📢 Last day of the ESHS-HSS conference: @sarahseinitzer.bsky.social presents “La Serenissima in Vial and Powder: Mineral Remedies in the Ricettari of Early Modern Venice”, in the session co-organized with @m-azzolini.bsky.social. ⚗️🧂 ⏰11:00 GMT 👉Info: bit.ly/4f6fMFh #histMed #histSci #Scarce #ESHS-HSS

Shifting Perspectives: Plural Worlds, Contested Sciences

Joint Meeting of The History of Science Society and the European Society for the History of Science 12-16 July, 2026 Edingburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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Today at ESHS-HSS conference: @sebastianfelten.bsky.social organizes the session “Religion as Knowledge Matrix: Earth Science & Resource Management” and presents “Epistemic Virtues and Sustainability Narratives in 19th c. German mining.”🏔️⛏️ ⏰14:30 GMT 👉Info: bit.ly/4f6fMFh #histSci #Scarce #ESHS-HSS

Shifting Perspectives: Plural Worlds, Contested Sciences

Joint Meeting of The History of Science Society and the European Society for the History of Science 12-16 July, 2026 Edingburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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🚨News from the EHSH-HSS conference: tomorrow @eclaaire.bsky.social “The parts of the World known to contain Diamonds”: the Science and Politics of Minescapes in Early Modern Southeast Asia, at the “What is a “Minescape”?” session.💎⛏️ ⏰9:15 GMT 👉Info: bit.ly/4f6fMFh #histSci #Scarce #ESHS-HSS

Shifting Perspectives: Plural Worlds, Contested Sciences

Joint Meeting of The History of Science Society and the European Society for the History of Science 12-16 July, 2026 Edingburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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We’re Edinburgh‑bound!🚆 @sebastianfelten.bsky.social, @eclaaire.bsky.social & @sarahseinitzer.bsky.social will chair, organize, and present at this year’s EHSH-HSS conference. Stay tuned!📚🏰🙌 🗓️ 12–16 July 2026 | 📍 Edinburgh, Scotland 👉 Details: bit.ly/4f6fMFh #histSci #Scarce #ESHS-HSS #ESHS #HSS

Shifting Perspectives: Plural Worlds, Contested Sciences

Joint Meeting of The History of Science Society and the European Society for the History of Science 12-16 July, 2026 Edingburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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📢 Save the date & send your proposals! The CFP for our workshop "Mineral Expertise: The Rules of Knowing Earthly Matter in the Early Modern World" (Feb 04–06 2027 in Bologna) is open🎉 organised together with @m-azzolini.bsky.social✨ ⏰ Deadline: July 10 ⛏️ 🔗 Info: bit.ly/4e3VBbB #Scarce #HistSci

🚨 If you’re in Vienna today, make sure to catch @sebastianfelten.bsky.social participating in a roundtable discussion on "Labor and Technology", organised by @recetvienna.bsky.social as part of the Festival "Transformations of Labor". 👷🏭✊📢 ⏰ 3 pm 🔗 bit.ly/laborandtech... #LaborHistory #Scarce

Labor and Technology

Roundtable Discussion RECET Festival of Historical and Social Sciences "Transformations of Labor" University of Vienna

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📣 Join @eclaaire.bsky.social at @mpiwg.bsky.social's workshop “Crafted Forms, Skillful Doing”! Her presentation about Europe's Seventeenth Century Gem Trade will be on the second day of the workshop✨ 🗓️ June 2 ⏰ 11 am 🔗 bit.ly/CraftedForms #histSci #Scarce

Grains, Globes, and Common Ground Between Merchants and Jewellers in Europe's Seventeenth Century Gem Trade

Presentation by Claire Sabel Workshop Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin, Germany

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Between alchemy and pharmacy ☿ — Today @sarahseinitzer.bsky.social presents "Argento Vivo: Il Mercurio nei Ricettari di Età Moderna tra Alchimia e Farmacia" at the biannual conference of the Società Italiana della Storia della Scienza in L'Aquila ⏰ 2:00 pm More info: bit.ly/4dWhB75 #histsci #Scarce

Argento Vivo: Il Mercurio nei Ricettari di Età Moderna tra Alchimia e Farmacia

Presentation by Sarah Seinitzer Panel "Medicina, corpi e salute pubblica" Convegno Nazionale della Società Italiana di Storia della Scienza L'Aquila, Italy

