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Onur Inal @onurinal.bsky.social · Jun 27

I can finally share the cover of my forthcoming monograph, “Gateway to the Mediterranean: An Environmental History of Late Ottoman Izmir”

A few more weeks and this thing becomes real:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

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Onur Inal @onurinal.bsky.social · 20h

Germinate’s @g-ehr.bsky.social inaugural article is Nancy Jacobs’ presidential address, delivered at the 2025 ASEH conference in Pittsburgh, in three parts, with some fabulous visuals 🦜

g-ehr.com/special-feat...

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Germinate @g-ehr.bsky.social · 20h

Come for the gorgeous visuals, stay for the text accompanying the visuals!
g-ehr.com/special-feat...

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Christina Spitzbart-Glasl @spitztini.bsky.social · 1d

Das TMW sucht eine:n wissenschaftliche:n Mitarbeiter:in für den Sammlungsbereich Energie und Montanwesen. Umwelthistoriker:innen werden ausdrücklich angesprochen - wer möchte mit mir #envhist im TMW stärken? Bewerbung noch bis 12.10.! jobs.technischesmuseum.at/Vacancies/31...

Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in für den Sammlungsbereich Energie und Montanwesen (m/w/d)

jobs.technischesmuseum.at

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 9d

‘Global Environment’ 18.3 is now live – and #openaccess online thanks both to our #subscribetoopen supporters and to the KOALA consortium. You can find the issue here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/cu... #envhist @globalenvironment.bsky.social

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British Institute at Ankara @thebiaankara.bsky.social · 1d

📆 BIAA ANKARA LECTURE: Canals and colonialism: Trans-Palestinian waterways from the Ottoman era to social media

Hybrid event

🗣 Sarah Irving (University of Staffordshire)
📆Wednesday, 22nd October 2025
ℹ️ REGISTER for in-person or online attendance at biaa.ac.uk/events/canal...

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 2d

From the current issue “Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–1879”

by Adam Mestyan (‪@harvard.edu‬)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–1879*

Abstract. This article argues that the microhistorical analysis of one specific industrial enterprise offers a useful perspective from which to study local

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ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 2d

Paid doctoral position on the environmental impactof AI! At KTH in Stockholm, Sweden. #envhist #envhum

kth.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

PhD student in Environmental impact of AI within WASP-HS Graduate School

Project description Third-cycle subject: History of Science, Technology and Environment The Division of the History of Science, Technology and the Environment is recruiting one doctoral student within

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The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social · 2d

Call For Papers: Environmental Approaches to the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape, 1750-1920
Panel at the Association for Art History (AAH) Annual Conference, University of Cambridge, 8-10 April 2026

Full details and how to submit here:

Environmental Approaches to the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape, 1750-1920 - For Art History

For centuries, the territories of the eastern Mediterranean were home to the ethnically, religiously, and culturally diverse communities that comprised the Ottoman Empire. These territories…

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Onur Inal @onurinal.bsky.social · 5d

Wie Deutschland die Singularität des Holocaust betont, um sich der Verantwortung für seine Kolonialverbrechen zu entziehen👇

Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · 5d

#OTD 2.10.1905 erlässt Trotha Schiessbefehl, der Völkermord an Herero besiegelt. Nichts war heute von der Politik dazu zu hören. Wolfram Weimer sieht in Gedenken an Völkermord Herero Nama gar eine Relativierung des Holocaust. Beschämend. Hier dazu mehr:
thediasporist.de/de/zweierlei...

Zweierlei Staatsräson – the Diasporist

Wie Deutschland die Singularität des Holocaust betont, um sich der Verantwortung für seine Kolonialverbrechen zu entziehen

thediasporist.de

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Kerri Arsenault @kerriarsenault.bsky.social · 7d

Hey there. Today we launch @g-ehr.bsky.social - an open-access, digital publication of the American Society for Environmental History and dedicated to publishing work that explores topics connecting the environmental present with its past. Let me know if you have questions! @aseh.bsky.social

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Germinate @g-ehr.bsky.social · 7d

We are here! Germinate officially has a space in the interwebs of the world: www.g-ehr.com
We welcome a variety of submissions and always love to hear from prospective authors. Please email [email protected] with any queries!

a little girl in a white dress is playing with a rocket in a park

ALT: a little girl in a white dress is playing with a rocket in a park

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Onur Inal @onurinal.bsky.social · 7d

Germinate: Environmental History Review is designed to communicate with academics, community practitioners, and the general public. It includes peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed submissions

Onur Inal @onurinal.bsky.social · 7d

And today is that day ✨ Today we start a new journey with the launch of Germinate! @g-ehr.bsky.social is an open-access, digital publication of the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH)

Germinate @g-ehr.bsky.social · 7d

We are here!!

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Onur Inal @onurinal.bsky.social · 7d

The Vienna School of International Studies seeks to appoint a Professor of History (Department Chair) ⤵️

networks.h-net.org/jobs/69197/v...

The Vienna School of International Studies (Diplomatische Akademie Wien) - Professor of History | H-Net

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American Society for Environmental History @aseh.bsky.social · 12d

Applications sought for next editor(s) of Environmental History. For more information please visit the ASEH website: www.aseh.org

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medico international @medico2.bsky.social · 10d

„All Eyes on Gaza“: 100.000 gegen den Genozid

In Berlin protestierten am Samstag bei einer musikalischen Solidaritätskundgebung 100.000 Menschen gegen das massenhafte Töten in Gaza und gegen die deutsche Unterstützung für die israelische Regierung.

Pressemitteilung:

www.medico.de/presse/2025/...

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Onur Inal @onurinal.bsky.social · 10d

When you consider the #ecocide alongside the #genocide, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11d

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 12d

📣 New special issue "Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn" out now on #FirstView

🌏 Christian Jones and Yorim Spoelder, 'Introduction: writing the history of port cities after the global turn'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

Title and abstract for the linked article

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Tanja Riekkinen @tanjariekkinen.bsky.social · 26d

Call for Applications

The Early Career branch of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEHNEXTGATe) is seeking new members to join its committee for a two-year term 2025–2027.

Please find the more detailed call text attached.

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Onur Inal @onurinal.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations!! 🎉👏

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Onur Inal @onurinal.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations!! 🎊

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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · 14d

A nice job has opened in my department at Cambridge: Assistant Prof. in US History since 1920.

Please share widely!

No references letters required up front. Applications close 27 Oct. 2025.🗃️
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920

The Faculty of History is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in post-1920 U.S. political history and/or the history of the United States in the World since 1920, beginning 1 October, 2026. The

www.cam.ac.uk

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 13d

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5

#envhist #energysky

Book cover of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" by Katja Bruisch. A black and white photograph shows a woman with a headscarf stacking peat

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump to the UN: "Europe loses more than 175,000 to heat deaths every year because the costs are so expensive you can't turn on an air conditioner. What is that all about? That's not Europe. That's not the Europe that I love and know. All in the name of pretending to stop the global warming hoax."

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 15d

People came from all over the world. They have serious problems to solve.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."

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