Coming soon! This book looks at the history of intellectual and industrial property in the colony of Congo, present day Democratic Republic of the Congo. The volume includes chapters on patents, trademarks, geographical indications of origin, and copyrights.

📍 Join us in Madrid! @cchscsic.bsky.social ⏳ 1 week left to apply for 2 postdoc positions in global history: ERC project WILDHIST. Details & apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012

📢 JOB OPENINGS at CSIC @cchscsic.bsky.social (Madrid)! As part of my ERC project WILDHIST, the Institute of History is hiring two 3-year postdoctoral researchers in the global history of rubber. Application deadline: 24 April 2026. More info 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012 @erc.europa.eu

📢 JOB OPENINGS at CSIC @cchscsic.bsky.social (Madrid)! As part of my ERC project WILDHIST, the Institute of History is hiring two 3-year postdoctoral researchers in the global history of rubber. Application deadline: 24 April 2026. More info 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012 @erc.europa.eu

⏰ A reminder that abstracts for the Commodities of Empire Workshop are due soon: 14 Feb 2026! 🗓 2–3 Sept 2026, Madrid | "Locating Knowledge: Science & Technology in Commodity Frontiers" ➡ commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events

We have an exciting line-up for term 2, with book manuscripts workshop (@davidedgerton.bsky.social) project talks (@chrismanias.bsky.social), book launch (David Brydan) and paper discussion (@mrweatherburn.bsky.social). See more in our website: www.kingschostm.com

Applications are open until 17 April to our Hans Rausing Scholarship to enter an MA+PhD or PhD-only to study the history of science and/or technology from October 2026. Contact a prospective supervisor and find out more about the schemes here: tinyurl.com/mw84w7py

📢 Call for Papers 📢 2026 Commodities of Empire workshop: “Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers.” 📍 Madrid, 2–3 September 2026 ⏳ Submission deadline: 14 February 2026 👉 CFP: commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events/ @davidedgerton.bsky.social @samuelcoghe.bsky.social

on.ft.com/45cJxz9 It’s time to retire the word ‘technology’

It’s time to retire the word ‘technology’

The word spans too much and clarifies too little

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New special issue of OSIRIS: "Animal Mobilities" 🐫🐠🐛 The volume was edited by MPIWG Research Scholars Tamar Novick, @lisaonaga.bsky.social, and Gabriel N. Rosenberg of the working groups "Out of Place, Out of Time" and "Proteins and Fibers." 🔗 bit.ly/amv4025 #HistSci #EnvHist #STS #Zoology

Come work with me for a year at St Anne's! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW732/d...

Departmental Lecturer in 20th Century United States History at University of Oxford

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Departmental Lecturer in 20th Century United States History on jobs.ac.uk!

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A bit more than a month to go until our meeting in Madrid: please do not forget to register for your in-person/online attendance on eventbrite (especially if you are the author or presenter)!

🎉 Exciting news! Thrilled to share that David Pretel, an economic historian from our Department @UAM, has been awarded a €2 million ERC Consolidator Grant for his project "Wild Rubber in the Industrial Age". Congratulations, David - what an incredible achievement! 🌟 #ResearchExcellence

🟢David Pretel, profesor de Historia Económica en la #UAM, obtiene una prestigiosa ‘ERC Consolidator Grant’ de dos millones de euros para su proyecto ‘Wild Rubber in the Industrial Age: A Global History of Production, 1820s-1940s’. ¡Enhorabuena! s.mtrbio.com/cnuqjnjvui #OrgulloUAM #SomosUAM

ICHST (International Congress History of Science and Technology) program. 29 Jun 2025--5 July 2025) New deadline: 11:59 PM Wednesday 15 December (AOE) SUBMIT YOUR STAND-ALONE PAPER www.ichst2025.org/call-for-sta... SUBMIT YOUR SYMPOSIA ABSTRACT www.ichst2025.org/approved-sym...

Call for stand-alone papers

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The International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property is pleased to share its Call for Paper for its 16th Annual Workshop in Madrid, 25-26 June 2025. The 2025 theme is INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND CAPITALISM. Please see ishtip.org for more detail

🥁 The next conference of the ESHS (European Society for the History of Science) will be in Barcelona from 4 to 7 September 2024, #ESHS2024. Call for for Proposals in the Conference website, open until November 22 ⤵️ eventum.upf.edu/94068/detail...

Second day of the "National historiographies of techiques" conference(tph.hypotheses.org/1244), at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. Great keynote by David Pretel on "Tropical Forest Commodities in the Industrial Age: A Global History of Production."#histtech #globalhistory

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...