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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 26d

Happy to have two PhD students from Ashoka University with us this semester! Institutional collaboration at its best.

Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · 28d

Welcome to PhD students and Erasmus+ ICM scholarship holders Ajayant Katoch and Khadiza Naufa Fatin from Ashoka University! They are joining us for 3 months this fall at Concurrences and are part of the Global Humanities graduate programme at @linneuni.bsky.social

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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · 28d

The 8th ENIUGH Congress has started, or rather arrived - it's wonderful to have so many colleagues visiting LNU for discussions and sharing new ideas and research!
@lnuccon.bsky.social 🌏

European Network in Universal and Global History @eniugh-comparativ.bsky.social · 28d

Doors open in #Växjö, Sweden: the ENIUGH Congress kicks off at Linnaeus University. Scholars of world & global history are here to rethink entanglements, methods, and thematic expansions at the Eighth European Congress.
#ENIUGH #GlobalHistory

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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · Aug 28

Årets stora evenemang för allmänheten äger rum på Huseby bruk i Småland med Malin Lennartsson (LNU), Gunnel Cederlöf (LNU) och Arun Kumar (Nottingham University) - organiserat av projektet "Vändpunkter" om entreprenörskap sedan 1860-talet. ☀️ 🌿 🌲

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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · Aug 24

Critical nature-society relations in Palestine/Israel: A Virtual Special issue
journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

journals.sagepub.com

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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · Aug 22

Congratulations - this looks amazing!!
Very much looking forward to book talks and introducing it to the ma-students in postcolonial studies - and of course and the course Race and racism: a postcolonial perspective.

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · Aug 22

They have arrived!
@lindaaburnett.bsky.social
@yalebooks.bsky.social
@18thcenturycam.bsky.social
@long18thsem.bsky.social
#Enlightenment
#18thCentury
#HistoryOfRace
#ColonialHistory
#Colonialism

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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · Aug 21

Had to leave the #ESEH early for a meeting and simultaneously visited Sweden's 3rd oldest oak, the Stufvenäs oak: 800 years! An oak grows for 300 years, lives for 300 years and dies for 300 years according to the sign.

Sweden's 3rd oldest oak, 800 years old, the Stufvenäs oak outside Vimmerby

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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · Aug 21

Sorry to have missed this, had to leave the conference early for a meeting.

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Christina Petterson @crankychris.bsky.social · Jul 15

Very excited to receive the paperback of my book, which was published last year. It is a study of the varying economic practices of the Moravian (Herrnhuter) missionaries in St. Thomas, Bethlehem (PA), and Greenland.

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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · Aug 18

#Uppsala #ESEH2025

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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · Jul 29

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities | Open letter

Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now

www.theguardian.com

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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · Jul 25

"The central working assumption of PEN America and of the State Department—that the liberal American can teach the seriously swarming races what is meant by democracy—has been annihilated."
harpers.org/archive/2025...

Speaking Reassurance to Power, by Pankaj Mishra

harpers.org

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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · Jun 12

Congratulations! Looking forward to reading it.

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · May 20

🌿 On Friday 30 May 2025, @maguiregeoff.bsky.social and @julesod.bsky.social host 'Sexual ecologies: Space, nature and queer cinema', a workshop focussing on the queer turn in ecocritical media.
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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · May 20

We are hiring a new PhD student in the history group @unistavanger.bsky.social. There are several possible topics, including «Intersections between history education and education for sustainable development/environmental citizenship», which should be interesting for the #envhist #envhum crowd.

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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · May 20

Don't miss tomorrow's seminar by the fabulous @nathanbossoh.bsky.social: Making Colonial Laboratories: Investigating the Role of Suggestions and Instructions in Managing the Aburi Botanic Gardens. 21 May, 15.00-16.00 CET. Please note time dif.To register please email [email protected]

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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · May 19

For faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research to sign:
#uppsaladeclaration
uppsaladeclaration.se

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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · May 8

... and chaired by Rebecca Duncan (Linnaeus U)
Here is a link for those of you based in Sweden:https://www.svtplay.se/video/KrJYagL/no-other-land

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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · May 8

Ended the work day with a screening of the documentary No Other Land (2024)on the forceful eviction & violence against Palestinian villagers in the West Bank, followed by panel discussion w Nina Gren (Lund U), Wafa Jamil (film director) and Anders Persson (Linnaeus U). Highly recommend it...

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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · Apr 23

Quote of the day:
What Is AI? Neither Artificial nor Intelligent
(Crawford, The Atlas of AI)

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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · Apr 23

Four-leaf clover anno 1867 pressed in notebook of Joseph Stephens at Huseby Bruk.

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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · Apr 10

Recently we published an illustrated booklet by the collaborative pilot project "Welcome Re-Course":
"Welcoming Refugee, Migrant and International Students"

The training booklet also available for downloading in French, Spanish, Italian and Swedish. 📗 📚 📝
lnu.se/en/research/...

Project: Welcome Re-Course: Co-produced Online Training to Support the Inclusion of Refugee, Migrant and International Students

Welcome Re-Course is a co-produced online training to support the inclusion of refugee, migrant, and international students in order to improve well-being within universities and society.

lnu.se

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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · Apr 9

Me too! These are by the studio photographer Olivia Wittberg (1844-1908) based in Visby, Gotland, probably some time in the 1880s.

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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · Apr 9

I'm planning to start a #topothek/#topotek/#topotheque for a #citizenscience project as a part of a larger project - does anyone have experiences to share or other recommendations? Suggestions and input much appreciated.
Olivia's portraits of cats: Tessa with triplets: gotland.topotek.se?doc=1108829

Olivias porträtt av katter - Datering okänd

Tessa, husdjur, katter, kattungar, Olivia Wittberg

gotland.topotek.se

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Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social · Apr 1

Happy to host PhD student Joseph Manock from Manchester University at LNUC #Concurrences this spring - arrived on campus Växjö with spring and a clear blue sky. ☀️🌻

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Mar 20

Today we have "A Degrowth Theorist in the Nineteenth Century? Eugène Huzar and the Dangers of Scientific and Industrial Growth" by @benst.bsky.social

This is the third post in the Historicizing Adaptation blog series, edited by @stundenbower.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/03/20/a...

#envhist

A Degrowth Theorist in the Nineteenth Century? Eugène Huzar and the Dangers of Scientific and Industrial Growth

Eugène Huzar warned that industrial science-driven growth threatened Earth's balance, advocating global oversight but recognizing its limits, foreseeing degrowth's necessity.

niche-canada.org

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