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Professor and Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History, UC San Diego New book: _Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People_ https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295753980/remaking-the-earth-exhausting-the-people/ #EnvHist #SocHist #AgHist
A second endorsement for _Revolutionary Natures_ (from John R. McNeill) has arrived. The book is scheduled for publication later this month. #envhist #China
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|| NEW CALL FOR PAPERS || To mark the 50th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s death, we are planning an issue on memories and lessons from the Mao era. We invite contributions revisiting overlooked experiences, questioning established interpretations, or reflecting on what Maoist China can teach us today.
Book cover based on stylised painted art of someone digging in a large pile of soil with a shovel.
We're delighted to announce publication of 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for The Environmental Humanities' (E. Brownell, ed.) – exploring #soil as a vessel of human #history and point of view for inquiry. Available print or #openaccess here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist
📣 Call for Papers: Rural History Network at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC)
📍 Lyon, France
📅 21–24 April 2027
⏳ The deadline for submissions is 15 April 2026
We will post more info below. #EnvHum
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.
Blue background with geometric structure made of white sticks and black banner reading Environmental Humanities Volume 17 Issue 3 November 2025
We are pleased that our journal, Environmental Humanities, is part of the OACIP 2025-2026 cohort. This group of nine Diamond OA journals is accepting contributions through 7/31.
Learn more about OACIP: buff.ly/vTVZP1q @wearelyrasis.bsky.social
Access Environmental Humanities: buff.ly/kwx0PgI
New entry in our dictionary: "Environmental History" by Jonatan Palmblad, Rachel Carson Center. Click the link below to learn more about how historians understand human–environment interaction in the past.
www.speak4nature.eu/dictionary/e...
#envhist
@palmblad.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social
Happening tomorrow at MIT
I made it, so it's on!
Assuming my flight isn't canceled, I'll be giving a talk at Harvard's Fairbank Center tomorrow evening.
fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/moder...
On behalf of all my fellow anemics, I take offense.
Another victory for capitalism 🙃
If you might want to access the photos of Southwest and Northwest China taken by Walter Lowdermilk that I spent untold hours scanning and georeferencing, you better hurry. Tomorrow ESRI is phasing out the old version of Story Maps, so they all have to be remade.
chinawatersoilhistory.com/story-maps/
ZOOM ONLY tomorrow, Monday, 2/23, 12-1pm ET: Due to inclement weather, Sakura Christmas' @prof-christmas.bsky.social seminar, "Behind the Screen: Mining Pasts of the Nintendo Gameboy," will be presented by zoom only. Please see the registration link here: us-japan.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/zoom-o...
"This innovative spirit was matched by an ambition for temporal and spatial synthesis. Scholars deftly constructed connections between local micro-sites and global systems, weaving narratives that linked community experiences with oceanic histories, colonial networks, and climate change."
Read Mu Cao's full report from the 2025 Conference of the Asian Association for Environmental History (AAEH), "A Classroom Called the Inland Sea: The 2025 AAEH Conference," on our website: www.iceho.org/news/2026/1/...
#envhist
Book cover of Laboring in the Shadows: Precarity and Promise in Black Youth Work by Bianca J. Baldridge
Laboring in the Shadows by Bianca J. Baldridge explores the critical role of Black youth workers, especially in the lives of vulnerable youth, and the challenges they face in their unstable, underappreciated position.
https://ow.ly/SoHZ50YgWmg
It was the 70s...
Bernal's first book.
Library catalogs are now using AI to give author photos... and failing miserably. Who is that guy? And what is he holding?
Thanks to @matthewmosca.bsky.social for bringing this to my attention.
Agricultural History journal cover showing empty livestock stalls in a bright white interior Volume 100 Number 1 February 2026
Congratulations to Agricultural History on the publication of Volume 100, Number 1. View the full TOC: buff.ly/yrsABY9
Learn more about the Journal of the Agricultural History Association: buff.ly/mXd9JS0
Top five all time halftime show and I knew one song.
📆 Weds. 2/4 @ 7PM: We are excited to welcome Bianca J. Baldridge and Gabrielle Oliveira in store for a discussion of their new books, "Laboring in the Shadows" and "Now We Are Here". Learn more here: buff.ly/zcVoTNq
Martha Ballard, Mennochio, and those French cats are yawling in their graves...
‘It isn’t enough to debate the way to choose the “best and brightest” for Stanford or Tsinghua – whether by means of an exam or a cocktail of extracurricular activities, athletic ability, community service and personality tests.’
@izading.bsky.social on China’s gaokao.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The deadline for submitting proposals for the 2026 Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast conference is March 1, 2026.
live-csu-northridge.pantheonsite.io/asian-studie...
Faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students are all invited to participate.
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The deadline for submitting proposals for the 2026 Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast conference is March 1, 2026.
live-csu-northridge.pantheonsite.io/asian-studie...
Faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students are all invited to participate.
If you wrote a book about Chinese law published in 2024 or 2025, we’d love to read it! Please send it our way or tell your publisher to get in touch at the provided email.
Your body is going to be a rifle. But I'm sure the coffee is absolutely incredible.
In the first Digital Childhoods post of 2026, Valentina Boretti (vboretti.bsky.social) explores how candy and patriotism were connected in 1930s Shanghai: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/candies-...