Fred Lange-Lumetsberger

The Range of the River | Stanford University Press Spanning nearly 4 million square kilometers, the Tibetan river system—including the Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, Red, and Yangzi—forms the largest contiguous network of rivers on the plane...

Iftekhar Iqbal, The Range of the River: A Riverine History of Empire across China, India, and Southeast Asia - @stanfordpress.bsky.social, December 2025 www.sup.org/books/asian-...

I am thrilled to announce that my book has been published! Thank you to @nupress.bsky.social and my incredible editor for her guidance and support. I hope to share my work with as many of you as possible! Enter code NUP2025 for a 25% discount at nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014884....

CFP: Transnational approaches to the long 19th century history in East-Central Europe

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156881

Vilnius, 16.04.2026-17.04.2026, Kirsten Bönker / David Feest, Nordost-Institut, Lüneburg; Povilas Dikavičius, Vilnius branch of the German Historical Institute …

Mines, Memory, and Migration on Bosnia's Perilous Border Refugees and migrants have to navigate terrain laden with leftover landmines and unexploded ordnance on Bosnia's border with Croatia.

With @ahnidzara.bsky.social and Maryam Ashrafi, I explored minefields, memory, and migration in Bosnia for @inkstickmedia.com inkstickmedia.com/mines-memory...

Job: 1 Wiss. Mitarb. (PostDoc) "Interdisziplinäre und multiskalare Area Studies" (w/m/d) (Univ. Regensburg)

https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-156907

Regensburg, , Universität Regensburg, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.09.2025

Job: 2x 0,65 Doctoral Positions "Global History / East Central European History" (Univ. of Cologne)

https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-156912

Köln, 01.01.2026, University of Cologne, Bewerbungsschluss: 10.09.2025

Stip: 3-4 Fellowships "Center for Eastern European Studies" (Univ. Zurich)

https://www.hsozkult.de/grant/id/stip-156896

Zürich, , Center for Eastern European Studies, University of Zurich, Bewerbungsschluss: 01.10.2025

Konf: Bridging the Past and Present in Cartography

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156399

Prag, 07.07.2026-11.07.2026, Faculty of Science, Charles University; Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences; Moravian Library, Brno; Faculty of Science, Masaryk University; Czech …

I am giving a lecture tomorrow (July 17) in Münster at 18:15 and it will be on Zoom too! If you are interested here is the link!

A bit on the book, and pointing towards the new project!

From Fieldwork in Japan to Print: The Reciprocal Relationship between Johannes Justus Rein and the Perthes Publishing House On a winter morning in 1875, the geographer Johannes Justus Rein was staying at the German Legation in Tokyo. For over a year, Rein had been conducting field research in Japan under the auspices of a government-sponsored expedition. In a letter to August Petermann (10 January 1875), he outlined his plans for the scholarly evaluation of his fieldwork upon return...

Long before #geography became an academic discipline, Johannes Justus Rein built his reputation through fieldwork in Japan and close ties to the Perthes publishing house. Tobit Nauheim explores how their almost symbiotic relationship shaped global knowledge networks ⬇

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A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are seven tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Rivers as Borders'. The papers are: 1) Rivers as borders? Navigating in-between the tensions of water-state-society geographies Rebekka Kanesu, Vanessa Lamb, Eva McGrath 2) Median line: A century of border violence and the alluvial geopolitics of the Evros/Meriç/Maritsa River border Ifor Duncan, Stefanos Levidis 3) Slow violence on the Yarmouk River: Encounters from the river-border environments Muna Dajani 4) Migrating sands: Refocusing transboundary flows from water to sediment C. R. Hackney 5) Crossing riverborderscapes and a view from in-between: Passenger ferries in South West England Eva McGrath, Richard Yarwood, Nichola Harmer 6) Liquid lines: Exploring the Moselle River between France, Luxembourg and Germany Rebekka Kanesu 7) Caring for the river-border: Struggles and opportunities along the Salween River-border Vanessa Lamb

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with the names of papers in the issue. The papers are: 1) On undevelopment and de-development: A geographical critique on perpetual growth and resource-based accumulation Gertjan Wijburg 2) Place, institutional spatiality, and the localisation of financial calculative practices Leqian Yu 3) Claim-making in hydrosocial spaces: The temporality of displacement around Kenya's Masinga Dam reservoir Arne Rieber, Benson Nyaga 4) Deliberative approaches to the climate crisis: Adapting Climathons for rural communities Philippa Simmonds, Damian Maye, Julie Ingram, Abigail Gardner, Sofia Raseta 5) Ethnographic fingerprints: Examining co-participation, positionality, and interpersonal relationships in diary method Julius Baker 6) A whole island approach to scoping renewable energy sites and yields Ben Watt, Robert L. Wilby 7) Past, present, future: The RGS-IBG political geography research group within British political geography Daniel Hammett 8) Visualising an undergraduate geography field class using generative AI: Intent, expectations and surprises about the racial depiction of students Terence Day, James Esson

📢June Issue of Area📢

This latest issue pulls together the fully #OpenAccess 'Rivers as Borders' Special Section alongside papers on topics including de-development, AI, and diary methods.

