Corinne Geering

School of the South: The Colonial Roots of FrenchTheory School of the South: The Colonial Roots of FrenchTheory, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Jean-François Lyotard, Étienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière: the...

Out in July! "School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory". More details & pre-orders here: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
@politybooks.bsky.social

Come work with us! Tenure track position for development economics + postcolonial political economy, feminist economics, critical macrofinance. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
@univie.ac.at @divdececon.bsky.social
@econ4future.bsky.social @econgeo.bsky.social @economicethics.bsky.social

This week!

Nordic Colonialism in 2026: The Truth Commissions and their Outcomes with Gunlög Fur, Professor of History at Linnaeus University and founder of Concurrences.

12 March, 13:15-17:00
Dacke (Fe3016) & zoom (register at link below)

#academicsky

lnu.se/.../2026/lnu...

Giacomo Bonan A Forest of Numbers: Comparing Statistics on Europe's Wood Economy (1860s to 1910s)

Please join us on Tues 10 March at 5pm at
@magdalenecollege.bsky.social when Giacomo Bonan (Turin) will be speaking at the History & Economics Seminar on 'A Forest of Numbers: Comparing Statistics on Europe's Wood Economy (1860s–1910s)'. Click for abstract and further information.

📢 New out!

Simone Schleper @moneschleper.bsky.social traces the origins of corporate environmentalism and flexible interpretations of sustainable development to the 1970s.

#globalenvironmentalgovernance #privatesettings #economichumanism #counterculture

Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

👇Call for Abstracts for a workshop on 'The Whole and its Sum: The Communication of Energy Knowledge in Contemporary History' at ZZF Potsdam with Rüdiger Graf and Marco Bianchini, 3-4 December 2026

www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

📣 Call for Papers: Rural History Network at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC)
📍 Lyon, France
📅 21–24 April 2027
⏳ The deadline for submissions is 15 April 2026
We will post more info below. #EnvHum

Northern Scotland's Late Oil-Fuelled Industrialisation | 7 | Labour Mo Northern Scotland experienced profound transformations during the late twentieth century through the discovery and exploitation of North Sea oil and gas. This

North Sea oil brought big changes to small places in the Scottish Highlands and Northern Islands. I've published a new essay about how oil rig manufacturing at the Cromarty Firth and the Sullom Voe terminal in Shetland transformed work, community and everyday life.

1800 Histories TONOPAH by EMMA ROTHSCHILD

We are delighted to share a new essay on the 1800 Histories website by Emma Rothschild, a micro-history of Tonopah, Arizona, from a methane plume in the desert to solar power plants and data centers.

Please join us on Tues 3 Feb 5pm @magdalenecollege.bsky.social when Mariia Koskina (Cambridge) will be speaking at the History & Economics Seminar on 'Little Corners of Freedom, Green Dictatorship, & the Sublime in the Late-Soviet Nature Reserve'. Click: 
www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_kosk...

Thank you Mikko!

Thank you to all our wonderful contributors @leylasayf.bsky.social, @ewangibbs.bsky.social, @pdolata.bsky.social, the series editors @susannaheckersley.bsky.social, and @valuepast.bsky.social for making this possible!

Cultural Landscapes of Energy: Constructing Histories of Power, Prosperity, and Decline in Europe This volume explores the contested heritage of landscapes impacted by energy production. It offers a comparative perspective across Europe on different energy resources and reveals the hidden historie...

Our book is out today! 🎉

"Cultural Landscapes of Energy" adds a historical perspective to current debates on energy transition by bringing together conflicting histories around work, habitation and leisure in landscapes impacted by energy production across Europe.

Visualizing Climate and Loss VISUALIZING LANDSCAPES OF ENERGY by Julian Giordano

We are pleased to publish a new essay on our Visualizing Climate and Loss website by Julian Giordano exploring how satellite data and photography reveal the hidden geographies of methane emissions in coal and gas regions.

Cover image of the book Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries by Wouter Saelens, showing a painting of a man and woman sitting by lamplight in an otherwise dark room.

Excellent new book arguing that we need to take the early modern household more seriously in order to understand the emergence of fossil-fuel based societies. An important addition to energy history scholarship #skystorians lup.be/book/fossil-...

