K. Mehmet Kentel

yes we did! expect it to be published by Fall 2026 #envhist

Prize — ICEHO

We are very excited to announce a new #EnvHist award: the 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞! In honor of longtime contributor to the field and former ICEHO president Verena Winiwarter, this prize will serve to promote global environmental history articles. Read more here: www.iceho.org/prize

ESEH 2027, “Environmental History Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries,” will take place on 6–10 September in beautiful Salzburg, Austria! #ESEH2025 #ESEH2027 #envhist #envhum @mknoll.bsky.social

A photo of keynote speaker Giuliani on a very ornate platform with a PowerPoint slide showing a photo of a devastated Khan Yunis

Gaia Giuliani’s Keynote “Monsters, catastrophes and the Anthropocene. For a postcolonial critique of violent bio- and necropolitics” #ESEH2025

Giuliani is not shying away from topics like Palestine and Ukraine. People left the room when she started talking about Palestine and showed this slide

This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace.

It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.

They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.

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Note that the “free speech on campus” people like Friedersdorf, Chait, Weiss, still blame this on “the excesses of woke.” Not a one - to my knowledge - has admitted they were actually wrong.

Birer birer eksileceğimizi sandınız ama biz milyon milyon büyüyoruz!

Bu kadar kolay mı sanıyorsunuz? Bu şahsi bir mesele diye mi düşünüyorsunuz?

Bu büyük bir milletin yürüyüşüdür.

Elinizden geleni ardınıza koymayın. Artık korku duvarları yıkıldı.

Historical research shows how Leiden University and city council benefitted from colonialism Leiden University contributed to colonialism and slavery through its research and teaching. And governors and residents of Leiden had an active role in colonial networks. These are the findings of two...

Historical research shows how Leiden University and city council benefitted from colonialism www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Artist Murat German has been released from custody after giving his statement to the prosecutor. The arrest warrant for him appears to have been issued due to his support for economic boycotts organized by the political opposition. Source: bsky.app/profile/birg...

Gözaltına alınan fotoğraf sanatçısı ve mimar Murat Germen serbest kaldı - Medyascope Murat Germen, yurtdışından eşiyle birlikte Türkiye'ye dönerken havalimanında gözaltına alındı. Germen, savcılıkta ifade verdikten sonra serbest kaldı.

Gözaltına alınan fotoğraf sanatçısı ve mimar Murat Germen serbest kaldı

Murat Germen kent suçlarını kayıt altına alırken ona yer açan müze ve kültür kurumları bu hukuksuz gözaltına sessiz mi kalacak?

bu ne be! gemi azıya aldılar iyice

Üniversite öğrencilerinin akademik boykotuna destek verdiği için tutuklanan akademisyen Levent Dölek hakkında tahliye kararı verildi. Günün tek güzel haberi bu.

Alarming new anti-LGBT+ law planned in Turkey.

Includes jail for people found guilty of “publicly encouraging, praising or inciting behaviour or attitudes contrary to biological sex... and general morality”

President Erdogan today again vowed measures against what he calls "perverted movements"

Here's a little glimpse into what we read in my Urban History and Development Research Seminar, part of the graduation semester of BA Urban Studies. @leidenhumanities.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social

Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher in Ottoman History The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher position in Ottoman History for four years (0.9 FTE). This position is part of the project Daily Br...

JOB 🚨 4-year Postdoctoral Researcher position in Ottoman History at the Amsterdam School for Historical Studies. The position is part of the “Daily Bread: A Comparative Urban History of Early Modern Food Protests” project ⤵️

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Useful for Canada too, in this absurd moment.
Faire du social: invest in universities, community health, research and development, reconciliation, creative arts and journalism. Welcome refugees.

Very excited to be listening to our dear Reşat Kasaba in The Hague www.iss.nl/en/events/em... #menasky #history

Don't let Urban Studies become the next victim of budget cuts Now that study programmes in English are in the crosshairs, Urban Studies students are fearing for the worst. Their interdisciplinary bachelor should not dissapear, Anouk Moritz writes. <br />

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Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF

Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun Son Döneminde İstanbul’un Enerji Ekonomisi YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies | Cilt: 6

論文　オスマン帝国末期イスタンブルのエネルギー経済
Tok, Alaaddin. “Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun Son Döneminde İstanbul’un Enerji Ekonomisi”. YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 6, Aralık (Aralık 2024): 31-50. otmn
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Are you an early modernist & working on the History of Ideas? There is an exciting 3-month new fellowship for an ECR who wants to do research in Amsterdam in 2026: thijssen-schoute.nl/fellowship/ It comes with a stipend of €2000 per month & a workplace at @huygensknaw.bsky.social Deadline: May 15th.

Chart showing rapidly rising temperatures with 2024 the worst

2024 daily temperatures compared to past years. A frightening graphic from the BBC. #ClimateEmergency

The New York Times Newsletter DealBook caption “How Much Would Buying Greenland Cost?” President-elect Donald Trump wants to buy the territory from Denmark, which says it’s not for sale. DealBook asked experts how they’d approach the deal.”

Global Western colonialism is so infused in media that this DealBook article frames Greenland as a “deal” to “approach.” Capitalism involves assessing and quantifying land while removing the people- Inuit are mentioned nowhere in these media articles. 1/

論文　上野雅由樹「イスタンブルを浄化する：ギリシア独立革命、人口調査、非ムスリム宗教権威」
Ueno, Masayuki. “Purifying Istanbul: The Greek Revolution, Population Surveillance, and Non-Muslim Religious Authorities in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2025. OA otmn
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