Onur Inal

@onurinal.bsky.social

Senior Researcher, University of Vienna ☕️|Editor-in-Chief @germinate🌱| Middle East and North Africa 🐪| Global History 🌎| Environmental History 🌾| History of Technology 🏗| Animal History 🦋| FC St Pauli supporter 🏴‍☠️| Posts in 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇹🇷

🎙️ Below, you can listen to the episode featuring my book on the environmental history of Ottoman Izmir. Thanks to @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social for this conversation

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New episode 📚📚 Onur İnal (@onurinal.bsky.social) on the rise of late Ottoman İzmir. The conversation discusses his book “Gateway to the Mediterranean: An Environmental History of Late Ottoman Izmir” (Cambridge University Press) 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2026/08/04/o...

Stephen Pyne, author of UNDYING FIRE, asks, "Why is it that countries that we think of as modernized—those that have money, science, technology—are the ones that are being clobbered?" The answer isn't just climate—it's also how we've changed the land itself. Read more in The New Yorker:

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Across Spain, France, England, and much of Europe, this year has seen extreme wildfires. Why are flames erupting in this particular way, in this particular moment in time? www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Join us at SOAS as a new Lecturer in Arabic Literature at SOAS (0.4 FTE, fixed term until 31.8.2029) This role involves teaching, advising students of Arabic and supervising dissertations in Arabic literature, Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/910500

Lecturer in Arabic Literature -0.4 FTE at SOAS

Apply now for Lecturer in Arabic Literature -0.4 FTE, Bloomsbury, Camden, Greater London, United Kingdom at SOAS

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The Oxford Intersection on Environmental Change and Human Experience is seeking submissions across its different sections. I am editing 'Water' and would love to see more articles on -Rivers/freshwater More-than-human perspectives Militaries & water Trade & transport academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...

Current Calls for Papers

Oxford Intersections reflects the critical role that peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research plays in helping policy- and decision-makers tackle the world

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📣 We're looking for new members to join our International Advisory Board! 📣 🌍 We're particularly interested in recruiting board members with expertise in the following areas: urban history of Africa (any region); South Asia; China; Latin America & the Caribbean; Central and Eastern Europe

Call for new members of Urban History’s International Advisory Board.

Urban History seeks to appoint new members to its international advisory board.
This is an exciting opportunity to become involved with a world-leading journal for urban historical research.  Urban History is published by Cambridge University Press and occupies a central place in historical scholarship, with an outstanding record of interdisciplinary contributions, and a broad-based and distinguished panel of referees and international advisors. Each issue features wide-ranging research articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities and supplementary material including periodical reviews, thesis reviews and book reviews.  Our growing submissions are becoming increasingly global and chronologically diverse and we seek to appoint an additional members of the international advisory board to reflect these developments and to further broaden our geographical range in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.  
About the role
Members of the International Advisory Board are expected to promote the journal through their networks and to encourage high quality submissions in the field of urban history. Board members support the Editorial Team (Shane Ewen, Prashant Kidambi, Domenic Vitiello, Roey Sweet and Rosemary Wakeman) as requested on submissions that fall within their field, undertaking peer review where appropriate or providing suggestions for specialist reviewers within their field.  All board members are expected to attend the annual meeting of the International Advisory Board (held online) where there are opportunities to provide advice and suggestions for the future direction of the journal.  

We are particularly interested in recruiting board members with expertise in the following areas: urban history of Africa (any region); South Asia; China; Latin America and the Caribbean; Central and Eastern Europe.

Text continued in next slideEssential qualities (to be used in shortlisting)
•	Expertise in urban history or a cognate discipline (candidates with expertise in the areas listed above may be preferred)
•	Evidence of active participation in urban history networks 
We are happy to receive applications from individuals at different career stages and we welcome applications from historians and colleagues from cognate disciplines – working in any context – from under-represented groups, including those from minoritized ethnic groups, disabled people, LGBTQIA+ people, and those who are ‘first generation’ in Higher Education. 

How to apply
Those interested in making an application to join the international advisory board should send to Roey Sweet (rhs4@le.ac.uk) 
•	a CV (no more than 3 pages)
•	a summary of up to 500 words outlining your interest in the role and what you would bring to it. 
Enquiries
Informal enquiries about the role can be made to: Professor Roey Sweet rhs4@le.ac.uk
Deadline
Deadline for applications: 5.00pm on Friday 11 September 2026 
We expect interviews to take place in October 2026 and that the new board members will start their term of office from January 2027.

The Linnaeus University (southern Sweden) is inviting applications for 5-6 fully funded PhD positions in the arts and humanities, including #history, #arthistory and #religiousstudies. International applicants without prior knowledge of Swedish are encouraged to apply.

Doctoral studentships across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Cultural Sciences

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities invites applications for 5–6 doctoral studentships. The studentships are available

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📢 Save the date & send your proposals! The CFP for our workshop "Mineral Expertise: The Rules of Knowing Earthly Matter in the Early Modern World" (Feb 04–06 2027 in Bologna) is open🎉 organised together with @m-azzolini.bsky.social✨ ⏰ Deadline: July 10 ⛏️ 🔗 Info: bit.ly/4e3VBbB #Scarce #HistSci

Call for Papers: Mineral Expertise: The Rules of Knowing Earthly Matter in the Early Modern World

February 04-06, 2027 SCARCE Workshop University of Bologna Deadline for Submission: July 10th 2026

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Der FC St. Pauli hat zwei Grand-Prix-Auszeichnungen beim ADC 2026 gewonnen. Der ADC Award ist so etwas wie die Deutsche Kreativmeisterschaft. Gemeinsam mit Partner LichtBlick hat uns die Jury in den Kategorien „Design und Nachhaltigkeit“ für unsere Regenbogen-Solaranlage ausgezeichnet. #fcsp

Ein Fußballstadion mit einer Regenbogenfahne auf dem Dach.