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Everyone is talking about the big ship getting stuck in the #Suez Canal. Here's a critical logistics reading list on the politics of how we got here -why ships are so huge, why there is a manmade canal cutting through a continent, why global supply chains seem so brittle, & more.

The 2021 Buell Dissertation Colloquium is currently scheduled for just under one month from today! | Register here: bit.ly/39u7yWz

The program is UP and registration is still open for our conference on May 14-16! emmobility.github.io/emm_site/relat… @rcmidura Luca Scholz CESTA Stanford Humanities Center Stanford History @annatoledano #twitterstorians #earlymodern

New reading recommendations! Jonathon Catlin (Jonathon Catlin), @Simon_Brown93, and Luna Sarti discuss intellectual biographies, economic criticism, and the politics of water control. Featuring writings from The Nation The New Republic London Review of Books, and jacobinmag. jhiblog.org/2021/05/03/apr…

The slow death of Italy’s archives: in 2008 Italy’s 101 archives had over 3,000 personnel, today there are just over 2,200. In 2011, there were 535 working archivists, by 2022 it is estimated there will be only 279.

Applications for this year's Environmental Studies Workshop are open. Please submit your work and share! Additional information is available on our website. To subscribe to our listserv, click here: voices.uchicago.edu/environmentals…

Join us at 17:00 today with Caroline Murphy Caroline Murphy (MIT) - Envisioning Aquatic Territory: the River Technician at Work in Early Ducal Florence

Congrats Chelsea Spencer, can’t wait to read this in its final form!

Grateful and thrilled - thank you Graham Foundation !

CfPs for the conference GRACEH 2022 - Nature, Culture, History (Oxford, 11-13 April). Graduate students working on any topic or period in #europeanhistory and/or Europe in the world are invited to consider the place of ‘nature’ in their research. #envhist graceh2022.wordpress.com

Great post-doc and you get to live in Rome and work at the Hertziana. What is there not to love? Please RT.

I had a very nice time talking about writing & also sometimes writing at the Places Journal workshop last summer! I started many essays and finished one, on the US's first nationally standardized building contract form. More interesting than you'd think! placesjournal.org/workshop-artic…

Mabrouk to Courtney Lesoon who won the Fulbright-Hays Scholarship for her research on early Islamic learning and the city. news.mit.edu/2022/courtney-…

Looking forward to speaking on rivers, engineers, and projectors in this CRASSH, Cambridge workshop on Monday!

Excited to hear that the panel I am part of "Environment and Economy in the Global Renaissance III" Anna-Luna Post Caroline Murphy organised by Sophus Reinert and Robert Fredona has been accepted to The Renaissance Society of America 2024! It's going to be my first time in Chicago and at the RSA 🤩

Assistant Professor Caroline Murphy has won the Alan Reinerman Prize for Best Unpublished Manuscript for her dissertation: “Waters and Welfare: Rivers, Infrastructure, and the Territorial Imagination in Grand Ducal Tuscany, 1549-1609”.

Calling all Ren & early mod. historians working on mapping, drawing, administration - Davide Martino and I are organizing a panel, "Governing by design: administrative cartography in the early modern world" for #RSA2025 in Boston. Please apply by 07/28! rsa.org/forms/FormResp…

For those interested in #RSA2025 Boston, there's one week left to apply to our panel. Looking forward to discussing cartography and governance! rsa.org/forms/FormResp…