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This interview with Jane Carruthers was held during the VI Simposio SoLCHA in Villa de Leyva, Colombia, 6-8 June 2012, and published on the most recent issue of HALAC – Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña.

Here is a full reference: Hardenberg, Wilko Graf von. “Entrevista con Jane Carruthers [Interview with Jane Carruthers]“, Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña, Vol 2, No 1 (2012). http://www.fafich.ufmg.br/halac/index.php/periodico/article/view/58

These are two visualizations of the users of the #envhist twitter hashtag. The raw data are available as a GoogleDoc, realised thanks to @mhawksey, his wonderful Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet (TAGS), and his continued and effective twitter support. If you feel the need to archive your tweets or a specific hashtag, definitely using TAGS is the best available option.
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Even if I am an historian by trade, I’m pretty bad as a chronicler or even just as a diarist, and my memory is often even worse. You will thus excuse me if, when @katrinagulliver reminded me that the second #twitterstorians‘ anniversary was today, I had to recur to all the power of the internet to attempt to reconstruct how I got to know of this virtual society which over the last two years has become more essential to my life as an historian than most learned societies have ever been.
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Hereafter you may find the paper I held on June 28 2011 at the 6th ESEH Conference in Turku “Conflict and conservation. Which geographic scale for the history of nature conservation in the Alps?”, revised according to some of the feedback I got during the session.
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Tweets and slides from the latest associate researchers’ workshop at the Laboratorio di Storia delle Alpi in Mendrisio
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I have recently been involved in a scavenger hunt for the correct attribution of a quote that has been circulating unchecked in anglophone books over the last 20 years. Here is the storify’ed tale of this hunt.
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Considerate la vostra semenza:
fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.
Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto XXVI
(English translation here)

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OCLC Vice President Lorcan Dempsey (@LorcanD) in his blog makes many very good points about the use of Wikipedia, its addressability and the possibility to cite it in academic work.

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Since the call for ThatCampFlorence came out, or better since I discovered what a ThatCamp is, I have been thinking about the need to discuss within DH about issues such as the construction of crowdsourced historical gazzetteers (in particular for countries lacking such tools as free resources, such as Italy), the legal and technical and legal limits of the digitization of historical maps, the use of free/open GIS software within historical scholarship.

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According to historian and geographer David Lowenthal, George Perkins Marsh, author of Man and Nature, kept his position as the first, and most enduring, American ambassador to Italy (1861-1882) “notwithstanding the scandalous leak of a secret dispatch flaying the Italian cabinet for reneging on promised reforms” (Introduction to Man and Nature, p. xxii, http://ow.ly/1…rWvYV).

It seems that leaks of so-called “diplomatic secrets”, and the inability of Italian governments to accomplish reforms, are not a novelty at all in the end…

Herbert A. Millington
Chair – Search Committee
412A Clarkson Hall, Whitson University
College Hill, MA  34109

Dear Professor Millington,

Thank you for your letter of March 16.  After careful consideration, I regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your refusal to offer me an assistant professor position in your department.

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La storia si fa anche con le foto. E quali foto sono più adatte ad illustrare la storia più recente, la storia delle nostre infanzie ed adolescenze delle buone vecchie polaroid, le macchine fotografiche a sviluppo istanteneo inventate da Edwin Land che immagino tutti, più o meno, abbiamo tenuto tra le mani almeno una volta. O almeno avrete avuto il piacere di guardare le sue tipiche foto dai colori sgargianti e/o distorti incorniciate in bianco, su cui non ci si può trattenere dal disegnare, scrivere, scarabocchiare. more »

Questa volta ci diamo alla forma del saggio con una storia del movimento verde in Italia, per capire origini, filosofie, vicende e possibilità future di un ecologismo politico ormai disperso. E’ di nuovo un pezzo un po’ vecchio, già apparso tempo fa sul sito, ormai defunto, dei Radicali di Sinistra e citato un po’ di volte sulle pagine di Wikipedia. Per ora il tempo sembra non permettermi molto più di mettere in ordine e catalogare tra le cose che ho già scritto da tempo. more »

Cominciamo le ‘trasmissioni’ con un vecchio resoconto di un mio viaggio in Israele, sperando presto di postare qualcosa di più recente, ma che comunque il tutto sia gradito. Tanto per contestualizzare il viaggio si è svolto tra marzo e aprile 2000, qualche mese prima che scoppiasse la seconda intifada.

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