Events

Upcoming Events

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12.06.2025 18:00

Seltene Erden? Eine kurze Geschichte der Ressourcenknappheit

Roadshow der Jungen Akademie der ÖAW

Speaker: Sebastian Felten

Montanuniversität Leoben

05.06.2025 09:15

Transformations in the Eurasian Gem Trade during the Long Seventeenth Century

EurAsian Materials in Central European Collections

Workshop organized by CEU and University of Innsbruck

Talk by Claire Sabel

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)

Hybrid Event

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

25.09.2025 09:00

Political Economies of Mining in the Early Modern World

Workshop

Organizers: Claire Sabel and Gabriele Marcon

University of Vienna

September 25-26, 2025

29.06.2025 01:00

Gems and the Science of Place

Panel at the International Congress of History of Science and Technology

Organizer and Speaker: Claire Sabel

Dunedin New Zealand

Hybrid Event

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

16.06.2025 00:00

Conducing to the Knowledge of the Universe and Trade: the Role of Goldsmiths in Materializing the Early Modern Globe

Where the Stones Lie: Between (Historical) Practices and Spatialities

Workshop organized by EUI/CNRS, Florence

Talk by Claire Sabel

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

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

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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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