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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Feel like one question i always ask when reading stuff like this is: will the rich send their kids to trade school?

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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It (nearly) lives! Forthcoming from OUP in November or December! My first reaction, for once, was glee — though the terror of writing a book is that it’s never finished. Eek! Woohoo! Wild to have proofs in hand!!!!

Title page of forthcoming book by me, titled Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Cosmologies of the Human: Worlds Unmanned. From Oxford UP.

Table of contents for forthcoming book.

Introduction: Poetry, Person, Planet — with subsections on William Wordsworth; Sylvia Wynter and lyricization; climate, affectability, impress; and criticism, canonicity, and counterbumanism.

First chapter on Wordsworth, Charles Lyell, and c19 manscapes — with subsections on Wordsworth’s and Lyell’s lyric theologies, the pathetic fallacy (Ruskin) and Wynter on desperate realization, and apostrophizing Toussaint Louverture.

Second chapter on Tennyson’s In Memoriam, the possibilities and limits of posthumanism, and ambivalent reading — with subsections on extinction and apostrophe.

Third chapter on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the problem of reference, and infrastructures of reading — with subsections on Swedenborgianism, sphericity, plantation inheritances, and the slippages of rhyme.

Fourth chapter on Phillis Wheatley, extractivism, extractionist reading, and salvage criticism—with subsections on solar intergumanism, allusion, reticence, and refusal.

Coda on contemporary representations of climate collapse, Wynter on transumption, and the afterlives of c19 aesthetic imaginaries.

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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Your periodic reminder that the @ucalgarypress.bsky.social / @nichecanada.bsky.social Canadian History & Environment series exists, that it's print/open-access, & that I'm always on the lookout for the next potential volume. Talk to me. press.ucalgary.ca/series/canad... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

If of interest to anyone, I've shared (possibly temporarily) a talk I made for a Bronte course on adapting Wuthering Heights. It's based on an earlier talk I gave called 'Adapting Heathcliff; or The Gothic has an Anti-Romani racism problem.' youtu.be/gfxLTB2IBvo?...

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Adapting Heathcliff: Romani Representation and Adaptations of Wuthering Heights with Sam Hirst

YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Please join the @asleuki.bsky.social online seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature & Environment. Thur 29 Jan, 15:00-19:00 GMT. With me, Eric Gidal, James Metcalf, Nicolle Jordan, Alessio Mattana, Annette Hulbert, Jodie Matthews, & @tobiasmenely.bsky.social. Register at asle.org.uk/events/semin...

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

It's great to see so many signing up for the @asleuki.bsky.social Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, on 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT, but there's still room for more! Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...

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UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications! We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections. Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... 📆Closing date: 5 January 2026 #UofGLibraryFellows

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Chloe Wilcox @sadpphicstanza.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

If any of you want to analyse the new Frankenstein film, let us know!!! It would work great in the Romanticism Now/Romantic Reimaginings blog series or on the TikTok 👀 (And of course any other ideas you have! But I've just finished watching Frankenstein lol)

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Call for Contributors: Volcanic Materiality: Cultural Phenomena in the Age of the Anthropocene, edited by Dewey H. Hall. Abstracts of 2-300 words due by 30th November 2025. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6205

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Call for Contributors: Volcanic Materiality – BARS Blog

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

This #GreenLibrariesWeek, explore our range of titles on nature, environment and sustainability across art, colonial history, economics, politics and more in the UK and across the world: tinyurl.com/environment-list #nature #environment #sustainability

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Reminder: CfP closes for BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham, UK, and online on 30 November. Details below: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...

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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Reminder that I am chairing an online event tomorrow night on 'Volcanic Romanticism'. Featuring talks by @katlion.bsky.social, @womanofclouds.bsky.social, Dilara Kalkan, and Chloe Melvin. You can register for free at the link below. @bars.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/bars-digit...

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BARS Digital Events: Volcanic Romanticism

Exploring the Diodatic Circle, the volcanic as a sublime, apocalyptic force, and how this inflected their powerful visions of the future.

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

CfP: Tourism, Memory and Heritage Conference (2026), Amsterdam and Wageningen, The Netherlands. Full details: lnkd.in/ebPHRqgM

Flyer for the 'Tourism, Memory and Heritage’ International conference.

White text on a moss green background with outline of historic building reads: Tourism, memory and heritage: emotional geographies of cultural production, memory-making and commemoration, 1-3 June 2026, Amsterdam & Wageningen, The Netherlands. Sponsor logos are displayed along the bottom edge.

