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Simone Edgar Holmes @sedgarholmes.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Was a pleasure to present my previous MA research into the physical and mapped waterways of Dutch colonial Cape Town as part of the Living with Water seminar series in May 2025. Big thank you to Sam, Giulia, Jack and Paola!

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Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Touch grass, touch everything! Some speculative thinking about what a slightly dated meme phrase might tell us about our relations with the world and each other samgrinsell.hcommons.org/2026/01/05/t...

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Master thread of all our recordings. Please watch (well, listen, most of these would also work as podcasts) and share!

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Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

One thing I've been thinking about a lot lately, which feels related to this, is when students ask how much of their essay should be their own opinion. I feel like this question reveals how little most people grasp about what generating original ideas is like, especially in the humanities. 🧵

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Jack Love @jlove4.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I’m honored to have been part of this excellent panel and seminar series from May 2025. A big thank you to the organizers and my fellow panelist!

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Recording of our first session now available! More to come next week.... youtu.be/RN8dYy9x2_0

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Thanks so much to all our attendees and presenters for a wonderful few weeks! We will be sharing the recordings in the coming days, do catch up with parts you weren't able to attend in person, there's some extraordinary work that deserves to be more widely heard

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

We will be releasing recordings of presentations (where presenters have agreed) fairly soon, all will be linked to here!

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Today is our final panel, Anthropocene Waters III! We'll also be taking some time for final thoughts and next steps. It's been a glorious few weeks, if you've been part of it at all then please join this panel as well and/or write to us with your thoughts. 16.30 uk time, usual Zoom link

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Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Tomorrow! See some of you there, the rest can relax as I will finally stop tweeting about it

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Very pleased to see that my article on Batavia's water infrastructures (originally published in December) has been included in the latest issue of @historicaljnl.bsky.social! Check it out if interested in the social history of technology, public spaces, colonial modernity... doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Article: 'Water Infrastructure as a Technology of Control and a Site of Negotiation in Nineteenth-Century Batavia, Netherlands Indies', by Mikko Toivanen. Abstract: This article examines the social and political aspects of late nineteenth-century water management in Batavia (now Jakarta), the capital of the Netherlands Indies. Through a detailed analysis of how a mixture of old and new water technologies featured in the city’s public debates and decision-making, it argues that water infrastructure served as a key site of social control over the city’s diverse population. From the 1870s onwards, deep-bore artesian wells linked to public hydrants were introduced to provide a reliable and hygienic supply of clean water. This was a response to long-standing concerns over the city’s waste-blocked canals and their deleterious health effects. The article shows how these technologies came to be entwined with new, punitive social norms, enforced through both formal regulations on water use and informal complaints over wastefulness; moreover, these norms had a clear racial dimension, being directed primarily against the city’s Asian communities and repurposing long-standing stereotypes. Yet, beyond official discourses, a close reading of these debates shows that Batavia’s canals and hydrants also functioned as grassroots sites of negotiation, where different ideas – not just of water and land but of the very concept of public spaces and the colonial public sphere – met and occasionally clashed.

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

It's been a busy few weeks, all culminating tomorrow as I present my work on Batavia's colonial water infrastructures in this amazing series of online seminars put together by @samgrinsell.bsky.social and @giuliachampion.bsky.social. Do check out the whole programme, lots of cool stuff in there!

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Hi all! Wonderful presentations yesterday, bringing up themes of embodiment, decoloniality, indigeneity, tensions between political/legal discourses and everyday life. Two more panels coming today!

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Starting in 20 minutes! This first panel we're excited to welcome Julée Al-Bayaty De Ridder; Keir Waddington; Loreto García Saiz and Tayri Paz García Medina and Timothy May

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Just two days to go! Do join us for four weeks of online, international, interdisciplinary conversations around water livingwithwater.hcommons.org

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Hello new followers! (Except the bots, no hello for you.) Reminder that our Living With Water online event series (conference, festival, multiday extravaganza, call it what you will) starts next Thursday! Details here livingwithwater.hcommons.org

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Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Less than a week to go until @livingwithwater.bsky.social starts! More than 70 speakers over 21 panels spread over four weeks, it's set to be a wild, wet adventure. All free, all online, details linked here livingwithwater.hcommons.org

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Janet Tryner @anatomyofasmile.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

My first Bluesky post 💙🦋 - to say I am delighted to be presenting at the Living With Water Seminar programme in May and June in the anthropic waters session on June 2nd. Such an interesting and timely set of presentations. livingwithwater.hcommons.org @livingwithwater.bsky.social

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

livingwithwater.hcommons.org pleased to share our website, which has all the essential links and info

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Hello everyone! Living With Water: Agency, Materiality, Narratives is a series of online conversations from scholars, artists and thinkers across the world and beyond disciplinary boundaries, coming in May 2025. We look forward to sharing more details soon!

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

go.bsky.app/fbGtPw these are the accounts of people who will be presenting! If I've missed you, tag yourself

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Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

go.bsky.app/fbGtPw these are the accounts of people who will be presenting! If I've missed you, tag yourself

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