"Uff die Nachkommen dencken" Presentation by Sebastian Felten Forschungskolloquium Geschlechter- und Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit FU Berlin

📣 Next week in Berlin, @sebastianfelten.bsky.social will speak on “Uff die Nachkommen dencken. Profit und Providenz im kursächsischen Bergstaat” at the @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social’s Early Modern Gender & Cultural History Colloquium✒️⛏️📜
🗓️ Apr 21, 4pm
🔗 bit.ly/NachkommenDe...
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📣Join us at the next Minescapes working group meeting!⛏️📚 SCARCE shares work-in-progress from their case studies in the Saxon Ore Mountains, Idrija/Venice and Habsburg Hungary - centering on methodological challenges🔧🔬
🗓️ April 13, 7 pm CEST
👉 more info: bit.ly/Minescapes
#Scarce #HistSci

📣Coming up in Stockholm: @eclaaire.bsky.social presents “What kind of commodities were gemstones in 17th century Europe?” at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s workshop “Critical Mineral Histories” ✨💎📜
🗓️ Mar 26
⏰ 10 am
👉 more info: bit.ly/4bMQ5HQ
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🎉 Excited to share: our PI, @sebastianfelten.bsky.social, is joining the “Metals, Minerals, and the Life Cycle” working group at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow!🔬📚
📍 Berlin | 🗓️ Mar–May
👉 more info: bit.ly/mpiwg-felten

The problem of knowledge in the VOC’s diamond trade during the seventeenth century Presentation by Claire Sabel Workshop Saarland University Saarbrücken, Germany

📣Today in Saarbrücken: @eclaaire.bsky.social presents “The Problem of Knowledge in the VOC’s Diamond Trade during the Seventeenth Century” at the Saarland University workshop “Objects in Transit” 💎📚
👉 more info: bit.ly/4qWlNrS

“Moon looking at ore veins. Image from Ulrich Rülein von Calw, "Eyn wolgeordent und nützlich büchlin, wie man Bergwerck suchen un finden sol" (1518)”. In the image you see a mountain with veins, 3 trees moving in the wind, the moon looking through the clouds, and around the picture, the times of day (morning (ist written twice), midday, midnight).

📣Today @sebastianfelten.bsky.social speaks at the Nouveaux chantiers en histoire moderne (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): "Thinking of the Descendants": Time and Temporality in Early Modern Mining”⛏️✨
🕧When? 5 pm
📍Salle Perroy, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
🔗More info: bit.ly/4rk4wK9

📣 Today @eclaaire.bsky.social speaks at the CSG Lunch Seminar (University of Antwerp):
“Conducing to the Knowledge of the Universe and Trade: The Role of Goldsmiths in Materializing the Early Modern Globe, c. 1600–1700” ✨🌍
🕧 When? 12:30 pm
🔗 More info: bit.ly/46iFLpc

Congratulations to Sebastian Leitner, who successfully delivered a public presentation of his PhD dissertation proposal on the political ecology of the wood and charcoal supply in early modern mining in Lower Hungary. 🎓🎉
Go and read more about it here: bit.ly/4c5O4bw

Dana Murillo on Zoom

Thank you Dana Murillo for this stellar presentation!🙌
This wraps up our Colloquium series on Mineral Expertise, we are truly grateful for everyone who who came, shared, and debated!💡🙏
See you at upcoming SCARCE events—stay tuned 🔔👀
#Scarce #mininghistories

🚨Don’t miss Dana Murillo’s talk “Roaming in Various Forms: The Wandering Women of New Spain’s Silver Mining District (1600-1800)” 👣✨🔎
🗓️ Mon, Jan 26, 2026
🕘 17:30–19:00 CET
👉 Register now: bit.ly/WanderingWomen
#womenshistories

✨Some time has passed since our Septmeber workshop "Political Economies of Mining in the Early Modern World", organised by @eclaaire.bsky.social & @gbba.bsky.social. Curious about the discussions and insights?💡 Read the report witten by our PhD student Sebastian Leitner for @hsozkult.bsky.social! 📖🔎

Join us for our last Colloquium this semester!🎓
Dana Murillo will present: “Roaming in Various Forms: The Wandering Women of New Spain’s Silver Mining District (1600-1800)”✨👣
🗓️ Jan 26, 2026
🕘 17:30–19:00 CET
Learn more and register: bit.ly/WanderingWomen
#womenshistories

Whoever is in Innsbruck tomorow, be sure not to miss @sebastianfelten.bsky.social guest lecture „Mit Gott im Silberrausch: Zeittechniken im Bergbau der Neuzeit“ at the @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social. ⛏️⌛
⏰ Time: 5:15 PM CET
📅 Date: January 13, 2026
More info here: bit.ly/BergbauZeittechniken
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tree with golden ornaments

Happy winter days from SCARCE!❄️🕯️

We are so grateful to all of you for supporting our project and all the engaging conversations this year! Wishing you a restful break and steady discoveries in 2026.📚✨

Thank you for sharing and for joining our last two meetings! :)

