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Recent Discussions

Elements and Environment in the Middle Ages: A Multidisciplinary Workshop

Belfast, Thursday 29 June 2023

 

Queen’s University Belfast

The Graduate School, ROOM TR6

 

Programme:

 

9.15-9.30 Welcome

 

9.30-10.45 Session 1 ‘COSMOLOGY’

moderator: Ciarán Walsh

Matthew McMahon (Armagh Observatory):  “Science and Spectacle; The History of Irish Astronomy Network” 

Call for Panelists: ASEH 2024: Roundtable on Carcerality and the Environmental History Course

I am seeking 3-4 participants for a roundtable on how carcerality and the carceral state figure in teaching of environmental history at the undergraduate and graduate levels for the annual conference of the American Society for Environmental History in Denver in April 2024.  In keeping with the conference theme, proposals focused on how carceral regimes function as extractive forces in marginalized and vulnerable communities are most welcome.  Time period and geographic area open.  Please send title and brief proposal (250 words) to Jeff Hall, Associate Professor of History at Queensborough

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Environment: 1 May - 8 May 2023

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
22 May 2023 to 29 May 2023.  These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Environment.  See the H-Net Job Guide website at
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information.  To contact the Job Guide,
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Recent Reviews

Author: 
Andrew F. Smith
Reviewer: 
Allan Stoekl

Stoekl on Smith, 'The Threefold Struggle: Pursuing Ecological, Social, and Personal Wellbeing in the Spirit of Daniel Quinn'

Andrew F. Smith. The Threefold Struggle: Pursuing Ecological, Social, and Personal Wellbeing in the Spirit of Daniel Quinn. Suny in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2022. xiii + 379 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-8871-4

Author: 
Jennifer Helgren
Reviewer: 
Montana Chandler

Chandler on Helgren, 'The Camp Fire Girls: Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910–1980'

Jennifer Helgren. The Camp Fire Girls: Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910–1980. Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. Illustrations. xi + 355 pp.

Recent Roundtable Reviews

Crawford, "The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making," H-Environment Roundtable vol. 13 no. 5 (2023)

Dear Colleagues,

Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Sharika D. Crawford's The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making. Please enjoy and distribute widely.

Title: The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making

Author: Sharika D. Crawford

Contributors: Elizabeth Hennessy, Karl Offen, Russell Fielding, Mary Draper

Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting

Miller, "Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China," H-Environment Roundtable vol. 13 no. 4 (2023)

Dear Colleagues,

Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Ian M. Miller's Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China. Please enjoy and distribute widely. 

Title: Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China

Author: Ian M. Miller

Contributors: Jonathan Schlesinger, Ruth Mostern, Keith Pluymers

Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting

Black, "The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power," H-Environment Roundtable vol. 13, no. 3 (2023)

Dear Colleagues,

Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Megan Black's The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power. Please enjoy and distribute widely.

Title: The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power

Author: Megan Black

Contributors: Shellen X. Wu, Sarah Stanford-McIntyre, Brian Leech, Jacob Darwin Hamblin

Editor: Melanie A. Kiechle

Barbour, "Undressed Toronto: From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850-1930," H-Environment Roundtable vol. 13, no. 1 (2023)

Dear Colleagues,

Announcing a new editon of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Dale Barbour's Undressed Toronto: From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850-1930. Please enjoy and distribute widely.

Title: Undressed Toronto: From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850-1930

Author: Dale Barbour

Contributors: Sarah Schrank, Bruce Kidd, Ken Cruikshank, Daniel Ross

Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting