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Oscar A. Pérez
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Oscar A. Pérez @oaperez.bsky.social · May 30
‘Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production’ is now available for pre-order! This book has been years in the making and includes works by a wonderful and talented group of scholars. #AnimalStudies #PlantStudies #EnvHum #LatinAmericanStudies upf.com/book.asp?id=...
Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production
Learn more about this book at UPF.com
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New issue out!
Feat. Sarah Bowskill @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social on how prize network marginalises Mexican women authors; Sandra González Basanta @universidadoviedo.bsky.social 'Estrategias frente a un duelo interminable: Los hijos muertos de Ana María Matute'

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Bulletin of Spanish Studies
Volume 102, Issue 7 of Bulletin of Spanish Studies
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November 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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My article on toxic ecologies post-9/11 now available open access in the latest issue of Environmental Humanities @dukepress.bsky.social Dust as both sacred and toxic. Inspired by Elena del Rivero's art, situated between exposure and containment
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Gathering Dust | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press
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November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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"A history book. A photobook. A fascinating book. I couldn’t put it down."

Lee Halvorsen of @photobookjournal.bsky.social reviews ORE AND EMPIRE by Martin Stupich.

ORE AND EMPIRE is a fine art #photography book that parallels industry and colonialism, out in early February 2026!
Martin Stupich — ORE and EMPIRE
Review by Lee Halvorsen •  History, art, colonialism, exploitation, humanity…all swirling about in Stupich’s monumental collection of visual and textual art in this book. He brings North Ameri…
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November 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Have you read the latest issue of "Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos" yet? It's available online now. online.ucpress.edu/msem/issue/4...
Volume 41 Issue 3 | Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos | University of California Press
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November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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🟧New TC just out!

The essays in this editorial cluster, “rather than retrospective or revisionary tributes, are forward-looking texts that deploy Sandra Harding’s enduring intellectual legacy”, writes Vivette García-Deister. ⏳

⚜️Read "Honoring Sandra Harding" at www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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"Medicines That Feed Us," Stacey A. Langwick's ethnography of healing and farming practices in Tanzania, offers insight into the relationship between toxicity and remedy in the face of intertwined health and environmental crises. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/xsWR6iW
Cover of Medicines That Feed Us: Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World by Stacey A. Langwick. Features a vibrant, detailed illustration of various plants and flowers in shades of green, yellow, orange, blue, and red. The title s prominently displayed in bold white letters on a red rectangular background. Below the title, the author’s name is printed in yellow. A smaller pink rectangle contains the subtitle.
November 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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"The Borders of America," edited by Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Nicholas De Genova, Gustavo Dias, and Eduardo Domenech, explores the struggles of migration and refugee movements against evolving systems of border control and immigration policy. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/DLGl6r3
Cover of The Borders of America: Migration, Control, and Resistance Across Latin America and the Caribbean edited by Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Nicholas De Genova, Gustavo Dias, and Eduardo Domenech. The cover features a red tinted photograph taken from ground level of people walking from behind with light shining through. Layered over the feet of one individual on the left is a red and yellow gradient that the title appears on in white. The subtitle is below to the left in an italicized font fading from yellow to white. The editors’ names are in the bottom right.
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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unmpress.bsky.social
Out now! In The Witch C’oxol, readers will encounter tales about the Mayan calendar and shapeshifting naguals and meet characters such as King Tecún Umán and his powerful witch C’oxol as well as the early Spaniards who deceived the Maya out of their gold and silver.
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The Witch C'oxol: An Ancient Legend and Other Mayan Folktales, a bilingual edition, by Pedro Cholotío Temó; Edited and Translated by James D. Sexton The wonderful tales offered in this bilingual collection provide readers with a new set of living stories that give insight into the current traditional ways and daily habits of Guatemala's Tz'utujil Maya people—traditions that are fast disappearing.
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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In the latest #HOPOS Ivan Ferreira da Cunha "examines the role of imagination and fiction in Otto Neurath’s work, particularly in his scientific utopianism."

