Out on 15 December! So excited!

cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150177…

Looking forward to this workshop — do join us if in Singapore!

We will be organising a two-day interdisciplinary workshop on water history in HK and beyond on 4-5 December! 12 speakers from different institutions will be presenting their research findings on water-related topics. Sign up for this in-person event:
soh.school/water-history

[CALL FOR ABSTRACTS] We're hosting
NTU History's fourth graduate-led workshop series from Jan to March 2024! We welcome any abstracts related to transnational history (max 300 words). Send your abstract to ntuhistworkshop[at]gmail[dot]com by 18 December 2023. Please Re-post!

Happening tomorrow at 4:30 p.m.!

Happening next week, 19th October! Please do join us at NTU.

For those that have missed my book talk in Hong Kong, don't worry– there will be a second one in Singapore next week (28 September, 4:30-5:30 p.m.), organised by hkresearchhub and NTU History !

The talk will be moderated by Taomo Zhou 周陶沫! Register at:
soh.school/hist-mok

Very excited to host Maxime Decaudin (Maxime Decaudin) at NTU next month, 19th October, on Hong Kong, the putative 'barren rock', and 19th century constructions of the environment. Please join us if in Singapore!

Infrastructure, environment, urban studies friends:
The upcoming CFP for roadsides journal is on Concrete. Abstracts due 1 Oct. More info in the link:
roadsides.net/call-for-paper…

Job opening in NUS which might be of interest to history postgraduates:
full time Research Assistant (12 months position) for a research project titled Green Heritage: Conserving Urban Greening as Singapore's National Heritage.

careers.nus.edu.sg/job-invite/218…

Very excited to be hosting James Dunk discussing planetary mental health at NTU next Monday, 21st August. Please do join in-person in Singapore or via Zoom if not!

There is still time to register for this exciting event due to be held on Monday at NTU!

Very excited to be hosting James Dunk discussing planetary mental health at NTU next Monday, 21st August. Please do join in-person in Singapore or via Zoom if not!

Really delighted to be part of this special issue, and excited to see it out now as a proper collection! Thanks and congratulations again Jules Skotnes-Brown, Matheus Duarte, Frederic Keck, and Ollie, and so too Visual Plague/ Global War Against the Rat for a great afterword!

NTU History is also hiring an Associate Professor/Full Professor in History of Technology. Please help spread the word:

ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/NT…

This weekend, from the 9th to 11th, School of Humanities, NTU Singapore and NTU History are proud to thost the 9th HOMSEA, and IASTAM regional conference.
If you would like to attend, please register at soh.school/homsea-2023
Exclusive, in person only!
Jack Greatrex

The programme for the annual (online) conference of the Global War Against the Rat project on the subject of 'Epizootics Beyond the Farm: Historical & Ethnographic Approaches' is now live. Free registration is open till May 22 via this link: wwrat.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/cfp-epizootics…

A brilliant article by Jack Greatrex on 'Rats, Grass, Scrub Typhus, and Plantations in Malaya, 1924-1974', which helps 're-historicize the emergence of ecological notions of disease reservoirs' Medical Anthropology tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…