Corinne Geering

It has been a great pleasure to review the volume on Integration and Collaborative Imperialism edited by @mtoiv.bsky.social and @boscha.bsky.social for @hsozkult.bsky.social. Looking forward to continue the discussion on European Integration in an imperial context! www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...

The room is packed for the panel "Transatlantic Exchange and Imperialism" at the Central European History Convention #ceh-c in Vienna @univie.ac.at

CFP: Rohstoffe, Handel und koloniale Verflechtungen in der Regionalgeschichte, ca. 1800-1950

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156413

Feldkirch, 24.09.2026-25.09.2026, Wirtschaftsarchiv Vorarlberg; Universität Innsbruck, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.09.2025

Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea We are a research collective that aims to shed light on the imperial logics embedded in extractive activities in the North Sea and to develop a comprehensive research agenda for rethinking extractive ...

We are inviting abstracts for Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea workshop in November. We look for papers that help us confront and rethink the concept of imperialism in the context of the North Sea's extractive
history. You can read more on our website here: www.uis.no/en/research/...

The full program for this year's Central European History Convention (CEH-C) July 17-19 is online!: ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us... The overview: ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us... With 2 keynotes, 54 panels, a roundtable, poster sessions, + a research lab, there's something to interest everyone!

The Nuclear-Water Nexus Splitting atoms is a water-intensive business. To operate efficiently and safely, a standard nuclear reactor needs around 50 cubic meters (13,000 gallons) of...

It's finally here! Our edited volume is out with @mitpress!

And it could not be more timely! As the heatwave and water shortages across Europe are severely affecting nuclear power plants, the nuclear-water nexus is more important than ever

Read all about it here mitpress.mit.edu/978026255228...

Transition in Residues: On Depleted Oil Wells, Radioactive Geophysics, and the Origins of the Twentieth Century's Energy Mix The oil and uranium industries always have been intertwined. Both industries are inherently global and span an extensive geological history. The formation of uranium and oil deposits, and their event...

The oil and uranium industries always have been intertwined.

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte published my new article on the shared history of uranium and oil geophysics in German, French and Canadian seemingly depleted boreholes. You can read the article (Open Access) here:

Rare good news delivered from the US, although personal. It's printed and will be available from 1 July

ugapress.org/book/9780820...

WAEH Call for Papers Workshop on Alternative Energy Histories (WAEH): Scenarios and Transitions Organizers: Michiel Bron, Odinn Melsted, Cyrus Mody (Maastricht University) Venue: Maastricht University D…

We're putting on a conference! "We" being me, @odinnmelsted.bsky.social & @michielbron.bsky.social as part of the Managing Scarcity project.

Workshop on Alternative Energy Histories
Dates: October 20-21, 2025
Location: Maastricht University
Abstracts due: April 4, 2025

managingscarcity.com/waeh/

This is wonderful! My warmest congratulations!!

Ireland’s Boglands Through Culture and Science RePeat and ReViewing Ireland at the National Library of Ireland

Join us on 6 Feb at the @nlireland.bsky.social for the launch of our exhibition RePEAT: Reimagining Ireland's Peatlands in Precarious Times. It is the outcome of a project using early 19th-century maps & recent geospatial data to assess land-use change over the past 200y 👇
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

Journal of Energy History 2024/1 (No 12) Black and Green? Environmental Histories of the Oil Industry

Very happy to see this #specialissue on #oilhist and #envhist out in the world: stm.cairn.info/journal-of-e....
With great articles by @renaudbecot.bsky.social, Reynaldo de los Reyes Patiño, @mattinbiglari.bsky.social, Randal L. Hall, Jelena Stanković, @michielbron.bsky.social, and Robert Lifset.

Monuments and Territory is now available in open access on JStor: www.jstor.org/stable/10.78...

Photo of my essay in a print magazine, with the title 'Puutarhatarina, sademetsäseikkailu' ('Plantation stories, jungle adventures').

What a buzz to see my essay, on Finnish colonial adventure fiction from a century ago, in print! And not in some boring academic journal but in the country's oldest and finest culture magazine, Nuori Voima.

New international research project on energy transitions New international research project to explore energy transitions in the Nordic region over the past 150 years. The project was awarded funding from NordForsk’s 'Green Transition' call and runs from Oc...

We have launched our new Energy Lives! project! A great team led by @melinabuns.bsky.social will explore how people have lived with energy transitions in the Nordic countries over the past 150 years. #envhist #envhum #energyhistory

Populismus in Ostmitteleuropa Das Buch vergleicht die Populismen in der Slowakei, Tschechien und Österreich anhand der Diskurse über Flüchtlings- und Eurokrise, Ausländer, Minderheiten.

The first book from our junior research group "Contrasting East Central Europe" at #GWZO is out! 🎉 Hana Antal's comparative study of populism in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Austria link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The ERC project "INWOOD - Industrial Wood: European industrialisation seen from the forests". Their team will be starting in early 2025 as far as I know: www.ruralhistory.eu/newsletter/2...