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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · Jul 4

Recording of our first session now available! More to come next week.... youtu.be/RN8dYy9x2_0

Living With Water Episode 1

YouTube video by Sam Grinsell

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · Jun 15

Thanks so much to all our attendees and presenters for a wonderful few weeks! We will be sharing the recordings in the coming days, do catch up with parts you weren't able to attend in person, there's some extraordinary work that deserves to be more widely heard

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · Jun 5

We will be releasing recordings of presentations (where presenters have agreed) fairly soon, all will be linked to here!

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · Jun 5

Today is our final panel, Anthropocene Waters III! We'll also be taking some time for final thoughts and next steps. It's been a glorious few weeks, if you've been part of it at all then please join this panel as well and/or write to us with your thoughts. 16.30 uk time, usual Zoom link

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Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · May 27

Tomorrow! See some of you there, the rest can relax as I will finally stop tweeting about it

Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · Mar 31

www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene... come to @thebartlettucl.bsky.social on 28 May to hear about my work on the southern North Sea in the nineteenth century and now. Book your place through the link

Wretched Waters: Making Modernity and the Southern North Sea

This talk by Dr Sam Grinsell will explore what it means to put particular sites at the heart of global histories of the environment.

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · May 16

Two exciting panels today, one at 9am and the next at 1pm (London times). On water as data and infrastructure; full schedule here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Living with Water Final Schedule.docx

Living With Water An Online Seminar Series via Zoom Thursday 8th May 🌊 09-10.30 AM BST: (Un)Managing Water I Chair: Giulia Champion Julée Al-Bayaty De Ridder – “Resurgent Waters: Counter-Narratives o...

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · Apr 24

Very pleased to see that my article on Batavia's water infrastructures (originally published in December) has been included in the latest issue of @historicaljnl.bsky.social! Check it out if interested in the social history of technology, public spaces, colonial modernity...
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Article: 'Water Infrastructure as a Technology of Control and a Site of Negotiation in Nineteenth-Century Batavia, Netherlands Indies', by Mikko Toivanen. Abstract: This article examines the social and political aspects of late nineteenth-century water management in Batavia (now Jakarta), the capital of the Netherlands Indies. Through a detailed analysis of how a mixture of old and new water technologies featured in the city’s public debates and decision-making, it argues that water infrastructure served as a key site of social control over the city’s diverse population. From the 1870s onwards, deep-bore artesian wells linked to public hydrants were introduced to provide a reliable and hygienic supply of clean water. This was a response to long-standing concerns over the city’s waste-blocked canals and their deleterious health effects. The article shows how these technologies came to be entwined with new, punitive social norms, enforced through both formal regulations on water use and informal complaints over wastefulness; moreover, these norms had a clear racial dimension, being directed primarily against the city’s Asian communities and repurposing long-standing stereotypes. Yet, beyond official discourses, a close reading of these debates shows that Batavia’s canals and hydrants also functioned as grassroots sites of negotiation, where different ideas – not just of water and land but of the very concept of public spaces and the colonial public sphere – met and occasionally clashed.

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · May 15

It's been a busy few weeks, all culminating tomorrow as I present my work on Batavia's colonial water infrastructures in this amazing series of online seminars put together by @samgrinsell.bsky.social and @giuliachampion.bsky.social. Do check out the whole programme, lots of cool stuff in there!

Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · May 6

Just two days to go! Do join us for four weeks of online, international, interdisciplinary conversations around water livingwithwater.hcommons.org

Living With Water: Agency, Materiality, Narratives – International online seminar series, May 2025

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · May 9

Hi all! Wonderful presentations yesterday, bringing up themes of embodiment, decoloniality, indigeneity, tensions between political/legal discourses and everyday life. Two more panels coming today!

Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · May 8

What a wonderful way to start the event. Wonderful presentations and discussions touching on colonial modernities, infrastructures, everyday life, indigenous knowledge, the personhood of water. Next panel at 2.30pm UK time

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · May 8

Starting in 20 minutes! This first panel we're excited to welcome Julée Al-Bayaty De Ridder; Keir Waddington; Loreto García Saiz and Tayri Paz García Medina and Timothy May

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · May 6

Just two days to go! Do join us for four weeks of online, international, interdisciplinary conversations around water livingwithwater.hcommons.org

Living With Water: Agency, Materiality, Narratives – International online seminar series, May 2025

livingwithwater.hcommons.org

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · Apr 28

Hello new followers! (Except the bots, no hello for you.) Reminder that our Living With Water online event series (conference, festival, multiday extravaganza, call it what you will) starts next Thursday! Details here livingwithwater.hcommons.org

Living With Water: Agency, Materiality, Narratives – International online seminar series, May 2025

livingwithwater.hcommons.org

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · May 3

apparently I never replied to this, how rude... Anyway, in case you've not seen the full details they can be found here: livingwithwater.hcommons.org everything kicks off on Thursday!

Living With Water: Agency, Materiality, Narratives – International online seminar series, May 2025

livingwithwater.hcommons.org

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Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · May 2

Less than a week to go until @livingwithwater.bsky.social starts! More than 70 speakers over 21 panels spread over four weeks, it's set to be a wild, wet adventure. All free, all online, details linked here livingwithwater.hcommons.org

Living With Water: Agency, Materiality, Narratives – International online seminar series, May 2025

livingwithwater.hcommons.org

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · Apr 28

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Janet Tryner @anatomyofasmile.bsky.social · Apr 28

My first Bluesky post 💙🦋 - to say I am delighted to be presenting at the Living With Water Seminar programme in May and June in the anthropic waters session on June 2nd. Such an interesting and timely set of presentations. livingwithwater.hcommons.org @livingwithwater.bsky.social

Living With Water: Agency, Materiality, Narratives – International online seminar series, May 2025

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · Apr 28

Hello new followers! (Except the bots, no hello for you.) Reminder that our Living With Water online event series (conference, festival, multiday extravaganza, call it what you will) starts next Thursday! Details here livingwithwater.hcommons.org

Living With Water: Agency, Materiality, Narratives – International online seminar series, May 2025

livingwithwater.hcommons.org

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · Apr 15

quite right, sorry about that, added now!

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · Apr 3

livingwithwater.hcommons.org pleased to share our website, which has all the essential links and info

Living With Water: Agency, Materiality, Narratives – International online seminar series, May 2025

livingwithwater.hcommons.org

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · Mar 3

Hello everyone! Living With Water: Agency, Materiality, Narratives is a series of online conversations from scholars, artists and thinkers across the world and beyond disciplinary boundaries, coming in May 2025. We look forward to sharing more details soon!

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · Mar 3

go.bsky.app/fbGtPw these are the accounts of people who will be presenting! If I've missed you, tag yourself

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · Apr 3

www.eventbrite.com/e/living-wit... anyone excited to hear from scholars, artists, thinkers across disciplines, please register here (speakers/presenters you don't need to register you'll receive info directly)

Living With Water: Agency, Materiality, Narratives

An international online seminar series running in May and June 2025. Thinking together across disciplines and borders

www.eventbrite.com

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · Apr 3

livingwithwater.hcommons.org pleased to share our website, which has all the essential links and info

Living With Water: Agency, Materiality, Narratives – International online seminar series, May 2025

livingwithwater.hcommons.org

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · Apr 3

We're so looking forward to this!

Trang Đặng @trangdang.bsky.social · Apr 2

🌊 On 2 June at 1pm BST I'll be presenting my paper on the first Vietnamese sci-fi film Nuoc 2030 at the @livingwithwater.bsky.social seminar series!

🎟️ Come along to listen to the amazing works on #LivingWithWater: www.eventbrite.com/e/living-wit...

Living With Water: Agency, Materiality, Narratives

An international online seminar series running in May and June 2025. Thinking together across disciplines and borders

www.eventbrite.com

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