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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

CFP: 'Poetry's Environments', University of Leeds, June 2026. About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied. Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December. conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...

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Call for Proposals | Poetry's Environments

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

excited to share the call for the workshop EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025,  made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social deadline: 10 September! full call below ⤵ #envhist #envhum

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Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

@gigitang.bsky.social and Katie Donnelly from the Minerals team are organising this fantastic symposium on Critical Minerals @ucdhumanities.bsky.social in November. Find the CFP here with a deadline of 31 August: imperialminerals.ie/events/criti...

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Imperial Minerals — Critical Minerals Symposium

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

⛈️New in Geo!⛈️ 'The window of opportunity: Linking climate history and storms' by A. Jardine, K.A. Selby & @davidhiggins.bsky.social This paper uses the Royal Charter storm of 1859 to explore the implementation of long-term risk reduction measures following disasters. doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by A. Jardine, K.A. Selby & D. Higgins (2025) entitled: 'The window of opportunity: Linking climate history and storms' with an orange banner at the top.

High magnitude storms have impacted coastal maritime communities, instigating national government responses. Storm catastrophes can open a ‘window of opportunity’ that enables the implementation of new long-term disaster risk reduction measures. Analysis of historical storm events using written newspaper records identified the Royal Charter storm of 1859 as a catastrophe that opened a window of opportunity. The resulting actions prompted the first national (UK) storm early warning systems which continue today as the Meteorological Office forecasts. This historical case study demonstrates how the effective use of the window of opportunity can instigate beneficial long-term change that decreases vulnerability. However, policies emerging from such windows of opportunity must consider the diverse cause of catastrophe and avoid overreliance on top-down technocracy, instead promoting community engagement and autonomy for sustained success. Environmental history can contribute to improving the understanding of the limitations of technocracy and the importance of community agency in enhancing hazard understanding and effective early warning systems.

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year. The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)

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UCU Newcastle University @newcastleucu.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

A MASSIVE WIN AT NEWCASTLE UNI ICU

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

There's no doubt that editors for academic publishing need more help and support to keep things going. But my god, this isn't it. I've published in a number of OUP outlets. This would force me to reconsider. I suspect other #SkyStorians will, too.

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Oxford University Press and Hum sign agreement to pilot Alchemist Review

Oxford University Press partners with Hum to pilot Alchemist Review, an AI-based editorial assistant that will enhance manuscript assessment while reducing a...

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Floris Winckel @fwinckel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

*CfP: “Planetary Waters - A Challenge Between Abstraction and Empathy”* An exciting conference organised by three wonderful scholars this autumn - do check it out! 📆22-24 October, 2025 📍Bremerhaven, GER 🔜Paper submissions due 15 June, 2025

Call for Papers
Conference “Planetary Waters - A Challenge Between Abstraction and Empathy”
Date: 22–24 October 2025
Location: German Maritime Museum / Leibniz Institute for Maritime History
Aims of the Conference:
The Leibniz Institute of Maritime History (DSM) invites submissions for the conference “Planetary Waters – A Challenge Between Abstraction and Empathy”, taking place on October 22–24, 2025, at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven. This interdisciplinary event will bring together scholars, researchers, and practitioners to explore public communication strategies that integrate the planetary scale of water studies while maintaining a focus on human-water relationships at the local level.
The intertwined crises of climate change and biodiversity loss urge us to incorporate a planetary perspective into our thinking and actions more than ever before. The conference “Planetary Waters” addresses this challenge by examining water in its many forms—oceans, seas, inland waters, and wetlands—through interdisciplinary dialogues that balance abstraction with empathy.
Key questions include: How can the complex effects of climate change on the hydrosphere be made accessible to diverse audiences? Can the humanities and museum exhibitions integrate a planetary perspective while conveying local dimensions in an engaging and empathetic manner? What role can visualization techniques play in this process?
The conference brings together scholars, science communicators, curators, and artists drawing on Blue Humanities to explore human-water relationships while advancing three central goals: deepening the planetary dimension in the humanities, fostering interdisciplinary approaches to water studies, and developing innovative public communication strategies.

