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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

CfP for the workshop "Science in the Field: People, Practices and Environments in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union" organized by Christine Bichsel, Katja Doose, Nargiza Kenzhaeva & Oybek Makhmudov (Fribourg, June 2027) #envhist 👇 networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Screenshot of a call for papers for the workshop "Science in the Field: People, Practices and Environments in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union" (Fribourg, 14-15 June 2027)

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H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New job: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Global Economic History Vanderbilt University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70515

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Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) @cessnews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📣 Open Position 📣 Assistant Professor, Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture 📍 Yale University | New Haven, USA 📅 Application deadline: October 20, 2027 (23:59 EST) 👉️ For more details, see the job posting: buff.ly/MyIakuI #centraleurasia #eurasianstudies #sovietstudies #yaleuniversity #newhaven

Poster advertising job opening. Rounded beige text box with black border and black, serifed, boldface font centered over photo of New Haven skyline with Yale University buildings, green trees, and a blue sky. Kazakh pattern in beige, red, and green in header and footer of design

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Davis Allen @davisallen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The climate crisis we face today wasn't inevitable, and we have the receipts.

The cover for a new report from the Center for Climate Integrity, "Climate Fraud 101: Big Oil's Climate Deception Explained in 101 Documents, 1957-2026"

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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Michaelmas Term schedule, Seminar in International History

Centre for International History Seminar Series
Michaelmas Term 2026
All seminars will be held on Mondays between 1300-1400 in the Long Room Hub.
5 October The U.S., “Stability,” and the 1949 Husni Za‘im Coup in Syria
Nathan Citino, Rice University
12 October “Cold War Nutrient Bonds: Occidental Petroleum’s 1973 Fertilizer
Deal with the Soviet Union and Why It (Still) Matters”
Katja Bruisch, TCD
19 October Co-sponsored with the Centre for Environmental History
The Archive of Decolonization in North Africa, Idriss Jebari, TCD
9 November
Modernisation of Piracy: Colonial Hong Kong and Its Dangerous
Maritime Connections, c. 1890-1950, Dexter Tse, TCD
23 November
Histories of Orphan Trafficking in East Africa and the West, Andreana Prichard, University of Oklahoma

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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History @kritikajournal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How did Soviet economists go from trying to reform socialism to helping make capitalism possible? Reviewing three recent books, an upcoming essay by Anna Ivanova follows their uneasy path between loyalty to Marxism, market experiments, competition with the West, and “civilizing” the population.

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ZUG_Wien @zug-wien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

CfP INWOOD A WORLD OF A THOUSAND CUTS: FORESTS, WOOD, AND INDUSTRIALISATION ACROSS THE GLOBE IN THE 19th AND 20th CENTURIES 📍University of Turin 📆 6-8 July 2027 For further information use this link: inwood.unito.it/events/call-... Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2026

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Call for Papers – INWOOD

European Industrialisation as Seen from the Forests

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Critical Theory in Berlin @ktbberlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Neue Podcast-Folge auf unserer Homepage, Spotify und Apple Podcasts! Das Gespenst der Vergesellschaftung – Land, Energie und die Frage nach dem Eigentum - Darüber sprechen Sabine Nuss und Rahel Jaeggi mit Jacob Blumenfeld, Rabea Berfelde und Solveig Degen. criticaltheoryinberlin.de/podcast/podc...

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

From the early days of Pfizer in Ireland. I am intrigued by the "beet molasses feedstock" mentioned here. Maybe something for you, @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social ? Source: ECN 13 Sept 1968

Photograph of an article called "Pfizer has more plans for Irish Republic" from the European Fertilizer News, 1968

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Jonas Kreienbaum @kreienbaumj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tomorrow afternoon I will be giving a talk on the history of the 1970s oil crises and the attempt to establish a New International Economic Order @ucc.ie. Drop by if you are interested and in Cork. It is a book talk as my German book on the topic will soon be published in English as well.

