At 7pm we have our FINAL aca panel for #BSHSDigiFest23! ‘Immersive Storytelling, History of Science/Technology, and Pop Culture PART 2’ w/Emma Fraser, Andra Ivanescu, Nick Rush-Cooper, Ewan Kirkland, Helen Young, Robert Whitaker, Esther Wright, Jane Draycott & Kathleen Sheppard

Excited to speak this afternoon about 'Current issues and challenges in international environmental law' at the Department of Treaties and Legal Affairs กระทรวงการต่างประเทศ | MFA of Thailand. Thank you Sun Thathong for the invitation!

Exciting news!

'Pumpie' elephant soft toy made of grey felt, dressed as a sailor in a smart, dark blue, woollen jacket and matching trousers, England, 1900. Victoria & Albert Museum.

A new PhD started today. She asked for general advice for the first few months. This was my advice: 1. Don’t work evenings or weekends 2. Don’t aim to prove yourself (to me), I’m already convinced of your capacities 3. Go for a walk when things dazzle you (1/3)

We're pleased to announce that our new exhibition, ‘Going Mobile’ is open to the public this Saturday! 📱 Learn more about the exhibition by visiting our website: pkporthcurno.com/exhibitions/go… See you there! 👋 MobilePhoneMuseum Vodafone UK

PhDs: your dissertation topic is less relevant to finding a role outisde of academia than your *skills*. Here's a 🧵 on how to translate skills you already have into corpspeak using examples from my own PhD work experience:

We're excited to share the cover design for volume 1 issue 1 (forthcoming Feb/March 2024) of our brilliant new interdisciplinary journal 'Plant Perspectives'. Submissions are coming in at pace now - more info here: whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index #envhum #plants

Got my rooibos, bok jersey, and a vase of protea on the shelf. All ready for tonight's semi-final. #GoBokke !

Couldn't work all day. Boks v All Blacks anticipation too strong. Soon now

📚 Indigenous Peoples and Borders. Eds Sheryl Lightfoot and Elsa Stamatopoulou. Duke University Press January 2024. "offers new ways of understanding borders by departing from statist approaches to territoriality" dukeupress.edu/indigenous-peo…

Ah, so today is Sun Yat-sen's birthday. This reminds me of the excitement of discovering his signature in an archival document (it was one of my first archival visits ever). 此研究者之樂也。

Like pirates? (Not the Roman) empire? Hard cover and digital copies of my book are available for order at a bargain price (compared to Brill titles). Coming in May 2024. pennpress.org/9781512825749/…

🧵 I am delighted to (belatedly) announce the publication of a new edited volume, Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World, with Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. @pennpress pennpress.org/9781512823585/…

The Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History provides for an informal exchange on research in the environmental humanities. The talks will be hosted on Zoom from November through February and you are welcome to join. Link: networks.h-net.org/group/announce…

📚 Migration, Borders, and Borderlands: Making National Identity in Southern African Communities. Eds Munyaradzi Mushonga at al. @RLPGBooks 2023 "a synthesis of the experiences of borderland residents in this economically and socially integrated region" rowman.com/ISBN/978166694…

Hello from Vienna! Thanks to Claudia Martínez Hernández und Berthold Unfried’s invitation I gave a paper at the conference “Inter-continental personal entanglements and disruptions in the socialist world 1970-1990”on entanglements and disentanglements of Angolan contract workers.