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SCARCE aka Sustained Concerns: Administration of Mineral Resource Extraction in Central Europe (1550–1850), hosted by @univie.ac.at, funded by ERC
PI: Sebastian Felten @sebastianfelten.bsky.social
https://scarce.univie.ac.at
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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
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Historicizing planetarity. Trans-imperial circulations, Western elites and planetary environmental knowledge and alerts around 1900
Joint meeting with the History of Science and Knowledge Colloquium Speaker: Christophe Bonneuil (CNRS-EHSS) University of Vienna Online Event
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December 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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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
csmbr-pisa.bsky.social CSMBR Pisa @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social · 6d
Forma Fluens: New Article

'𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐆𝐒𝐔𝐂𝐇𝐓' 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐑'𝐒 𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐓
𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬
Sarah Seinitzer

Read all about it here: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../health-a...

#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #Miners #Bergsucht #Germany #Mining
December 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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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. 📚✨
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December 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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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
#histSci
Historicizing planetarity. Trans-imperial circulations, Western elites and planetary environmental knowledge and alerts around 1900
Joint meeting with the History of Science and Knowledge Colloquium Speaker: Christoph Bonneuil (CNRS-EHSS) University of Vienna Online Event
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December 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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🚨 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
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December 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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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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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
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November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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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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November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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🚨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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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
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November 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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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! 👏
November 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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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. 🏆👏
sebastianfelten.bsky.social Sebastian Felten @sebastianfelten.bsky.social · 21d
Really heartening that the city of Vienna makes a big effort to honour its cultural sector! Queuing up for kaiserschmarrn I had a chat about Samuel Pepys' diary with a member of a noise rock band who also got a prize
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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✨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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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
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November 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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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
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
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November 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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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
October 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Today at 4:30PM(CET) @sebastianfelten.bsky.social and Sebastian Leitner present "Was Mining Once Sustainable? Resource Management as a Case for Applied History" at the conference "Convergences and divergences in the relationship between industries and forestry in Europe"🌲
More info: bit.ly/47ce01e
Was Mining Once Sustainable? Resource Management as a Case for Applied History
Talk by Sebastian Felten and Sebastian Leitner International Conference "Convergences and divergences in the relationship between industries and forestry in Europe: conservation, management, uses and ...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Our PI, @sebastianfelten.bsky.social, and our PhD student, Sebastian Leitner, are in Regensburg for the kick-off workshop of @tinasmussen.bsky.social project, 'COMFREE'. Congratulations on this milestone, and best wishes for productive discussions! 🌍✨ #History #Environment
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Commodity Frontiers in Eastern Europe: Environment and Societies at Global Risk, 16th-21th centuries (COMFREE)
Das Forschungsprojekt COMFREE untersucht die historischen und gegenwärtigen Dynamiken der Rohstoffgewinnung und ihre sozioökologischen Auswirkungen. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Leibniz-Institut für Ost-...
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October 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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A big thank you to everyone who joined us for the first SCARCE colloquium of the semester! 🙌 We had a lively discussion on 'reorganisation' in Mining Knowledge in Late Imperial China. Special thanks to @chensinotech.bsky.social for their inspiring work and input. Stay tuned for our next meet-up! ⛏️✨
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October 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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🌟 Don't forget to join us today for the first talk of this semester's colloquium series! @chensinotech.bsky.social is presenting "Mining Knowledge from Field to University: The Rise of Engineering Education in Late Imperial China"
⏰ Time: 3:00–4:30 PM CET
Registration and more info: bit.ly/47mN3sS
Mining Knowledge from Field to University: The Rise of Engineering Education in Late Imperial China
SCARCE Colloquium Speaker: Hailian Chen (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum) University of Vienna Hybrid Event
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October 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Did you know that, in early modern Asia, gems often travelled the same routes as spices? A new essay by @eclaaire.bsky.social explores how the gem trade shaped global power, science, and commerce. 💎✨
Go give it a read in the @iias.bsky.social periodical, "The Newsletter": bit.ly/GemsEssay
#Scarce
Trading Gems and Knowing the Earth in Early Modern Eurasia | IIAS
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October 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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🌟 Join us for the first talk of this semester's colloquium series! 🌟Hailian Chen is presenting "Mining Knowledge from Field to University: The Rise of Engineering Education in Late Imperial China"
📅 Date: October 20, 2025
⏰ Time: 3:00–4:30 PM CET
Registration and more info: bit.ly/47mN3sS
#histSci
Mining Knowledge from Field to University: The Rise of Engineering Education in Late Imperial China
SCARCE Colloquium Speaker: Hailian Chen (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum) University of Vienna Hybrid Event
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October 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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🎉The new semester starts and so does our Colloquium Series! This time, we explore "Mineral Expertise" – the different approaches to knowledge in the history of mining. 🌍💎 Join us in person or online, our meetings are open to all with prior registration. More info here: bit.ly/ScarceCollWS 🖥️📚
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SCARCE Colloquium Winter Semester Series: "Mineral Expertise"
Join the upcoming Colloquium series on "Mineral Expertise" this semester — our hybrid meetings are open to all with previous registration!
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October 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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🔎 How Europe’s mining history – from cobalt as waste 🗑️ to lithium as a strategic resource 🔋 – offers fresh insights into today’s resource politics 🌍.
Our PI @sebastianfelten.bsky.social explores past lessons for the future in the Junge Akademie Blog, @derstandard.at.
Read more here: bit.ly/ErzGeo
Vom Erz zum geopolitischen Faktor
Wie Europas Montangeschichte hilft, die heutige Rohstoffpolitik neu zu verstehen
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October 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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⛏️🌍That’s a wrap on our 1st workshop, "Political Economies of Mining in the Early Modern World"!
A huge thank you to all our speakers, chairs & participants for the insights & engaging discussions. Your contributions made the past 2 days a true success! Looking forward to future discussions!✨ #Scarce
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September 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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🚀 Day 2 of our FWF-SCARCE workshop begins!
Today, we’ll dive into the making of mineral commodities and the connections between mining and money. 🏔️⚒️💰
From Habsburg Potosí to Sweden, Idrija, and New Granada, we’ll explore mining’s role in shaping economies and societies. 🔍🌍 #Scarce #MiningHistory
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September 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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✨Day 1 of our workshop was a great success! ⚒️🏔️We explored mining's role in sovereignty, state management & labor, using case studies from pre-hispanic Mexico, Japan, China & Sweden, and ended with an engaging archives roundtable on Central European mining collections. On to Day 2! 🏛️🔍 #Scarce
Around 20 people are sitting in a conference room. Five of them are seated at the front of the room, with a projection screen behind them. The rest are seated around them at a U-shaped desk. The atmosphere seems professional, with everyone having papers on their desk.
September 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Grey, rainy morning in Vienna brightened by attending a workshop on mining history.
Photo of two paper booklets sitting on a white tabletop. One booklet is titled "Political Economy of Mining in the Early Modern World" and has a picture of a hill with two pillars on it. The second booklet is titled "Maps".
September 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM