Working on resources, extraction, resistance, capitalism or ecologies? Bern, Sept. 2027, with fantastic keynotes by Katja Bruisch (@kbruisch.bsky.social) & Debjani Bhattacharyya. Travel & hotel funded. Do Apply! hist-ecosoc.ch

Check out this fabulous new article in The Journal of Architecture: “From Ruins to Resource: Recycling Rubble in the Socialist Reconstruction of Warsaw.” Truly gripping and highly recommended, by my colleague Adam Przywara, with open access! doi.org/10.1080/1360...

From ruins to resource: recycling rubble in the socialist reconstruction of Warsaw

This article examines how the recycling of rubble became a means of enacting the planned reconstruction of post-war Warsaw. In the wake of the Second World War, the city's ruins were transformed in...

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Lorraine Daston is coming to Basel! Join us on **16 September** for her keynote and a student master class at the **Basel History Factory / BGSH Annual Conference 2026**. Save the date — details here: dg.philhist.unibas.ch/de/news/deta...

Basel History Factory / BGSH Annual Conference 2026

September 16-17, 2026, "Rules and Responsibility” – with Lorraine Daston

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Interested in plantations, commodities, empire, slavery, or capitalism?? Our 2025 volume on "Plantation Knowledge: Agricultural Colonization, Exploitation, and Exchange Since 1500" has been reviewed on H-Net: networks.h-net.org/group/review...

For those who prefer me dubbed in German (I do myself), I did a long interview with Swiss public television.... www.srf.ch/play/tv/ster...

Mit Elon Musk in ein neues Zeitalter? - Sternstunde Philosophie - Play SRF

Für viele ist Elon Musk ein schillernder Unternehmer – und der reichste Mensch der Welt. Der Historiker Quinn Slobodian sieht in ihm jedoch weit mehr: Musk stehe für ein neues Weltbild, das ein zutief...

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We’re kicking off my Consolidator Grant “The Battle of Materials”—and celebrating with a talk by Prof. Erika Rappaport: “Aims of Industry”: Big Sugar, PR & the Fight for Free Enterprise in Decolonizing Britain. Sugar, propaganda, capitalism—what could go wrong? 📣🌍 March 16, 4 pm Basel! All welcome

It's happening! The wonderful Marcel van der Linden will discuss the publication of PLANTATION KNOWLEDGE, full of insightful chapters on slavery, racism, capitalism, global cash crops, and their enduring legacies today. Join us online Dec. 5!

In this paper, I examine the historical significance of the Charduar rubber plantation in Assam—the world’s first large-scale, scientifically managed rubber plantation. I trace its pivotal role in shaping the shift of rubber cultivation from South Asia to SE Asia and other tropical frontiers...

... illuminating how it once stood at the center of global plantation experimentation. I also ask why this pioneering site ultimately faded into obscurity, despite its early prominence in the international rubber industry. Fully OPEN ACCESS HERE: sunypress.edu/Books/P/Plan...

Plantation Knowledge

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Job alert: 3 fully funded PhDs in history at Uni Bern! Join an inspiring project on food, agriculture & global capitalism, 1870–1930s. Apply by Nov 10

Thank you, @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social‬ — it’s been an absolute pleasure teaming up on this. Holding an Anthropocene conference in the middle of yet another heatwave feels almost too on-the-nose… Proof, if any were needed, of just how urgent this work really is!

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson@fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · last yr.

With @mbrescius.bsky.social I am very happy to announce the launch of a major new project in #Anthropocene history. The Long Acceleration brings together more than 20 scholars to consider the planetary emergency. Many thanks to Moritz and the Institute for European Global Studies for hosting us.

The wonderful Tehila Sasson, Sugata Bose, Zaib un Nisa Aziz, and Sven Beckert during the concluding roundtable of a superb international conference. Vibrant discussions about the field and future of global histories of capitalism & the environment. Thanks to all participants!

I’m beyond excited for this conference: “New Global Histories of Capitalism & the Environment”! It also celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard. Stay tuned for the publication

If you're in the Basel area, come to the book launch of Corey Ross's Liquid Empire (Princeton 2024) tonight, in conversation with the wonderful Julia Adeney Thomas. At 6pm in the Orangerie of the Institute for European Global Studies: europa.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles...

This looks fantastic, couldn't recommend it more.

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PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...

Job alert! We're hiring @unibas.ch ! 📢 1 fully-funded PhD position (4 years) in my @snsf-ch.bsky.social Consolidator project "The Battle of Materials"! Spread the word: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

Universität Basel: PhD Position in History (or related discipline) 100%

SNSF Consolidator Grant project “The Battle of Materials: Commodity 'Research and Propaganda' and the Road to Immoderate Consumption, 1900-1980” The Europainstitut / Institute for European Global Stud...

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I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

Presenting a new project with the wonderful Fredrik A. Jonsson (Chicago U) at the New Anthropocene Centre in Stockholm today -- come along if you're in the area to discuss "The Long Acceleration: Rethinking the Historical Causes of the Planetary Emergency". www.kth.se/anthropocene...

Very excited about the upcoming conference on "Asian Borderlands: Cross-Border Exchange and Extraction" with a fabulous line-up of speakers from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. Taking stock of a dynamic interdisciplinary field and identifying future directions and new departures!

H-Soz-Kult@hsozkult.bsky.social · 2y ago

Konf: Asian Borderlands: Cross-Border Exchange and Extraction in Modern History http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-145461 Bern, 02.09.2024-03.09.2024, Dr. Moritz von Brescius

Intriguing conference in Rio de Janeiro in mid-March 2024: "Rethinking the History of Global Capitalism". Call for papers now open, and scholars from the Global South are especially encouraged to apply: wigh.wcfia.harvard.edu/news/call-pa...