New river book forthcoming 💧🏞️📖‼️ RIVERS ON THE MOVE will be published on February 2027 by Duke University Press. Rivers move constantly: they shrink and swell, they change course, they dry up and then roar back again. Climate change is making riverine movements even more dramatic and dangerous, and societies’ reliance on riverine stability increasingly…

I am co-organizing a workshop on the environmental history of the modern Mediterranean, which will be held at Sciences Po Paris – Campus of Menton, on October 18-20, 2018. DEADLINE for proposal April 20, 2018. Please find the complete CfP below: Effervescent sea © Lisa Murray (CC BY-ND 2.0) CALL FOR PAPERS Below the Surface:…

I recently contributed as guest historian to a documentary on the 1968 Belice Valley earthquake, one of the two earthquakes I investigated in my book Fault Lines. The documentary was produced by RAI Storia, the history channel of RAI, the Italian public TV, written by Matteo Berdini and Fabrizio Marini, and directed by Matteo Berdini.…

The journal Environment & History has just published my first peer-reviewed article about the history of the Po watershed. Titled “Charting the Flow: Water Science and State Hydrography in the Po Watershed, 1872-1917”, it follows the complex establishment of a hydrographic service for the largest watershed of the country from the disastrous 1872 floods to…

I have finally published a pilote version of my hGIS online on a dedicated website, which I presented at the last ASEH meeting in Seattle earlier this month. This website presents some of the data I have produced during the research in the form of interactive maps. The maps are grouped in sections: agriculture, energy,…

A few good things happened in the last few weeks concerning my project “Entangled Flows.” I was invited to gave a talk on “Charting the Flow: Water Science and State Hydrography in the Po Watershed” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, on February 11 and 12. The talk was part of…

On January 21 at 18:00, I will give a talk at the Minisymposia organized by the ZUG – Centre for Environmental History in Vienna, Austria. The talk is titled “Fault Lines: Thinking (and Writing) about Earthquakes and Historical Change” and will present my recently published book Fault Lines.  This is the abstract of the talk:…

As part of the Po Valley project, I have been working for a while on the hybrid process of knowledge production about water. A forthcoming paper of mine on water science and state hydrography in the Po River basin is now available online through the advance access option of the journal Environment and History and…

My book Fault Lines is finally out! The book has been published by Berghahn Books (Oxford and New York) at the end of May. It is part of the ESEH/RCC series “The Environment in History: International Perspectives” and has been generously supported by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. On July 2, during…