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Back of the envelope calculations: 3600 years of research time went into the collective application process. The research will fund 3200 years of research. We are 400 research years poorer as a result of this. 1/2

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Robert Kindler @robertkindler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Heute durfte ich ein lang erwartetes Paket auspacken. Darin befand sich mein neues Buch "Geschichte Kasachstans. Vom Land der Nomaden zum Staat in der Steppe" (C.H.Beck)! Ich freue mich sehr! Ab dem 24. September überall erhältlich, wo es Bücher gibt. www.chbeck.de/kindler-gesc...

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HPS.CESEE @hpscesee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

hybrid conference: (Pro)Creating a Socialist Future: Knowledge, Politics, and Practices of Reproduction in Eastern Europe and the (Post)Soviet Space International Workshop | October 1–2, 2026 | Helsinki More info and registration for zoom: mwseasteurope.hypoth...

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

H-Environment Roundtable Review on Anna Mazanik's marvellous Sanitizing Moscow: Waste, Animals, and Urban Health in Late Imperial Russia, with contributions by Robert Gioielli, Jennifer Keating, Susan D. Jones and yours truly 👇 #envhist networks.h-net.org/mazanik-sani...

Book cover of Anna Mazanik, Sanitizing Moscow: Waste, Animals, and Urban Health in Late Imperial Russia. The cover features a historical picture of Moscow with the Kremlin in the background

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Encyclopédie d’histoire numérique EHNE @ehne.fr · 15/09/2026

💬 "En Russie, les spécialistes de la lutte contre les nuisibles héritent dès 1918 de 10 000 bonbonnes de gaz. Jamais acheminées sur le front, ces armes sont d’abord expérimentées pour les besoins de l’agriculture, contre les sauterelles" 👇 ehne.fr/fr/encyclope... 🤝 @aphg.fr @sorbonne-universite.fr

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Histoire de la lutte contre les insectes « nuisibles » en URSS

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Vaclav Smil's description of nitrogen fixation through lightning and some Soviet science fiction about how to harness that process to make fertilizer 🙃

Text extract from V. Smil's Enriching the Earth. Highlighted in yellow a passage describing nitrogen fixation through lightning

cover image from Tekhnika Molodezhi 1965 showing a lightning strike in a rural landscape. The lightning is directly diverted into the field symbolizing nitrogen fixation

W/B screenshot from a Soviet journal. The article is written in Russian and called "Udobrenie molniem" (Fertilizing through Lightning).

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Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We have a book cover!

Cover for book "A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency" edited by Alexandra Hui and Emily Pawley.

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Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We are pleased to publish a new essay for the 1800 Histories website by Mariia Koskina (@dornsife.usc.edu) that sheds light on methane emissions on Raspadskaya coal mine in Kuzbass, Russia.

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Raspadskaya, Kuzbass: Tragedies Measured in Lives per Ton of Coal by MARIIA KOSKINA

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This 🧵 will have readings that I assign in my Sociology of AI class.

A flyer for the class Sociology of AI

The overview says: SOC 3900 Sociology of AI uses a sociological lens to study what is popularly called "artificial intelligence." In this class students will learn about cutting edge research examining the origins, impacts, and struggles over the broad set of technologies and practices involving AI. Through an international focus, this class will cover numerous topics related to AI, including: gig work, algorithmic bias, data colonialism, resource extraction, digital labor, data center studies, and environmental and climate effects. This class will primarily focus on sociological research, but will also include scholarship from geography, history, international studies, and environmental studies, as well as other social scientific and humanistic disciplines. No prior knowledge of AI is required for this class

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

New preprint from me: 'Beyond AI: Infrastructuring the Common Good'. The paper treats AI as diagnostic of deeper contradictions, and argues that convivial practice can reclaim vital systems from the collapse of the technopolitical regime. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Screenshot of paper title and abstract. 'Beyond AI: Infrastructuring the Common Good': "Rather than taking AI as a central focus, this paper treats it as diagnostic of deeper contradictions. AI intensifies extractivism while being unable to deliver on its promises, and its rampant scaling of energy and resource demands heralds a form of ‘total mobilisation’. This paper proposes decomputing as a programme for pushing back against such technocratic nihilism. Decomputing adopts a degrowth framework and advocates for reclaiming agency through deautomatisation and people’s coun- cils, in order to develop convivial alternatives that centre an ethics of care. It is a philosophical and tactical response to the wider crisis of care induced by the collapse of existing systems..."

