Oh, and the pun with "drip feed" was of course intended! ๐ค๐ฆ #skystorians #waterhistory #envhist #envhums
05.06.2025 13:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@davidemartino.bsky.social
environmental historian at ULB (BE) working on water in colonial Suriname๐ง| previously architectural historian at Bern (CH) and PhD, MPhil, BA history student at Cambridge (UK) ๐| former primary school teacher ๐จโ๐ซ| civis europeus ๐ช๐บ
Oh, and the pun with "drip feed" was of course intended! ๐ค๐ฆ #skystorians #waterhistory #envhist #envhums
05.06.2025 13:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It all started over two years ago in Cambridge, at our conference on "Bodies of Water" @crasshlive.bsky.social - our post reflecting on the day's proceedings is here: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/blog/event-r...
05.06.2025 13:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Our special issue is (partly) out! I'm co-editing "Negotiating Water Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" with Lavinia Maddaluno & Giacomo Savani for Notes & Records @royalsociety.org - articles will drip feed over 2025, starting with this by Felicia Else ๐ง
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
โชGreat to finally hold a paper copy of Water Cultures, the collection of essays I co-edited with Charlotte Ladevรจze & Eva Rothenberger! To read us in ๐ฌ๐ง, ๐ซ๐ท & ๐ฉ๐ช you don't even need a physical copy: PDF open access at www.academicpress.ch/fr/cultures-... #waterhistory #skystorians #envhist #envhums
22.05.2025 12:18 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Comme une sensation de dรฉjร vu? Pendant plus de 100 ans, la France a envoyรฉ ses prisonniers politiques et autres indรฉsirables au bagne en Guyane. Au lieu dโannoncer la fin de la colonisation franรงaise, on prรฉfรจre renouer avec lex vieux symbรดles et รชtre du mauvais cรดtรฉ de lโhistoire ๐ข
19.05.2025 16:02 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Still in some disbelief at having been selected to be part of this stellar line-up ๐คฏ 2025 is a good time to think about problems of social order and knowledge, as Simon Schaffer and Steven Shapin did 40y ago in Leviathan & Air-Pump! Do join us @sciencemuseum.org.uk if you're in London next Monday
07.05.2025 08:50 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If you're in Brussels next month, come help me think through the first steps of my new project on #envhist and #waterhistory of colonial Suriname! Talk will be in ๐ซ๐ท bit.ly/3GaepaJ
16.04.2025 13:00 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Excited (& terrified) to be thinking about "Making architectural history through the prism of
environmental and decolonial issues" as part of this brilliant workshop later this week @ieadeparis.bsky.social, organised by ENSA-Malaquais: www.paris-iea.fr/en/events/fa...
On board (my first ever) Amtrak to Boston to attend #RSA2025 #RenSA25 ๐ @caromurph7.bsky.social & I have organised a panel on "Administrative Cartography" with Lorenzo Gatta, Natsumi Nonaka & @hannahmgk.bsky.social ๐บ๏ธ And of course I'll be talking Neptune again with @frederickcrofts.bsky.social ๐ฑ
19.03.2025 22:26 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Fascinating! I'd love to know more - where can I read it?
19.03.2025 22:15 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0OA approved manuscript to follow shortly on ulb.academia.edu/DavideMartino, the (very nicely) paginated article as published in ESM is unfortunately for subscribers only
14.03.2025 17:55 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0With heartfelt thanks to @tinasmussen.bsky.social, @mirjamhaehnle.bsky.social, Francesco Luzzini, @gbba.bsky.social, and Anatole Tchikine for being excellent intellectual companions on the journey down early modern mining pits!
14.03.2025 17:53 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0If a mine yields (far, far) more water than silver, should we call it a silver mine? Or a water mine? I had some fun thinking about this and other questions of #waterhistory and #mininghistory in "Mining for water", my new article just out in Early Science & Medicine: doi.org/10.1163/1573... ๐งโ๏ธ
14.03.2025 17:50 โ ๐ 21 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0What was up with Neptune 400 years ago? @frederickcrofts.bsky.social and I have been trying to find out: we had a great research stay @zikg.eu! While we cross our fingers for the article (under review), you can find out more about the project, and the small exhibition we co-curated, here:
24.02.2025 17:20 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0More details here: www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de/historisches...
11.02.2025 12:41 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Join us in Leipzig next month to think and talk about urban-fluvial symbioses - or fluvial anthropospheres, as #envhist colleagues there say ๐ง @unileipzig.bsky.social #waterhistory #urbanhistory #skystorians
11.02.2025 12:40 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0New year, new social network, new job! 2024 summary: articles on liquid streets (rb.gy/du95nc), lost gardens and fountains (rb.gy/tfbk3y), and time-traveling maps (rb.gy/rjv2nn) - plus great people @unibern.bsky.social, and lots of ๐(see pic)! Now excited to join @ulbruxelles.bsky.social ๐ค
31.01.2025 11:18 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Foto einer Vitrinenauslage von Neptun-Darstellungen in Grafik und Fotografie
The Age of Neptune: Art and the Power of Water, c. 1520-1650
Projektvorstellung von @davidemartino.bsky.social und Frederick Crofts morgen um 12:00 Uhr im ZI ๐งโโ๏ธ
www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/ve...