"Ironically...the highest dropout rates at universities are in computer sciences, business and administrative studies, and engineering and technology. The lowest, apart from medicine, dentistry and veterinary science, are in languages and historical and philosophical studies." 1/2
The latest Tory crusade over ‘rip-off’ degrees continues to stereotype students based on class
Fantastic presentation of the Melting Metropolis project by Chris Pearson at Project House Europe/ @carsoncenter.bsky.social in Munich! Great to learn about histories of heat in the modern city & questions related to technology, resilience, international orgs, pollution, refuges, gardens & more ☀️
Our upcoming @britishacademy.bsky.socialwww.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectu...
In the 21st century, the expansion of large-scale industrial agriculture across tropical landscapes in the Americas is threatening an Afrodescendant food system that has long prioritized agrobiodivers...
Katherine Arnold (LMU Munich) starts the day with a history of Natural History Collecting as a tool for interpreting German pre-colonial entanglements. First, the complicated history of early modern German states. But also European entanglements; Germans as a lens for European structure of knowledge
Now the roundtable "German Colonialism from Both Sides of the Rhine – Historical Transfers, Historiographical Dialogue" starts
Starting our second panel today is Sabine Hanke (Univ. of Tübingen), who talks about Indigenous Perspectives on the Hunting of Birds of Paradise in German New Guinea.
I’m in Paris too until Monday! This sounds great ✨ Let me know if you want to meet up if you have any free time in between ☺️
From tomorrow at the DHIP: Our conference "Writing German Colonial History Today. Renewed Issues and Perspectives": 22.05 (18:00) -24.05 (20:00) Zoomlink and program: www.dhi-paris.fr/fileadmin/us...
I cannot wait for this handbook. Spoiler alert: @collecol.bsky.social@emilypawley.bsky.social@alixhui.bsky.social , thank you for bringing this into the world.