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#Newbookalert Looking forward to getting my hands on this 👇 Soviet Workers in the World: Soviet Labor and Working-Class History in Global Context, edited by Emily Joan Elliott and James A. Nealy www.bloomsbury.com/uk/soviet-wo...

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Soviet Workers in the World

This book book brings together multiple generations of scholars, who investigate topics as varied as migration, gender, unfree labor, and automation, to underst…

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Jonas Kreienbaum @kreienbaumj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Bald beginnt das Semester. Solltet ihr noch überlegen, wie ihr Studierenden vermittelt, wie das Interpretieren von Quellen in der Praxis funktioniert, schaut doch mal in unseren Band.

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daniela russ @ueberdruss.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

you can find me talking about this in the following places: Sep 21, CHESS, Yale University, 4-6pm Sep 23, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 6-8pm Oct 19, IfS Frankfurt, 6-8pm Oct 21, HIS Hamburg (with Dietmar Dath), 6-8pm Nov 5-8, HM London Nov 17, KTH Anthropocene History Institute, 1-3pm

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Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The cover and the webpage for my book, "Faith in Revolution: Islamist Internationalism in a Decolonizing World", are officially live at @columbiaup.bsky.social! 📚🎉 Publication in February 2027—more updates to come throughout this autumn and winter. 🔗 cup.columbia.edu/book/faith-i...

Book cover for "Faith in Revolution: Islamist Internationalism in a Decolonizing World" by Timothy Nunan. The background is a dark teal. The title "Faith in Revolution" is set in a large, bold, all-caps, cream-colored sans-serif font occupying the left side of the cover and broken up into "Faith," "In," "Revo" and "Lution." To the right, the subtitle and author name are set in a lower-case version of the same typeface.

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Well, that's reassuring: lead to help us with nuclear waste (European Chemical News 1965)

B/w photograph. Text promoting lead products as "Dustbins for the nuclear age". The image shows fish underwater swimming around a large black container within which there is a white circle.

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Ernst Langthaler @elangthaler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Our special issue on "Soy and Agro-Food Change" will be out soon ... #soyfacts

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Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

CFP for a great conference of the Centre for Transimperial History, taking place in Leipzig next year 19-21 May. Organised by Nadin Heé, Daniel Hedinger & me. Subject: Geopolitics and Empire, revisited from transimperial perspective. Please send in your abstracts! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

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Revisiting Geopolitics and Empire: A Transimperial Approach | H-Net

Geopolitics have returned to our present—and it is only a matter of time before they will also return to the study of our past. The conference, organized by the Centre for Transimperial History at Lei...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built

Bar chart comparing 2025 national grid CO2e emissions (grey bars) with two Amazon fossil‑fuelled AI data centres (red bars), showing the Amazon sites at about 33 and 17.5 megatonnes CO2e—higher than many countries' entire power grids.

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Moritz von Brescius @mbrescius.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Working on resources, extraction, resistance, capitalism or ecologies? Bern, Sept. 2027, with fantastic keynotes by Katja Bruisch (@kbruisch.bsky.social) & Debjani Bhattacharyya. Travel & hotel funded. Do Apply! hist-ecosoc.ch

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Sabine Pitteloud @sabinepitteloud.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Multinationals, Organized Labor, and the Environment in the Postwar World: Contributions to an International History www.tandfonline.com/toc/rinh20/4... Co-edited by Sandra Bott, Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl and myself @renaudbecot.bsky.social @haavardba.bsky.social @niklasolsen.bsky.social

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Elena Kochetkova @lenkochet.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Our forum "Zero Growth, Socialist Modernity, and the Anti-Environmental Turn in Eastern Europe" in Journal of Modern European History is out journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

woke up to close the window because I smelled smoke. I wrote my book about Russia, but Burning Swamps are literally here. www.independent.ie/county/wickl...

