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Lachlan Fleetwood

@lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social
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Historian of science, empire, geography and environment | Marie Curie Fellow @LMU_Muenchen | PhD from @Cambridge_Uni | Book out now: cambridge.org/9781009123112

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global dis:connect @globaldiscnct.bsky.social · 16h
🌍 We welcome 14 new fellows to global dis:connect for 2026/27 Their projects explore connection, interruption and disconnection across regions and disciplines – from Arctic whaling and digital Islamic authority to feminist art in exile. Meet the new fellows: www.globaldisconnect.org/10/05/new-fe...
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14 researchers and artists from around the world begin their fellowships in Munich   On 1 October 2026, a new year of fellowships began at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect at the ...
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Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
CFP: Towards a Posthumanistic Mountain Humanities, Online Workshop 11 December 2026. shorturl.at/wnsS8 #Mountains #EnvHist #EnvHums #HistGeog #IndigenousKnowledge #AnimalHist #NewAnimism #NewMaterialism #AssemblageTheory #Posthumanism
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global dis:connect @globaldiscnct.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📣 Call for Papers: Everyday labour, scientific practices and the making of knowledge How does everyday labour shape scientific knowledge? Join us in Munich on 25–26 February 2027 to explore overlooked actors and practices in global knowledge-making. 👉 www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...
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global dis:connect @globaldiscnct.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Fellowships 2027/28 at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect (LMU Munich) 6–10 month fellowships for postdocs & senior scholars working on globalisation & dis:connections. 📅 Deadline: 26 July 2026 👉 www.globaldisconnect.org Please share with interested colleagues!
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Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
New podcast! We talk to historian of science @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social about early 19th C. imperial science in the #Himalaya & the emergence of a 'vertically oriented view of the world' where altitude comes to define mountains #HistSci #EnvHist shorturl.at/51fJe @peterhhansen.bsky.social
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Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
New podcast! We talk to historian of science @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social about early 19th C. imperial science in the #Himalaya & the emergence of a 'vertically oriented view of the world' where altitude comes to define mountains #HistSci #EnvHist shorturl.at/51fJe @calmandfearless.bsky.social
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Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
New podcast! We talk to historian of science @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social about early 19th C. imperial science in the #Himalaya & the emergence of a 'vertically oriented view of the world' where altitude comes to define mountains #HistSci #EnvHist shorturl.at/51fJe @adambutterworth.bsky.social
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Lachlan Fleetwood @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Delighted to see that my review of David N. Livingstone's The Empire of Climate is now out in @whitehorsepress.bsky.social's exciting new journal Climates and Cultures in History: doi.org/10.3197/whpc...
The cover of Vol 1 of Climates and Cultures in History, featuring a painting of an inferno engulfing buildings and countryside.
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Martin Meiske @mmeiske.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
📢Please join us for our next Monday Colloquium on June 17 ➡️ tinyurl.com/mvzkd5ab ! Our speaker is Rebekah Higgitt (National Museums Scotland) @rhiggitt.bsky.social, who will be presenting on “Using Digital Tools to Explore and Visualise the Colonial Histories of Scientific Instrument Collections.”
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Bernhard C. Schär @boscha.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
Finally out: Formative Spaces of Empire: Masculinities and Outdoor Experiences c. 1860-1960 Special Issue 2024 for the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Co-edited with Tomás Bartoletti Case Studies on India, Malaysia, Sumatra, Iran www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...
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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
All journal articles featured in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History vol 52 issue 2
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Martin Meiske @mmeiske.bsky.social · 06/05/2024
📢Please join us online today at 4:30 pm for our next Montagskolloquium! ➡️tinyurl.com/mvzkd5ab Lachlan Fleetwood (LMU/global dis:connect) will talk about "Imperial Geography, Climate Science and the Habitability of the Silk Roads." In his presentation he examines how Central Asia’s lost cities ...
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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 09/04/2024
It was a huge pleasure to coordinate the @carsoncenter.bsky.social Lunchtime Colloquium series with suggestions & help from so many. Open to the public - everyone is welcome! ✨ Join us for so many great speakers @wildpasts.bsky.social @dominikhhh.bsky.social @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social
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Martin Meiske @mmeiske.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
📢 Please join our Montagskolloquium series in Spring! In this collaboration between the Deutsches Museum & @globaldiscnct.bsky.social Fabienne Will, Roland Wenzlhuemer, and I have organized a program at the intersection of Envirotech History, Global History, and Museum Studies ➡️ tinyurl.com/mvzkd5ab
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Floris Winckel @fwinckel.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
We're organising a workshop! 🌍Defining and Using Aesthetics in the Environmental Humanities 📆 10-11 April, 2024 📍 Munich 🏁 Register by 28 Feb, 2024 If you can't make it in person, consider registering for the online keynote by Emily Brady! defining-and-using-aesthetics-workshop.eventbrite.de
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Defining and Using Aesthetics in the Environmental Humanities
An Interdisciplinary Experiment
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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
So unbelievably pleased to be able to review a book I've found totally inspiring and helpful as I begin to write my own. The third review is for my friend @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social's recent 'Science on the Roof of the World' with @bshsnews.bsky.social 🏔️ #envhist #envhum #histsci
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Lachlan Fleetwood, Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya Cambrid...
Lachlan Fleetwood, Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 294. ISBN: 978-1-009-12311-2. £75.00 (hardback). - Volume...
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global dis:connect @globaldiscnct.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
CFP: Agriculture and the production of the Global South, 1900s-1960s. Please send your proposal and CV by 22 December 2023. You find more information and the entire call here: www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...
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Lachlan Fleetwood @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Reminder: just over a week left to get your abstracts in for this workshop! CFP: "Climate Change, Empire and the Legacies of Environmental Determinism," LMU Munich, 18-19 March 2024 #histsci #histenv #histgeog #envhums
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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
Two first episodes of the 'global dis:connect' podcast are out! With great contributions by Roland Wenzlhuemer and @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social on 19th-c. telegraphy and globalisation & imperial thinking on climate stability and the 'lost cities' of the Taklamakan: open.spotify.com/show/6SuroxN...
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global dis:connect
Listen to global dis:connect on Spotify. Welcome to global dis:connect, the podcast that takes you on a captivating journey through the intricate web of connections and disconnections that define our ...
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