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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

nationalhumanitiescenter.org/residential-... The application portal for this fantastic fellowship is now open. This is the perfect place for humanist to write, reflect, and build community. Happy to share my experiences there with you. The deadline is October 1.

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Residential Fellowships • National Humanities Center

The National Humanities Center provides scholars with an environment and resources conducive to generating new knowledge and furthering understanding of the human experience.

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Crawdad rescue protocol! This big crayfish somehow found its way into our AirBnB swimming pool in Chapin, SC. Any ideas how he got into the pool—lake was not close. Maybe snatched but dropped by a bird?

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-... Found this intriguing article as I was looking for materials for my new book on Ray Dasmann & game ranching. Ca. 1910, senators hoped to produce cheap ‘lake cow bacon’ and clean up invasive hyacinths—lines between wild and domesticates are ever blurry!

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How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers

In 1910, a failed House bill sought to increase the availability of low-cost meat by importing hippopotamuses that would be killed to make "lake cow bacon"

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

www.americanacademy.de/apply/apply-... Check out this exciting fellowship opportunity at the American Academy in Berlin for scholars, writers, journalists & policy professionals. There is a separate application for artists and composers based on nominations. Deadline: Friday, Sept. 25, 2026

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Apply for a Fellowship - American Academy in Berlin

We are now accepting applications for the 2027-28 Berlin Prize competition. The deadline is Friday, September 25, 2026, at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time (6:00 p.m. Ce

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

www.carleton.edu/german/susta... I'm excited about the EDGES symposium today. This morning, Carol Hager and I will preview "Green Germany." Then, we'll pivot to great papers about Petra Kelly's activism (B Kallin), community gardens (F Jardim), and "Teaching German Climate Fiction" (D McGonagill).

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2026 EDGES Summer Symposium - Carleton College

Engaged Digital German Environmental Studies (EDGES) Summer Symposium 2026July 20-21, 2026 Organizers: Kiley Kost, Dan Nolan, Seth Peabody, Sabine von Mering Schedule Day 1 July 20, 11am-2pm ET Openin...

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

For years Hungary's state TV fed the country propaganda every night. This week the channel went dark and signed off apologizing for years of lies. What made it happen? Voters threw the liars out. That's what one election can do. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-does...

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Grateful to Vishal Singh Deo & Soheb Niazi (left 2), GHI-London, & Max Weber Stiftung for fantastic ‘Rethinking Livestock Frontiers’ workshop. Felipe Silveira de Oliviera Malacco, Joana Medrado, & Shaheed Tayob did great papers on Fulani pastoralists, Zebu in Brazil, & politics of meat in Mumbai.

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

www.tu.berlin/cms/nachrich... Check out this CFP from Kristin Semmens & Emily Bereskin of TU-Berlin’s CMS. They seek collaborators for a new project on anti-tourism. Recall the squirt guns in Barcelona? There’s a longer trajectory here. Many Rhinelanders resented Drachenfels funicular ca. 1900.

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Excited to be part of this workshop taking place at GHI-London next week!

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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Call for papers for a workshop on 'Transformations and Contestations from the Global South: Rethinking Livestock Frontiers'! 🐂 📅 9–10 July 2026 📍GHI London 🏛 Dr. Soheb Niazi (Freie Universität, Berlin), Dr. Vishal Singh Deo (Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal- Karnataka) 1/4

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The Tiny Solar Panel That Could Change America www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o... My students in ‘Green Cities’ were fascinated by Europe’s balcony solar—and Utah is leading the way to help renters or condo-owners get plug-in renewables. Potentially alternative to 28k rooftop arrays …

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Opinion | The Tiny Solar Panel That Could Change America

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Germany and Japan Are Rearming Again, 80 Years After World War II www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w... Teachers: looking at Euro civ notes, all outdated. How are you handling collapsing Atlantic alliances, ghosts of WWII militarism, far-right resurgence? Maybe starting with Hungary’s post-45 journey?

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Germany and Japan Are Rearming Again, 80 Years After World War II

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Thx to Mr. Edy Bercerra & anthropologist Florencio Delgado (USFQ), my HIST 110 students saw ruins of Manuel Cobos’ Hacienda El Progreso on San Cristobal—vast former highland sugar cane plantation that many coastal-bound ecotourists miss. Ideas for agrotourism might anchor interpretation here.

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I swear: I did not lift this seal lion onto the bench to pose with the message above about conservation in the islands!

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

With my students in San Cristobal highlands, amid the feral landscapes in agricultural Zones of Special Use. I wish more visitors came up here. Fascinating guava story: the world-famous finches seem to use oils from nonnative guava on their feathers to repel insects.