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Exploring the Indian Ocean Gem Trade – Today, @eclaaire.bsky.social joins the symposium “What Gems Can Say” in Munich’s Staatliche Münzsammlung💎🏛️✨ More infos: bit.ly/gemTrade #histSci #Scarce

Secrecy, Sovereignty and Science in the Indian Ocean Gem Trade c. 1600-1700

Presentation by Claire Sabel International Symposium "What Gems Can Say: Contemporary Perspectives for Small Works in Gemstone" Staatliche Münzsammlung München, Germany

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Mathematical practitioners as cameralist actors? 🔍💡 Thank you so much to @thomas-morel.bsky.social for this interesting and informative presentation. Thank you also to all those who joined the SCARCE+HoSK colloquium, both online and in person, for the lively discussion. ✨ #histSci #Scarce

🚨Don’t forget to join the SCARCE + History of Science & Knowledge Colloquium with @thomas-morel.bsky.social: "A Country Needs More Surveyors than Cameralists": Mathematics, Political Economy, and University Teaching in the Enlightenment. 🗓️ May 26, 11:30 am 🔗 bit.ly/scarcehoskcoll #histSci #Scarce

“A Country Needs More Surveyors than Cameralists”: Mathematics, Political Economy, and University Teaching in the Enlightenment

Joint meeting with the History of Science and Knowledge Colloquium Speaker: Thomas Morel (Wuppertal) University of Vienna Hybrid Event

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Next week @thomas-morel.bsky.social presents: "A Country Needs More Surveyors than Cameralists": Mathematics, Political Economy, and University Teaching in the Enlightenment. Co-hosted by SCARCE + History of Science & Knowledge. Join us!🎓✨ 🗓️ May 26, 11:30 am 🔗 bit.ly/scarcehoskcoll #histSci #Scarce

“A Country Needs More Surveyors than Cameralists”: Mathematics, Political Economy, and University Teaching in the Enlightenment

Joint meeting with the History of Science and Knowledge Colloquium Speaker: Thomas Morel (Wuppertal) University of Vienna Hybrid Event

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📣 Next week in Berlin, @sebastianfelten.bsky.social will speak on “Uff die Nachkommen dencken. Profit und Providenz im kursächsischen Bergstaat” at the @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social’s Early Modern Gender & Cultural History Colloquium✒️⛏️📜 🗓️ Apr 21, 4pm 🔗 bit.ly/NachkommenDe... #histSci #Scarce

"Uff die Nachkommen dencken"

Presentation by Sebastian Felten Forschungskolloquium Geschlechter- und Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit FU Berlin

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📣Join us at the next Minescapes working group meeting!⛏️📚 SCARCE shares work-in-progress from their case studies in the Saxon Ore Mountains, Idrija/Venice and Habsburg Hungary - centering on methodological challenges🔧🔬 🗓️ April 13, 7 pm CEST 👉 more info: bit.ly/Minescapes #Scarce #HistSci

📣Coming up in Stockholm: @eclaaire.bsky.social presents “What kind of commodities were gemstones in 17th century Europe?” at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s workshop “Critical Mineral Histories” ✨💎📜 🗓️ Mar 26 ⏰ 10 am 👉 more info: bit.ly/4bMQ5HQ #histSci #Scarce

🎉 Excited to share: our PI, @sebastianfelten.bsky.social, is joining the “Metals, Minerals, and the Life Cycle” working group at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow!🔬📚 📍 Berlin | 🗓️ Mar–May 👉 more info: bit.ly/mpiwg-felten

📣Today in Saarbrücken: @eclaaire.bsky.social presents “The Problem of Knowledge in the VOC’s Diamond Trade during the Seventeenth Century” at the Saarland University workshop “Objects in Transit” 💎📚 👉 more info: bit.ly/4qWlNrS

The problem of knowledge in the VOC’s diamond trade during the seventeenth century

Presentation by Claire Sabel Workshop Saarland University Saarbrücken, Germany

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📣Today @sebastianfelten.bsky.social speaks at the Nouveaux chantiers en histoire moderne (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): "Thinking of the Descendants": Time and Temporality in Early Modern Mining”⛏️✨ 🕧When? 5 pm 📍Salle Perroy, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne 🔗More info: bit.ly/4rk4wK9

