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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”
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
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
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Dear H-NET Colleagues
Third interdisciplinary and international
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. 
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.
J. Brent Morris.
Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 256 pp.
$29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-6825-3.
Greg Ellermann.
Thought’s Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. xiii + 180 pp.
$70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-2848-9.
Teow Lim Goh.
Western Journeys.
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2022. vi + 184 pp.
$21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-64769-095-3.
Reviewed by Gabriel Valle (California State University, San Marcos) Published on H-Environment (May, 2023) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
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
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
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
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
