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Ruth Morgan
@ruthamorgan.bsky.social
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#envhist | #envhum | #climhist | opinions my own | Raised on Noongar country 🏳️‍🌈 living & working on unceded Ngunnawal & Ngambri country | ANU - http://bit.ly/3ITky85
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Great to see this issue out and about! Thanks to the amazing @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social team
jas-jozstudies.bsky.social Journal of Australian Studies @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social · Sep 7
In the second article in the Australian desert special, @ruthamorgan.bsky.social examines Australia's response to the UNESCO agenda on research in "arid zones".

#deserts #CSIRO #UNESCO #science #OpenAccess #OzStudies #OzHist

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Screenshot of journal article. Title: Entering the Arid Zone: Australian Development Diplomacy and UNESCO, 1945–1960. Author: Ruth A. Morgan (Australian National University). Abstract: This article examines the response of Australian governments to UNESCO’s agenda of conducting scientific research in “arid zones” to explore the role of the nation in the liberal internationalism of the postwar world order. UNESCO’s first director-general, Julian Huxley, and its first head of the Natural Sciences Section, Joseph Needham, both positioned science as critical to an internationalist agenda. Australian botanist Bertram Thomas Dickson and his contemporaries shared this belief in the necessary role of science in postwar reconstruction and the betterment of humanity. However, as Dickson’s hitherto unexamined correspondence with Canberra and UNESCO shows, national interests still mattered, as did empire, to the movement of scientific ideas during the first decades after the war. The interwar rise of applied science and its contributions to rural Australia, as historical geographer J. M. Powell argues, had “won” scientists like Dickson and the CSIR official support, which sustained their importance to postwar reconstruction and development efforts. Australia’s contribution to the UNESCO initiative therefore followed Canberra’s assessment of the strategic value of the organisation to its regional ambitions and development diplomacy.
September 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Call for Panels, Papers, and Posters to present at ASEH 2026 is now open!

American Society for Environmental History - @aseh.bsky.social

More Information: aseh.org/ASEH-Confere...

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June 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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ThreeTT jobs in history of medicine, science, and environment at Texas State University. One in Public history
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June 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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As climate change was recognized as a growing threat since the 1980s, civic contestation has crucially shaped how we have responded.
On 4 June, we will explore the evolution of climate activism with @ruthamorgan.bsky.social, Stephen Milder, André Nollkaemper and Liesbeth van de Grift. Come join us!
May 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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"It has come for science because it was never just about the Humanities, but about how we assess American progress through infrastructures of new knowledge and its application." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/02/t...
The Humanities as Canary: Understanding this Crisis Now - The Scholarly Kitchen
The Humanities have always been the canary in the coal mine of the full knowledge industry. What information can help us understand this crisis and its implications?
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April 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Did you know that Australia is actually a part of ESEH? Learn more about Australian #EnvHist by joining this roundtable discussion with Harrison Croft, Heather Goodall, Tom Griffiths, Ruth Morgan, and Jessica Urwin! 25 March 2025.

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Virtual Event - Australian Environmental History Today
25 March 2025 - This roundtable discussion will bring together historians at various career stages to reflect on the current state of Australian environmental history.
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March 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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This is a ridiculous and damaging move from the ARC which should cause all academics here and abroad substantial concern. www.afr.com/policy/healt...
Research funding body suspends grant to pro-Palestinian academic
Controversial academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, who has said Zionists “have no claim or right to cultural safety”, has had her $870,000 research grant suspended.
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February 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Before logging off for labour day, I’ve finished the overview for May at the @greenhouseuis.bsky.social!

We’re looking forward to great #envhum book talks with among others @mattholmes.bsky.social and @ruthamorgan.bsky.social - and are excited about Gitte Westergaard’s upcoming PhD defence!
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Vertical poster in green nuances with events for the month of May. More info on uis.no/en/greenhouse
April 30, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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It's a tricky time to celebrate with all that's going on in the world... But my new book on the history of climate diplomacy from the Cold War to the Paris Agreement is now out! #envhist #climhist bloomsbury.com/us/climate-c...
Climate Change and International History
Exploring how climate change has configured the international arena since the 1950s, this book reveals the ways that climate change emerged and evolved as an in…
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February 16, 2024 at 1:45 AM
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The American Society for Environmental History is launching a new, open-access online journal called Environmental History Review. They are looking for an Editor who will play a central role in getting this project off the ground. Sounds like a great opportunity. Details: 🗃️ aseh.org/Environmenta...
American Society for Environmental History - Environmental History Review
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January 3, 2024 at 5:50 PM