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Sabine Pitteloud
@sabinepitteloud.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Contemporary History
UniDistance Suisse
Co-editor in chief of Entreprises et histoire
Political History of Capitalism, Multinationals, Environmental Regulations
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horizons-en.bsky.social
How do multinationals manage their international presence in times of trouble? The historians @sabinepitteloud.bsky.social and @pydonze.bsky.social looked into the case of Nestlé between 1950 and 1980. The strategies of the time still seem relevant today.👇
When multinationals have their name
Horizons - In brief
www.horizons-mag.ch
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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ineteconomics.bsky.social
“Data is history.”
👉 youtu.be/zkwMstdomhc 👀
Emma Rothschild @historyecon.bsky.social on Adam Smith, climate change, and the lost conversation between disciplines.
November 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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carsoncenter.bsky.social
Early-career scholars of #envhist and cognate disciplines, check out the NEXTGATe Writing Support Program! Coordinated by RCC alumnae Mona Bieling and Andrea Gaynor.
esehnextgate.bsky.social ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 12d
🚨We are launching the 6th edition of the NEXTGATe Writing Support Program!

Are you an early career author looking for feedback on your writing in a supportive peer-group plus expert advice? You have come to the right place!

For more information and how to apply, see below 👇

#envhist #envhum
October 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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revue-traverse.bsky.social
CfP - «Gemeines Land / Terres communes ? » (#traverse 2/2027) – deadline verlängert bis 10.11.!

Salome Egloff, Jamieson Myles und
@smschober.bsky.social freuen sich auf Vorschläge für das Themenheft «Gemeines Land / Terres communes ? »
Alle weiteren Infos unter www.revue-traverse.ch
October 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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businesshistoryc.bsky.social
Call for Applications: 2026 BHC Doctoral Colloquium in Business History
📍 London, UK, on March 26, 2026
Application deadline ‼️ December 8, 2025 thebhc.org/doctoral-col...

#bizhis @businesshistory.bsky.social @hagleycenter.bsky.social @gnvbusinesshistory.bsky.social @repec-nep-his.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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businesshistory.bsky.social
Colonial capitalisation and business investment in the Federated Malay States in the interwar years by Mohd Shazwan Mokhtar doi.org/10.1080/0007...

#BusinessHistory #Bizhis #ColonialEconomy

@tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledaebuseco.bskv.social
Colonial capitalisation and business investment in the Federated Malay States
October 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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lumu.bsky.social
Tonight!
lumu.bsky.social Lucas Mueller @lumu.bsky.social · 26d
Next week! Join for David Jones's talk about urban air pollution this Wednesday, as the autumnal fog sits upon Geneva and the Swiss plateau 🌫️
October 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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renaudbecot.bsky.social
Une raffinerie de pétrole à Brest ? C'est le projet porté par un front modernisateur de grands élus et d'entrepreneurs, auquel s'opposent plusieurs organisations populaires (...mais aussi Edouard Leclerc) entre 1965 et 1974.
A lire sur ce lien :
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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infoclio.bsky.social
Parution du dernier volume de la série Itinera. Supplément de la Revue suisse d’histoire.

«Quand le passé inspire l’avenir. Formes historiques de la durabilité et ‹Objectifs de développement durable›»

Le volume est disponible en accès libre: lnkd.in/ey-9gbKf
October 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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hsozkultservice.bsky.social
Job: W3-Professur (m/w/d) "Neueste Geschichte" (Univ. Bayreuth)

https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-158196

Bayreuth, 01.10.2026, Universität Bayreuth, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.11.2025
www.hsozkult.de
October 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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hsozkultservice.bsky.social
Job: 0,8–1 Postdoktorand:in (w/m/d) "Neuere und Neueste Geschichte" (FernUni Schweiz, Brig)

https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-157998

Brig, 01.12.2025-31.01.2029, FernUni Schweiz, Bewerbungsschluss: 26.10.2025
www.hsozkult.de
October 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
sabinepitteloud.bsky.social
Event Alert! CAPITALISM: A GLOBAL HISTORY
Book Talk by Sven Beckert (Harvard University)
Zurich 10. November 2025 - 18:00 bis 19:30

Co-hosted by Debjani Bhattacharyya, Historisches Seminar, UZH; Faculté d'histoire d'UniDistance Suisse
www.infoclio.ch/en/book-talk...
October 19, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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hsozkult.bsky.social
Coll: Berlin-Brandenburger Colloquium für Umweltgeschichte

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157912

Berlin, 13.10.2025-09.02.2026, Astrid M. Kirchhof; Jan-Henrik Meyer
www.hsozkult.de
October 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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hsozkult.bsky.social
Coll: Planetary Histories Seminar

