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On a melting planet, as the cryo-sphere changes profoundly, Sverker Sörlin discusses how snow & ice have shaped the sciences and infrastructures of our planet. How will the view from the cold regions shift our perspective on history? Join the lunch time talk tomorrow in Geneva!

📢👋 Tanja Schneider and I are delighted to share the full program of our workshop 🤩🤩 "Capitalization and the Start-Up Economy" The even is public, but unfortunately not accessible online 😔 We hope to have something to soon share. Stay tuned 👀👀👀 More info 🧵 1/10

Camille Schneiter University of Zurich and Quinten Sinten of ETH are co-organizing a conference on Species on the Move: Historical Perspectives on Invasive Species. #CFP #histenv. Please spread the word.

My piece in Aeon Magazine on "The route to progress", how decolonization created multipolarity and my beef with IR theorists. I want to express my deep gratitude to Sam Haselby for all edits and input! Humanities Utrecht SHAFR Historians Sarah Grossman

Just out - my review of "Oil Palm" by Jonathan Robins. The book is a great attempt of writing against any form of commodity fetish, be it in capitalist production, consumerist boycotts, or in historical scholarship. More here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73… and uncpress.org/book/978146966…

🚨 Save the Date! 🚨 The next STS-CH (find us at STS-CH.bsky.social) Conference will take place Sept 10-12, 2025 in Zurich at University of Zurich, ETH Zürich, and ZHdK📍 "Holding things together? Change, continuity, critique" 🔗 More info: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/ supported by SAGW #STSCH2025 #Zurich #Conference #STS

Join us on 26 November at 17h30 for Martin Mahony's talk about volcanoes 🌋 Université de Genève DEHES_UNIGE

If you are in Zurich, please join Camille Schneiter University of Zurich and Quinten Sintes of ETH for a public panel "Species on the Move: Historical Perspective on Invasive Spieces" at 18:30 on Nov. 12 #biodiversity

Our volume on risk and food is now out in paperback!

I'll be speaking at CSTMS Berkeley on Thursday at 4 pm about "data scientists" and their others. Please come if you're around!

Out at long last! Check out our volume about agricultural science and development, beyond the Green Revolution towards global markets. And all opem access: cambridge.org/core/books/agr…

Ce jeudi (21.11), le séminaire avancé de recherche de l’Institut d’Histoire Économique Paul Bairoch recevra Bernhard Schär et Amal Shahid (Université de Lausanne).

Join our Team! Doctoral Position to work on the research project "Central Banks as agents of development – A Latin American perspective, 1931-1971", funded by the SNSF. jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_portal.… Duration: 4 years; starting: March 2025 (or later) Application Deadline: January 5th

Nous sommes ravis d’accueillir Fabien Locher lundi prochain pour une conférence sur "Défendre la mer:Les mobilisations contre la prospection pétrolière au large des côtes françaises (1950-1980)." Au plaisir de vous voir à UNIGE!

Join us in 10 days for an online roundtable discussion of our edited volume, Risk on the Table, where historians look at how food and risk cultures have evolved over the past century. Register for the event here: paris-iea.fr/en/events/risk…. #foodhistory

Andrew Barry (UCL) will speak on "Chemical Government" at the University of Geneva on April 1 at 17h00! Looking forward to seeing you at this next Geneva Environmental Lecture! More on the lecture series and my project at avalanche.hypotheses.org/gel

If you happen, for whatever reason, to be thinking about tariffs, bureaucracy, government scientific expertise, corruption, monopoly, or US empire, you can now preorder my book. (Oh right, it's also about sugar.) The UChicagoPress designers did astounding work on the cover.

Our Introduction to a Forum about the planetary age in environmental & international history is online! Read articles by Perrin Selcer, Andrea Westermann, Liesbeth van de Grift & Stephen Macekura. Let the debate about the visions of the one planet 🌍 begin academic.oup.com/dh/advance-art…

New post inspired by this very promising study by Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D et al. that seems primed to start a "Is ChatGPT making us stupid?" discourse. Link below.

I wrote about Dubai, for New Left Review Sidecar newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…