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Historian @cchscsic.bsky.social, author, dad visiting fellow @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social‬ PI ERC Consolidator Grant WILDHIST https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101171213

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⏰ 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

10.02.2026 20:17 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Poster with events hosted by the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the Department of History, King's College London, between February and March 2026.

Poster with events hosted by the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the Department of History, King's College London, between February and March 2026.

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

23.01.2026 11:57 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Poster advertising the for applications to Hans Rausing Scholarship 2026/2027 at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at King’s College London. Indicates the call closes by 17 April 2026.

Poster advertising the for applications to Hans Rausing Scholarship 2026/2027 at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at King’s College London. Indicates the call closes by 17 April 2026.

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

21.01.2026 09:18 👍 5 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1

@cchscsic.bsky.social

14.01.2026 16:11 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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📢 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

12.01.2026 10:22 👍 28 🔁 26 💬 2 📌 0
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It’s time to retire the word ‘technology’ The word spans too much and clarifies too little

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

30.07.2025 07:15 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Cover of OSIRIS, volume 40. The title reads "Animal Mobilities" in yellow letters on a blue background. Above there is a colorful illustration showing animals and planets on the seabed.

Cover of OSIRIS, volume 40. The title reads "Animal Mobilities" in yellow letters on a blue background. Above there is a colorful illustration showing animals and planets on the seabed.

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

17.06.2025 09:52 👍 46 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 3
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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!

Come work with me for a year at St Anne's!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW732/d...

13.07.2025 11:50 👍 21 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 2
ISHTIP 16th Annual Workshop 2025: Intellectual Property and Capitalism International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property - 16th Annual Workshop. UAM University (Madrid) June 25-26, 2025

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)!

16.05.2025 13:22 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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There are no pure cultures - we have always been global | Aeon Essays All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history
20.01.2025 10:27 👍 24 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1

🎉 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

03.12.2024 15:26 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🟢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

03.12.2024 12:12 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Call for stand-alone papers

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...

03.12.2024 12:45 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
ISHTIP.org – International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property

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

11.11.2024 11:22 👍 20 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 4

Thanks for sharing this, Ian! I wasn't aware of her work, but it's fantastic!

14.10.2023 11:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🥁 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...

03.10.2023 07:17 👍 30 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 1
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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

29.09.2023 10:05 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
CFP: El Laboratorio: Seminar for the History of Latin American Science, Technology, Engineering, and... El Laboratorio: Seminar for the History of Latin American  Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine April 11-12, 2024

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...

12.10.2023 22:10 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0