Submission Guidelines:
Interested participants are invited to submit a single PDF document containing an abstract of no more than 300 words and a brief bio by June 15, 2025. Please send submissions to all three organizers: k.kleemann@dsm.museum; noemi.quagliati@unive.it; f.will@deutsches-museum.de.
Important Information:
● Abstract Submission Deadline: June 15, 2025
● Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2025
● 1st Draft Paper Submission Deadline (5 pages): October 10, 2025
We request first drafts as pre-circulated papers, which will form the basis for a subsequent publication in Deutsches Schifffahrtsarchiv, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal (in English or German) where we will publish our conference papers. Find more information here.
Additional Information:
The conference will feature two keynote speakers: oceanographer Prof. Dr. Elda Miramontes, (MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen) and art historian Dr. Anne Hemkendreis (The Greenhouse Centre for Environmental Humanities, Stavanger University). Additionally, a workshop will be held with two practitioners – environmental journalist Christian Schwägerl (RiffReporter) and artist-filmmaker Sonia Levy (Royal College of Art, London) – offering hands-on insights into visual and narrative strategies for communicating water-related issues.
Practical Information:
Meals and accommodation costs for speakers to Bremerhaven will be covered by the organizers, while travel costs are subject to available funding

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Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre is holding a small conference to mark our twentieth anniversary. It's on the 26 and 27 June, and Linda Colley will be there (as will brilliant Birmingham colleagues like Karen Harvey, Kate Smith, and Hiroki Shin). Join us! blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2025/05/...

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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Applications are now open for the BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship - up to £4000 to research the culture, history, and identity of the North East of England and the Scottish Borders in the long eighteenth century. Find out more at www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

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Prizes and awards Archive - BSECS

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

i've signed this: have you?

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This is the most tiresome language.

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

“It seems that nature has devised quantum technology before us…” We’ve been puzzling at the mysteries of avian migration for millennia—the answers now emerging about how migrating birds navigate thousands of miles with pinpoint accuracy are…mind-blowing. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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‘They have no one to follow’: how migrating birds use quantum mechanics to navigate

Evidence is mounting to explain how birds use the Earth’s magnetic field to help fly thousands of miles with unerring accuracy – a discovery that may help advance quantum technology

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Notifications for #ESEH2025 have been sent out --check spam or with session organiser if you haven't heard anything-- BUT there are 10 days left to apply to the @eseh.bsky.social summer school taking place on an island out in the Stockholm archipelago! 🌊 #envhist #envhum #anthropocene ⤵

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field? Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities! We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here: environmentalhumanities.org Contact us if you have any questions.

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Environmental Humanities – A journal published by Duke University Press

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

CfP: ESEH 2025 Summer School in Environmental History Anthropocene Histories KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden August 25-28, 2025, right after #ESEH2025 Deadline: 28 February #envhist #envhum #anthropocene @eseh.bsky.social 🌿 More information👇 eseh.org/call-for-par...

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Call for participants: ESEH 2025 Summer School in Environmental History – European Society for Environmental History

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Zoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Hi pals. Today I wrote about the unsettling mismatches between what climate models say should be happening and what is actually happening. We're pushing the Earth past the limits of our physical understanding. This is a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

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Climate Models Can’t Explain What’s Happening to Earth

Global warming is moving faster than the best models can keep a handle on.

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Phil Levin @phillevin.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

🌿 Calling all nature poets! Share your love for nature through poetry. Submit a poem to the #NatureOfOurTimes, a creative companion to the National Nature Assessment. Let’s blend science & art to inspire action. Deadline is coming - 1/15/25. Spread the word! 1 natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org

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The Nature of Our Times

Call for Submissions. Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders.

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Katrin Kleemann @katrinkleemann.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

The German Maritime Museum invites applications for 3-9 month-long fellowships to work on interdisciplinary object-based research focussing on the cultural & political significance of the relationship between humans and the sea. Deadline 31 January 2025. More info: www.museumsbund.de/stellenangeb...

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Global Connectivity in Maritime Perspective – International Fellowships DSM 2025 | Deutscher Museumsbund e.V.

Do you also think that the global impact of our relationship with the sea has so far been little addressed? The German Maritime Museum, Leibniz Institute for Maritime History (DSM) offers you the oppo...

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Check out the CFP, and calls for panels, for the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference "Collective Atmospheres" July 8-11, 2025 at Univ of Maryland. Deadline for submissions is Jan. 3, 2025. Please share! #envhum #environmentalhumanities www.asle.org/conference/b... www.asle.org/conference/p...

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

#c18th Need a podcast to get you through your holiday? Coffeehouse Perspectives just dropped a new episode, and it's on QUEER PIRATES, and it's fun! urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

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Coffee House Perspectives: Queer Pirates & The Eighteenth Century

Coffee House Perspectives · Episode

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