Link to the article here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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¡Ya empiezan a aparecer las #reseñas de LAS MÁQUINAS ENFERMAS! 👋🏽🤖
Muchas gracias a Cristina Monteoliva.
#libros #cuento #literatura
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Reseña: LAS MÁQUINAS ENFERMAS, de Alberto Chimal
Si algo aprendimos los niños de los ochenta y los noventa gracias a la saga de películas de Terminator es que si un día las máquinas domi...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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#HSS2025 may be ending, but our virtual exhibit is still open! Browse our virtual exhibit and get 30% off & free domestic shipping using code EX58108: bit.ly/UCPEXHSS
November 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Congratulations to our v. own Alex Broadbent on the publication of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Medicine! 🎉 👏
Alex Broadbent ed collection - Durham University
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November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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We're delighted to announce a new book, forthcoming in March: 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities', edited by Emily Brownell; now open for pre-orders. More information: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist #soil
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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We are excited to share that the newest issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 is now live! Three essays, a visual narrative, a short story, and an interview join forces to uncover missing pieces in our quest to understand human–environment interactions: springs-rcc.org

#publications #envhum #envhist #RCCSprings #issue8
Poster to advertise new issue of Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review, showing an Arctic glacier. Image by Flora Mary Bartlett.
November 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Spread the word about this brand new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities with me and The Greenhouse crew in Norway.

For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!
greenhouseuis.net Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 27d
The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English.

Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!

Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
Poster for Masters in Public Environmental Humanities. Our 2-year masters program in beautiful Stavanger, Norway, invites you to study today's environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history. Key aspects: • Combine critical thinking with hands-on engagement • Work across humanities fields • Put learning into action through an internship • Taught entirely in English • Free tuition for students from EU/EEA/Switzerland and affordable for others If you believe community-engaged humanities can help build a more sustainable future, this is the place to start. GET MORE INFO & APPLY FOR FALL 2026 Questions? Email PEH@uis.no
November 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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An Ecocritical Study of Puerto Rican Culture: Disaster Nation by María Acosta Cruz.

En este libro la autora ofrece un análisis ecocrítico sobre la historia y cultura puertorriqueña desde los taínos hasta hoy en día, analizando desastres climáticos.

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November 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Animals and the history of natural history, or, what would natural history look like had Charles Darwin been a cat person? With @professorbopeep.bsky.social and Anya Zilberstein @animalhistory.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/a...
Animals and the History of Natural History
We see the concept of nonhuman cultures and their historicity as one of the most significant and fascinating recent developments in the field.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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New ahead-of-print article! In "Tenacious," Claudia Leal examines the multidimensional history of dogs in Latin America since the colonial era. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️
October 28, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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📖 [LAT-STS Library]

A new book has just been added to the library. Check out “El orden de los números. Historia y sociología de la estadística y la cuantificación”, coordinated by Ana María Medeles & Héctor Vera

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#HistoryOfNumbers #Statistics #STS
October 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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#CFP: "Cultures of Waste", Oxford Intersections

Deadline: November 7 2025

Info: academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...

#envhum #envhist #ecocriticism #ecolit
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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October 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Si haces un fanzine o una newsletter y quieres darlo a conocer, en Condeduque de Madrid vamos a dedicar una jornada a la autopublicación. La convocatoria es abierta: www.condeduquemadrid.es/actividades/...
CONVOCATORIA - MICROFESTIVAL «FANZINES Y NEWSLETTERS»
Con el objetivo de presentar en público el 17 de diciembre de 2025, de 18.00 a 21.00, veinte de los principales proyectos de autoedición que se realizan actualmente en España, Contemporánea Condeduque...
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October 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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San Francisco friends! I will be presenting my book Taco at the Medicine for Nightmares bookstore next Saturday at 4 PM! Full info below
October 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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@cforsdick.bsky.social concludes the @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover and discusses how this project contributes to rethinking the medical humanities in ways that are simultaneously multilingual, transnational and translational.
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Multilingual, Transnational and Translational: Rethinking the Medical Humanities
Charles Forsdick concludes the Reading Bodies takeover and discusses how this project on historical discourses of illness in European literatures and cultures contributes to rethinking the medical …
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October 24, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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We've posted a recording of the excellent event 'Plants, Memory, Belonging', co-hosted recently by Oak Spring Garden Foundation and our journal 'Plant Perspectives'. Fascinating presentations and discussion! Check it out here: youtu.be/CssAzff55Q4?... @plantperspectives.bsky.social #planthumanities
Plants, Belonging, Memory
YouTube video by White Horse Press
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October 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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In Part 2 of the @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover, @oliviaglaze.bsky.social considers the policy and impact potential of research on languages, identity and culture within the medical humanities.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/21/l...
Languages, Medical Humanities and Policy: Intersections in Research and Practice
In Part 2 of the Reading Bodies takeover, Olivia Glaze considers the policy and impact potential of research on languages, identity and culture within the medical humanities.
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October 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM