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M Hossain @mohammadhossain.bsky.social · May 13

Presented a paper titled "To Quarantine or not to Quarantine? Debates and Origins of Ottoman Quarantine at the Onset of Cholera (1831-1838)" at the Bilkent History Grad Symposium, 7-8 May. Wonderful audience and gracious hosts!

M Hossain @mohammadhossain.bsky.social · Feb 6

Among the latest major contributions to Ottoman environmental history. I hope to order it for the library and review it!

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Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social · Jan 29

Summer school: Thinking with Islamicate Manuscripts: Critical Approaches to Historical Methodology, History of Collections, and Digital Tools in Islamic Studies

Course date: June 30–July 11, 2025
Location: Vienna
Application deadline: February 14, 2025

summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/2025...

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Rohan Talbot @rohantalbot.bsky.social · Dec 24

Israel's relentless brutality against Kamal Adwan Hospital continues unabated.

Take action: www.map.org.uk/campaigns/em...

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · Nov 22

If you're in Oxford come join us for a banger of a panel on Telling Microbial Histories. Tuesday 4-5:30pm at St Anne's College. With @emilywebz.bsky.social and a host of fine fellows.

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M Hossain @mohammadhossain.bsky.social · Nov 22

War criminal

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Nov 22

now that’s a front page

Cover of Irish News with the headline: “Wanted: Benjamin Netanyahu”

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M Hossain @mohammadhossain.bsky.social · Oct 30

#HistoryTalks #BookTalk

The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire
by Nir Shafir

6 November Wednesday, 1:00 PM
Teoman Duralı Hall, Başakşehir Campus
Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul

Join us!

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Sep 14

Thanks to James Dunk and @ruthamorgan.bsky.social for arranging this workshop on writing planetary histories - in Canberra 12-13 November 2024. I'll be there, along with Libby Robin, Tom Griffiths and Sverker Sörlin. Call for expressions of interest:

#skyhistorians #sts #histsci #histstm #envhum

Writing the Planetary - Planetary Health Histories

www.planetaryhealthhumanities.com

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · Sep 14

One of the common misperceptions about ancient armies was that ancient soldiers were all Super Buff and as a result, ancient military equipment was very heavy.

So how heavy was ancient military kit (not as heavy as you think!) - a thread! 1/
(Cross-posted from The Bad Place)

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Aug 22

Alongside "who built Hadrian's wall?", another great example of knowledge falling foul of 'common understanding' is scurvy.

The Royal Navy discovered the cure for scurvy, won the Napoleonic War, humanity then lost that knowledge without realising, then got saved by two Norwegian guinea pigs 🧵 /1

A black and white Guinea pig called George. He is amazing.

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · Aug 15

The Israeli genocidal forces have committed countless horrific crimes but the targeted killing of a doctor who had documented Israeli snipers specifically shooting children in the head, along with her newborn children, while her husband was getting their birth certificates, is the definition of evil

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · Aug 1

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M Hossain @mohammadhossain.bsky.social · Jun 20

As humanity collectively suffers another terrible summer, I just finished reading "The Great Derangement" by
Amitav Ghosh. The book is an excellent & accessible explanation of challenges & paranoia preventing us from doing anything abt climate change, whether in action or creative expression.

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · Jun 16

In two weeks, 2 July: "Crisis under a Microscope: The Black Death, Multidisciplinarity, and the Global Middle Ages," #IMC2024, Leeds (UK): imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2024/pre.... #PandemicThinking #MedievalSky 🧪

Title slide for an upcoming keynote lecture at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds University: Monica H. Green, "Crisis under a Microscope: The Black Death, Multidisciplinarity, and the Global Middle Ages." The image on the left comes from a medieval manuscript and shows the three sons of Noah inheriting, respectively, Asia, Europa, and Africa. In the middle is a photograph of the microscope used in 1894 by Alexandre Yersin to discover Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague.

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Jun 17

A reminder that Spectacles of Waste is now available 'everywhere', it seems. From Polity/Wiley or your preferred book provider. Sad to say, I'm already working on the sequel: waste in space, or spaceshit earth!
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

#STS #histSTM

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · Jun 8

Erasing history is a very hard task and takes the commitment of entire states 🗃️

Government Apathy Is Leading to Heritage Sites Disappearing In Both India And Pakistan

Activists cite insufficient manpower and a lack of funds from governments – but also neglect by the local populations

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M Hossain @mohammadhossain.bsky.social · Jun 6

Enjoyed an excellent presentation by Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky at İHU where he presented on his new book Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman Empire. I ordered a copy for İHU library; inshaAllah students will read&review. @vhtroyansky.bsky.social

Hayırlı olsun.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · May 27

Though not "field defining," if you'd like 20% off my forthcoming book on archives, human difference, and the early modern British empire, you can order it from Tertulia using the code EMPIRE from now through August 31. You don't have to have a membership. tertulia.com/book/the-arc...

The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World, by Asheesh Kapur Siddique

How modern data-driven government originated in the creation and use of administrative archives in the British Empire Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, an...