Screenshot der Zoom Präsentation

Huge thanks to everyone who joined today’s talk!🙌 We really enjoyed working together with the History of Science & Knowledge Colloquium and listening to Christophe Bonneuil’s fascinating talk!
Stay tuned for more events!📚✨
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🚨Join Christophe Bonneuil’s online talk “Historicizing Planetarity: Trans-imperial Circulations, Western Elites and Planetary Environmental Knowledge and Alerts around 1900”! Co-hosted by SCARCE and History of Science & Knowledge. 🎓✨
⏰ Tomorrow, 11:30 CET
More info: bit.ly/3Ml9OFw
#histSci

We are thrilled to share this! 🎉 Our PhD student & Santorio Fellow @sarahseinitzer.bsky.social has a new post on @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social blog Forma Fluens: “Bergsucht and Miner’s Chest” ⛏️🫁—about miners’ health, morbi metallici, & early social care. Go give it a read! #HistMed #Mining

Zoom Screenshot of the speaker and the title page of his presentation.

A big thank you to Nuno Castel-Branco and to everyone who joined today’s lively talk!🙌
We hope you enjoyed this joint event with History of Science & Knowledge as much as we did!
Stay tuned for more events in our colloquium series. 📚✨
#histSci

Thank you! It was a pleasure to have you join our discussion, and we enjoyed hearing your thoughts and learning about your personal connection to mining. 😊

Our next Colloquium, again co-hosted with the History of Science & Knowledge Colloquium, features Christoph Bonneuil’s talk “Historicizing Planetarity: Trans-imperial Circulations, Western Elites and Planetary Environmental Knowledge and Alerts around 1900.”📚✨
📅Join us Dec 9: bit.ly/3Ml9OFw
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Problematizing Polymathy: Nicolaus Steno and the Intersection of Disciplines in Early Modern Science Joint meeting with the History of Science and Knowledge Colloquium Speaker: Nuno Castel-Branco (All Souls, Oxford) University of Vienna Online Event

🚨 Join us tomorrow at 11:30 CET for Nuno Castel-Branco's online talk: “Problematizing Polymathy: Nicolaus Steno and the Intersection of Disciplines in Early Modern Science.”✨ Co-organized by SCARCE and History of Science & Knowledge.📚

Don’t miss out – register now: bit.ly/Problematizi...

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Problematizing Polymathy: Nicolaus Steno and the Intersection of Disciplines in Early Modern Science Joint meeting with the History of Science and Knowledge Colloquium Speaker: Nuno Castel-Branco (All Souls, Oxford) University of Vienna Online Event

Join us for our next Colloquium, a joint meeting with the History of Science & Knowledge Colloquium! 🎓 On Dec 2, Nuno Castel-Branco will present “Problematizing Polymathy: Nicolaus Steno and the Intersection of Disciplines in Early Modern Science.” 📚
👉 Register here: bit.ly/Problematizi...
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Thank you to everyone who joined today’s talk! 🙌
@mininghistory.bsky.social’s insights on historians’ role in the mining industry sparked amazing discussions💡⛏️
Stay tuned for more events! 📚

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Mining the Past: What is the role of historians in the mining industry? SCARCE Colloquium Speaker: Duncan Money (Independent scholar) University of Vienna Online Event

🚨Join us this monday for the second talk in this semester’s colloquium series. @mininghistory.bsky.social presents:
“Mining the Past: What is the role of historians in the mining industry?”

📅 Nov 24, 2025
⏰ 3:00–4:30 PM CET

Haven’t registered yet? There’s still time: bit.ly/MiningThePast
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We are excited to welcome our new student assistant, Leonie Müller! 🎉 With a multidisciplinary background in History & Law at the University of Vienna, her focus spans legal history, postcolonial studies, gender history, and sustainability. 🌍📜 Welcome to the team, Leonie! 👏

Again, huge congratulations to our PI, @sebastianfelten.bsky.social, for winning the 2025 City of Vienna Prize in Social Sciences & Humanities! 🎉✨
And a big thank you to @wien.gv.at for celebrating Vienna's incredible cultural and intellectual legacy and hosting such a wonderful award ceremony. 🏆👏

Mining the Past: What is the role of historians in the mining industry? SCARCE Colloquium Speaker: Duncan Money (Independent scholar) University of Vienna Hybrid Event

✨For our second talk in this semester’s colloquium series, @mininghistory.bsky.social will present “Mining the Past: What is the role of historians in the mining industry?”⛏️📜

📅 Date: November 24, 2025

⏰ Time: 3:00–4:30 PM CET

Learn more and register: bit.ly/MiningThePast

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A Global Approach to Women in Early Modern Mining Talk at the Panel: Women’s Knowledge and Agency in Early Modern Resource Management Organizer and Speaker: Claire Sabel History of Science Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans LA, USA

Tomorrow, @eclaaire.bsky.social will present "A Global Approach to Women in Early Modern Mining" at HSS 2026, on the panel she co-organised with @gbba.bsky.social: "Women’s Knowledge and Agency in Early Modern Resource Management" ✨
🕓 4 PM (GMT-6)
🔗 Link: bit.ly/3WPv9Jv
#HSS2025 #HistSci #Scarce

Check out the latest episode of Time to Eat the Dogs! @eclaaire.bsky.social dives into the fascinating history of the gem trade in South-East Asia 💎✨
#HistoryOfScience #Scarce #SouthEastAsia