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Lachlan Fleetwood

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Historian of science, empire, geography and environment | Marie Curie Fellow @LMU_Muenchen | PhD from @Cambridge_Uni | Book out now: http://cambridge.org/9781009123112

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New podcast! We talk to historian of science @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social about early 19th C. imperial science in the #Himalaya & the emergence of a 'vertically oriented view of the world' where altitude comes to define mountains #HistSci #EnvHist
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@peterhhansen.bsky.social

11.02.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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New podcast! We talk to historian of science
@lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social about early 19th C. imperial science in the #Himalaya & the emergence of a 'vertically oriented view of the world' where altitude comes to define mountains #HistSci #EnvHist
shorturl.at/51fJe
@calmandfearless.bsky.social

11.02.2026 17:55 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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New podcast! We talk to historian of science
@lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social about early 19th C. imperial science in the #Himalaya & the emergence of a 'vertically oriented view of the world' where altitude comes to define mountains #HistSci #EnvHist
shorturl.at/51fJe
@adambutterworth.bsky.social

11.02.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah yes, I've seen these. Also very helpful in smoothing the transition from the 'other' platform to here!

25.10.2024 10:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cheers Alisa! Dipping my toes back here finally - this is really helpful in terms of the pinned feed etc, many thanks!

25.10.2024 07:03 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
The cover of Vol 1 of Climates and Cultures in History, featuring a painting of an inferno engulfing buildings and countryside.

The cover of Vol 1 of Climates and Cultures in History, featuring a painting of an inferno engulfing buildings and countryside.

Delighted to see that my review of David N. Livingstone's The Empire of Climate is now out in @whitehorsepress.bsky.social's exciting new journal Climates and Cultures in History: doi.org/10.3197/whpc...

24.10.2024 07:18 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ“’Please join us for our next Monday Colloquium on June 17 ➑️ tinyurl.com/mvzkd5ab ! Our speaker isΒ Rebekah Higgitt (National Museums Scotland) @rhiggitt.bsky.social, who will be presenting on β€œUsing Digital Tools to Explore and Visualise the Colonial Histories of Scientific Instrument Collections.”

14.06.2024 08:57 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History All journal articles featured in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History vol 52 issue 2

Finally out:

Formative Spaces of Empire: Masculinities and Outdoor Experiences c. 1860-1960

Special Issue 2024 for the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Co-edited with TomΓ‘s Bartoletti

Case Studies on India, Malaysia, Sumatra, Iran

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

24.05.2024 04:37 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ“’Please join us online today at 4:30 pm for our next Montagskolloquium! ➑️tinyurl.com/mvzkd5abΒ Lachlan Fleetwood (LMU/global dis:connect) will talk about "Imperial Geography, Climate Science and the Habitability of the Silk Roads." In his presentation heΒ examines how Central Asia’s lost cities ...

06.05.2024 09:29 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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It was a huge pleasure to coordinate the @carsoncenter.bsky.social Lunchtime Colloquium series with suggestions & help from so many. Open to the public - everyone is welcome! ✨

Join us for so many great speakers @wildpasts.bsky.social @dominikhhh.bsky.social @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social

09.04.2024 16:32 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ“’ Please join our Montagskolloquium series in Spring! In this collaboration between the Deutsches Museum & @globaldiscnct.bsky.social Fabienne Will, Roland Wenzlhuemer, and I have organized a program at the intersection of Envirotech History, Global History, and Museum Studies ➑️ tinyurl.com/mvzkd5ab

08.04.2024 08:26 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Defining and Using Aesthetics in the Environmental Humanities An Interdisciplinary Experiment

We're organising a workshop!
🌍Defining and Using Aesthetics in the Environmental Humanities
πŸ“† 10-11 April, 2024
πŸ“ Munich
🏁 Register by 28 Feb, 2024

If you can't make it in person, consider registering for the online keynote by Emily Brady!

defining-and-using-aesthetics-workshop.eventbrite.de

31.01.2024 09:59 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 4
Lachlan Fleetwood, Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya Cambrid... Lachlan Fleetwood, Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 294. ISBN: 978-1-009-12311-2. Β£75.00 (hardback). - Volume...

So unbelievably pleased to be able to review a book I've found totally inspiring and helpful as I begin to write my own. The third review is for my friend @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social's recent 'Science on the Roof of the World' with @bshsnews.bsky.social πŸ”οΈ #envhist #envhum #histsci

20.12.2023 17:29 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

CFP: Agriculture and the production of the Global South, 1900s-1960s.

Please send your proposal and CV by 22 December 2023.
You find more information and the entire call here: www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...

12.12.2023 15:21 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Reminder: just over a week left to get your abstracts in for this workshop!

CFP: "Climate Change, Empire and the Legacies of Environmental Determinism," LMU Munich, 18-19 March 2024

#histsci #histenv #histgeog #envhums

30.11.2023 12:36 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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global dis:connect Listen to global dis:connect on Spotify. Welcome to global dis:connect, the podcast that takes you on a captivating journey through the intricate web of connections and disconnections that define our ...

Two first episodes of the 'global dis:connect' podcast are out! With great contributions by Roland Wenzlhuemer and @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social on 19th-c. telegraphy and globalisation & imperial thinking on climate stability and the 'lost cities' of the Taklamakan: open.spotify.com/show/6SuroxN...

29.11.2023 11:20 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0