Lectures, Seminars, and Workshops
This page will dynamically gather announcements for Lectures, Seminars, Workshops, Roundtables, Symposia, Summer Programs, and Conference Announcements that have been posted to H-SAWH. As new networks move into the Commons, the page will expand its criteria to bring related announcements into the collection.
Davis, Muriam Haleh. Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria. Theory in Forms. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. xvi + 264 pp. $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781478015871.$26.95 (paper), ISBN 9781478018506.
The project: The ERC/UKRI research project, ‘Mapping the March: Medieval Wales and England, c. 1282–1550’, is inviting applications for a funded PhD studentship to be held in the Department of English at the University of Bristol. The studentship will be supervised by Professor Helen Fulton and an appropriate second supervisor.
Fallout, The Last of Us, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and so many more video games today imagine extinction scenarios as part of worldbuilding and gameplay. Yet, what is the place of video games in our Sixth Mass Extinction? The international symposium Imagining Extinction in Video Games aims to explore the intersections of game studies and extinction studies.
Pappas, Andrea. Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740-1770. Northern Lights Series. London: Lund Humphries, 2023. Illustrations. 192 pp. $89.99 (cloth), ISBN 9781848226241.
Reviewed by
Vaughn Scribner (University of Central Arkansas)
Published on
H-Environment (April, 2024)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Fallout, The Last of Us, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and so many more video games today imagine extinction scenarios as part of worldbuilding and gameplay. Yet, what is the place of video games in our Sixth Mass Extinction? The international symposium Imagining Extinction in Video Games aims to explore the intersections of game studies and extinction studies.
Biennial conferences of the International Oral History Association (IOHA) allow for reviewing the global conditions and problems of oral history, regardless of the actual conference theme. This time, the organizers of the 23rd IOHA Conference call on oral historians worldwide to consciously rethink the idea and practice of their discipline.
Bereznay, András. Historical Atlas of the Gypsies: Romani History in Maps. Budapest: Méry Ratio, 2021. 130 pp. ISBN 9786156284105.
Reviewed by
Tim Olin (Central College)
Published on
HABSBURG (April, 2024)
Commissioned by
Yasir Yılmaz (Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=60365
Sparrow, Giles. Phenomena: Doppelmayr's Celestial Atlas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Illustrations. 255 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780226824116.
Reviewed by
Kristine Palmieri (University of Chicago)
Published on
H-Sci-Med-Tech (April, 2024)
Commissioned by
Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
Harrison, Christian S.. All the Water the Law Allows: Las Vegas and Colorado River Politics. The Environment in Modern North America Series. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. xv + 249 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 9780806192284.$39.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780806169323.
Reviewed by
Spencer McConkie (University of Oregon)
Published on
H-Environment (April, 2024)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)