Eleonor Marcussen

As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities | Open letter Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Speaking Reassurance to Power, by Pankaj Mishra

"The central working assumption of PEN America and of the State Department—that the liberal American can teach the seriously swarming races what is meant by democracy—has been annihilated."
harpers.org/archive/2025...

Congratulations! Looking forward to reading it.

Sexual Ecologies: Space, nature and queer cinema.

🌿 On Friday 30 May 2025, @maguiregeoff.bsky.social and @julesod.bsky.social host 'Sexual ecologies: Space, nature and queer cinema', a workshop focussing on the queer turn in ecocritical media.
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We are hiring a new PhD student in the history group @unistavanger.bsky.social. There are several possible topics, including «Intersections between history education and education for sustainable development/environmental citizenship», which should be interesting for the #envhist #envhum crowd.

Don't miss tomorrow's seminar by the fabulous @nathanbossoh.bsky.social: Making Colonial Laboratories: Investigating the Role of Suggestions and Instructions in Managing the Aburi Botanic Gardens. 21 May, 15.00-16.00 CET. Please note time dif.To register please email instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se

For faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research to sign:
#uppsaladeclaration
uppsaladeclaration.se

... and chaired by Rebecca Duncan (Linnaeus U)
Here is a link for those of you based in Sweden:https://www.svtplay.se/video/KrJYagL/no-other-land

Ended the work day with a screening of the documentary No Other Land (2024)on the forceful eviction & violence against Palestinian villagers in the West Bank, followed by panel discussion w Nina Gren (Lund U), Wafa Jamil (film director) and Anders Persson (Linnaeus U). Highly recommend it...

Quote of the day:
What Is AI? Neither Artificial nor Intelligent
(Crawford, The Atlas of AI)

Four-leaf clover anno 1867 pressed in notebook of Joseph Stephens at Huseby Bruk.

Project: Welcome Re-Course: Co-produced Online Training to Support the Inclusion of Refugee, Migrant and International Students Welcome Re-Course is a co-produced online training to support the inclusion of refugee, migrant, and international students in order to improve well-being within universities and society.

Recently we published an illustrated booklet by the collaborative pilot project "Welcome Re-Course":
"Welcoming Refugee, Migrant and International Students"

The training booklet also available for downloading in French, Spanish, Italian and Swedish. 📗 📚 📝
lnu.se/en/research/...

Me too! These are by the studio photographer Olivia Wittberg (1844-1908) based in Visby, Gotland, probably some time in the 1880s.

Olivias porträtt av katter - Datering okänd Tessa, husdjur, katter, kattungar, Olivia Wittberg

I'm planning to start a #topothek/#topotek/#topotheque for a #citizenscience project as a part of a larger project - does anyone have experiences to share or other recommendations? Suggestions and input much appreciated.
Olivia's portraits of cats: Tessa with triplets: gotland.topotek.se?doc=1108829

Happy to host PhD student Joseph Manock from Manchester University at LNUC #Concurrences this spring - arrived on campus Växjö with spring and a clear blue sky. ☀️🌻

A Degrowth Theorist in the Nineteenth Century? Eugène Huzar and the Dangers of Scientific and Industrial Growth Eugène Huzar warned that industrial science-driven growth threatened Earth's balance, advocating global oversight but recognizing its limits, foreseeing degrowth's necessity.

Today we have "A Degrowth Theorist in the Nineteenth Century? Eugène Huzar and the Dangers of Scientific and Industrial Growth" by @benst.bsky.social

This is the third post in the Historicizing Adaptation blog series, edited by @stundenbower.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/03/20/a...

#envhist

Delighted to read this short story translated by Sarah Irving in The Book of Gaza.
Part of literary readings in continuation of last year's history seminars on disasters and politics during the 20th cent.
#bookclub
@drtermagant.bsky.social

Gendered Development Work and Non-State Primary Healthcare Provisions: The Skippo Medical Van Scheme in Rural India, c. 1940s to mid-1970s This article focuses on gendered rural development work in late colonial and early post-colonial India. Next to the question of livelihood generation and education, the issue of health and hence of wo...

