Melting Metropolis
@meltingmetropolis.bsky.social
Wellcome-funded project on histories of heat in London, New York and Paris. Based at Uni of Liverpool and Queens College, CUNY. https://www.meltingmetropolis.com/
🌞 Art inspired and commissioned by UoL Humanities scholars from the @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social project will be on display at Saatchi Gallery this summer, as part of the major exhibition ‘The Sun and The Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial’. 🌙
Liverpool humanities research in spotlight at Saatchi Gallery - University of Liverpool News
Liverpool humanities research in spotlight at Saatchi Gallery
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In six months, it’ll be July—and we’re already dreaming of Rockaway Beach! ⛱️Take a break from the cold with this vintage postcard of the crowds at Jacob Riis Park, circa 1940. Who else is ready for summer? #QPLarchives #RockawayBeachQueens #VintagePostcards
It's winter 🥶and there is a LOT going on right now...🫣 but still happy to announce a new MM publication on using water to keep cool in late 19C/early 20C London, New York and Paris 💦🥵
Jon Winder@drjonwinder.bsky.social · 7mo agoOur @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social article on keeping cool in summertime Paris, New York and London is free to read in the Journal of Social History. doi.org/10.1093/jsh/...
Join us and our NYC community partners for Heat Stories: Memory, Place and a Changing Climate, in conjunction with the Oral History MA Program at Columbia University. Where: 56-27 2nd St Queens, NY When: Thursday, Feb 26 from 6 pm to 8 pm EST Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/heat-stori...
Heat Stories: Memory, Place, and a Changing Climate
The evening will begin with a tour of the boathouse followed by a writing prompt and time to explore stations focusing on oral histories.
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📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities. Apply by 30 Jan:
Practice Research Fellowship Scheme
Announcing our Medical Humanities In Practice Research Fellowship Scheme
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This Climate Week NYC, read about the work of our NYC team Kara Schlichting and Daniel Cumming on the Gotham Centre blog: www.gothamcenter.org/blog/melting... [with brilliant photos from our Urban Archive collaboration]
Melting Metropolis: An Interview with Daniel Cumming and Kara Murphy Schlichting — The Gotham Center for New York City History
Melting Metropolis: An Interview with Daniel Cumming and Kara Murphy Schlichting Interviewed By Rachel Pitkin Public archives help create a record that highlights, or at least can suggest, the var...
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NYers! Join Melting Metropolis team members Kara Schlichting and Danny Cumming at Second Sundays at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, this Sunday, 2-4pm Full info here: pioneerworks.org/programs/sec...
Second Sundays: September 2025
Since 2013, Pioneer Works has hosted Second Sundays, a free monthly open house. Highlighting our programs, artists-in-residence, and Red Hook community ...
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Who is in charge of tackling extreme heat in New York City? Read about @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social intern Selassie Mawuko's reseach on our blog: www.meltingmetropolis.com/teamblog/nyc... #nyc #climatechange #heatwave
NYC’s Fight Against Extreme Heat: A Citywide Effort — Melting Metropolis
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ENRGHI 2025 is open for registration, and last chance to submit an abstract is 1 September. www.rgs.org/events/upcom... 7-8 October, University of Bristol: join a 30 year tradition of connecting PGR and ECR research across geographies of health and wellbeing. @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social
A 2 year postdoc research assistant job to work on the early institutional history of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, leading to the writing of a report to contribute to broader decolonising and reparative efforts. Around 40k, deadline 5 Sept 25. app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
Post-Doctoral Research Associate - LSTM Decolonial History Project | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) is seeking a Post-Doctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to support the delivery of a two-year, independent academic research project to develop a rigorous...
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🗃️✨ Community Archiving Happy Hour returns on Thursday, Aug. 14, at 4pm ET ✨🗃️
5 September deadlines for 3 Royal Historical Society programmes: Martin Lynn Scholarship (PhD research) in African History (£1,500); Early Career Fellowships (up to £2,000) and Open Research Support (£500-1,000). #Skystorians
Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: three current programmes - RHS
The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with a closing date of 5 September 2025. For further i...
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ECR 'Blue bodies' conference in Bristol, 7-8th October, @uobrisceh.bsky.social @dudleymarianna.bsky.social would love to see your students there! 🌊💦https://www.rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/embodiment-and-water
ENRGHI 2025: Embodiment and water - blue bodies
Gain constructive feedback and engage with a community of researchers who share an interest in the geographies of health, wellbeing, and impairment.
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Climate change is creating more frequent & intense heatwaves. 🌡️ Poorly designed, insulated & ventilated properties trap heat, making them dangerous during the summer months. 🌡️ More than half of UK homes fail to meet the bedroom overheating criteria. www.tcpa.org.uk/thermal-comf...