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · May 24

Monday 27 May @ special early time 10am in Norway & most of Europe / 9am UK / 6pm Australia Eastern, Greenhouse book talks will host Ruth Morgan to talk about Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, Global Change, and Environmental Justice. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... 📗

book cover with title Climate Change and International History. Has a crashing wave over some kind of barrier

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · May 24

Air conditioning is not a luxury - it’s life saving and makes it possible for people to remain healthy and alert in a warming climate.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · May 24

Nearly 40 percent of schools in the U.S. were built before the 1970s, when temperatures were cooler and fewer buildings needed air conditioning.

Now, in many places, it’s getting too hot to learn. wapo.st/4aBDTr5

A map of the continental U.S. shows school days with temperatures above 80 degrees Fahrenheit in 2025 with the headline, “Many American classrooms are becoming too hot for learning.”

The areas that have the hottest temperatures and are the darkest on the map are the bottom half of the U.S. border, including the southern most parts of Florida, Texas, California and Arizona.

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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · May 21

🩺 Three years after COVID infection, adults had an increased risk of all major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events including heart attack, stroke, heart failure, atrial fibrillation and myopericarditis with an odds ratio of 1.73. buff.ly/3yuEM7y

🛟🧪😷 #EpiSky #IDsky

Persistent increase of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events in COVID-19 patients: a 3-year population-based analysis

AbstractAims. We evaluated the incidence and relative risk of major post-acute cardiovascular consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a large real-world po

academic.oup.com

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · May 7

UN experts "horrified at details emerging from mass graves unearthed in the Gaza Strip. Over 390 bodies have been discovered at Nasser & Al Shifa hospitals, including of women & children, w/ many reportedly showing signs of torture & summary executions, & potential instances of people buried alive.”

Onslaught of violence against women and children in Gaza unacceptable: UN experts

GENEVA (6 May 2024) – UN experts* today condemned the continued and systematic onslaught of violence committed against Palestinians in Gaza, with most victims being women and children over the past se...

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · May 7

Faculty members of Georgetown’s history department have released the following statement about the brutal assault of one of our distinguished alum, Professor Steve Tamari, by the police. Please share. 🗃️

OPEN LETTER FOR PUBLIC CIRCULATION

We, faculty members of the Department of History at Georgetown University, write to express our outrage and sorrow about the appalling assault on Professor Steve Tamari, faculty member at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, perpetrated by police officers at Washington University in St. Louis this past Saturday, April 27, 2024. The assault left Professor Tamari, at the age of sixty-five, hospitalized with multiple broken ribs and a broken hand. It was perpetrated in front of colleagues and friends, including a ten-year old child who begged the officers to leave her parent’s friend alone. The situation would sicken even those with no connection to Professor Tamari; for us, as members of the department that granted Professor Tamari his doctoral degree, thus beginning his distinguished career as a scholar and teacher, the horror is only magnified.
Professor Tamari’s career aligns with Georgetown’s most cherished value: cura personalis.

As a Palestinian who has watched the slaughter of his people in agony over the past several months, as a lifelong pacifist, as a Quaker, as an alum of Georgetown University, Professor Tamari was thus acting entirely in character when he came to peaceably participate in the protest at Washington University. His brutal assault was not merely the enactment of violence on the body of a single human being; rather, it was an assault on the values and principles that all of us cherish and aspire to live by as scholars and teachers.

Over the past few years, the US has witnessed a politically orchestrated assault on the basic freedoms that undergird all academic inquiry and learning: the freedom to read and learn, and the freedom to think and speak and write without fear of reprisal. For historians in particular, as the past is increasingly weaponized in service of narrow political interests, we have found ourselves in the crosshairs of the guns trained, sometimes literally, on universities.

as faculty, we hold strong to the belief that the university is not merely a site of credentialing: it is where we produce the knowledge that expands the possibilities of our collective future and where we shape responsible
young members of the civic society upon which a just democracy depends.

In the face of these systematic assaults on our work, faculty have striven to do what we have always done: impart to our students, to the best of our ability, what we know; teach them the skills to expand the boundaries of knowledge; instill in them a love of knowledge and a desire for a world made better through the act of learning. Too many of the leaders of our most powerful institutions have failed to defend this basic activity, without which there is no university. Steve Tamari represents the tenacity it takes these days to stand by our students and to stand by the basic principles of academic freedom and inquiry, of expression and of the right to peaceful dissent. We thus stand with him

We thus stand with him and condemn in the strongest possible terms the appalling police brutality to which he, and so many of our colleagues and students, are now routinely subject across the country.

Signed,

Osama Abi-Mershed
Gregory Afinogenov
Mustafa Aksakal
Mike Amezcua
Ananya Chakravarti
James B. Collins
Elizabeth Cross
Dagomar Degroot
Toshihiro Higuchi
Maurice Jackson
Michael Kazin
Erick D. Langer
Amy Leonard
Crystal Luo
Bryan McCann
John McNeill
James Millward
Jo Ann Moran Cruz
Susan Pinkard
Howard Spendelow
James Shedel
Nefertiti Takla
Judith Tucker
John Tutino

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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · Apr 28

If 'never again' is the true purpose of studying the Holocaust and historical atrocities, educators and historians (myself included) have failed miserably. We have spent so much time focusing on the violence of 'others' that we ignored our own.

Or maybe that was the point all along...

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · Apr 16

6 days until publication of this beauty! Can't wait! Out from
@amsterdamupress.bsky.social on 22/4/2024 by
@davidwilsonhist.bsky.social & Nathan Kwan & John Coakley
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Available to preorder now 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ #navalhistory

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