Vorträge / Talks 2016–2023

2023

January 25, 2023: EURATOM. Eine politische Geschichte (Rom, Lissabon, Brexit). Habilitationsvortrag im Rahmen meines Habilitationsverfahrens am FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften an der Freien Universität Berlin.

January 20, 2023: Paul Krassa (Krohn). An Expert to Redefine the Chilean Coal Economy, Workshop: Experts, Expertise and Energy Transition between Germany and Chile, MPIWG

January 12, 2023: Coal Waste Using Industries in the Interwar Period in Germany, France and Chile: Developments, Transfers and Open Questions. Political Economy Tokyo Seminar (PoETS) http://http.politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com

2022

September 20, 2022: Tiempo de carbón. Una historia global y epistemológica del Protoantropoceno. Universidad de Chile.

April 5, 2022: The Understanding of Matter in Copernicus’ Reports
on Coinage in the Context of His Time.
The Making of Copernican Cosmology: Mathematical Practices and Political Economy in Comparative Perspective, Conference organized with Pietro D. Omodeo (Venice) and Razieh Mousavi (MPIWG); SFB Episteme in Bewegung.

2021

November 2, 2021:  Kohle und die Verwandlung des Alltags in Frankreich und Schottland um 1750. Forschungskolloquium Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit, Prof. Dr. Daniela Hacke und Prof. Dr. Alexander Schunka, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin.

March 31, 2021: Das Globale einer Wissensgeschichte der Kohle im 19. Jahrhundert. Forschungskolloquium zur Technikgeschichte, Prof. Dr. Heike Weber, Technische Universität Berlin.

April 29, 2021: The Origin of Coal. Earth History in the Eighteenth Century. Resources in Early Modern Economies of Knowledge, Workshop organized in cooperation with Pietro D. Omodeo, Ca‘ Foscari (Venice), SFB Episteme in Motion, MPIWG.

2019

December 19, 2019: Historical Developments of Primary and Secondary Coal Regions, Contested futures for Coal. Historical and Economic Foundations of the Energy Transition(s), Centre Marc Bloch http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-42018

December 4–6, 2019: Humboldt and the 19th-century American energy crisis, Alexander von Humboldt: Circulation of State-Knowledge in Europe and Latin America, jointly organised conference: Centre Marc Bloch, MPIWG, IAI SPK
https://www.cmb.hu-berlin.de/kalender/termin/alexander-von-humboldt-circulation-of-state-knowledge-in-europe-and-latin-america/
https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/alexander-von-humboldt-circulation-state-knowledge-europe-and-latin-america

November 26, 2019: Mining and Nature in the Early Modern Era, Cosmologies of Resource Transformations, in cooperation with ERC EarlyModernCosmology [Horizon 2020, GA 725883], SFB Episteme in Bewegung

November 14–16, 2019: (with Eleonora Rohland, University of Bielefeld): Transformation of the Americas, Modelling Socio-Environmental Transformations of the Americas During the Little Ice Age, 1492 – 1800, ZIF (Bielefeld)

October 22, 2019: The Local in Global Imperial Histories, Introduction to Dagmar Schäfer’s Talk, MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium

September 27, 2019: Missionen und Landnutzung im globalen Vergleich, Mission Afrika: Geschichtsschreibung über Grenzen hinweg. Theologische Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

March 7, 2019: El cambio energético-social en América Latina según Alexander von Humboldt, Año Jubilar “Desarrollo y paradigmas de las ciencias naturales cubanas: desde Alejandro de Humboldt y Felipe Poey y Aloy hasta nuestros días”. Universidad de Habana

February 7, 2019: Industrialisierungen und Kohlebergbau in Lateinamerika als Gegenstand von globalem Wissensaustausch. Dynamiken des Wissens – Transfer, Epistemologien, Medien, Workshop der Arbeitsgruppe „Dynamiken des Wissens“ der ADLAF
Berlin, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 7. – 8.2.2019.

2018

December 17, 2018: Koloniale Missionsgeschichte im globalen, interkulturellen und interreligiösen Vergleich, Talk: Forschungskolloquium Prof. Dr. E. Dürr, Karls-Eberhard-Universität Tübingen.

December 14, 2018: Momente der Wissensevolution, mit Jürgen Renn und Mònica Colominas Aparicio, SFB „Episteme in Bewegung“, Berlin

December 7, 2018: Regional Differences in the Knowledge Economies and Scenarios of Phase-In: Coal in 19th Century Global History, Conference Presentation: Kohletag, MPIWG.

December 5, 2018: Latin America and the Proto-Anthropocene: Mining, Deforestation and the Colonial Divergence, Talk: Forschungskolloquium InterAmerikanische Studien, Universität Bielefeld

November 6, 2018: Minería y carbon en Filipinas (1850–1900), Conference presentation:Seminario “Ciencia e ingenería en Filipinas a fines del siglo XIX, CSIC, Madrid, November 6, 2018

September 21, 2018: The Mapuche Parliaments and Multi-layered Representation in the Jesuit Society of Missions (16thto mid-18th Centuries), Conference presentation: Multiculturalismo, Integración y Conflicto: Hacia una comprensión de la convivencia en Ceuta, una ciudad pluricultural en el Norte de África, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Campus Universitario de Ceuta. Calle Cortadura del Valle s/n 51001. Ceuta, Spain, September 20–22, 2018.

