The flood necklace piece represents the Loire river floods data btw 1800 and 2003, by water heights. The white spheres are the 2 "big ones" of 1856 & 1866 that lead to a national new policy for river management in France. #envhist. Tangible & Sensible historical knowledge about landscapes can be conveyed through #datartefacts & #datasculpture . Slow making of such #dataviz also impacts the relationship btw the data and the maker, allowing for better appropriation, as well as tactile memory.
Clare Hickman
#histodon at Newcastle Uni. Interested in historic landscapes, health, inclusion, sensory approaches 🥾🐦 🌲 Views own. she/her
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In 1833 a UK Government Select Committee formed to look at the idea of 'Public Walks'. In this new post I’ve taken the long view of what they were, why they were considered important for public health & how they relate to today’s RoW #FestiveFootsteps #envhist #hstm #parks @histodons @histstm
In 1833 a UK Government Select Committee formed to look at the idea of 'Public Walks'. In this new post I’ve taken the long view of what they were, why they were considered important for public health & how they relate to today’s RoW #FestiveFootsteps #envhist #hstm #parks @histodons @histstm
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Gwenda Morgan - Midwinter & The Changing Year
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Hi #histodons, especially of the #EnvHist #HistSTM persuasion, there's a postdoc opening in Geneva with @brunostrasser and Jerome Baudry for someone working on the
history of technologies for living in toxic environments (19th - 20th centuries).
It's a 1-3 year position in the SNF-funded project "Breathing Modernities: Masks, Industry, and Toxic Environments (1830s-1970s)."
Feel free to get in touch with Bruno directly for more info.
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Each fall, I teach a large group of students about environmental disasters in history and how we can learn from Minamata and Grassy Narrows, Giant Mine, Chornobyl, Bhopal, DTT, the Dust Bowl, wildfires, London's Great Smog, Love Canal, the Sydney Tar Ponds and the history of climate change. I'm always drawn back to Wendell Berry's Poem on Hope as the term ends:
"It is hard to have hope. It is harder as you grow old,
for hope must not depend on feeling good
and there’s the dream of loneliness at absolute midnight.
You also have withdrawn belief in the present reality
of the future, which surely will surprise us,
and hope is harder when it cannot come by prediction
anymore than by wishing."
I hope my efforts to teach them environmental history give them a little hope that the future might surprise us.
#histodons #WendellBerry #envhist
#climate #hope #teaching
https://youtu.be/2j_r4jb9AYw
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Last week I had the pleasure of hosting author and ecologist Lisa Schneidau for an online talk looking at folk tales connected with rivers and the environment.
You can now watch this talk back for free online for the next two weeks on this link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_tO--daiu4
#folklore #FolkTale #storytelling #rivers @folklore #histodons @histodons
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Hey people who work in hospitals, quick question, do you still get Christmas parties? Or any kind of non-denominational festive celebration? 🎄
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Interesting to watch a parliamentary debate on avian flu and not hear intensive poultry farming as a risk mentioned once. Those sheds rammed full of badly looked after birds are a lab for disease mutations
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This is great by @davidallengreen on the spectacle of Owen Paterson, who called for repeal of the Human Rights Act and even 'breaking free from the ECHR,' taking his case to the European Court of Human Rights.
His lawyers say despite the irony 'he has no other choice' - 'And that is the very point of human rights law... They are all there as a last resort, for those with no other choice' - like the migrants Paterson complained about.
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What might the history of biology look like when viewed through colonial and postcolonial encounters centered on spices? 🌶
Please join the Harvard Science and Technology in Asia seminar series next Tuesday (11/29, 10:30–11:45 am ET) for Banu Subramaniam's talk, "Botany and the Afterlives of Empire."
This talk, like all in our series, is online, free, and open to all.
Register here: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
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In 1910, the Japanese government staged the #JapanBritishExhibition in #London. Two #JapaneseGardens were part of the fair. A statement from the Jap. organizers is interesting: "The gardens are not purely Japanese. They manifest the good feeling existing between the horticulturalists of England and Japan; equally they symbolize the alliance between our two countries…"
However, visitors, without a doubt, assumed that these gardens were fully authentic and not just a tool of #CulturalDiplomacy.
New exciting open access journal coming soon! 'Plant Perspectives: An Interdisciplinary Journal'. Check it out here👇 #planthumanities #gardenhistory @whitehorsepress https://whpress.co.uk/PP.html
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Today is the centenary of Charles Schulz, creator of Peanuts. Schulz consistently gets credit aa one of the first comic artists who really understood and could convey the complex emotions, rage, lust, and melancholy of childhood. But comics is also a visual medium, and Schulz was a master. Look at this strip, which is barely physical, and study how he breaks the action into panels and moves his characters from pose to pose, and positions them around the room and with respect to each other.
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Dawn at Happisburgh, Norfolk. The wooden posts of abandoned sea defences, sit out in the surf whilst the rocks that replaced them await their next onslaught.
The cliffs at Happisburgh are eroding at a rate of up to 3 meters a year. It's not unusual to see pieces of people's houses on the beach here as the winter storms undercut them and collapse them onto the beach.
@jackiantonovich me too 💃🏻 💔 😢
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It's #Caturday in Istanbul, so I present to you "The Wasabi Betrayal"
She kept trying to steal my sushi, so I put a tiny dab of wasabi on my chopstick and this is her face after she recovered from the smell 😂
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