Thermal comfort for all homes - Town and Country Planning Association
The crisis of cold and overheated homes is not just a housing issue; it is a public health emergency. Investing in better housing today will save lives, reduce healthcare costs, and build a more resil...
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New Yorkers! Please share your photos and memories of summer with us via our Urban Archive digital map: mm.urbanarchive.org/pr/mm More info here: www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-lif... #nyc #summer #history
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Summer in New York City is hot, as daily temperatures average around 80°F and heatwaves bake the city. This collection explores how New Yorkers have historicall
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Op-ed piece from team members Kara Schlichting and Selassie Mawuko: Does NYC need a heat czar? citylimits.org/opinion-its-... TLDR: yes! Essential reading in @citylimitsnews.bsky.social given the high the temperatures #NYC has experienced this summer #heatwave 📷 LoC
Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language. Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.
JOB: Lecturer in the Politics of Climate Change This is a permanent post, based here in the School of Politics and International Studies at Leeds. Application deadline 30 June, so please spread the word! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... @polisatleeds.bsky.social
Jobs at the University of Leeds
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We have a ☀️NEW ☀️date for Stand of the Sun - Thursday 19 June 2025. Still FREE, still at Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, TW1 3BL Reserve tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...
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Melting Metropolis@meltingmetropolis.bsky.social · last yr.FREE tickets are still available for Stand of the Sun: A solstice ritual for the melting metropolis, directed by Bryony Ella, with music from Bumi Thomas and choreography from Antoine Marc 8-9.45pm, 21 June 2025 Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, TW1 3BL www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...
Lots of Modern #UrbanHistory books available to review on everything from post-war architecture to atomic bombs. Get in touch with Sam if you're interested 👇
Sam Wetherell@samwetherell.bsky.social · last yr.Who wants free books? These are some of the titles that we at @urbanhistory.bsky.social are looking to review. Let me know if you or a friend want one, or if you have other suggestions. First, @rebwright.bsky.social's fabulous looking history of mid century US energy regimes:
FREE tickets are still available for Stand of the Sun: A solstice ritual for the melting metropolis, directed by Bryony Ella, with music from Bumi Thomas and choreography from Antoine Marc 8-9.45pm, 21 June 2025 Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, TW1 3BL www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...
🎥 Open call: Films of Return by A La Luz invites film/video art on the climate crisis including ecological memory, justice & collective futures. Jurors include Climate Museum director Miranda Massie. Submit by June 15! To learn more, visit: www.pointsofreturn.org/film
Films of Return: Filmmakers & Video Artists Face Climate Change — Points of Return
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Increasing temperatures can seriously affect our health, wellbeing and work. The good news? There are things we can do about it. Tune in to our livestream at the World Health Assembly on 21 May to learn how we can prepare and protect against extreme heat: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4ff5ec...
A reminder of an upcoming webinar organised by ESEH UK & Ireland region on 'New Directions in Urban Climates of the Atlantic Archipelago' May 20, 2025: 13:00 – 15:00 (GMT +1) Presenters: @erikahanna.bsky.social @rebwright.bsky.social @chrisjpearson.bsky.social Zoom link eseh.org/envhistoday-...
☀️Come to a FREE Melting Metropolis event at Orleans House Gallery on #Summer #Solstice 21 June 2025: Stand of the Sun ☀️ Art, music and dance, with Bryony Ella, Bumi Thomas and Antoine Marc Booking essential: www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art... #climatecrisis #londonart
Historians, please sign!
Christyn Parkes@parkesland.bsky.social · last yr.OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
We’re seeking a documentary filmmaker to join our Community Storytelling Partnership. Co-create with six community partner organisations and four storytellers across London and New York. Deadline: 25/04/25 drive.google.com/file/d/1Ava6... #FilmmakerCall #ClimateJustice #DocumentaryFilmmaker
eseh.org/call-for-sub... reminder to send your submissions for the @eseh.bsky.social Bristol-Bern Prize in Public History by 1 May!
Call for Submissions: 2025 Bristol-Bern Prize in Public Environmental History (2Bs Prize) – European Society for Environmental History
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A new Melting Metropolis opportunity! Work with @chloeduteil.bsky.social on a graphic novel/BD on summer heat in Paris 👇
Chloé Duteil@chloeduteil.bsky.social · last yr.As part of my work on everyday experiences of summer heat in Paris on the project Melting Metropolis, I am looking for an illustrator with whom to create a graphic novel bringing together history, climate, and fiction. For more & French, see below ☀️ #heatwave #illustrator #climate #paris #history
