ERC project „Sustained Concerns: Administration of Mineral Resource Extraction in Central Europe, 1550-1850 (SCARCE)“: SCARCE Colloquium (Web)
Time: Mo., 24.03.2025, 14:30-16:00 CET
Venue: Univ. of Vienna, Koling. 14-16, 4.25, 1090 Vienna – and virtual space
Sebastian Felten, Gabriele Marcon, and Claire Sabel (all Univ. 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:
- 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, in: Isis 116, no. 2, (2025), 61–81
- Claire Sabel: Domestic Earth Science in Eighteenth Century Britain, draft article
Please RSVP by email to scarce.geschichte@univie.ac.at to receive copies of the papers. Please register to receive the Zoom link: https://univienna.zoom.us/meeting/register/_X_2kwlQQge1hwbO9sV9kg
The SCARCE-team is also pleased to share the following dates for the SCARCE Colloquium for Summer Semester 2025. Details will be shared on the SCARCE mailing list and on the website:
- 10.04.2025, 11:30-13:00: Julie Klinger (Univ. of Delaware) and Eleanor Armstrong (Univ. of Leicester), co-hosted with the History of Science and Knowledge Colloquium
- 12.05.2025, 14:30-16:00: Andreas Lingg (Univ. Witten/Herdecke)
- 18.06.2025, 12:00-13:30: Phillip Roessner (Univ. of Manchester)
Source: SCARCE mailing list. To be added to the list, please write to scarce.geschichte@univie.ac.at