"Despite mountains of trash, increasingly severe overcrowding, and growing ethical debates around labour and risk, the allure of Everest remains undimmed." From August 2022: Lachlan Fleetwood on science, labour and the rise of altitude to measure mountains. himalmag.com/why-does-evere…

#CfP: Excited to be organizing "Making Science of Things: Objects in and between the Natural and Human Sciences" w Brooke Penaloza-Patzak! Deadline: 4 March Workshop dates: Vienna, 29 Jun - 1 July 2023 Please share/RT #sts #histsci #materialculture #twitterstorians

The journal is seeking to appoint two new members to its editorial collective, to work with Co-Editors in Chief Nicola Thomas and Stephen Legg. Deadline for applications: 13 March Details here: bit.ly/3jMdGBT

We are excited to be launching a new blog series of #mountainresearchspotlights, showcasing the work of colleagues who joined us to discuss the 'past, present, and future' of the mountain humanities in December last year. St Andrews Classics Jason König tinyurl.com/2ke8vf7v

And here is the first of our #mountainresearch spotlights - with enormous thanks to Lachlan Fleetwood Lachlan Fleetwood for sharing his thoughts on the 'mountain humanities'. St Andrews Classics mountains.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2023/02/27/mou…

#longread For Himal Southasian, I review John Keay's Himalaya, Erika Fatland's High, & @calmandfearless' Himalaya: A Human History, arguing that ways of seeing the Himalaya must shift from the colonialist discourse to emphasise indigenous histories. himalmag.com/himalaya-keay-…

Another in our series of #mountainresearch posts, this time turning the spotlight onto @jpitches68, in which he shares details of his fascinating practice-led research into mountain culture. #mountainhumanities St Andrews Classics mountains.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2023/03/03/mou…

Coming this month with Cambridge University Press - Academic - my first book! It traces the contested development of strategies of indirect rule in the EIC and includes chapters on rumour, violence, material culture, go-betweens, and women in palace politics.

I'm very proud to have an essay in this brilliant new book edited by my colleagues Alison Bashford, Emily Kern, and Adam Bobbette. New Earth Histories is 'a kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth.' Preorder now via this link: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

New article 'Histories of Habitability from the Oikoumene to the Anthropocene' now out in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Available open access here: doi.org/10.1002/wcc.840 With thanks to Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Universität München global dis:connect #habitability #envhist #envhums #histgeog

When I visited Chimborazo in Ecuador's Andean Mts, upon realizing I'm #Tibetan a few natives asked which Mt I thought is taller, Everest or Chimborazo? This book gets into that & the intersection of the making of western scientific know. of Mts & western Empire.

Thanks to Amelia Bonea for her insightful review of Lachlan Fleetwood Science on the Roof for H-Soz-Kult

CFP: "Climate Change, Empire and the Legacies of Environmental Determinism," LMU Munich, 18-19 March 2024. Please circulate and/or get in touch if this is of interest! Universität München

global dis:connect is organizing a fantastic #workshop on “Climate Change, Empire, and the Legacies of Environmental Determinism” in March 2024. More information: globaldisconnect.org/10/18/18-19-ma…. #rccnews #climatechange #environmentaldeterminism

New Online 1st Book Review “Why study the history of exploration?” by Edward Armston-Sheret (Ed Armston-Sheret) doi.org/10.1177/204382…

New Online 1st Book Review “Making margins visible” by Thomas Simpson doi.org/10.1177/204382…

Many thanks Ed Armston-Sheret for this generous commentary, and great to be 'in conversation' with you on why studying exploration should matter to historians, geographers and historians of science!

Quick reminder: just over a week left to get your abstracts in for this workshop! #histenv #histsci #histgeog #envhums

This week, the Lunchtime #Colloquium will be hosting a talk by Lachlan Fleetwood, titled “#Environmental Determinism, Climatic Stability, and Imperial Imaginaries of Habitability in #CentralAsia.”