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Teaching on the USC Galapagos program … Darwin’s legacy looms, the Floreana saga inspires films, but the ‘first colonizers’ do help to run this ‘natural laboratory.’ I didn’t expect to be so enchanted by seal lions. When they lie in the road and divert traffic, I’m happier.

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Home on the Range No More: Trump Wants Bison Gone www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/u... Help stop this cruel effort to push bison off BLM permitted lands, as it threatens Indigenous cultural stewardship under the guise of making lands ‘productive.’ www.change.org/p/save-the-b...

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Home on the Range No More: Trump Wants Bison Gone

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

nhc-news.shorthandstories.com/The_Window_I... Check out the latest NHC newsletter, featuring director Blair Kelly’s important insights about opportunities in the humanities and profiles of the new 26-27 class of fellows. #NatlHumanities

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The Window: News from the National Humanities Center

Stories, insights, and updates from the NHC

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

"Flora’s Fieldworkers contains many images like Mueller’s textbook, which evoke the excitement of archival research when a new document is unpacked from a storage box or found in an ancient dusty bound volume." Pat Bowley niche-canada.org/2023/01/30/r... #envhist #histsci #nathist #books #wmnshist

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Review of Shtier, ed., Flora's Fieldworkers

I anticipate collaboration, discussion and debate, excitement and enthusiasm as readers of Flora’s Fieldworkers plunge into renewed study of hitherto unknown women.

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Excited to be part of this collection of essays, just arrived today. We have lovely shorelines, historic sites, and golf courses that attract tourists to SC, but the forest & the lumber industry shaped the state’s economy for most of the 20th C. Thanks Jessica and Mark for keen editing!

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Carol Hager & I were excited to learn yesterday that our book ‘Green Germany: Local Pathways to Global Sustainability’ is moving to the copyediting stage at Cambridge next month. We’d like to hire an indexer familiar with environmental studies to help: recommendations are most welcome!

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

www.thedriftmag.com/the-myth-of-... Check out Stephen Milder’s fantastic new essay. He notes that the feed-in tariff is not the key problem: rather it’s ‘wishful thinking that suggests that if we can just push green growth high enough, the economy will resolve the climate crisis on its own.’

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The Myth of Green Germany

Energiewende Runs Out of Fuel

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

sc.edu/study/colleg... On May 2 (8:30am-1:30pm), the USC Humanities Collab is offering introductory seminars free and open to public—with lunch included! You can select from mini-courses in philo, literature, film, or theater. Follow the link to register.

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Following up on previous post: the Roberts Court ‘shadow docket’ began with hostility to the Obama-era EPA regulation of power plants. Paved the way for today’s unprecedented dismantlement of climate, water, clean air, & endangered species protections.

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Inside the Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Podcast Episode · The Daily · April 20 · 32m

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Peter Staudenmaier’s new book reveals links between right-wing ecologies and fascism. It makes me wonder whether ‘blood & soil’ fits today’s far-right regimes. They do favor ‘bloodline’ citizenship, but dismantle enviro protections. What’s a new label for mix of racism and high tech kleptocracy?

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Other Colleges Have Frat Houses. This One Has a Cookie House. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/d... Loved the cookies here at Dacie Moses in 80s, though I’ve never been much of a baker. It’d be fun to see more ‘cookie houses’ across campuses.

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Other Colleges Have Frat Houses. This One Has a Cookie House.

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Come join us tonight for a screening at the Nick about one of nature’s ’tiniest heroes.’ Carol Boggs & Eric Lopestri of USC Bio Dept will lead discussion afterward as part of City Nature challenge.

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Exciting news! Teaching Euro civ survey in fall, and recalling also Hungarians’ many heroic moments: 1956, 1988-89, 2026. Global ‘illiberal democracy’ dealt important challenge.

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

As our May departure for Global USC Galapagos program draws near, delighted to find Elizabeth Hennessy's book "On the Backs of Tortoises." Hennessy artfully tacks between a visitor’s perspective and entangled histories of tortoises, science, economy, and culture--perfect for 100-level students.

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Thank you #ESEH2025 for a fantastic conference in Uppsala, with stimulating sessions like this one in the Humanities Theater about ‘New Histories of Climate Denialism.’ It’s amazing to see how the society is flourishing almost 25 years after our first gathering in St. Andrew’s in 2001!

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

As Trump Pushes International Students Away, Asian Schools Scoop Them Up www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b... Glad that South Korean universities are attracting internat’l students. Had a fantastic experience at Kyung-hee in 2009 & recommend its history faculty! Seoul is fantastic for urban ecology.

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As Trump Pushes International Students Away, Asian Schools Scoop Them Up

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

#Nasjonalmuseet Exhibit on New Nordic cuisine & aesthetics of place was fascinating but left me wondering: is this a ‘back-to-the-land’ model or more like a scene from the 2022 film The Menu—an extreme form of conspicuous consumption? m.imdb.com/title/tt9764...

