📢 Deadline Extended!
We’ve received requests for late submissions, so the deadline for the Critical Minerals Symposium has been extended until 31 August.
Inspiring abstracts are already coming in from across the globe. Don’t miss the chance to add your voice to the conversation!

It has been a profoundly challenging experience, both emotionally and linguistically, to work on this extraordinary piece of carceral writing. I tried translating it into vernacular Cantonese but had to give up after a few pages. How malleable language can be when under the bend of lived experience!

⏱️TWO MORE WEEKS to submit your abstract to our critical minerals symposium!!!

📢 Call for Papers!
Katie Donnelly and I are organising an interdisciplinary symposium on Critical Minerals.

🗓️ Deadline: 15 August
📍 University College Dublin @ 7 November 2025

Please share widely! #CFP #CriticalMinerals #EnvironmentalHumanities
#ThresholdOfKnowledge
#TransnationalisingHumanities

A real pleasure chairing the Minerals Roundtable series and engaging with the incredible research shared by our speakers - thank you so much for your contribution!

If you missed it, the sessions are now available as a podcast - tune in and let us know what you think!

you guys @sarahcomyn.bsky.social has developed an absolutely incredible research center on extractive practices & cultural production the C19 British world system, a model for comprehensive sociopolitical and aesthetic analysis— if you haven't checked it out, do:

imperialminerals.ie/about/

The coming Monday at 9 am!

I just finished this by @siobhanangus.bsky.social, please all read it so we can talk about it. It's insightful and thought provoking and hits many of my interests (material-led histories of media, science, exploration and extraction). Now mentally curating the exhibition of the book...

Our final online Minerals roundtable will explore extractivism and material histories on Monday 28 April, 9am (Dublin). Our fantastic line-up of speakers:
Dr Madhavi Jha
Dr Oliver Tappe
Dr Nicholas Y. H. Wong
Register here 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minerals-o...

Looking forward to meeting our speakers and hearing their research on extractivism and material histories! The last three roundtables in this series were incredibly insightful—if you missed them and are interested, the recordings of the first two are available now on the Minerals Project website!

I'm thrilled to say that to celebrate the launch of my new book, I'll be doing two events in the DC area later this month:

Thurs, 4/24, 6 pm @ People's Book, Takoma Park / @peoplesbooktakoma.com

Sun, 4/27, 3 pm (w/ novelist Rabih Alameddine). Politics & Prose, DC / @politicsprose.bsky.social

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Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalisms
by Finbarr Barry Flood and Beate Fricke is the Winner of the International Center of Medieval Art Book Prize!

Learn more about this beautifully illustrated book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Job vacancy! We are looking for an Outreach Programme Manager (maternity cover). Email [email protected] for the full job description. Please share with your networks! jobs.guidantglobal.com/job/outreach...

🦌It‘s TODAY!!!

In two week’s time! Our third minerals roundtable on April 7 at 3 am Dublin time! Online!

So delighted to witness my senior colleagues deep investment in the principles of EDI. Ever grateful for the support and the kind words too. @nlireland.bsky.social

Today, we're delighted to introduce the next member of our Editorial team here at Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research:

General Editor, Kirstin Mills, from Macquarie University Australia 📚

#INCSA

Please write to me on [email protected] to RSVP

A new CFP from the Victorian Institute:
vi2025.wordpress.com

Join our online roundtable on April 7th and explore how literature, art, and more represent the stories of extraction with experts!!

Truly enjoyed the fabulous discussion, with a lot of take ways; excited to share that the podcast recording is now available!

DEADLINE EXTENDED to January 14th!!

Call for Writing Support Programme 2025 – @esehnextgate.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/01/02/c...

#envhist

First read of the new year is this excellent little volume, which uncovers the debates and arguments that accompanied the emergence of the word ‘Capitalism’. Wishing you all a year of good books and much reading.

So cool! This is near where I work in Antarctica.

“Scientists estimate that [glass sponges] can live for more than 10,000 years, possibly 15,000 years maximum. One glass sponge observed by researchers in the Ross Sea, a bay of Antarctica, is thought to be the oldest living animal on the planet.”