Moritz von Brescius

We’re kicking off my Consolidator Grant “The Battle of Materials”—and celebrating with a talk by Prof. Erika Rappaport:
“Aims of Industry”: Big Sugar, PR & the Fight for Free Enterprise in Decolonizing Britain.
Sugar, propaganda, capitalism—what could go wrong?
📣🌍 March 16, 4 pm Basel!
All welcome

It's happening! The wonderful Marcel van der Linden will discuss the publication of PLANTATION KNOWLEDGE, full of insightful chapters on slavery, racism, capitalism, global cash crops, and their enduring legacies today. Join us online Dec. 5!

In this paper, I examine the historical significance of the Charduar rubber plantation in Assam—the world’s first large-scale, scientifically managed rubber plantation. I trace its pivotal role in shaping the shift of rubber cultivation from South Asia to SE Asia and other tropical frontiers...

Plantation Knowledge

... illuminating how it once stood at the center of global plantation experimentation. I also ask why this pioneering site ultimately faded into obscurity, despite its early prominence in the international rubber industry. Fully OPEN ACCESS HERE: sunypress.edu/Books/P/Plan...

Job alert: 3 fully funded PhDs in history at Uni Bern! Join an inspiring project on food, agriculture & global capitalism, 1870–1930s. Apply by Nov 10

Thank you, @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social‬ — it’s been an absolute pleasure teaming up on this. Holding an Anthropocene conference in the middle of yet another heatwave feels almost too on-the-nose… Proof, if any were needed, of just how urgent this work really is!

The wonderful Tehila Sasson, Sugata Bose, Zaib un Nisa Aziz, and Sven Beckert during the concluding roundtable of a superb international conference. Vibrant discussions about the field and future of global histories of capitalism & the environment. Thanks to all participants!

I’m beyond excited for this conference: “New Global Histories of Capitalism & the Environment”! It also celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard. Stay tuned for the publication

If you're in the Basel area, come to the book launch of Corey Ross's Liquid Empire (Princeton 2024) tonight, in conversation with the wonderful Julia Adeney Thomas. At 6pm in the Orangerie of the Institute for European Global Studies: europa.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles...

This looks fantastic, couldn't recommend it more.

Universität Basel: PhD Position in History (or related discipline) 100% SNSF Consolidator Grant project “The Battle of Materials: Commodity 'Research and Propaganda' and the Road to Immoderate Consumption, 1900-1980” The Europainstitut / Institute for European Global Stud...

Job alert! We're hiring @unibas.ch !
📢 1 fully-funded PhD position (4 years) in my @snsf-ch.bsky.social Consolidator project "The Battle of Materials"! Spread the word:
jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25 ) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

Presenting a new project with the wonderful Fredrik A. Jonsson (Chicago U) at the New Anthropocene Centre in Stockholm today -- come along if you're in the area to discuss "The Long Acceleration: Rethinking the Historical Causes of the Planetary Emergency". www.kth.se/anthropocene...

Very excited about the upcoming conference on "Asian Borderlands: Cross-Border Exchange and Extraction" with a fabulous line-up of speakers from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. Taking stock of a dynamic interdisciplinary field and identifying future directions and new departures!

Intriguing conference in Rio de Janeiro in mid-March 2024: "Rethinking the History of Global Capitalism". Call for papers now open, and scholars from the Global South are especially encouraged to apply: wigh.wcfia.harvard.edu/news/call-pa...