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Scarcerc @scarcerc.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
📣 Join @eclaaire.bsky.social at @mpiwg.bsky.social's workshop “Crafted Forms, Skillful Doing”! Her presentation about Europe's Seventeenth Century Gem Trade will be on the second day of the workshop✨ 🗓️ June 2 ⏰ 11 am 🔗 bit.ly/CraftedForms #histSci #Scarce
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Grains, Globes, and Common Ground Between Merchants and Jewellers in Europe's Seventeenth Century Gem Trade
Presentation by Claire Sabel Workshop Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin, Germany
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eclaaire.bsky.social @eclaaire.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
🌳 🎉 2 weeks ago, a radio documentary I made with my friend @alexjrlewis.bsky.social was excerpted on The Pulse! It aired over Thanksgiving, a wonderful time to reflect on the friendships with people, trees, and Philadelphia that came together in this piece 1/
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The Trees of Saunders Park - Alex Lewis
THE TREES OF SAUNDERS PARK The Trees of Saunders Park presents stories about trees and why people feel connected to them. It's written & hosted by Claire Sabel, produced by Alex Lewis. It is center...
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eclaaire.bsky.social @eclaaire.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
+ allegations that deforestation by #mining companies has exacerbated the destruction
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Scarcerc @scarcerc.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
✨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 #histSci
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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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Scarcerc @scarcerc.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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
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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
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Michael Robinson @explorationblog.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Claire Sabel discusses the gem trade in SE Asia & the way it was impacted by European traders 17-18c @uchicagopress.bsky.social @scarcerc.bsky.social @harunkucuk.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @nhmwien.bsky.social @sciencehistory.org @historyscience.bsky.social timetoeatthedogs.com/2025/10/27/g...
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Gems, Science, and Empire
17th century traders who traveled the sea routes between India and Southeast Asia were interested in spices, but they were also interested in gemstones, objects of desire, commercial value, and inc…
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Scarcerc @scarcerc.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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
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Trading Gems and Knowing the Earth in Early Modern Eurasia | IIAS
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Scarcerc @scarcerc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Uppsala’s Viking-era runestones were hard to miss - an unusual stone ordered by an 11th c woman commemorating the bridge she erected for her daughter caught @eclaaire.bsky.social‬'s eye 🌉 bit.ly/Uppland
Uppland Runic Stone
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Scarcerc @scarcerc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
@eclaaire.bsky.social had a wonderful time in Florence — the City of Stone. Grazie mille to @eui-eu.bsky.social and CNRS for bringing together such inspiring work on minerals as visual, economic, and intellectual resources.💎🪨
Claire Sabel presenting her work in Florence.
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Scarcerc @scarcerc.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
It was fun to compare notes on gemology past and present with the faculty and students at the Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallographie @univie.ac.at! @eclaaire.bsky.social has been sitting in their "Gems as Geometrical" course — now they see why! 💎📐 #gems #histsci
Claire Sabel presenting her lecture
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Scarcerc @scarcerc.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🎨🔍 Another rich session! @eclaaire.bsky.social explores how color shaped the gem trade & mineral identity in early modern Europe, with a comment by Andrea Acevedo on 19th c. watercolors—cultural trade, pigment workshops & Pancho Fierro’s art vs. Cantonese copies! 🌍🖌️ #MiningHistory #Gems #ArtHistory
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Scarcerc @scarcerc.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Today @eclaaire.bsky.social is presenting “Transformations in the Eurasian gem trade during the long seventeenth century” at the workshop "EurAsian Materials in Central European Collections" @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social, organised by @robyndoraradway.bsky.social Programm & info: bit.ly/44al4tZ
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EurAsian Materials in Central European Collections
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Scarcerc @scarcerc.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🪨💎 Today at 5 pm (CET) @eui-eu.bsky.social (Florence, IT) @eclaaire.bsky.social presents "Crafting the craft at different scales: manufacturing stones in colonial context" at the workshop “Where the stones lie: between historical practices and spatialities”. Program & Info: bit.ly/44qCUsP
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Where the stones lie: between historical practices and spatialities
This one-and-a-half-day workshop, organised by the Visual and Material History Working Group in collaboration with LARHRA-CNRS (Lyon, France), seeks to situate the understanding of lithic entities thr...
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! on the annual meeting of the AHA and its vote against scholasticide in Gaza. @srseikaly.bsky.social, Barbara Weinstein, and @quinnslobodian.com showing how we amplify our voices as historians on the most urgent issues. @weinstein www.democracynow.org/2025/1/6/aha...
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American Historical Association Condemns Israel’s Scholasticide in Gaza
The American Historical Association, the oldest learned society in the United States, has adopted the “Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza,” condemning Israel’s “intentional effort to comprehen...
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Scarcerc @scarcerc.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
🌍✨ Tomorrow @eclaaire.bsky.social presents “Conducing to the knowledge of the universe and trade': the Role of Goldsmiths in Materializing the Early Modern Globe”. at the the AG Wissenschaftsgeschichte at 11:30am (CET) in Kolingasse 14–16, room 15. bit.ly/3ZJbop9 #GemTrade
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Scarcerc @scarcerc.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
📅Third meeting of our hybrid seminar series! Join us on December 12th for a discussion with Oliver Tappe on “Tin Mining in Laos: Colonial Legacies Global Extractvism and Local Livelihoods” Please register: bit.ly/49j5XQW
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Scarcerc @scarcerc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
🌟 Welcome Claire Sabel to our team! 🎉 As a historian of early modern science, she'll explore the links between knowledge, empire, and Central European mining in colonial settings, highlighting women's vital contributions. 🌍🔍
Claire Sabel presenting her work
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