Place: Zoom/University of Vienna, Kolingasse 14-16, R. 4-25

Time 14:30-16:00

All are welcome. Please sign up here [zoom link] to register for the meeting and receive the Zoom link. A draft paper will be circulated approximately one week before the colloquium.

Sebastian Felten, Gabriele Marcon, and Claire Sabel (all University of Vienna) will discuss their recent work on social histories of mining knowledge in early modern Europe, exploring questions of labor, gender, expertise, and the relationship between textual authority and experiential knowledge in Italian, German, and British contexts. Please RSVP by email to receive copies of the papers:  

Sebastian Felten, "Pen at Work: Codifying Hard-Rock Mining Techniques in Central Europe (ca. 1750-1820)”, forthcoming in Artefact. Techniques, histoire et sciences humaines.

Gabriele Marcon, "The Boundaries of Knowledge: Books, Experts, and Readers in Early Modern Mines," Isis 116, no. 2, (2025), 61–81

Claire Sabel, "Domestic Earth Science in Eighteenth Century Britain," draft article