Events

Upcoming Events

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26.05.2025 17:00

The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880

HPS.CESEE Global Book Talk

Speakers: Borbála Zsuzsanna Török, László Kontler, Morgane Labbé

Online Event via Zoom

16.05.2025 11:30

The origins and virtues of gems in the history of mineralogy

Hausseminar Mineralogie und Krystallographie

Talk by Claire Sabel

University of Vienna

12.05.2025 15:00

Book Discussion - Die Entdeckung der Wirtschaft: Der mittelalterliche Bergbau und die Vermehrung der Welt

SCARCE Colloquium

Speaker: Andreas Lingg

University of Vienna

Hybrid event

25.09.2025 09:00

Political Economies of Mining in the Early Modern World

Workshop

Organized by Claire Sabel and Gabriele Marcon

University of Vienna

September 25-26, 2025

26.06.2025

Leben in autoritären Zeiten. Kulturwissenschaftliche Analysen und kulturelle Interventionen

Institutskolloquium des Instituts für Europäische Ethnologie Wien

Eine Gesprächsreihe in Kooperation mit dem Volkskundemuseum Wien

26.06.2025 11:30

Historicizing planetarity. Trans-imperial circulations, Western elites and planetary environmental knowledge and alerts around 1900

History of Science and Knowledge Colloquium

Speaker: Christophe Bonneuil (Cnrs-Ehess)

University of Vienna

Hybrid event

18.06.2025 12:00

Teutocapitalism: How German Thinkers Made the Modern Economy

SCARCE Colloquium

Speaker: Philipp Rössner

University of Vienna

Hybrid event

05.06.2025 10:00

Geschlecht, Körper, Diversität – aktuelle Perspektiven für Medizin, Geistes-, Rechts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Podiumsdiskussion mit Workshop zur Vernetzung und Diskussion

Universität Wien

04.06.2025 17:15

Industryscapes: Socio-Natural Sites of Resource, Extraction and Knowledge in the Preindustrial World

Speaker: Pamela Smith (Columbia University)

Public Lecture followed by reception

With comment by Hilary Becker (Binghamton University)

02.06.2025 18:00

Das kolonialisierte Gehirn – Zum Verständnis psychischer Krankheit im historischen Wandel

Neuburger Lecture

Vortrag von Andreas Heinz (Charité Berlin) im Josephinum Wien

Josephinum

Historischer Hörsaal, Währinger Straße 25, 1090 Wien

07.05.2025 09:00

Provided in Time: Mineral Extraction, Capitalism, and the Language of Growth in Early Modern Central Europe

WISO Morgenkolloquium (Colloquium of the Department of Economic and Social History)

Speaker: Sebastian Felten

University of Vienna

Hybrid event

10.04.2025 11:30

Deposits, Museums, and Rockets: Conceptualizing Mineral Flows

Research Colloquium History of Science and Knowledge & SCARCE Colloquium (Joint meeting)

Speakers: Julie Klinger and Eleanor Armstrong

University...

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Contact

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anna Echterhölter
Ass.-Prof. Dr. Nils Robert Güttler
Ass.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Felten
Universität Wien
Universitätsring 1
1010 Wien
T: +43-1-4277-40803
wissenschaftsgeschichte.hkw@univie.ac.at

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