This week, the Lunchtime #Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Lachlan Fleetwood, titled “#Environmental Determinism, Climatic Stability, and Imperial Imaginaries of Habitability in #CentralAsia.”
CFP: "Climate Change, Empire and the Legacies of Environmental Determinism," LMU Munich, 18-19 March 2024. Please circulate and/or get in touch if this is of interest! @LMU_Muenchen
Many thanks @EdArmston for this generous commentary, and great to be 'in conversation' with you on why studying exploration should matter to historians, geographers and historians of science!
CFP: "Climate Change, Empire and the Legacies of Environmental Determinism," LMU Munich, 18-19 March 2024. Please circulate and/or get in touch if this is of interest! @LMU_Muenchen
When I visited Chimborazo in Ecuador's Andean Mts, upon realizing I'm #Tibetan a few natives asked which Mt I thought is taller, Everest or Chimborazo? This book gets into that & the intersection of the making of western scientific know. of Mts & western Empire.
I'm very proud to have an essay in this brilliant new book edited by my colleagues Alison Bashford, Emily Kern, and Adam Bobbette.
New Earth Histories is 'a kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth.' Preorder now via this link:
https://t.co/9BHIcaimat
Coming this month with @CUPAcademic - my first book! It traces the contested development of strategies of indirect rule in the EIC and includes chapters on rumour, violence, material culture, go-betweens, and women in palace politics.
Another in our series of #mountainresearch posts, this time turning the spotlight onto @jpitches68, in which he shares details of his fascinating practice-led research into mountain culture. #mountainhumanities@StA_Classics
https://t.co/CQ7Y41bSC9
#longread For @Himalistan, I review John Keay's Himalaya, Erika Fatland's High, & @calmandfearless' Himalaya: A Human History, arguing that ways of seeing the Himalaya must shift from the colonialist discourse to emphasise indigenous histories.
https://t.co/ZIMHdy61X3
And here is the first of our #mountainresearch spotlights - with enormous thanks to Lachlan Fleetwood @lachlanfleet for sharing his thoughts on the 'mountain humanities'. @StA_Classics
https://t.co/w5HrtBi7qs
We are excited to be launching a new blog series of #mountainresearchspotlights, showcasing the work of colleagues who joined us to discuss the 'past, present, and future' of the mountain humanities in December last year. @StA_Classics@JasonKonig1
https://t.co/qPtqUub8hU
The journal is seeking to appoint two new members to its editorial collective, to work with Co-Editors in Chief Nicola Thomas and Stephen Legg.
Deadline for applications: 13 March
Details here: https://t.co/bjBU7czhca
#CfP: Excited to be organizing "Making Science of Things: Objects in and between the Natural and Human Sciences" w Brooke Penaloza-Patzak!
Deadline: 4 March
Workshop dates: Vienna, 29 Jun - 1 July 2023
Please share/RT
#sts#histsci#materialculture#twitterstorians
"Despite mountains of trash, increasingly severe overcrowding, and growing ethical debates around labour and risk, the allure of Everest remains undimmed."
From August 2022: @lachlanfleet on science, labour and the rise of altitude to measure mountains.
https://t.co/oSSYDqTxsa
@amhuss27 Thanks Mobeen - there is indeed quite a bit on labour in the article, hope it's of some use... and looking forward to learning more about your new research too of course!
New article now published in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History!
"Empire, Exploration and ‘Failure’: The Euphrates Expedition and the Route to India that Never Was"
Available online here: https://t.co/NcmlqHykKK
#histsci#histenv#histgeo