Dear Optimistic Future Self
Cameron Muir’s letter explores the struggle to maintain hope amid despair, emphasizing the need to confront harsh realities rather than seek comfort in narratives.
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“Killing a Baboon: Applied History and the Anthropocene Ape”
Processing the horrid February 2025 “Killing [of] a Baboon” by a group of schoolchildren in Delmas, South Africa, Sandra Swart looks back at history and examines the role of superstition and the occult in the ongoing violence against these primates.
“Apartheid’s Baboons: How the State Weaponised Animal Bodies”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Sandra Swart.
Massive Body Loss (website)
This website is an open-access data-visualization project documenting events that caused massive body loss in and around Turkey in the last century.
The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas)
The EJAtlas is an interactive online platform coordinated and managed by researchers and activists.
“The Amazon before the Constitutional Court of Ecuador”
A Tuesday Discussion with Lena Köhn.
“Greening Military? Past Emissions and Future Pathways”
In this video, Bernd Sommer (TU Dortmund, Germany) and Frank Reichherzer (Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr) presents on the topic: “Greening Military? Past Emissions and Future Pathways.”
Constructing Postconflict Memoryscapes: From Narratives of Division to Coexistence
Arcadia, Autumn 2023, no. 18
“Frame Alignment Between Environmentalists and the Sámi in the Forest Dispute in Inari, Finland Until the 2000s—Competing Conservation Needs and Obstacles for Co-Living with the Non-Human”
This article investigates the relationship between Sámi actors and environmentalists in Inari, Finland.
“Land Use and Environmental Ideologies in British Mandate Palestine, 1917–1948”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Mona Bieling.