Tomas Bartoletti

Our entire roundtable on "Cross-Contextualization as Method", co-edited with @mikahyman.bsky.social, is out now in FirstView in @historicaljnl.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Dont miss this publication! Congratulations @samuelcoghe.bsky.social

“Mucho por hacer.” The semester starts tomorrow with our first session on Planetary History. At @ethz.ch Zürich

Next stop: MADRID! Looking forward to this conversation on “Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers.” with @davidpretel.bsky.social @samuelcoghe.bsky.social and many more!

Happy to announce that my article 'Rethinking Commodity Frontiers: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Capitalist World Economy' was published in OA in Geschichte & Gesellschaft! @ggjournal.bsky.social @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social You can read it here for free: doi.org/10.13109/geg...

Der SNF revidiert seine Reglemente und auch seine Förderungen leider in den letzten Jahren leider etwas an der Fachkulturen der Geisteswissenschaften vorbei. Hier meine two cents zu den Ändrungen der Publikationsfürderung.

My humble review of a must‑read by Thomas Rath on cattle, the US–Mexican border, Latin America, and Cold War science. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hola San Jose! Hola Universidad de Costa Rica! Agradecido de volver como profesor visitante a esta tierra!🌿💜

*** Histories and Futures of the Global Environment *** Join us next Thursday at Harvard. wigh.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/panel-...

This week!!!

In a few weeks, we'll be discussing the Amazon on the Planetary Embassy program of Swissnex Boston/NY Come join us! shorturl.at/pivSu with Claudia Tomateo, Livio Silva and Mauricio Fontes.

Tomorrow!

Next week! Join me at Brown (CLACS & STS Colloquium) for my talk on insects & capitalism: “Weevils and Bollworms in Latin America: Cotton Empires and the Ecologies of Global Capitalism, c. 1880–1940”

Publication day! My article examines the Bolivian history of coca(ine) research across Italian and Germanophone scientific networks. 🌱🌱🌱🌱 tinyurl.com/mv8whstz

This special issue on imperial masculinities, edited by my friends and colleagues Bernhard Schär and Tomás Bartoletti, is well worth a look!

New article from Tomás Bartoletti, Samuël Coghe and Victor Seow. ‘[T]echnocracy operates […] as an ideology that not only describes the system itself, but also the sets of ideas that animate the emergence of the system.’ Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu.... #CFI

I very much enjoyed speaking to Tomás Bartoletti and Samuël Coghe about Carbon Technocracy and the world in the mine. ⛏️ The transcript of our conversation is now out in the latest issue of Commodity Frontiers. journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu... #histstm #histtech #envhist #envhum 🧪

Rez. Ex: Naming Natures – Natural History and Colonial Legacy https://www.hsozkult.de/exhibitionreview/id/reex-154874 Neuchâtel, 15.12.2024-18.08.2025, Tomás Bartoletti, Denise Bertschi, Natural History Museum in Neuchâtel (MHNN), Neuchâtel Centre d’Art (CAN)

tomás bartoletti speaking about insect pest control and the gospel of modern agriculture: economic entomology in the global south, ca. 1880-1940

Finally out: Formative Spaces of Empire: Masculinities and Outdoor Experiences c. 1860-1960 Special Issue 2024 for the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Co-edited with Tomás Bartoletti Case Studies on India, Malaysia, Sumatra, Iran www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

This week at @stsucl.bsky.social History of Science Reading Group we discussed Tomas Bartoletti @tomasbarto12.bsky.social, “Hunting and Masculine Knowledge: a Swiss Naturalist in South America and the Coloniality of Nineteenth-Century Science”, @isisjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1086/733157

Thank you 2024! I can't ask for more! An exhibition, several publications and conferences, a new book of poetry, great new colleagues and fabulous students. And last week I was honored with an award for my career at ETH Zurich Cheers and peace to all!