Excited that the first article of my ongoing research project on the history of Indian women in rural development has been published in Comparativ. If you cannot access it and are interested to read, let me know. @unierfurt.bsky.social @emleake.bsky.social

www.comparativ.net/v2/article/v...

William Cecil Slingsby and Elizabeth Le Blond in Norway: transnational mountaineering, modernity and temporality, 1870–1910 In both William Cecil Slingsby’s Norway. The Northern Playground (1904) and Elizabeth Le Blond’s Mountaineering in the Land of the Midnight Sun (1908), Norway is presented as an alternative destina...

Very excited to have my first article published! It's about why British mountaineers travelled to Norway in the nineteenth century and the transnational networks they formed. Open access in Studies in Travel Writing here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🏔️

Acts of Aid Cambridge Core - Environmental History - Acts of Aid

‘(...) It not only illuminates a critical historical event but also underscores the significance of disaster history to inform future policies and strategies for disaster preparedness and response.' By Vipul Singh, in Environment and History
Publisher's update:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

I usually love the German combination words, but I have to say "cringe quake" is absolutely perfect

Just finished the latest by @quinnslobodian.com. Offers a lot of historical clarity on the right-libertarian/neoliberal to hard right pipeline that's been broadly speculated on. The chapters on IQ and race...

Graduate students - apply! Global China Summer School 2025: China in Circuits of Global Extractivism
16-19 June, 2025
Lund University
www.ace.lu.se/activities/g...

Seminar program 2025

Spring program for the Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series. The first seminar is by the wonderful @nickytheprof.bsky.social on Wed 26 Feb, 3-4 pm C.E.T: The Land of True Britons: Edward Lhwyd's Survey of Wales.

Coming soon with @manchesterup.bsky.social

The cover of Issue 190 of The Continent is a depiction of Ethiopia's capital city Addis Ababa by illustrator Yemsrach Yetneberk. It's a city scene featuring the iconic Lion of Judah Statue as graffiti and other landmarks. In the foreground is a billboard reading "Now or never for the African Union". #AfricanUnion #AU #AddisAbaba #TheContinent

All Protocol Observed

Welcome to Issue 190 of The Continent

The world order is disintegrating. Whose interests will the African Union serve now?

Read it here: bit.ly/TC190

It was a pleasure to host Bindu Bhadana as guest researcher LNUC Concurrences for a month, working on gender, far-right politics and performance. Linnaeus University Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Master's Programme in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies

It was a pleasure to host Bindu Bhadana as guest researcher LNUC Concurrences for a month, working on gender, far-right politics and performance. Looking forward to the forthcoming publication!
@lnuccon.bsky.social

Screenshot of an email: Dear SHARP organizers, Thank you for accepting my pre-formed panel for the SHARP conference this year in Rochester, NY. Unfortunately, I currently do not feel safe or comfortable travelling to and spending money in the United States given the current political climate. As a gender-queer, disabled scholar, I stand with my colleagues who are experiencing unprecedented discrimination and difficult times in the United States. I know that many fellow Canadians feel the same way, and I'm sure many international colleagues have similar feelings as well. I urge you to consider transitioning this conference to a hybrid model so that international, trans and gender-queer, LGBTQ2S+, disabled, BIPOC, caregiving, and precariously employed colleagues can still present their incredible work with the SHARP community. If you are unable to transition this conference to a hybrid model, then I regret that I will have to decline this invitation to present. I hope that you can find a suitable replacement so that my fellow panelists still have the opportunity to present their work. Thank you, stay well. Ellen Forget (she/they) PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Information Book History and Print Culture Specialization

There has been some conversation re: what to do about the #SHARP conference, given that it is in the US this year. This is my email to the conference organizers asking them to transition to hybrid.

Full text is in the alt text if you want to copy to use some or all of the email for yourself.

Congratulations! 💐

Inspiring and in these days of escalating violent politics a soothing teaching resource on the global histories of nonviolent protests: thenonviolenceproject.wisc.edu