Read all the papers here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geosky

A very interesting paper on references to #Ireland in Ukrainian nationalist discourse (& vice versa) in the early 20th century and during #WW1 and #revolution: “Ireland of the East”? A Case of the Anticolonial Rhetoric in the Ukrainian National Movement (1870s–1923) www.zfo-online.de/portal/zfo/a...

Bosnia in Deadlock as Serbs Strain for Exit | International Crisis Group Once again, leaders of the majority-Serb entity Republika Srpska are threatening to break away from Bosnia. While tensions between the entity and Sarajevo are longstanding, national collapse may be cl...

Meanwhile, in Bosnia & Herzegovina, crisis can feel like status quo. Now, however, the future of the country is truly precarious. @crisisgroup.org 's Marko Prelec explains in this new commentary.

Erinnerung bewahren🙏

Am Friedhof in Zvornik🇧🇦 kümmern wir uns weiter um die 26 Gräber ertrunkener Geflüchteter, damit der Friedhof würdevoll bleibt.

Insgesamt konnten wir mit SOS Balkanroute in Bosnien 3 Friedhöfe, 66 Grabsteine und 2 Denkmäler realisieren.

Danke! ❤️

AT20 2011 1842 8097 8400

#OpenAcces #digitized

Dozens of digitized catalogs of art exhibitions in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR:
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#art #artist #kunst #museum #germany #ussr

Etappenliebe: Belgrad, Cetinje und Lublin unter österreichisch-ungarischer Besatzungsmacht im Ersten Weltkrieg *Full citation: Tamara Scheer, Etappenliebe: Belgrad, Cetinje und Lublin unter österreichisch-ungarischer Besatzungsmacht im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte 34 (2015): 35-63...

Mittlerweile fast alles auf Academia Edu www.academia.edu/30907812/Eta...

Više od 500 originalnih eksponata Ex-Yu rocka!
Otvoren danas 11:00-16:00
Open today 11:00-16:00
Sarajevo / Dom mladih / Plato Skenderija
Come for a visit! Group tours available.

Tskaltubo, Stalin’s spa resort: the decay of a Soviet past in Georgia Tskaltubo enjoyed years of prosperity as a jewel of Soviet architecture. But after the collapse of the USSR in December 1991 the sanatoriums were abandoned, and in 1992 people fleeing the war in…

Tskaltubo, Stalin’s spa resort: the decay of a Soviet past in Georgia www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Staatsratsmitglied Lothar Kolditz
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"...1983 bis 1990 Mitglied des Präsidiums des Zentralvorstandes der Gesellschaft für Deutsch-Sowjetische Freundschaft und von 1986 bis 1990 Mitglied des Präsidialrates des Kulturbundes der DDR."

Unser Projekt REYUG, das die Geschichte der Jugoslawienkriege untersucht, beteiligt sich am #HistoryFest2025 in Sarajewo. Wir freuen uns gemeinsam mit unseren Partnern @leibniz-ios.de und @humboldtuni.bsky.social auf spannende Diskussionen!

Pierre Nora, 93, Who Probed Role of Memory in Writing of History, Dies

Farewell to historian Pierre Nora (1931-2025), whose « major contribution to historiography was the concept of “lieux de mémoire” (“sites of memory”), a term he coined to describe elements of the past that a community chooses to remember and which become symbolic of a shared identity. »

Jawad Daheur and Iva Lučić (eds.): Habsburg Natures. Imperial Governance and Environment in Central Europe, 1850-1918. New York: Berghahn 2025. ISBN 978-1-83695-227-5 (available for preorder). URL: www.berghahnbooks.co...

The Turkestan Album: War and Peace of Maps and Photographs The Russian campaign in Central Asia can be viewed as an episode in the long history of this territory. Claiming the city of Tashkent in 1865, the fortress of Samarkand in 1868 and the Khanate of Khiv...

Explore the Turkestan Album: a monumental 19th-century visual archive of Russian imperialism in Central Asia. This post critically examines its role in colonial knowledge production.

New post by Inessa Kouteinikova on "Mapping Africa and Asia" @unierfurt.bsky.social

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Velogames Team Roster Giro 2025 mit Ayuso, Roglič, Ciccone, Fortunato, Fretin, Scaroni, Staune-Mittet, Vacek, Groves

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Opinie: Nederland moet archief Joegoslaviëtribunaal redden Het enorme archief van het Joegoslaviëtribunaal dreigt teloor te gaan, en daarmee een unieke bron van bewijs van oorlogsmisdaden. Grijp in voor het te laat is, schrijven Martijn Eickhoff en Victor-Jan...

An important OpEd on #ICTY #archives and the responsibility of the #Netherlands: #Research #MassViolence
www.trouw.nl/opinie/opini...

Defend the Internet Archive. Protect the Wayback Machine. Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit. Sign our open letter on change.org

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.

At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

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