Happy that my panels for #HSS26 #ESHS26 have been accepted. Here the lineup @hssgecc.bsky.social
I look forward to discussing instruments and tools in premodern science (agriculture, botany, mineralogy, navigation and mathematics) #histsci #instruments #agriculture #environment
Hosted as this year's @northernenvhistory.bsky.social meeting. Thanks also to @anthropocenebio.bsky.social, @crems-york.bsky.social and @cecs-york.bsky.social for their generous support.
The CFP deadline for our upcoming workshop on 'unwanted non-human life', broadly conceived, here at York has been extended a couple of weeks. Do send in an application if it appeals to you, we've already got a great pair of keynotes lined up!
It's been a pleasure being on the great organising team at York and Northumbria for next year's NEHN meeting - a collaborative worksop on the many histories of 'unwanted life'. Do see the CFP below, and send in a submission if it appeals!
Excited to be talking here on Monday re early modern weeding tools, their material profile and practical-symbolic uses!
We are thrilled to share our Michaelmas Termcard!
We have a wonderful line-up of speakers and hope to see many of you there. If you'd like to join us online, be sure to subscribe to our mailing list, where we'll send our Teams links prior to each session!
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Love the Georgical Inquiries!
Had a grand time this week in Uppsala at #eseh talking on ‘weeds’, sacred history, and figurations of agrarian labour in EM England on a panel with the great @daancjansen.bsky.social and others! A lovely chance to hear plenty about the capacious field of environmental history today as well.
I enjoyed reading this piece by Josephine Koopman on the SHNH summer conference. It offers a wonderful summary of the presentations we heard, and teases out the shared themes our papers raised. Thank you Josephine!
shnh.org.uk/the-sense-of...
@sochistnathist.bsky.social
had a grand time last week in Glasgow at @sochistnathist.bsky.social's annual meeting, hearing some wonderful papers on the senses in natural history, and getting a chance to talk about olfactory affects, hebraic philology, and biblical 'weeds'! much thanks to the society!
The words "A Sense of Nature" in white text on a deep green background. It is surrounded by historic illustrations of a locust and two butterflies.
One week until our Summer Meeting in Glasgow! 🎉
We're looking forward to welcoming everyone who can come in person to discuss an amazing program centred on A Sense of Nature 🌺🍃
Can't make it but are still interested? How about joining online below! 👇🏻
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apologies! didn't make much sense here, but your comment had me thinking
there is some stuff from the latter 17c that starts to label particular plants as weeds (in arable contexts), but the term seems to have a more fluid early modern jurisdiction, associated with the self-individuating potencies of all sorts of (postlapsarian) stuff
or the indexing of a certain kind of iterative, 'environmental' labour (thinking here about the use of weed-ash as fertiliser, or the granting of weeding rights, often in the same breath as rights of pasturage or turbary, in period land leases)
hello! this rings very true to me w regards to early modern 'weeds', very rarely (to me at least) the categorisation of particular botanical identities (even less species), or akin to modern ideas of 'plants in the wrong place', more often a stage in the lifecycle of Created matter
talking about biblical stinkweeds at this, looks to be a good one!
✨Booking is OPEN✨
Join us for our Summer Meeting in Glasgow on the theme A Sense of Nature! Two days of talking about history and nature, including museum tours 🥰
📅19-20 June
🏦Kelvin Hall, University of Glasgow
Follow the link for the list of speakers and how to book 👇
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CECS PG is delighted to announce our upcoming talk from Uni of York’s own Francis Taylor 🍃
Join us next Tuesday in person or on Zoom to hear his talk ‘The Poetics of Imprecision in Biblical Botany, c 1680-1750’ Sign up to our mailing list to receive Zoom details, or keep an eye on our socials 🌟