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Fantastic sea kayak on Hardanger fjord. Learned so much from my guide about cider making, reindeer conservation, and the devastating effects of the Reformation on local agriculture as monasteries held the key to fruit cultivars: Ora et Labora. #Ulvik

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

‘Fleetwood Mac’ at 50: A Marvel of Serendipity and Perfectionism www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/a... I recently told a group of friends that if I was stuck on a desert island and could only have one album with me, it’d be 1977’s ‘Rumours.’ It was the first I ever purchased on my own …

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‘Fleetwood Mac’ at 50: A Marvel of Serendipity and Perfectionism

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Lovely graphics & ethereal music at Oslo’s main Deichman library. I could sit here all day! Oslo’s modern & postmodern buildings are captivating, can’t wait to share more pics. Easy to get around & they’ve kept their trams! #GreenOslo

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Started new role as Associate Chair this month—which is mostly scheduling & work flow for faculty, instructors, & teaching assistants. Excel spreadsheets are my new best friends.

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

My dear friend Rebecca bought herself a magical play tent for her family room. She uses it to get away from the world. I decided to take it over. Come get me in 2028 or so.

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Sometimes we need a breather from the shitstorm of this moment. Thanks Animal Vids!

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The Fear Is the Point www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o... European historian note. The Trump administration’s use of fear and the ‘self-synchronization’ of law firms, universities, & non-profits, & citizen will lead us to rethink the early 1930s—what vestiges of Sonderweg remain in the wake if MAGA?

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Opinion | The Fear Is the Point

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o... ‘It’s not that traditional liberal learning is out of step with student demand … it’s out of step with the … values and desires of a powerful board of trustees with no … commitment to liberal education.’

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Opinion | Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much.

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... The DNC portrays Mamdani as a left-wing radical, but his proposals for safe and affordable public transit are standard fare across Europe, Asia, & Latin Am. NYC’s subway is embarrassing compared Berlin: and Congress just gave billionaires another tax cut.

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Zohran Mamdani: FYPod Crossover

Podcast Episode · The Bulwark Podcast · 06/17/2025 · 1h 23m

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

How Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Make China Great Again www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o... Boy is Freedman right about this—China will benefit from becoming the manufacturing hub for next energy solutions—May as well embrace this to protect the atmosphere.

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Opinion | How Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Make China Great Again

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

youtu.be/v77D-IvjVsY?... Trump’s America feels like Lang’s Metropolis, right on time for its 100th—a frenzy of destruction led by a great pretender. I wonder when the MAGA masses will finally look around & lament how the floods have engulfed their children …

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Metropolis - Destruction / Flood - Part 22 of 24 - Rescored by The New Pollutants

YouTube video by The New Pollutants

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

www.yadvashem.org/articles/aca... Ian Kershaw’s concept of ‘working toward the Führer‘ is more essential than ever for understanding Trumpism’s escalating cruelties-he’s no mastermind, but an arbiter between competing a factions seeking to please him. Keeps a veneer of legality over its brutality.

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“Working Towards the Führer”

Ian Kershaw, Hitler. 1889-1936: Hubris; 1936-1945: Nemesis, London: Penguin Books 1998 and 2000, vol. I, xxx + 845 pp., illus., vol. II, xxiii + 1115 pp., illus.Two years after the publication of the first volume (1998), Ian Kershaw has now brought his mammoth biography of Adolf Hitler to completion

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

nc-sara.org/regional-edu... Could NE governors like Healy & Mills work beyond the current administration expanding these regional compacts to fund vital biomedical and next-energy research? Lawsuits clawing back NIH funding are a stopgap—US federal research might never recover 2024 levels.

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Regional Education Compacts | NC-SARA

Regional Education Compacts For more than half a century, most states have been collaborating with other nearby states through interstate higher education compacts. While many people within America...

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Dave R, photographer @daverphotog.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This drum circle is a sacred honor in memory of slain MN State Legislator Melissa Hortman, at the candlelight vigil

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

beidler.audubon.org/home/conserv... So excited to visit Beidler Forest today—if you haven’t visited, this is a great time to see warblers and other wonderful feathered companions. Glad to start discussions of future beyond-the-classroom and service-learning partnerships there, too!

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Conservation

We are actively working to restore native habitats of South Carolina. Check out our work!

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lekantm @lekantm.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

The Subtle Art of the Dad Text www.nytimes.com/interactive/... My texts often end of a jumble of letters too. Last minute autocorrects turn ‘I’m here’ to ‘whacko cheer.’

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For Father's Day, an Ode to Funny Dad Texts

When it comes to corny jokes, random photos and sincere pep talks, father knows best.

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