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157917

London, 09.10.2025-11.12.2025, Andrew Fitzmaurice, Queen Mary University of London; Glenda Sluga, European University Institute; Giorgio Riello, European University Institute / University of Warwick; Thomas Simpson, …
www.hsozkult.de
October 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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ivapesa.bsky.social
Jabulani Shaba and Henrique Brenner Gasperin will be co-organising a panel at POLLEN 2026 in wonderful Barcelona on 'Extraction and Plural Environmentalisms in the Global South'! APPLY!! pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/... #envhums #extraction
October 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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eseh.bsky.social
Are you an early-career researcher working with environmental history? Join ESEH Nextgate! Part of the ESEH, Nextgate promotes and supports work by #EnvHist scholars from students to post-docs. Whether or not you'd like to join, make sure to follow @esehnextgate.bsky.social for upcoming events!
tanjariekkinen.bsky.social Tanja Riekkinen @tanjariekkinen.bsky.social · Sep 12
Call for Applications

The Early Career branch of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEHNEXTGATe) is seeking new members to join its committee for a two-year term 2025–2027.

Please find the more detailed call text attached.
October 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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urbanhistory.bsky.social
🌊 @mgoebel.bsky.social and Xinge Zhai, 'Conclusion: the social environments of port cities in the longue durée'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
Title and abstract for the linked article
September 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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kim-todzi.de
Let me briefly summarize this article by Tristan Oestermann ( @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social ) and me:

In this article we're tracing the global entanglements of German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Mannheim, one of the largest producers of quinine in the 19th and 20th century.
kim-todzi.de Kim Todzi @kim-todzi.de · Oct 1
Sehr erfreut, dass unsere Forschung zu den kolonialen Verflechtungen Boehringer Mannheims nun von der Historischen Zeitschrift publiziert wurde. Schönerweise auch gleich open access: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Pharmazeutische Industrie und Kolonialismus. Globale Verflechtungen einer deutschen Leitindustrie am Beispiel von Boehringer Mannheim, 1859–1997 Von: Tristan Oestermann und Kim Sebastian Todzi
October 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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mgoebel.bsky.social
I am so glad and proud finally to announce the publication of our special issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social: Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities After the Global Turn. It's the result of the four-year @snsf.ch project patchworkcities.com 1/3
Patchwork Cities – Urban Ethnic Clusters in the Global South During the Age of Steam
patchworkcities.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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infoclio.bsky.social
CfP: Summer Schools Roma l Palermo #infoclioevent
CfP: Summer Schools Roma l Palermo
CfP: Summer Schools Roma l Palermo The call for applications for the 2026 Summer Schools is open to universities and institutes of higher education. Istituto Svizzero welcomes project proposals from all disciplines that offer participants fresh historical or contemporary perspectives on Rome, or, more broadly, on Italy. It also welcomes initiatives that encourage collaboration across different scientific fields (interdisciplinary exchange) or between art and science (transdisciplinary exchange). In July, Istituto Svizzero offers the opportunity for a Summer School in Palermo, dedicated to projects focusing on Sicily and/or the Mediterranean. For more information and entry requirements please visit the website of the Instituto Svizzero. Organisiert von Istituto Svizzero EK 25. September 2025 Website der Veranstaltung Summer School 2026
dlvr.it
September 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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mpifg.bsky.social
📣 We're welcoming applications for our Visiting Researchers Program (summer semester 2026). If your work focuses on political economy or economic sociology, apply for a research stay (2-12 months). Open to researchers at all career levels!

Apply by October 31, 2025: career.mpifg.de/jobposting/1...
September 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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ubcdemocracy.bsky.social
@heiditworek.bsky.social discusses the undulation of communication technologies and their ability to both attract and oppose the energy of globalization in @globaldiscnct.bsky.social's recent volume.

Find Heidi's chapter and the entire open-access collection: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Dis:connectivity and Globalisation
Globalisation is one of the most contested concepts of our time. From its promise of borderless flows of people, goods, and finance in the 1990s, it embodies today almost the opposite: deglobalisation...
www.degruyterbrill.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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franceculture.fr
Surveillance, automatisation, concentration du pouvoir : pour l'économiste Daron Acemoglu, l’IA actuelle répète l’histoire des révolutions technologiques inégalitaires. Mais rien n’est joué.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/MA7
September 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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infoclio.bsky.social
The International Association for Alpine History is awarding the Prix Bergier 2026. It is given to a doctoral theses, having as their central object the Alpine and pre-alpine area or other European mountain realities.

The thesis must be submitted by 15 January 2026:
www.infoclio.ch/en/prix-berg...
September 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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andrewperchard.bsky.social
An excellent new piece from Grace Ballor & @sabinepitteloud.bsky.social on globalist elites political organisation after 1945
The rise and fall of private advocacy forums from 1945 to the twenty-first century
Abstract. How did “globalist” elites organize themselves politically to defend their agenda, that is, the imposition of global free trade and investment fl
academic.oup.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM