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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Interesting CFP for an edited collection on The Politics of Care in Higher Education: Pedagogies, Communities, and Institutional Tensions (Routledge companion) people.brandonu.ca/hetud/public...

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CFPs | Dr. Dominique Hétu

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My chapter in the new Bloomsbury Handbook of Microhistory traces where #envhist and #microhistory meet. It's the first detailed study of microhistory as a field, with contributions from Carlo Ginzburg, Giovanni Levi and Natalie Zemon Davis. PM me for a 35% discount code at Bloomsbury.com

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Microhistory

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Microhistory provides the first detailed examination of a field which has rapidly expanded in the last three decades. Characterised b…

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Yesterday, an interdisciplinary workshop in Oslo on environmental temporalities, where I was invited alongside Kyrre Kverndokk from Uni Bergen. We brainstormed eight brilliant PhD projects, struggled with anachronistic methodologies and concepts, and agreed not to start any more academic papers

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

We're delighted to announce publication of 'Nordic Climate Histories' (Dominik Collet et al. eds), an essay collection exploring how the people of the Nordic countries have confronted challenges from climatic variability down the centuries: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #climatehistory #

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Has anybody here tested Google Deep Minds’s Aeneas, advertised as „the first artificial intelligence (AI) model for contextualizing ancient inscriptions”? deepmind.google/discover/blo...

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Aeneas transforms how historians connect the past

Introducing the first model for contextualizing ancient inscriptions, designed to help historians better interpret, attribute and restore fragmentary texts.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

ICYMI: "The podcast works as environmental history by reflecting on the relationships between women and landscapes, thinking about embodied experiences of ski touring and jumping." - @cjdrury.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/07/10/r... #envhist #sporthistory #cdnhist #wmshist #skiing

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Review of the Ski Like a Girl Podcast

“Ski Like a Girl” podcast explores Canadian women’s skiing history, blending research and personal stories to highlight leadership, barriers, and landscape.

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Today in Lucerne, the 7th Swiss Historical Days begin, a triennial conference under the theme “(In)visibility.” I had the pleasure of presenting in a panel on multispecies history with @isabelleschuerch.bsky.social & Camille Schneiter, organized and moderated by @smschober.bsky.social. Full room! 🙌🏻🙏🏻

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Long story short, gen AI can waste everybody’s time or, in some cases, accelerate learning. More often, though, it accelerates the consumption of HigherEd products, that is, increasingly commodified Uni courses. Focusing on the process is the solution. I agree. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Interesting article in NYT taking the pulse of American historians on gen AI www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

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A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Brilliant talk today in Oslo by Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social on the multispecies history of early modern wigs, organised by KLIMER and the @uio-oceh.bsky.social OCEH Multispecies Landscapes Lab!👌🏻

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Caran d'Ache for scribbling insights, Gruyère for fueling them—strong conference opening in Fribourg!

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Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

New on Bluesky! We’re OCEH - a research hub at the University of Oslo @uio.no, exploring climate, nature & culture through the humanities. Follow for research highlights, events, reading tips & snapshots from the OCEH Lab. 📸 OCEH Lab hf.uio.no/oceh #ClimateCrisis #EnvironmentalHumanities #envhum

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Living in a stack of four exceptional care-centered reads right now. Rare to find this much brilliance in one pile. ▪️The Bloomsbury Handbook of Care Ethics, ed. by M.Carter ▪️J.Davis, D.Pontille, The Care of Things: Ethics and Politics of Maintenance ▪️J.Shulevitz, The Sabbath World ▪️C.McCann, Twist

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Heading to Fribourg🇨🇭in mid-May for a phenomenal seminar on time and writing in early modern almanacs, organised by Vitus Huber. Another chance to revisit my PhD dissertation (2018), where I first developed and introduced archaeology of care as an interpretative method.

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Reading Chaim Grade's "Sons and Daughters," just published by @aaknopf.bsky.social in Yiddish-to-English translation. “Last great Yiddish novel”? Definitely great, hopefully not last in Yiddish.

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

PhD workshop this Autumn on environmental temporalities in a historical context, guest-led by Kyrre Kverndokk and me at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo. External candidates welcome but no travel funding provided. Register by June 15 2025 ⤵️

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PhD-Workshop: Approaching Environmental Temporalities - Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas

In recent years, diagnoses like the Anthropocene, climate crisis, and shifting baseline syndrome have highlighted that, when it comes to our environments, time is of the essence. But how have environm...

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Le Roy Ladurie in 1968: 'The historian of tomorrow will be a programmer or he will cease to exist.' With advancing AI, I believe the opposite is true. We're entering an era where radically human, affective, embodied, and contextual understanding becomes more vital than ever.

