Carlos Dimas
@carlosdimas.bsky.social
Historian of LATAM. Writing book on the history of (mal)nutrition, rural health, and agriculture in 1950s El Salvador. 1st book on cholera epidemics and state-building in rural 19th century Argentina.
Made in LA w/ Salvi roots🇸🇻
LA Galaxy
Made in LA w/ Salvi roots🇸🇻
LA Galaxy
This book had such a huge impact on me in grad school.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
11/20
11/20
January 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This book had such a huge impact on me in grad school.
Not going to AHA, but seeing people post screenshots of their panels. Always interesting to see the all east coast based panels.
Cost and distance are high from the west, but weather has to be just as much of a deterrent to not going
Cost and distance are high from the west, but weather has to be just as much of a deterrent to not going
December 29, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Not going to AHA, but seeing people post screenshots of their panels. Always interesting to see the all east coast based panels.
Cost and distance are high from the west, but weather has to be just as much of a deterrent to not going
Cost and distance are high from the west, but weather has to be just as much of a deterrent to not going
This looks super cool. I wonder what a Latin American history version of this would look like
So it has taken a bit longer than promised but the Oxford Illustrated History of the United States is about to go into production! Watch this space for pub date and possible (shameless) semiquincentennial branding. And massive thanks to the stellar contributors who have been incredible to work with
November 14, 2024 at 5:55 AM
This looks super cool. I wonder what a Latin American history version of this would look like
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Delighted to say that my book now has a cover! Due to be published on 18 March 2025 (USA) and 13 May 2025 (worldwide).
November 11, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Delighted to say that my book now has a cover! Due to be published on 18 March 2025 (USA) and 13 May 2025 (worldwide).
All these new followers and people I am following and I have no idea what to say
November 11, 2024 at 8:48 PM
All these new followers and people I am following and I have no idea what to say
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For more than a century, native oysters have been missing from Scotland's Firth of Forth. Now they're back! 🦪🦪🦪
It's a buzz knowing people are working hard to restore vital ocean habitats
Imagine what it'll be like having a huge oyster reef back in the F of F! 💙
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🦑
It's a buzz knowing people are working hard to restore vital ocean habitats
Imagine what it'll be like having a huge oyster reef back in the F of F! 💙
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🦑
Oysters doing well in Firth of Forth after reintroduction, say experts
Early signs of success seen in area where native European oysters were fished to local extinction by early 1900s
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2024 at 1:48 PM
For more than a century, native oysters have been missing from Scotland's Firth of Forth. Now they're back! 🦪🦪🦪
It's a buzz knowing people are working hard to restore vital ocean habitats
Imagine what it'll be like having a huge oyster reef back in the F of F! 💙
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🦑
It's a buzz knowing people are working hard to restore vital ocean habitats
Imagine what it'll be like having a huge oyster reef back in the F of F! 💙
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🦑
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I have just set up a starter pack for Latin Americanists. Please share it widely so we can develop a larger community of researchers engaged in Latin American Studies from a broad interdisciplinary perspective. Thanks go.bsky.app/UjzLMBx
November 9, 2024 at 4:21 PM
I have just set up a starter pack for Latin Americanists. Please share it widely so we can develop a larger community of researchers engaged in Latin American Studies from a broad interdisciplinary perspective. Thanks go.bsky.app/UjzLMBx
Completely forgot I had this app
March 19, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Completely forgot I had this app
@chadblack.bsky.social hey Chad, you like experimental music from Latin America, right?
February 2, 2024 at 7:05 PM
@chadblack.bsky.social hey Chad, you like experimental music from Latin America, right?
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Coming 2/8/24, “Revolutionary Aesthetics: Afterlives of Central American Insurgency,” an exhibit of a selection of Penn Libraries’ Central American political posters, co-curated by me, undergrad Logan Saenz, and PhD student Josué Chávez. www.library.upenn.edu/events/revol...
Revolutionary Aesthetics: Afterlives of Central American Insurgency
Selections from a recently-acquired collection of posters from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama offer a window into Central America's Cold War-era conflicts from the...
www.library.upenn.edu
December 15, 2023 at 3:33 PM
Coming 2/8/24, “Revolutionary Aesthetics: Afterlives of Central American Insurgency,” an exhibit of a selection of Penn Libraries’ Central American political posters, co-curated by me, undergrad Logan Saenz, and PhD student Josué Chávez. www.library.upenn.edu/events/revol...
Anyone have recommendations on the history of Home Economics as a field?
November 10, 2023 at 12:52 PM
Anyone have recommendations on the history of Home Economics as a field?
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Are you a historian of Latin America who works on the history of science, technology, or medicine? Do you work in environmental history?
Consider submitting an abstract and short bio to El Laboratorio seminar!
Please RT!
See HNet link for details: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Consider submitting an abstract and short bio to El Laboratorio seminar!
Please RT!
See HNet link for details: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
October 13, 2023 at 2:32 AM
Are you a historian of Latin America who works on the history of science, technology, or medicine? Do you work in environmental history?
Consider submitting an abstract and short bio to El Laboratorio seminar!
Please RT!
See HNet link for details: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Consider submitting an abstract and short bio to El Laboratorio seminar!
Please RT!
See HNet link for details: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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Are you a scholar studying Latin American #histsci, #STS & #envhist?
If so, consider sharing your work at El Laboratorio, a seminar organized by two incredible historians--& former
Linda Hall Library fellows--@historyrocio.bsky.social & @carlosdimas.bsky.social!
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
If so, consider sharing your work at El Laboratorio, a seminar organized by two incredible historians--& former
Linda Hall Library fellows--@historyrocio.bsky.social & @carlosdimas.bsky.social!
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
CFP: El Laboratorio: Seminar for the History of Latin American Science, Technology, Engineering, and...
El Laboratorio: Seminar for the History of Latin American Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine April 11-12, 2024
networks.h-net.org
October 12, 2023 at 11:26 PM
Are you a scholar studying Latin American #histsci, #STS & #envhist?
If so, consider sharing your work at El Laboratorio, a seminar organized by two incredible historians--& former
Linda Hall Library fellows--@historyrocio.bsky.social & @carlosdimas.bsky.social!
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
If so, consider sharing your work at El Laboratorio, a seminar organized by two incredible historians--& former
Linda Hall Library fellows--@historyrocio.bsky.social & @carlosdimas.bsky.social!
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Please share this CFP from @historyrocio.bsky.social and myself for a new (virtual) seminar series hosted between VCU and UNLV, called El Laboratorio on history of STEM in LATAM
April 2024
Info in link
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
April 2024
Info in link
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
CFP: El Laboratorio: Seminar for the History of Latin American Science, Technology, Engineering, and...
El Laboratorio: Seminar for the History of Latin American Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine April 11-12, 2024
networks.h-net.org
October 12, 2023 at 10:10 PM
Please share this CFP from @historyrocio.bsky.social and myself for a new (virtual) seminar series hosted between VCU and UNLV, called El Laboratorio on history of STEM in LATAM
April 2024
Info in link
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
April 2024
Info in link
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...