I’m just so proud to have an article in this issue alongside scholars whose work I admire so much. Many thanks to Renée Raphael and Tina Asmussen for their vision & to the editorial staff of the RQ for the exceptional editorial care with which they brought this special issue to fruition!
Thanks so much 🥰
new & online💥
cache 06 / Verwaltete Umwelt, Teil 1, von Nils Güttler, Christian Reiß und Mareike Vennen
″Wir träumen von Natur, leben aber in einer verwalteten Umwelt.″
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Podcast-Folge über unsichtbare Arbeit im wissenschaftlichen Publizieren, mit intercom-Mitglied und traverse-Redakteurin @tinasmussen.bsky.social 👀
Thank you so much for posting! 💜
The Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine is organising a MINESCAPES working group. Convened by @tinasmussen.bsky.social and others. Details, membership, and participation here: www.chstm.org/group/minesc...
#mininghistory #envhist #minescapes #extraction
I’m so excited to share that I will be working as a Postdoctoral Researcher on the @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de project ‘Mining frontiers in the Kingdom of Hungary
(16th-18th century)’ at the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (PI @tinasmussen.bsky.social). I can’t wait to join the team and get started!
Minescapes 2025 in the mine
Scarce was in the Ore Mountains! ⛏️🏔️
We spent an unforgettable week with Minescapes 2025 in the Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains), exploring mining history in Saxony and Czechia with a fantastic group of scholars.
No, unfortunately not.
I’ve just been informed by my publisher that my book on Athanasius Kircher is now sold out. If you’re still interested in reading it, you can download the open access e-book via Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... Thanks to everyone who has shown interest in the book! #AthanasiusKircher
Congratulations Davide!! Fantastic
Job Klaxon: Postdoctoral Position on Mining Frontiers in Eastern Europe! www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...
Thanks 💝
Thanks so much. Yes, I do have this wonderful volume. We unfortunately only discovered the book after we had already submitted the proposal. Nevertheless, it is of great importance to us, and we are still in the process of reading the articles. You've done amazing work!
🚨 Job Klaxon 🚨 1 PhD position for 3 years a the German Mining Museum Bochum in the interdisciplinary DFG/AHRC funded project "Toxic Heritage: Socio-natural Landscapes of Extraction and Pollution in the Harz and Cornwall". More details: karriere.bergbaumuseum.de/jobposting/2.... Please share!
👇👇 apply and work with brilliant @smueller.bsky.social and her team👇👇
Thanks so much 💝
Thanks a lot for sharing 💜
🚨𝗝𝗢𝗕 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧 🚨1 PhD position for 3 years in the research project “Mining Frontiers in the Kingdom of Hungary (16th-18th Century)” at the German Mining Museum Bochum: Leibniz Research Museum for Georesources. karriere.bergbaumuseum.de/jobposting/0...
With the twitter exodus: welcome, and here are some #earlymodern historians posting about early modern stuff (though I should update it now it’s more than 50 in those things) go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF
Tina Asmussen has shared some great photos of the MINSCAPES Summer School, in the Harz Mountains, to explore the history of human-environment relationships and interaction through its mining legacy.
Was für ein Wochenstart... erst war der Kaffee alle, dann die Nachricht vom erneuten Streik der Bahn. #Montagmorgen
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Join us virtually or in Bochum on December 7 and 8 for the public lecture by Timothy LeCain and the workshop on resources and sustainability. If you wish to attend via zoom, register here: reform@ressourcencampus-bochum.de #mining #resources #extractivism #sustainability
How coerced was “free” #wage labour in early modern Europe? And how did the #mobility of #workers can be explained through the prism of #coerced #labour?
Excited to see this out and in #OA!
A special 🙏 to the incredible work of the editors and the other contributors (tinyurl.com/mrpjymrx)
CALL FOR PAPERS!!!
We are thrilled to release our CFP for an ECR conference dedicated to 'Global Recipes in the Early Modern World' (with the generous support of the SSHM and BSHS)!
If you are a PG/ECR working on any aspect of EM global recipe-making, don't forget to apply by 15 December!
Public lecture by Timothy LeCain and workshop on December 7 & 8 in Bochum on sustainability and (geo-)resources. Perspectives from History and Archeology. #Sustainability #Anthropocene #Pollution #Resources
thinking technē. Three days of discussing artistic processes, materials, making and thinking. Including fantastic exhibition visits and tours to sites of artistic production. Thanks for inviting me! techne.hypotheses.org/3873
cache 03: 🌿 Shadow of the Tree:
Fiona Vicent on genealogical practices of the 19th-c. Basel high bourgeoisie: cache.ch/shadowofthet...
Marianne Sommer on the layering of iconicity and forms (tree, scale, series) in human phylogeny:
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🚨Fellowship Application Alert 🚨
Heinrich Winkelmann Fellowship 2024 @Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum: Leibniz Forschungsmuseum für Georessourcen. karriere.bergbaumuseum.de/jobposting/8...
Impressions from the mining history/archeology field trip to the Siegerland with our guests Pamela Smith and Amelia Hutchinson. We visited a celtig iron smelting site (Gerhardsseifen), a medieval mining settlement (Altenberg) and the Landeskrone mine (Wilnsdorf). 💥⚒️ 🪨. tbc!