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

University of Oslo elects its new rector with an all-women slate of candidates. Everyone votes, ranking choices 1-2-3, with comprehensive policy materials readily available. It was a pleasure to cast my vote today. Academic democracy in action www.uio.no/om/aktuelt/a...

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Rektorvalgkampen er i gang! - Universitetet i Oslo

Kandidatene til å bli Universitetet i Oslos neste rektor er Hanne Flinstad Harbo, Giske Ursin og Ragnhild Hennum.

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Very cool Postdoc position in Copenhagen, in an interdisciplinary project “Home in Crisis” employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

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Postdoctoral position in Law and Humanities

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Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

“As food insecurity grows globally, foresight planning for sustainable food systems has become critical. Here we argue that history—through detailed data, case studies and methodologies—can profoundly enhance the robustness of scenario planning.” Great stuff. #EnvHist www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The case for history in planning future food systems transformations - Nature Sustainability

History can enhance the robustness of scenario planning for the food system. Through cases in Mozambique, Bangladesh and Holland, this Perspective illustrates how historical insights can guide interve...

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Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

💥The ESEH is looking for the venue for the 2027 conference! Consider bringing our community to your city in a couple of years' time. Check the call and get in touch with us if you want to know more. eseh.org/call-for-app... Deadline for application: 31 March #envhist

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Call for Applications to Host the ESEH Conference 2027 – European Society for Environmental History

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

At the new Polish History Museum in Warsaw, discussing how to teach history for climate education with Marcin Napiórkowski, Adam Izdebski, Zuzanna Karcz, and an inquisitive & direct audience. Happy to visit this emerging institution that has a good chance to reshape our collective self-knowledge.

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

🗓️ Rare 1536 calendar recently donated to National Library of Poland, written by Cracow Academy astrology prof Michal z Wislicy & printed by Szarffenberg. Features woodcuts of King Sigismund I & labours of the months. Salvaged from bookbinding waste, now digitised ➡️ polona.pl/preview/2cb1...

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

E-mail from MA student I co-supervise: 'I choose to increase your percentage of supervision to 30%, since I value your feedback.' Me: thank you for recognizing my potential sir

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Plot twist: I'm benefiting from trickle-down economics... by collecting post-election X escapees on BlueSky like rare Pokémon.

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

📚 Environmental History Enthusiasts! Looking for envhist works with microhistorical traits: focus on small-scale subjects, deep dive into limited sources, connecting local stories to broader contexts, highlighting agency, challenging grand narratives, exploring exceptional normal. 📮Recommendations?

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

🧠Intriguing workshop on VR in education by UZH Digital Society Initiative! As a cultural anthropologist & historian, I'm skeptical: does VR truly enable 'embodied' learning or just create high-tech historical fictions? Fascinating to explore #EdTech #VR #digitalhistory

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

New thematic issue of the ZETT Magazine of the Zurich University of the Arts, focused on Care. Interestingly, in the German text care is not expressed as Sorge, but as Zuwendung.

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

Hello from day 1 of the Nordic Climate History conference, taking place at the Botanical Garden in Oslo, with talks about medieval climate fiction, architectural adaptations to the Little Ice Age, and sunscreen pollution on Svalbard, among others.

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Martin Robb @martinrobb.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

My new podcast, 'Careful Thinking', in which I explore ideas about care, in conversation with researchers, writers and practitioners at the cutting edge of thinking about care, can be found here, or wherever you get your podcasts: careful-thinking.captivate.fm

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

Guest Lecturer in History, but on a cruise ship. Unpaid. Bringing along a „travel companion who can also bring something to the enrichment program” is a plus. Duties? Host tables, deliver destination-based lectures, accompany guests to shore excursions, make „scenic commentaries where fitting.”

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ENRICHMENT - Guest Lecturer - History in | Entertainment & Enrichment at Viking Cruises

Apply for ENRICHMENT - Guest Lecturer - History job with Viking Cruises in . Entertainment & Enrichment at Viking Cruises

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

Not for the faint hearted? Read Moshfegh's 'Lapvona' over Easter, enticed by Zurbaran's Agnus Dei on the cover. Now questioning if environmental history has numbed me to the grim of natural disasters and their aftermath, as I didn't find it 'grotesque' or 'shocking' as warned by abhorred reviewers.

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

Feeling like a proper early modernist having finally visited (and presented at) the HAB library in Wolfenbüttel. Danke schön für die Einladung, @dbellingradt.bsky.social #schreibkalender

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