Oscar A. Pérez

Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies edited by Aurora Santiago Ortiz and Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo. The cover is a rainbow gradient with navy blue at the top and red at the bottom. The title is written in a bold sans serif white text in all caps with “Puerto Rican Studies” written larger. Centered on the text is a cut out in the shape of Puerto Rica revealing the background gradient. The editors' names are below in white.

"Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies," edited by Aurora Santiago Ortiz and @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social, examines the disciplinary and epistemic transformations that have given way to new understandings of the field of Puerto Rican studies. Read the intro fro free now: buff.ly/iInTccO

Book launch very soon! Join us🪴

PLANTS AND ANIMALS IN LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL PRODUCTION VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH Thursday, February 26, 5:15-6:15 pm ET Initial Remarks and Moderator: Oscar A. Pérez (Skidmore College) Presenters: Mauricio Espinoza (U of Cincinnati) Brian T. Chandler (UNC Wilmington) Kate Ostrom (U of Michigan) Víctor Sierra Matute (Baruch College, CUNY) Response by Ilka Kressner (SUNY Albany) Register here: https://tinyurl.com/planlat Friday, March 13, 12-1 pm ET Initial Remarks and Moderator: Cristina E. Pardo Porto (Syracuse U) Presenters: Beatriz Rivera-Barnes (Penn State U) Pilar Consuelo Espitia Durán (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana) Thomaz Amancio (U of Chicago) Micah McKay (U of Alabama) Response by Carolyn Fornoff (Cornell U) Register here: https://tinyurl.com/planlat2

Join us on 02/26 or 03/13 for a virtual book launch of ‘Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production.’ Learn about the project and its contribution to #LatinAmericanStudies, #AnimalStudies, #PlantStudies, and the #EnvironmentalHumanites from the authors, editors, and guest scholars.

Intersections in Medical and Environmental Humanities An online talk by Dr Clare Hickman about Air, Weather and Multispecies Encounters in the British Tuberculosis Sanatoria.

📅 On Monday 9 February 5–6pm we are delighted to be hearing from
@drhick.bsky.social about 'Air, Weather and Multispecies Encounters in the British Tuberculosis Sanatoria'.

This is a free, online event. More info and book 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/intersecti...

what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.

🐎¡Nueva entrada en [LAT-STS Library]!

"Repartir el agua de la Revolución" de Mikael Wolfe revela la historia ambiental de la reforma agraria en México y su impacto en las desigualdades rurales.💧

🔗Acceso abierto en tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/
#HistoriaAmbiental #México #ReformaAgraria

Image for a webinar titled "Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Real-World Importance of Open Access Today," scheduled for January 29, 10.30am Pacific Time | 1.30pm Eastern Time 6.30pm GMT | 7.30pm CET. Features headshots of four speakers. Hosted by OASPA, the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association.

Why does #openaccess matter and what’s at stake if scholarship isn’t publicly available? This Thursday, 1/29, ACLS President Joy Connolly will participate in an @oaspa.bsky.social webinar to discuss the importance of #OA beyond academia.

Register: bit.ly/4benLQe

Full info & bios: bit.ly/4aBRXnU

Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production Challenging anthropocentric perspectives by highlighting cultural representations of plants and animals across Latin American historyThe first book to integr...

PLANTS AND ANIMALS IN LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL PRODUCTION, edited by Cristina E. Pardo Porto and Oscar A. Pérez, explores the relationships between plants, animals, and humans across various countries and historical periods and through a wide range of cultural production. #UFPress

Roberto Mendoza-Farías (@rmf.bsky.social) maps spectral spaces in two works of Fernanda Melchor in “Una mirada al abismo: Espacio espectral y la producción social de violencia de género en la obra de Fernanda Melchor.”

Link below.

🎨 Detail from Hurricane Season published by New Directions

The book cover for the new book by Suzanne M. Litrel, The Battle for Brazil, Resistance, Renewal, and the War Against the Dutch, 1580–1654, and a review of the book: “In a refreshing new take on Portuguese Brazil, Suzanne Litrel shows how disadvantaged groups seized opportunities to assert themselves in the long war with the Dutch. Her book not only details the role of Indigenous and Black men but also reveals the impact of women of all backgrounds as strong-willed patriots and valiant combatants.” ~Wim Klooster, author of Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History

NEW! The Battle for Brazil, by Susanne M. Litrel, is an examination of a crucial turning point in the colonial history of Brazil and especially the enduring consequences of local and trans-Atlantic resistance to Dutch colonialism.
www.unmpress.com/978082636904...

MLA is over, but you can still still visit our books online and take 30% off at z.umn.edu/mla26 #MLA26

Environment and History Vol. 32, no. 1 is out now! This issue includes new research articles, snapshots, book reviews, and the @eseh.bsky.social notepad. Subscribers can read here liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/32/1 🗃️ #envhist

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#MLA2026 ends today but our conference discount lasts through February 23! Save 40% on all books and journal issues when you use code MLA26 at checkout on our website or that of our UK partner, CAP. #Literature #LiteraryStudies buff.ly/fi06u5w

Cover: Title in capital letters in white and yellow arranged as a stacked set of descending stairs against a green background.

Don’t miss Eric A. Vázquez’s States of Defeat at MLA! Read about the cultural reverberations of Central America’s failed revolutions on US intellectual thought #MLA26

Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production Challenging anthropocentric perspectives by highlighting cultural representations of plants and animals across Latin American historyThe first book to integr...

@floridapress.bsky.social floridapress.org/9781683405689/

563 - Thinking with Plants and Animals through Latin American Texts Saturday, 10 January 2026 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM MTCC - 602B Description Panelists explore the intersection of critical plant studies and critical animal studies in Latin American cultural production, reconsidering the ethics, agency, and representation of nonhuman life by examining literature, film, and visual arts from the region. Discussion focuses on how plants and animals shape multispecies narratives, challenging human-centered frameworks in the humanities.

Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production Edited by Cristina E. Pardo Porto and Oscar A. Pérez Published by: University of Florida Press

Join us Saturday, 01/10, to talk about plants and animals in Latin America. @vanesamiseres.bsky.social, Jonathan Mulki, Kate Ostrom, Niall Peach, Beatriz Rivera-Barnes, @sierramatute.bsky.social, and I will share perspectives from ‘Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production.’ #MLA26

Contesting the Climate Unthinkable Examining Latin American cultural works that rethink environmental change and natural catastrophesThis volume explores Latin American cultural works from the...

CONTESTING THE CLIMATE UNTHINKABLE, edited by Azucena Castro, Gianfranco Selgas, and Ken Benson, examines Latin American cultural works that rethink environmental change and natural catastrophes. #UFPress

We have an exciting lineup of @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for the spring. Mark your calendars now to join the talks live at 4pm Central European time on Mondays. All are welcome.
Here's what we have set for the first 5 talks.
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we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social!

deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly.

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Big C3 Energy: Arctic Plant Collections as Evidence for the Climate Crisis. Arctic plants use efficient C3 photosynthesis to survive cold, now serving as biased yet vital climate-change indicators.

"Researchers have reconfigured the traditional use of natural history collections for taxonomic, systematic, and biogeographical study into indicators of global climate change." - @nulybranch.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/11/24/b...

#envhist #histsci #naturalhistory #climatechange

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#CallForPapers deadline 31 January

Moving Images/Moving Geographies:
Video Essays in ‘Spanish’ Visual Cultures

We're looking for video essays which develop this innovative mode of presenting film, TV, screen, media, and moving image research in Hispanic visual studies

go.qub.ac.uk/G6kbc

For the New Year, we're running a SALE of 25% off all books on our site. Use code WHP2026NY on anything listed here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... || Thanks to M. Johnson for painting these aconites, blossoming near Cambridge even in deep midwinter. #envhist #envhum #pastorialism #plantstudies

“Technology and History: ‘Kranzberg’s Laws’,” was published in Technology and Culture in *1986*— that's *forty fucking years ago* people— & it was delivered as his (Kranzberg's) presidential address to the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) the year before that, so we're rolling up on 41…

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Discover new perspectives & explore the latest entry on our library:

"Health, Nutrition and Inequality in Latin America. An Antrhopometric History",
ed. by Manuel Llorca-Jaña, José Miguel Martínez-Carrión & Ricardo Salvatore. 🍎

🔗More at tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/

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New Book Review ”Unpacking the maraña: leishmaniasis as human and more-than-human violence in Colombia's armed conflict and global health discourse”.🪢

By Isabella Jaimes Rodríguez

🖇Open Access doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2569154
#BookReview #Maraña #LinaPinto #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess

A photograph of a world map marked with colored pins at various locations of Southeast Asia, with a close-up focusing on Indonesia. By "Z" under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/4qgUjgJ.

What is the role of #STS in reimagining #SoutheastAsia as an #Area? How can #STS do so without letting any single regime of spatial identity dominate to the extent that it becomes fixed or given?

👀Read T. Winichakul’s meditation in his Afterword: https://doi.org/qjxb

Visualising Icebergs in the Early Modern Period Today’s blog by Björn Billing introduces his recent article in Environment and History (online first, December 2025), Visualising Icebergs: Early Modern Depictions, ca 1570–1770 and shows how…

We've added a new post to our blog, by Björn Billing on 'Visualising Icebergs in the Early Modern Period'; read it here: whitehorsepress.blog/2025/12/22/v... #envhist @eandhwhp.bsky.social #iceberg #arctic

We are so grateful and happy to read the authors in the new Special Issue of the Romance Quarterly: Espacios espectrales en escritoras hispanoamericanas

Have you visited their articles yet?

Visit the link below!

Photograph of cattle being transported out of a truck to the border of Thailand. Photograph by the author of the article.

#Areas are not containers—they materialise, for example, as the changing set of #multispecies entanglements linking humans, cattle, chemicals, and cultural tastes across borders

👀Read by @JirapornZwemmer on Southeast Asian cross-border #CattleTrade: https://doi.org/qjv4

We've published a new #openaccess article ahead of print in 'The Journal of Population and Sustainability' in which Richard Grossman asks 'Is Legal Abortion Required for a Sustainable Population?' Online here: www.doi.org/10.3197/whpj... #population #reproductiverights #sustainability