July 13, 2018: Factors to Include (Colonial) Latin America into the Proto-Anthropocene. Environment, Extraction and Industrialization,Conference presentation: The Colonial Transformations of the Americas. Environment and Society 1492 to the Present. Organized by Prof. Dr. E. Rohland, Universität Bielefeld, July 12 +13, 2018

June, 29, 2018: Thales and the Origin of Greek Science. “Mixing” in the Historiography of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, Conference presentation: Wissensoikonomien: Transgression und Ordnung in vormodernen Kulturen, SFB Episteme in Bewegeung, Humboldt-Box, Berlin June 28–30, 2018

April 24, 2018: Schritte zur fossilen Gesellschaft: Wissen über Steinkohle in globaler Perspektive (1800–1900), Talk: Kolloquium Prof. Aschmann, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

 January 25, 2018: Coal in the Early Modern History of Resources. Talk: PreModern Seminar, MPIWG

2017

October 12, 2017: Die Entstehung einer unabhängigen katholischen Nationalkirche im Südsudan (1850–1950), Conference presentation: Mission und dekoloniale Perspektive. Der Erste Weltkrieg als Auslöser eines globalen Prozesses, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 12–14, 2017

27, September 2017: Why „Métissage“ is the better (non-)national myth?, Conference presentation: New Nationalisms: Sources, Agendas, Languages, Wrocław, 25–27 September 2017

July 26, 2017: Knowledge about coal and the transformation of energy systems in Mexico and Cuba in the nineteenth century, Conference presentation: S 77: Global Underground: Circulations of Knowledge and the Sciences of Mining in the „long 19th Century”, ICHST, Rio de Janeiro, July 23–29, 2017

June 27, 2017: Representation in Post-Colonial Cultural History, Conference presentation: Convivencia: Iberian Peninsula to Global Dynamics (500–1750), Lisbon, June 25–29, 2017

May 18, 2017: Wissensaustausch und Anfänge des Kohlebergbaus in Mexiko, Kuba und Philippinen (1800–1900), Talk: Ringvorlesung „Lateinamerika“, Sommersemester 2017, CLAC, Universität zu Köln.

May 11, 2017: Interrelation and Interruption of Exchange of Knowledge: Coal and its Industrial Use in Mexico, Conference presentation: Science, Technology and Industrialization: Interactions Between Europe and Latin America after the Independence Movements (1840–1940), MPIWG/IAI Berlin, May 10–11, 2017

April 5, 2017: Knowledge of Coal Mining in 18thCentury Europe – Studying the carbon cycle in early industrialization, Conference presentation: Seminar: Material Culture, Science and Technology, MPIWG/University of Bergamo

March 9, 2017: “Ya sabe vm.d la fuerza q.e puede tener lo q.e se resuelue en un parlamento” – the Mapuche parliaments, the Jesuits and “spaces of speech” in intercultural situations (mid 18th c.), Conference presentation: Open Access to Convivencia. People and Their Representations in the Iberian World and Beyond, MPIWG, Berlin, March 9–10, 2017

February 24, 2017: David Skene on Scottish Coal Mining, Talk, University of Aberdeen

January 18, 2017: Carbon cycles: coal, knowledge and global industrializations, Conference presentation: Energy Transformations. Perspectives from the Humanities Symposium, January 17–18, 2017, Berlin

2016

September 23, 2016: Central European Missionaries in Sudan. Geopolitics and Alternative Colonialism in Mid-Nineteenth Century Africa, Conference presentation: Central Europe and Colonialism: Migrations, Knowledges, Perspectives, Commodities, Wroclaw, 21–23 September 2016

September 13, 2016: Why History of Resources? Approaches from a Fossil Coal Perspective, Conference Presentation: Resources and Economies of Knowledge in the Anthropocene, MPIWG, FMI, IASS, September 12–13, 2016

September 7, 2016: Vermischung oder das Problem einer Globalgeschichte Europas, Conference presentation: Zeit für Relationen – Relationen der Zeit, Schloss Mickeln, 6–7, October 2016

July 6, 2016: Coal and coal mining in XIXth Century Latin America: Geology, Industry and Mining before and after A.v. Humboldt, Conference presentation: VIII Congrès International et Interdisciplinaire: Sciences, savoirs et politique: Alexander von Humboldt et Aimé Bonplandentre Europa et Amérique Latine, SciencePo, Paris, July 4–7, 2016

May 30, 2016: mit Christoph Lehner, Prisca Sapientia. Die Antikenbilder in der Wissenschaft des 18. Jahrhunderts, Talk: Ringvorlesung Pluralisierung der Antike, Sommersemester 2016, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

May 24, 2016 Form follows Context. Dialogues as a Form of Intercultural Transfer of Knowledge in the Iberian World, Conference presentation: Convivencia, Halle, May 24–25, 2016

May 11, 2016: Dialogues as Form of Intercultural Transfer of Knowledge in the Iberian World, Conference presentation: Convivencia – Projects and Debates, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, May 10–11, 2016,