Eleonor Marcussen

Happy to have two PhD students from Ashoka University with us this semester! Institutional collaboration at its best.

The 8th ENIUGH Congress has started, or rather arrived - it's wonderful to have so many colleagues visiting LNU for discussions and sharing new ideas and research!
@lnuccon.bsky.social 🌏

Årets stora evenemang för allmänheten äger rum på Huseby bruk i Småland med Malin Lennartsson (LNU), Gunnel Cederlöf (LNU) och Arun Kumar (Nottingham University) - organiserat av projektet "Vändpunkter" om entreprenörskap sedan 1860-talet. ☀️ 🌿 🌲

Critical nature-society relations in Palestine/Israel: A Virtual Special issue
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Congratulations - this looks amazing!!
Very much looking forward to book talks and introducing it to the ma-students in postcolonial studies - and of course and the course Race and racism: a postcolonial perspective.

Sweden's 3rd oldest oak, 800 years old, the Stufvenäs oak outside Vimmerby

Had to leave the #ESEH early for a meeting and simultaneously visited Sweden's 3rd oldest oak, the Stufvenäs oak: 800 years! An oak grows for 300 years, lives for 300 years and dies for 300 years according to the sign.

Sorry to have missed this, had to leave the conference early for a meeting.

Very excited to receive the paperback of my book, which was published last year. It is a study of the varying economic practices of the Moravian (Herrnhuter) missionaries in St. Thomas, Bethlehem (PA), and Greenland.

#Uppsala #ESEH2025

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

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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."
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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. 📗 📚 📝
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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