JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely! CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)

L'animal est une invention du Moyen Age, mais après un très long accouchement ce livre nait aujourd'hui en librairie! Je pense aujourd'hui à toutes celles et ceux qui l'on rendu possible @crh.ehess.fr @ehess.fr 👇rdv le 2/04 à l'Atelier, rue jourdain, Paris le 28/04 à l'Oeil Cacodylate, Lyon

Florian Louis@florianlouis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Un très grand livre d’histoire à paraître cette semaine. À la suite de Jacques Le Goff, Jean-Claude Schmitt et Jérôme Baschet, Pierre-Olivier Dittmar nous offre un monumental exercice d’anthropologie historique. Et nous aide à penser notre passé tout autant que notre présent.

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

It was such a pleasure to interview Mélanie Lamotte about her new book, "By Flesh & Toil". Historians of early modern empire, France, gender, sex, race and labour will find so much food for thought here – a truly game-changing book for our understanding of the early French empire! 🗃️

Mélanie Lamotte, "By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire" (Harvard UP, 2026)

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JOB Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400, University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

When you randomly find a first edition of Mirabeau’s L’ami des hommes in an open bookshelf with leftover books in the corridor of your department…

🚨 #OpenAccess 🚨 This article is also available in #English 👇 doi.org/10.1017/ahss... #mercantilism #diplomacy #animals #skystorians

Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales@annales.ehess.fr · 11mo ago

'Mercantilisme animal. Contrebande de #races animales, diplomatie du mouton et #géopolitique du capital génétique dans la France du xviiie siècle' par @jamborg.bsky.social (Uppsala) 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss... #skystorians #race #climate #merinos 🐑

Very very happy to announce that the @jhokjournal.bsky.social special issue "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World," edited by Vera Keller, Kely Whitmer, and me, is starting to be published: the first three articles are here, the rest to follow. journalhistoryknowledge.org/Knowledge_an...

Excellent article from @jamborg.bsky.social about "genetic" mercantilism. Highly recommended

Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales@annales.ehess.fr · 11mo ago

'Mercantilisme animal. Contrebande de #races animales, diplomatie du mouton et #géopolitique du capital génétique dans la France du xviiie siècle' par @jamborg.bsky.social (Uppsala) 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss... #skystorians #race #climate #merinos 🐑

Really honored to be part of this issue! In my article, I study the (failed) attempts to cultivate wheat in Hispaniola during the 16th century. While the West Indies are mostly known for the sugar plantations that made them so important for later colonial empires...

Hispanic American Historical Review@hahr21.bsky.social · 12mo ago

In the newest HAHR from @dukepress.bsky.social, @aduranton.bsky.social describes the attempts to adapt wheat in Hispaniola in the sixteenth century. doi.org/10.1215/0018...

'Mercantilisme animal. Contrebande de #races animales, diplomatie du mouton et #géopolitique du capital génétique dans la France du xviiie siècle' par @jamborg.bsky.social (Uppsala) 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss... #skystorians #race #climate #merinos 🐑

« Capitalisme, démocratie, colonialisme, Europe, comment hérite-t-on du passé ? » Dialogue « Le présent de l’histoire » entre Antoine Lilti et moi À 11h30 le samedi 18 octobre aux Franciscaines de Deauville à l’occasion des 150 ans de Flammarion

📢 New publication! ”Animal Mercantilism: Race Smuggling, Sheep Diplomacy, and the Geopolitics of Genetic Capital in Eighteenth-Century France” in @annales.ehess.fr is now available OA🐑🌍 doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

Continuing now with colonial climates & environments chaired by @lindaaburnett.bsky.social Speakers: @davidemartino.bsky.social Wenrui Zhao @jamborg.bsky.social It’s going to be about water, mines and cattle consecutively but maybe also connecting? #eseh2025 #envhist

📢 Nouvelle publication ! « Mercantilisme animal. Contrebande de races animales, diplomatie du mouton et géopolitique du capital génétique dans la France du XVIIIe siècle » 🐑🌍 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #histoire #animaux

Publication Day! How was race taught to students during the Enlightenment? Our book traces how Edinburgh-trained students carried their education into colonial contexts and forged race as a central category of Enlightenment thought. #History #Enlightenment #Colonialism #YaleUniversityPress

Race and the Scottish Enlightenment

How colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment’s conception of race and humanity   In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical st...

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Le nouveau numéro des Annales est sorti sur @universitypress.cambridge.org Au programme, un numéro double consacré aux #animaux (pour la première fois dans l'histoire presque centenaire des #Annales). Bonne lecture et à bientôt pour une présentation détaillée ! ▶️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So much to look forward to in the programme for #ESEH2025! You should of course all come to our double panel on "Colonial climates and environments" on Fri AM with @poxygraduate.bsky.social, @nphellstrom.bsky.social,‬ @gianamar97.bsky.social, @lindaaburnett.bsky.social, @jamborg.bsky.social & more 🎙️

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

#Teasing Le prochain numéro spécial des Annales paraît bientôt sur @universitypress.cambridge.org et @cairninfo.bsky.social. Au programme: un numéro double sur les #animaux et l'animalité #animalstudies #animalité

The Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University is advertising two fully funded PhD positions, starting on September 1, 2025. Apply before April 7. One position in the history of science: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... One position in the history of ideas: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Very excited to attend this workshop on animal domestication and human civilization. In memory of the great Claude Blanckaert.

Our film on the making of Africa's blank spaces, produced in partnership with the National Museums of World Cultures, is now available in the official Youtube channel of Uppsala University.

Unmapping Africa

YouTube video by Uppsala universitet

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