Screenshot of a newspapaer article reporting a wildfire on peat soil. A picture shows a smouldering fire. The landscape is burnt.

Screenshot from a newspaper article. The passage "In recent days, NPWS staff warned that deep-burning peat hotspots remained active beneath the surface, despite the firefighting efforts."

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#newbookalert Daniele Valisena's "Italian Lives, Belgian Coal: An Environmental History of Labour and Migration" will be published this fall with @upittpress.bsky.social #envhist 👇 upittpress.org/books/978082...

b/w cover page of Daniele Valisena's Italian Lives, Belgian coal. The cover features a p/w photograph showing an urban landscape with coal mining excavation material in the background

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HPS.CESEE @hpscesee.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Call for papers: Cartographies of Crises: Mapping Conflict, Disaster, and Uncertainty (19th–21st Centuries), 26th–27th November 2026 at the Centre for Transcultural Studies / Perthes Collection (CG2 - Pagenhaus, Schlossplatz 1, Gotha). More: www.hiu.cas.cz/udalo...

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

“... the past is unpredictable. What Soviet resource history will have meant changes with the future presents from which it is written.” @ueberdruss.bsky.social in an electrifying review essay for @kritikajournal.bsky.social 🔥⚡👇

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daniela russ @ueberdruss.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Wrote a review essay of four new-ish books on Soviet energy and resource history for @kritikajournal.bsky.social. They're different in terms of scope, archival depth, and the extent to which they take the materiality of resources into account – but I enjoyed them all! muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...

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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 16/07/2026

Before the Luddites and the arrival of capitalism, it wasn’t just workers pushing back against technology; governments did too. This week @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how refusal of technology has a very long history. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/337_...

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Delightful: Scholar & bibliographer noting that peat doesn't exist as a tag in the Isis Current Bibliography using 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 as an example. Nice illustration of my point about peat as an "awkward matter" that the humanities have long struggled to account for blog.isiscb.org/newsletter/t...

Screenshot from a blog post where a bibliographer describes how to sought for peat in the Isis Current Bibliography.

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Andreas Folkers @afolkers.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"Keine geschichtliche Kategorie ohne ihre naturale Substanz, keine naturale ohne ihre geschichtliche Filterung." (Walter Benjamin) In einer Woche erscheint mein Buch zur "Fossilen Moderne" www.suhrkamp.de/buch/andreas...

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Fossile Moderne. Buch von Andreas Folkers (Suhrkamp Verlag)

Was immer der »Motor« moderner Gesellschaften sein mag, fossile Brennstoffe sind... | Buch von Andreas Folkers versandkostenfrei & direkt vom Verlag kaufen

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Isabel Feichtner @isafei.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Die bpb hat mein Buch nachgedruckt. Auch angesichts der aktuellen Vergesellschaftungsdebatten freue ich mich darüber sehr und hoffe, dass es zum Verständnis beiträgt, warum Vergesellschaftung ein demokratisches Projekt ist.

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Geschichte und Gesellschaft @ggjournal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Im neuen #GG Heft setzen sich - neben dem Herausgeber Friedrich Lenger - Jürgen Osterhammel, Wolfgang Knöbl, Kaveh Yazdani, Samuël Coghe, Alexander Engel und unser Mitherausgeber Kiran Klaus Patel mit Immanuel Wallerstein und der Weltwirtschaft auseinander. www.vr-elibrary.de/toc/gege/cur...

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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

How did peat electrify the USSR? In an earlier podcast the Eurasian Knot spoke to Katja Bruisch about how this coal-like soil was an energy source in Russia and the Soviet Union. www.patreon.com/cw/euraknot/...

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

From the current issue: "Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism" by Stephen G. Gross (@nyu.edu) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

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Critical Theory in Berlin @ktbberlin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Tomorrow! 7-9 PM Aquarium, Skalitzer Str. 6, 10999 Berlin More about this event: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/workin...

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