Researches the Scottish Enlightenment, history of racism, Linnaean natural history, and collecting. Senior Lecturer & mum of 3. https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/
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Between 1913 & 1918, Luxemburg compiled and annotated nearly 400 pressed leaves and flowers, even while imprisoned for her political activities. Rediscovered in 2009, her little-known herbarium offers a remarkable window into both the history of botany and her relationship with the natural world. 2/
Reminder: WOMNH Online Seminar, Wed. 10 June ,18:00–19:00 CET 🌿 Rosa Luxemburg’s Herbarium: Radical Ecology and the Global Plantation,
Speaker: Claudia Horn
To attend, please email [email protected] for the link to the virtual room. 1/
Seminar reminder, @nulybranch.bsky.social Caomhanach : 'Collecting Rarity: The Conundrum of Instructing and Constructing - Histories of Malagasy Endemism from Colonial Plant Specimens', Wed 27 May, 15-16 CET, for Zoom link: [email protected]. instructingnaturalhistory.com/events
This talk explores Luxemburg’s political ecology and her critique of imperial capital accumulation. Welcome! womnh.hypotheses.org/events#skyst... #envhist #museums #collections #histsci
Permanent lectureship in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. FT, £42-58k, closing date 30 June 26, starting Sept 26 onwards.
For international people, this is equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Lectureship.
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Our book Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750–1820 is currently half price in the Yale University Press Spring Sale.
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Enjoying a quiet moment of interspecies intellectual exchange with Laali. Reading the excellent 'Race & the Scottish Enlightenment' by @brucealexb.bsky.social and @lindaaburnett.bsky.social.
