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Feng Schöneweiß @fengschoeneweiss.bsky.social · 10d

有道理

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Berit Glanz @beritmiriam.bsky.social · 11d

Wenn man die Arbeitszeit erhöht und parallel die Pflegestufe 1 streichen will, ist das Ziel übrigens recht offensichtlich, dass Frauen wieder in traditionelle Rollenverhältnisse gedrängt werden sollen.

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Barnabas Calder @barnabascalder.bsky.social · 21d

BOOK LAUNCH:
Edinburgh, 24th September.
@florianurban.bsky.social and I will be discussing our new book quantifying the energy cost of architecture through history. Do come!

The following night we're speaking about it in Glasgow, so see you at whichever suits.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bookshopla...

BookshopLATES... Form Follows Fuel

Florian Urban and Barnabas Calder discuss their new book with Chris Stewart PPRIAS

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Feng Schöneweiß @fengschoeneweiss.bsky.social · Sep 8

Zwei Lehrstühle für Ostasiatische Kunstgeschichte in D, eine Stellenausschreibung alle 20 Jahre (vielleicht

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Feng Schöneweiß @fengschoeneweiss.bsky.social · Sep 8

My pleasure! Just sent it to your email, please also check the spam folder :)

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Feng Schöneweiß @fengschoeneweiss.bsky.social · Sep 7

Gladly! The talk is titled “Moon Rocks in China: Energy, Provenance, and Planetary Heritage “. It’s for the 4th conference of European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology, next week in Lisbon. I can surely send you an abstract if you are interested, please let me know!

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Feng Schöneweiß @fengschoeneweiss.bsky.social · Sep 7

A sign for my presentation on lunar colonialism next week, but how to read the sign remains open to interpretation…

James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social · Sep 7

Moon update:

Screenshot of Moon app showing full moon

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · Sep 4

📅 10 September
📍 Lisbon

Panel organized by Feng Schöneweiß (4A_Lab, KHI Florenz) and De-nin Lee (Emerson College) at the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA) fourth biennial conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

➡️ t1p.de/3fphz

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Feng Schöneweiß @fengschoeneweiss.bsky.social · Sep 3

De-nin Lee (Emerson College) and I have organized a panel for the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA) conference in Lisbon on 10 Sep. 2025. Here’s our panel abstract and list of presentations, please do get in touch if you’re interested!!

www.khi.fi.it/en/aktuelles...

Asian Art in Planetary Perspective

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Feng Schöneweiß @fengschoeneweiss.bsky.social · Sep 2

Congratulations!!

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · Aug 31

Pleased to announce that my paper "Sacred ordinariness: event, cultural codes, and the politics of a COVID pandemic icon" (on symbolic politics around the death and mourning of Dr. Li Wenliang, an "icon of ordinariness") was published in AJCS. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sacred ordinariness: event, cultural codes, and the politics of a COVID pandemic icon - American Journal of Cultural Sociology

Iconic figures are social and cultural constructions that are usually believed to represent the sacred and/or the extraordinary, but scholars have paid less attention to “ordinary icons,” those figure...

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Feng Schöneweiß @fengschoeneweiss.bsky.social · Aug 22

Have you watched “is it cake”?

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · Aug 10

For anyone in the environmental humanities thinking about biodiversity and habitability, be sure to read this excellent new article by @julianordblad.bsky.social.

Chicago Journals @chicagojournals.bsky.social · Aug 7

Read "The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services" from Environmental History and learn more about the history of biodiversity as a concept. Find it here: ow.ly/TpT750Wy4HR @envirohistory.bsky.social

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · Aug 1

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships:
Expressions of interest can be submitted until 31 October 2025.

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Jul 27

If you use my textbook, Introduction to Modern Climate Change, I've updated chapter 13. That chapter reviews the history of climate science and politics and ends in the printed book in early 2021. The update covers the 2021-2025 period.

drive.google.com/fil...

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Jul 14

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 16

Kew Gardens’ Palm House and Waterlily House will undergo a £50 million renovation to reduce CO₂ emissions (those two are currently 20% of Kew's CO₂ emissions). The project involves replacing gas boilers with heat pumps, upgrading glass panes for energy efficiency, and restoring the iconic structure.

Palm House at Kew Gardens to shut for four years in net zero push

The gas boilers in Kew Gardens’ Victorian-era hothouse will be replaced with heat pumps and all 16,000 glass panes upgraded to improve energy efficiency

www.thetimes.com

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ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · Jul 9

CONF: Art and Conflict in Times of Climate Change (Berlin, 17-18 Jul 25)

https://arthist.net/archive/49669

Art and Conflict in Times of Climate Change (Berlin, 17-18 Jul 25)

Feng Schöneweiß. Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstraße 14, 14193 Berlin, 17.–18.07.2025

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · Jun 26

Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History!

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Application deadline is August 7.

Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇

Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger

Job title: Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · Jun 24

Human-Plant Entanglement: Thinking with Plants in the Anthropocene is a new book edited by Ratul Nandi, Jagannath Basu & Jayjit Sarkar that includes 11 essays. This Critical Plant Studies collection "redefines the boundaries of phytocentric scholarship" brill.com/display/titl...

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Feng Schöneweiß @fengschoeneweiss.bsky.social · Jun 12

Super! I’d love to have this book, thanks!

doi.org/10.1515/9783...

Resist, Reclaim, Retrieve

The debate about the return of cultural assets to former colonial territories is highly topical and at the same time much older than most assume. Authors from countries in the Global South and North s...

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De Gruyter Brill History @dgb-history.bsky.social · Jun 11

We 💜 it here & want to thank so many of you for following us! To celebrate, we’re raffling off 5 books. To enter:
📌 like + repost
💬 tell us which book you want (see terms in 🧵)
Check out our books from De Gruyter Brill (www.degruyterbrill.com) for inspiration.

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Konradin @konradinkunze.bsky.social · May 30

“Unsere Geschichte ist eure Beute” (Our history is your booty) - graffiti below Humboldt Forum.

Graffiti on a wall below Humboldt Forum: “Unsere Geschichte ist eure Beute” (our history is your booty)

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Steffen Siegel @steffensiegel.bsky.social · Jun 2

What Will Photography Be? An Invitation to Speculate

We are interested in ideas about photography’s future roles in social, artistic, scientific, and everyday realms.

Applications are due on July 31st, 2025.

For the full call, please have a look here:
cloud.folkwang-uni.de/s/2zMFsW2WoZ...

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Claudia Roesch @claudiaroeschdc.bsky.social · May 7

Mandatory reading for anybody in German academia: #ichbinHanna #WissZeitVG

Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · May 6

“There is far too much power in the hands of professors in the German system,” says @leising.bsky.social.

My latest @nature.com story digs into efforts to tackle the entrenched structural heirarchy that enables academic bullies.

Can Germany rein in its academic bullying problem?

Researchers and administrators are exploring ways to restructure a rigid hierarchy that can breed power abuses.

www.nature.com

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