📣 Today @eclaaire.bsky.social speaks at the CSG Lunch Seminar (University of Antwerp): “Conducing to the Knowledge of the Universe and Trade: The Role of Goldsmiths in Materializing the Early Modern Globe, c. 1600–1700” ✨🌍 🕧 When? 12:30 pm 🔗 More info: bit.ly/46iFLpc

Congratulations to Sebastian Leitner, who successfully delivered a public presentation of his PhD dissertation proposal on the political ecology of the wood and charcoal supply in early modern mining in Lower Hungary. 🎓🎉 Go and read more about it here: bit.ly/4c5O4bw

Thank you Dana Murillo for this stellar presentation!🙌 This wraps up our Colloquium series on Mineral Expertise, we are truly grateful for everyone who who came, shared, and debated!💡🙏 See you at upcoming SCARCE events—stay tuned 🔔👀 #Scarce #mininghistories

🚨Don’t miss Dana Murillo’s talk “Roaming in Various Forms: The Wandering Women of New Spain’s Silver Mining District (1600-1800)” 👣✨🔎 🗓️ Mon, Jan 26, 2026 🕘 17:30–19:00 CET 👉 Register now: bit.ly/WanderingWomen #womenshistories

✨Some time has passed since our Septmeber workshop "Political Economies of Mining in the Early Modern World", organised by @eclaaire.bsky.social & @gbba.bsky.social. Curious about the discussions and insights?💡 Read the report witten by our PhD student Sebastian Leitner for @hsozkult.bsky.social! 📖🔎

H-Soz-Kult@hsozkult.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Tagber: Political Economies of Mining in the Early Modern World https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-159519 Wien, 25.09.2025-26.09.2025, Claire Sabel / Gabriele Marcon, Universität Wien; ERC-Stg Project SCARCE and the FWF-ESPRIT project "Mining the Earth, Roaming the World" …

Join us for our last Colloquium this semester!🎓 Dana Murillo will present: “Roaming in Various Forms: The Wandering Women of New Spain’s Silver Mining District (1600-1800)”✨👣 🗓️ Jan 26, 2026 🕘 17:30–19:00 CET Learn more and register: bit.ly/WanderingWomen #womenshistories

Whoever is in Innsbruck tomorow, be sure not to miss @sebastianfelten.bsky.social guest lecture „Mit Gott im Silberrausch: Zeittechniken im Bergbau der Neuzeit“ at the @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social. ⛏️⌛ ⏰ Time: 5:15 PM CET 📅 Date: January 13, 2026 More info here: bit.ly/BergbauZeittechniken #Scarce

Happy winter days from SCARCE!❄️🕯️ We are so grateful to all of you for supporting our project and all the engaging conversations this year! Wishing you a restful break and steady discoveries in 2026.📚✨

Huge thanks to everyone who joined today’s talk!🙌 We really enjoyed working together with the History of Science & Knowledge Colloquium and listening to Christophe Bonneuil’s fascinating talk! Stay tuned for more events!📚✨ #histSci

🚨Join Christophe Bonneuil’s online talk “Historicizing Planetarity: Trans-imperial Circulations, Western Elites and Planetary Environmental Knowledge and Alerts around 1900”! Co-hosted by SCARCE and History of Science & Knowledge. 🎓✨ ⏰ Tomorrow, 11:30 CET More info: bit.ly/3Ml9OFw #histSci

We are thrilled to share this! 🎉 Our PhD student & Santorio Fellow @sarahseinitzer.bsky.social has a new post on @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social blog Forma Fluens: “Bergsucht and Miner’s Chest” ⛏️🫁—about miners’ health, morbi metallici, & early social care. Go give it a read! #HistMed #Mining

CSMBR Pisa@csmbr-pisa.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Forma Fluens: New Article '𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐆𝐒𝐔𝐂𝐇𝐓' 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐑'𝐒 𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 Sarah Seinitzer Read all about it here: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../health-a... #CSMBR #MedicalHistory #Miners #Bergsucht #Germany #Mining

A big thank you to Nuno Castel-Branco and to everyone who joined today’s lively talk!🙌 We hope you enjoyed this joint event with History of Science & Knowledge as much as we did! Stay tuned for more events in our colloquium series. 📚✨ #histSci