Amílcar E. Challú

Amílcar E. Challú

@amilcarchallu.bsky.social

Historian: #econhist #envhist . Mexico, the midwest and North America in general, 18th to 21st centuries. Department of History at Bowling Green State University. https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2784-6506

133 Followers 263 Following 64 Posts Joined Sep 2023
3 weeks ago
Community gathering in the Nature Center of St John's Woods, Bowling Green, Ohio.

I wrote this blog post after spending the last couple of days with the staff of the Wyandotte Nation Cultural Division. History is a pursuit of knowledge, but history vibe when it helps rekindle the love for people, place and the world. blogs.bgsu.edu/achallu/2026...

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1 month ago
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#envhist and environmental humanities folk near Lake Erie, this event may be of interest to you!

Wyandotte storytellers will narrate their stories inspired in their ancestral homelands in northern Ohio.

Sat. Feb. 21st, 2–3pm in Wintergarden Woods Nature Preserve, Bowling Green, Ohio.

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1 month ago
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Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast.

Discovery of a shipwreck in Denmark

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arstechnica.com/science/2026...

#MaritimeHistory #Shipwreck

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3 months ago

Give men5 games to get to know you:
- UNO
- Truco
- Civilization saga
- Space invaders
- Risk

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4 months ago
Tribal economic principles Remington Schneider

Having a blast in this talk by Remington Schneider, Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy, about traditional ecological and economic knowledge. Part of our programming centered on Braiding Sweetgras at BGSU. www.bgsu.edu/the-arts/in-...

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4 months ago
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Día de Muertos is coming and we have a beautiful tradition on campus to make altars in different buildings. Here’s Theater’s. We’ll make ours in history on Thursday.

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5 months ago
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We have some fantastic programming leading to Robin Kimmerer’s visit to campus in spring. My colleagues in the water center are leading the next seminar. Some #envhist coming down the road too.

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5 months ago

Thanks!!!

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5 months ago

Question for #envhist and humanities peeps: I’m working on an outreach plan supporting a wetland restoration project. Does anybody have recommendations of authors or projects using history to increase public awareness on restoration projects?

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5 months ago
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Next Monday (Oct 6) the two-days conference "Inequality & History" will begin, hosted by @dondenacentre.bsky.social at Bocconi University (Milan). Join us to explore & debate inequality across history, from Classical Antiquity until today! Remote attendance possible; QR code in the program below👇

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5 months ago

My kids did it. I profoundly disagree.

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7 months ago
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Inequality, economic stress, and demographic response: Introduction

With the publication of our introduction, the special issue that Tommy Bengtsson and I edited for Explorations in Economic History "Inequality, economic stress, and demographic response" is now complete! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/4

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7 months ago
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Professor Emeritus Peter Temin, influential and prolific economic historian, dies at 87 MIT Professor Emeritus Peter Temin, a highly influential and prolific economic historian, has died at 87. The longtime MIT scholar and former department head used the tools of economics to shed new li...

Great loss in #Econhist. We were just talking about Temin with some colleagues in
#wehc2025. He was a regular in the Boston-area Econ hist workshop and always insightful. news.mit.edu/2025/profess...

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7 months ago
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Great time in Lund for the #WEHC2025

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8 months ago

Do you have any recommendation about the Lorenz curve of the distribution of slave ownership in the US?

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10 months ago
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Nixtla | State of the Art Forecasting Nixtla democratizes access to state-of-the-art predictive insights. With Nixtla, you can implement cutting-edge forecasting and advanced anomaly detection, irrespective of your team's si...

The students and I learned a lot from the activities but also from interacting with cutting-age technology in @hf.co, nixtla.io and humy.ai

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10 months ago
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Bowling Green plans to offer a new major next school year: AI + X A new major at Bowling Green State is hoping to teach students how to make artificial intelligence – and how to use it responsibly.

So happy to be part of this initiative. I piloted the new History in the Age of AI course this past spring, focusing on text recognition models (and more broadly on AI literacy). It was a very rewarding experience.

www.statenews.org/section/the-...

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10 months ago
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Last year Matt Emberg developed a board game about the conquest of Tenochtitlan. Today we got to play the finalized version. I loved the process of helping Matt design the game and now seeing the outcome. Another reason why I love my job.

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10 months ago
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I bumped into the Lorax in our park’s native plants sale.

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10 months ago

This sounds amazing. I look forward to reading it.

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10 months ago

Impressive.

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10 months ago
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The History of Inequality For the last few decades, a strong consensus has held that Latin America is not only the most economically unequal region in the world, but also one where inequality has become structurally entrenched...

So happy to share this byline with John Coatsworth. revista.drclas.harvard.edu/the-history-...

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11 months ago
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Trump Calmly Reminds Nation That Desire The Root Of All Suffering WASHINGTON—Seeking to reassure the public after his latest tariffs sent both U.S. and international markets into free fall, President Donald Trump calmly reminded the nation Thursday that desire is th...

This explains it all. theonion.com/trump-calmly...

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11 months ago

Love it. Congrats on the publication

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11 months ago
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"Caring About Care", Jane Humphries, 27.02.2025 YouTube video by CEPH

Last month, Prof. Jane Humphries (@ox.ac.uk) delivered the Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture titled "Caring About Care: The Economic History of Caring Labour"
The lecture is available here, but we'd like to highlight some of the research that supported it:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BoY...

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11 months ago

Transkribus hasn’t worked that well for me. My students report good results for easy handwriting. But I haven’t been able to crack the nut for structured info.

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11 months ago

What tools do you use for transcribing?

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11 months ago
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A simple hack to ChatGPT-proof assignments using Google Drive What if there was a way to maintain the essay in all its three constituent parts – reading, thinking, writing – in the age of ChatGPT? Dave Sayers thinks he has an answer

If you want to prevent use of AI in student assignments, try this method of mine. It works really nicely. In the process, it also gives students transparent tools to prove they did their own work (to me and to future employers).
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/simpl...

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11 months ago

Very clever

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11 months ago

Fascinating essay.

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