Maximilian Hepach
@hepach.org
Assistant Professor (Research) in Geography
Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow
@ Durham University
weather | climate | health
https://hepach.org/
Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow
@ Durham University
weather | climate | health
https://hepach.org/
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💥New: In defence of boredom – Why the social sciences need time to “waste”
✍️ Madiha Tariq
#AcademicSky #SocialScience #SlowScholarship
✍️ Madiha Tariq
#AcademicSky #SocialScience #SlowScholarship
In defence of boredom – Why the social sciences need time to “waste” - Impact of Social Sciences
Why has boredom, or simply the opportunity to linger over research, become a key issue in shaping the kinds of knowledge academics produce?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
💥New: In defence of boredom – Why the social sciences need time to “waste”
✍️ Madiha Tariq
#AcademicSky #SocialScience #SlowScholarship
✍️ Madiha Tariq
#AcademicSky #SocialScience #SlowScholarship
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CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850, Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June 2026. Deadline 30th January 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6185
CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850 – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
October 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850, Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June 2026. Deadline 30th January 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6185
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The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on Coasts is now out - glad to be part of it with some thoughts about coasts and gardens in c18 Ireland #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🌊
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
November 6, 2025 at 6:28 AM
The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on Coasts is now out - glad to be part of it with some thoughts about coasts and gardens in c18 Ireland #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🌊
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
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New Cultures of Energy pod on film, plastics, warfare, radiation and more. Plus did you know Rayon is made from wood? That & more marvels revealed in our chat with @alicelovejoy.bsky.social about her brilliant new book tinyurl.com/5fv6mc4f @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social
Cultures of Energy: 241 - Militant Chemistry (feat. Alice Lovejoy)
Dominic and Cymene talk about AI and other chowhounds to kick off this week’s podcast. Then (12:46) we welcome the wonderful to talk about her new book (U California Press, 2025). We begin with the ...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
New Cultures of Energy pod on film, plastics, warfare, radiation and more. Plus did you know Rayon is made from wood? That & more marvels revealed in our chat with @alicelovejoy.bsky.social about her brilliant new book tinyurl.com/5fv6mc4f @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social
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New Book! "All Geographers Should be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-full Academic Spaces" now available from UGA Press.
Excited to talk about the book with folks, so please consider if this topic and ideas are well-suited to department seminars, class visits, or other conversational spaces.
Excited to talk about the book with folks, so please consider if this topic and ideas are well-suited to department seminars, class visits, or other conversational spaces.
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
New Book! "All Geographers Should be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-full Academic Spaces" now available from UGA Press.
Excited to talk about the book with folks, so please consider if this topic and ideas are well-suited to department seminars, class visits, or other conversational spaces.
Excited to talk about the book with folks, so please consider if this topic and ideas are well-suited to department seminars, class visits, or other conversational spaces.
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SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
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New article, long in the making. On Alexander von Humboldt’s critique of natural-historical concepts of race and his diagnosis of a politics of racialised difference leveraged in the colonies. I try to say: there are good reasons to look beyond Kant!
doi.org/10.1177/0191...
doi.org/10.1177/0191...
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
New article, long in the making. On Alexander von Humboldt’s critique of natural-historical concepts of race and his diagnosis of a politics of racialised difference leveraged in the colonies. I try to say: there are good reasons to look beyond Kant!
doi.org/10.1177/0191...
doi.org/10.1177/0191...
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If any journalists would like a copy of Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain to review, please get in touch w me /MUP. It's a rigorous history of wind energy written for a wide audience, with plenty to say about today's energy challenges. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/
Manchester University Press - Electric wind
Electric wind - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Electric wind by Marianna Dudley
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
If any journalists would like a copy of Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain to review, please get in touch w me /MUP. It's a rigorous history of wind energy written for a wide audience, with plenty to say about today's energy challenges. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/
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Stack of Jacquard loom cards, about two meters in length at Queen’s Street Mill, near Burnley
By my calculation about 120kb of data
By my calculation about 120kb of data
November 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Stack of Jacquard loom cards, about two meters in length at Queen’s Street Mill, near Burnley
By my calculation about 120kb of data
By my calculation about 120kb of data
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I'm not lazy, I'm just convenience maxxing.
November 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I'm not lazy, I'm just convenience maxxing.
