Author: edtabak
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In Search of the Ashy Mining Bee – Eline Tabak
Originally posted on Land Lines Project: The Land Lines Blog is delighted to share this new piece on lockdown, and a search for the ashy mining bee! This summer, after an uptick in the number of people caring for and visiting gardens and green spaces in ways they haven’t before, Eline Tabak writes about her…
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Report: a brief reflection on insect entanglements
Originally posted on Centre for Environmental Humanities: by Eline D. Tabak The ‘Insect Entanglements’ workshop’s CFP was first shared online in the last week of February, when the effects of Covid-19 were still vaguely taking shape in the periphery of our academic community. Perhaps naively so, we—that is, my co-organiser Maia and I—spent some time…
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CFP: Insect Entanglements Online Workshop
CFP Insect Entanglements Online Workshop deadline for submissions: April 30, 2020 Faculty of Arts, University of Bristol, 19 June 2020 Insects are everywhere, our (human) lives entangled with them, and yet we know surprisingly little about them. In the introduction to Insectopedia, Hugh Raffles writes the following: For as long as we’ve been here, they’ve…
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Snapshot: Bristol Museum & Art Gallery 20.09.2020
One of the first things I did after moving to Bristol was visiting the Extinction Voices exhibition at the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. The exhibition’s title was inspired by a citation from environmentalist Paul Hawken: ‘Nature is noisy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent. It has…
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Snapshot: noctilucent clouds 21.06.19
Night shining clouds above my hometown. According to a trustworthy source (Wiki), these clouds are the highest in our planet’s atmosphere, as far up as 76/85 km. They were wrinkly as well.
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Snapshot: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien 17.06.19
The Natural History Museum in Vienna, Austria, had a special exhibition on glaciers named: DAHINSCHMELZEN. Gletscher als Zeugen des Klimawandels (or MELTDOWN), created by the climate change charity Project Pressure. My partner and I happened to be in Vienna when this exhibition just opened, and I just had to go. We both really enjoyed the…
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Blog: Place as experience
Last year, I was asked to write a short blog for the Problems of Place series at EnvHistNow, a website that highlights environmental history scholarship by women, trans, and non-binary academics. EnvHistNow is run by Elizabeth Hameeteman. Writing about personal experiences is scary (especially when they’re not positive), but I’m grateful for the opportunity this…
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Snapshot: Solitary bee hotel at CampusGarten Uni Würzburg 28.09.18
Workshop/excursion to the CampusGarten during the EASLCE conference at the University of Würzburg. The CampusGarten was definitely one of the conference’s highlights for me, especially because of the great workshop on cyanotype printing.
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Snapshot: Field Museum 13.06.18
The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. I adore the museum’s Plants of the World exhibition and will forever regret not having my camera with me. Enjoy this snapshot of Máximo instead. There was also an interesting quote from Loren Eissley’s The Immense Journey (1957): “Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man…
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