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Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely! CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)

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Pierre-Olivier Dittmar @po-dittmar.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

L'animal est une invention du Moyen Age, mais après un très long accouchement ce livre nait aujourd'hui en librairie! Je pense aujourd'hui à toutes celles et ceux qui l'on rendu possible @crh.ehess.fr @ehess.fr 👇rdv le 2/04 à l'Atelier, rue jourdain, Paris le 28/04 à l'Oeil Cacodylate, Lyon

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Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

It was such a pleasure to interview Mélanie Lamotte about her new book, "By Flesh & Toil". Historians of early modern empire, France, gender, sex, race and labour will find so much food for thought here – a truly game-changing book for our understanding of the early French empire! 🗃️

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Mélanie Lamotte, "By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire" (Harvard UP, 2026)

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Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

When you randomly find a first edition of Mirabeau’s L’ami des hommes in an open bookshelf with leftover books in the corridor of your department…

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Very very happy to announce that the @jhokjournal.bsky.social special issue "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World," edited by Vera Keller, Kely Whitmer, and me, is starting to be published: the first three articles are here, the rest to follow. journalhistoryknowledge.org/Knowledge_an...

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Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World | Journal for the History of Knowledge

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Excellent article from @jamborg.bsky.social about "genetic" mercantilism. Highly recommended

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Antoine Duranton @aduranton.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Really honored to be part of this issue! In my article, I study the (failed) attempts to cultivate wheat in Hispaniola during the 16th century. While the West Indies are mostly known for the sugar plantations that made them so important for later colonial empires...

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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr · 17/09/2025

'Mercantilisme animal. Contrebande de #races animales, diplomatie du mouton et #géopolitique du capital génétique dans la France du xviiie siècle' par @jamborg.bsky.social (Uppsala) 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss... #skystorians #race #climate #merinos 🐑

Gravure des moutons mérinos devant la bergerie nationale de Rambouillet (Archives nationales)

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Arnaud Orain @arnaudorain.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

« Capitalisme, démocratie, colonialisme, Europe, comment hérite-t-on du passé ? » Dialogue « Le présent de l’histoire » entre Antoine Lilti et moi À 11h30 le samedi 18 octobre aux Franciscaines de Deauville à l’occasion des 150 ans de Flammarion

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Dr. Dominik Huenniger @dominikhhh.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Continuing now with colonial climates & environments chaired by @lindaaburnett.bsky.social Speakers: @davidemartino.bsky.social Wenrui Zhao @jamborg.bsky.social It’s going to be about water, mines and cattle consecutively but maybe also connecting? #eseh2025 #envhist

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Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

📢 Nouvelle publication ! « Mercantilisme animal. Contrebande de races animales, diplomatie du mouton et géopolitique du capital génétique dans la France du XVIIIe siècle » 🐑🌍 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #histoire #animaux

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Mercantilisme animal | Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales | Cambridge Core

Mercantilisme animal - Volume 80 Issue 1-2

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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Publication Day! How was race taught to students during the Enlightenment? Our book traces how Edinburgh-trained students carried their education into colonial contexts and forged race as a central category of Enlightenment thought. #History #Enlightenment #Colonialism #YaleUniversityPress

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Race and the Scottish Enlightenment

How colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment’s conception of race and humanity In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical st...

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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr · 22/08/2025

Le nouveau numéro des Annales est sorti sur @universitypress.cambridge.org Au programme, un numéro double consacré aux #animaux (pour la première fois dans l'histoire presque centenaire des #Annales). Bonne lecture et à bientôt pour une présentation détaillée ! ▶️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Davide Martino @davidemartino.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

So much to look forward to in the programme for #ESEH2025! You should of course all come to our double panel on "Colonial climates and environments" on Fri AM with @poxygraduate.bsky.social, @nphellstrom.bsky.social,‬ @gianamar97.bsky.social, @lindaaburnett.bsky.social, @jamborg.bsky.social & more 🎙️

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Colonial Networks @colnet.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

Screenshot of the website header for slavesinparis.org comprising a drawing of the Place des Victoires in 18th-century Paris

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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr · 10/06/2025

#Teasing Le prochain numéro spécial des Annales paraît bientôt sur @universitypress.cambridge.org et @cairninfo.bsky.social. Au programme: un numéro double sur les #animaux et l'animalité #animalstudies #animalité

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Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University is advertising two fully funded PhD positions, starting on September 1, 2025. Apply before April 7. One position in the history of science: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... One position in the history of ideas: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

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Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Very excited to attend this workshop on animal domestication and human civilization. In memory of the great Claude Blanckaert.

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Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Our film on the making of Africa's blank spaces, produced in partnership with the National Museums of World Cultures, is now available in the official Youtube channel of Uppsala University.

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Unmapping Africa

YouTube video by Uppsala universitet

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