Beyond techno-optimism w/ David Edgerton

Enjoyed listening to @johnmerrick.bsky.social interviewing
@davidedgerton.bsky.social for @thebreakdownab.bsky.social on his histories of production and innovation and why we should be sceptical of much vaunted claims that technological innovation is the key to resolving the climate crisis.

📢 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

DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 16 JANAURY !

#histstm #histtech

The Margins of the Field: Rediscovering Agricultural Economists for the History of Ideas by Federico D’Onofrio This think piece is part of a JHI Blog forum, “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”

In a new piece for the JHI forum on political economy, Federico D’Onofrio discusses the rise of a class of "agricultural economists" as part of a broader trend intersecting with and going beyond "rural modernism" in twentieth-century Europe.
@fdonoff.bsky.social

Cultures of Energy: 244 – Energy Transition (feat. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz) In honor of cookie week, your co-hosts tackle an age-old question: are brownies cookies are not? Then we process the fact that next month will be the 10th anniversary of Cultures of Energy (wow!) Ther...

New ep of Cultures of Energy! We talk to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz about whether the history of energy is about transitions or accumulations. tinyurl.com/yc2bz6cy @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social PS next month is our 10th anniversary. Send a note!

IEG Fellowships for Doctoral Students

CfA: IEG Mainz Writing-up Doctoral Fellowships in European History between 6 and 12 months, Deadline for Applications 15 February 2026

bewerbung.ieg-mainz.de/jobposting/a...

📢 We are hiring! Tenure-track position in environmental history with a focus on long-term socio-ecological research. Exciting opportunity for post-docs working at the interface of environmental history & sustainability sciences. Deadline Jan 6, please spread far and wide! boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...

Podcast-Serie «Halbwertszeit»: Die Leuchtfarbe Wie die Uhrenindustrie trotz Kritik lange auf radioaktive Farbe setzte. Teil 3.

Über Jahrzehnte bemalten Frauen Schweizer Uhren mit radioaktiver Farbe und opferten so ihre Gesundheit. Warum schritt die Politik nicht ein? Die drei letzten Teile unserer Podcast-Serie «Halbwertszeit».

Working Nature Working Nature offers a history of the energy economy and its representations over the 19th and 20th century.Russ argues that “Energy” is not a thing nor an ability, but a social relation to nature fo...

the most anticipated book of 2026:
bravo @ueberdruss.bsky.social !!

www.versobooks.com/products/334...

Cover JGO 4/2024

Heft 4/2024 #JahrbücherJGO ist erschienen! Special Issue zum Thema Resources in Use: Visions and Practices in Late Imperial Russia and the Early Soviet Union. Gastherausgeber:innen sind @corinnegeering.bsky.social, @immorebitschek.bsky.social, Timm Schönfelder.
biblioscout.net/journal/jgo/...

It has been a great pleasure to review the volume on Integration and Collaborative Imperialism edited by @mtoiv.bsky.social and @boscha.bsky.social for @hsozkult.bsky.social. Looking forward to continue the discussion on European Integration in an imperial context! www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...

The room is packed for the panel "Transatlantic Exchange and Imperialism" at the Central European History Convention #ceh-c in Vienna @univie.ac.at

CFP: Rohstoffe, Handel und koloniale Verflechtungen in der Regionalgeschichte, ca. 1800-1950

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156413

Feldkirch, 24.09.2026-25.09.2026, Wirtschaftsarchiv Vorarlberg; Universität Innsbruck, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.09.2025

Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea We are a research collective that aims to shed light on the imperial logics embedded in extractive activities in the North Sea and to develop a comprehensive research agenda for rethinking extractive ...

We are inviting abstracts for Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea workshop in November. We look for papers that help us confront and rethink the concept of imperialism in the context of the North Sea's extractive
history. You can read more on our website here: www.uis.no/en/research/...

The full program for this year's Central European History Convention (CEH-C) July 17-19 is online!: ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us... The overview: ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us... With 2 keynotes, 54 panels, a roundtable, poster sessions, + a research lab, there's something to interest everyone!