This term's program for our joint colloquium with Flurin Condrau is now out. All our welcome. With papers from Sarah-Maria Schober, Alexa Stiller University of Zurich Davide Orsini of Rachel Carson Center Oluwaseum Otosede and Pokua Oduo-Bonsrah Geneva Graduate Institute and Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster of Edinburgh.

This fantastic volume is finally announced! My chapter tells you how scientists set out "Solving 'Later-Generation Development Problems'" with an all time favorite of development: 🥜🥜🥜, remade for a 'neoliberal' order. Edited by Helen Anne Curry & Tim Lorek cambridge.org/core/books/agr…

The Seventh Swiss History Days 2025 in Lucerne are approaching! We are pleased to announce the first keynote speakers: Vanessa Ogle vanessa ogle and Vindhya Buthpitiya Vindhya Buthpitiya! The Call for Panels is open until April 30, 2024: geschichtstage.ch/frontend/index…

Wenn der Bund auf unserem Rücken spart, organisieren wir uns an den #Hochschulen! Weitersagen! #organize #Gewerkschaft VPOD Schweiz / SSP Suisse SSP Syndicat suisse des Services Publics vpod.ch/news/2024/03/b…

Are there any sharp takes, meta-analyses, of the uses of Schmitt (and Heidegger) in recent social theorizing of the environment? Their ghostly recurrence in decolonial and Anthropocenic thinking is flabbergasting. newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/… newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

👀📢 Mardi 14 mai 2024 - 10h00 à 12h00 - Géopolis - 2215 Université de Lausanne 💥 "Face à la machine de la terraformation portuaire d’Anvers" Le STS Lab Institut des Sciences Sociales a l'immense plaisir d'accueillir Benedikte Zitouni! Discussion Lucas Mueller Plus d'info⬇️ agenda.unil.ch/display/170653…

Historians of climate science! Any (good) analysis of this episode in the history of climate science - a 'little ice age'/general cooling that scientists observed between the mid-1950s and the late 1960s? See, as a source, for example: nature.com/articles/25647… Thank you!

Great line-up for #HSSuisse24! This time with a keynote by Sverker Sörlin. If you want to join the discussions, you can register till 10 May here: forms.gle/4bB1gd7Lz72f1p… See you in Geneva!

Join the keynote by Sverker Sörlin for #HSSuisse24 on 6 June in Geneva: hssuisse.ch/meetings/2024.… It is also the first in a series of conferences that I organize as part of my research project on avalanches.

The Rachel Carson Center has republished this in their Springs archive: springs-rcc.org/how-wild-is-wi…

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…

I highly recommend Steven Shapin's London Review of Books review of Christy Spackman's new book on water; "the Story of Eau," as it were: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

🚨 Save the Date! 🚨 The next STS-CH 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