bsky.social @ndirishstudies.bsky.social

Irish Ecomedia

<p><b>The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland’s past and future</b></p><p>Ireland was Britain’s first colony and its first imperial laboratory—

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So exciting and a bit surreal to see my book on a flyer at ASLE! #asle25 It has been such a wonderfully inspiring week hearing about amazing projects and (re)connecting with so many great people! 😊

Big highlight of the semester was getting to host Michele Horrigan at Tilburg University! We captured some highlights here: www.diggitmagazine.com/environmenta... I look forward to talking about this collaboration and Michele's work at summer conferences! @asle-us.bsky.social @asleuki.bsky.social

Environmental Justice through Art

What happens when art meets environmental justice? In the spring of 2025, scholars and students explored this question together with Irish artist Michele Horrigan, whose work grapples with the ongoing...

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What a fabulous week we had with artist Michele Horrigan on campus! Michele gave a lecture and workshop and set up an art exhibit on her arts-based environmental justice project Stigma Damages. The exhibit is open to the public till mid-June. Come check it out! @tilburguniversity.bsky.social

I am thrilled that Michele Horrigan will visit Tilburg University this week to share her arts-based research on environmental injustices on the Shannon Estuary. Register below! @efacis.bsky.social @asle-us.bsky.social @asleuki.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social #IrishStudies #environmentalhumanities

We need two people to step up into this editorial role. It has been incredibly fulfilling for me to have been co-editor for 5+ years, but now it’s time for us to let another team shape the field.

Dolly Jørgensen@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.

Applications are still open for the postgraduate scholarship to attend the 2025 IASIL conference in Galway ⏰ Closing date March 1 Full details here: www.iasil.org/conference-2... #IrishStudies #AcademicChatter #PhDchat

Register now for this episode of ASLE Spotlight on the theme REPRODUCING ANIMALITY Friday, Feb 21, 1pm EST on Zoom forms.gle/GZgZ4GFuEMmA... #envhum #academicsky