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Haven't done this in a while, but I have a new paper available online in @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social offering a new way to think about a radio geopolitics assemblage - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Good Contact in Spite of Static’: Advocating a Radio Geopolitics Assemblage Approach Through Analysing the Lindberghs’ 1931 North Pacific Flight
In the summer of 1931 famed US aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne, flew their Sirius aircraft from Washington DC, westward across northern Canada, Alaska and the Bering Strait to Japan an...
www.tandfonline.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Haven't done this in a while, but I have a new paper available online in @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social offering a new way to think about a radio geopolitics assemblage - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Join us for another series of online and in-person events on the digital environmental humanities:
www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
Next up on November 12: @ehameeteman.bsky.social on desalination
#envhist #envhum #skystorians #DH @kmcdono.bsky.social
www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
Next up on November 12: @ehameeteman.bsky.social on desalination
#envhist #envhum #skystorians #DH @kmcdono.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Join us for another series of online and in-person events on the digital environmental humanities:
www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
Next up on November 12: @ehameeteman.bsky.social on desalination
#envhist #envhum #skystorians #DH @kmcdono.bsky.social
www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
Next up on November 12: @ehameeteman.bsky.social on desalination
#envhist #envhum #skystorians #DH @kmcdono.bsky.social
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My new article on the atmosphere in spatial history is out!
New on advance access: "The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument"
by Luca Scholz (University of Manchester)
#OpenAccess
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
by Luca Scholz (University of Manchester)
#OpenAccess
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument*
Abstract. Taking its cue from the weather wars that unfolded around the Alps in the eighteenth century — conflicts between neighbouring towns and polities
academic.oup.com
December 29, 2024 at 3:31 PM
My new article on the atmosphere in spatial history is out!
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feel like aristotle probably said something wacky about this
October 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
feel like aristotle probably said something wacky about this
PhD Studentships in Transformative Humanities - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
A gift to post-structuralists everywhere
Trump hangs autopen photo instead of Biden portrait in new presidential gallery
Trump hangs autopen photo instead of Biden portrait in new presidential gallery
Latest snub is part of US president’s attempts to delegitimise his predecessor with unproven claims
President Donald Trump has added a “Presidential Walk of Fame” to the exterior of the White House, featuring portraits of each of the previous commanders-in-chief – except for one.
Instead of a headshot of Joe Biden , the Republican incumbent instead placed a photo of an autopen signing the Democrat’s name – a reference to Trump’s frequent allegation that the former president was addled by the end of his term in office and not really the one making decisions. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
A gift to post-structuralists everywhere
Last month, my father passed away from cancer. The journey to that point showed me how many lives are affected by cancer, either directly or through friends and family. I am collecting donations in memory of my father for @cancerresearchuk.org:
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/maximil...
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/maximil...
Maximilian's Race for Life
Cancer is happening right now, which is why I'm taking part in a Race for Life 10k to raise money and save lives.
1 in 2 people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Every single pound you...
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org
May 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Last month, my father passed away from cancer. The journey to that point showed me how many lives are affected by cancer, either directly or through friends and family. I am collecting donations in memory of my father for @cancerresearchuk.org:
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/maximil...
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/maximil...
Launch event:
WIND AS MODEL, MEDIA, AND EXPERIENCE
June 11th, 04:00pm (London/Online)
Join us for the launch of the Stream “Wind as Model, Media, and Experience” with Media+Environment.
Editorial: mediaenviron.org/article/1274...
Zoom link: sfu.zoom.us/j/8429412299...
WIND AS MODEL, MEDIA, AND EXPERIENCE
June 11th, 04:00pm (London/Online)
Join us for the launch of the Stream “Wind as Model, Media, and Experience” with Media+Environment.
Editorial: mediaenviron.org/article/1274...
Zoom link: sfu.zoom.us/j/8429412299...
May 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Launch event:
WIND AS MODEL, MEDIA, AND EXPERIENCE
June 11th, 04:00pm (London/Online)
Join us for the launch of the Stream “Wind as Model, Media, and Experience” with Media+Environment.
Editorial: mediaenviron.org/article/1274...
Zoom link: sfu.zoom.us/j/8429412299...
WIND AS MODEL, MEDIA, AND EXPERIENCE
June 11th, 04:00pm (London/Online)
Join us for the launch of the Stream “Wind as Model, Media, and Experience” with Media+Environment.
Editorial: mediaenviron.org/article/1274...
Zoom link: sfu.zoom.us/j/8429412299...
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Just in time for @scmstudies.bsky.social #SCMS2025 👉Introducing Wind Humanities: A Q&A with Media+Environment’s Wind as Model, Media, and Experience Guest Editors www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/i...
Introducing Wind Humanities: A Q&A with Media+Environment’s Wind as Model, Media, and Experience Guest Editors
As a complex, dynamic system, wind challenged physics and scientific modelling capabilities while also presenting human imagination with the very embodiment of change and ephemera in spite of its appa...
www.ucpress.edu
April 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Just in time for @scmstudies.bsky.social #SCMS2025 👉Introducing Wind Humanities: A Q&A with Media+Environment’s Wind as Model, Media, and Experience Guest Editors www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/i...
“In an oral culture, cliché and stereotype are valued, as accumulations of wisdom, and analysis is frowned upon, for putting those accumulations at risk.”
Two print metaphors for oral culture. ♾️
https://tinyurl.com/bdd737vp
Two print metaphors for oral culture. ♾️
https://tinyurl.com/bdd737vp
We’re all conspiracy theorists now. Why?
tinyurl.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
“In an oral culture, cliché and stereotype are valued, as accumulations of wisdom, and analysis is frowned upon, for putting those accumulations at risk.”
Two print metaphors for oral culture. ♾️
https://tinyurl.com/bdd737vp
Two print metaphors for oral culture. ♾️
https://tinyurl.com/bdd737vp
PhD studentship: The history and heritage of the discovery of environmental change and the interpretation of place in the East of England (Cambridge, UK)
Deadline: 16 May 2025
https://www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/cc-ee/studentships/cambridge-university-library-and-university-of-cambridge/
Deadline: 16 May 2025
https://www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/cc-ee/studentships/cambridge-university-library-and-university-of-cambridge/
Cambridge University Library and University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk
March 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
PhD studentship: The history and heritage of the discovery of environmental change and the interpretation of place in the East of England (Cambridge, UK)
Deadline: 16 May 2025
https://www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/cc-ee/studentships/cambridge-university-library-and-university-of-cambridge/
Deadline: 16 May 2025
https://www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/cc-ee/studentships/cambridge-university-library-and-university-of-cambridge/
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this article is published in a special issue of Media + Environment which I contributed to editing as part of an AHRC & DFG funded project called Weather Reports: Wind as Model, Media, and Experience. with many thanks to @hepach.org for the editorial heavy lifting mediaenviron.org/article/1274...
March 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
this article is published in a special issue of Media + Environment which I contributed to editing as part of an AHRC & DFG funded project called Weather Reports: Wind as Model, Media, and Experience. with many thanks to @hepach.org for the editorial heavy lifting mediaenviron.org/article/1274...
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beyond thrilled to announce the publication of “An Island of Sound: A Libretto” — an article co-authored with @julesrawlinson.bsky.social written into the libretto devised for the live performance of An Island of Sound, a browser-based work about phantom islands mediaenviron.org/article/1295...
March 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
beyond thrilled to announce the publication of “An Island of Sound: A Libretto” — an article co-authored with @julesrawlinson.bsky.social written into the libretto devised for the live performance of An Island of Sound, a browser-based work about phantom islands mediaenviron.org/article/1295...
As part of "Weather Reports", we've just published the first part of a Stream (Special Issue) on wind as media, model, and experience with Media+Environment.
In our introduction, we ask what shape the Wind Humanities might take: mediaenviron.org/article/1274...
In our introduction, we ask what shape the Wind Humanities might take: mediaenviron.org/article/1274...
Wind Humanities: An Elemental Media Approach | Published in Media+Environment
By Maximilian Hepach, Ryan Bishop & 3 more. Drawing together work from environmental humanities, media studies, and artistic practice, we propose and contribute to a new elemental field of study: the ...
mediaenviron.org
January 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
As part of "Weather Reports", we've just published the first part of a Stream (Special Issue) on wind as media, model, and experience with Media+Environment.
In our introduction, we ask what shape the Wind Humanities might take: mediaenviron.org/article/1274...
In our introduction, we ask what shape the Wind Humanities might take: mediaenviron.org/article/1274...