Corinne Geering
@corinnegeering.bsky.social
Historian working on regional development, rural material culture, and energy landscapes
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New ep of Cultures of Energy! We talk to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz about whether the history of energy is about transitions or accumulations. tinyurl.com/yc2bz6cy @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social PS next month is our 10th anniversary. Send a note!
Cultures of Energy: 244 – Energy Transition (feat. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz)
In honor of cookie week, your co-hosts tackle an age-old question: are brownies cookies are not? Then we process the fact that next month will be the 10th anniversary of Cultures of Energy (wow!) Ther...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
New ep of Cultures of Energy! We talk to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz about whether the history of energy is about transitions or accumulations. tinyurl.com/yc2bz6cy @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social PS next month is our 10th anniversary. Send a note!
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CfA: IEG Mainz Writing-up Doctoral Fellowships in European History between 6 and 12 months, Deadline for Applications 15 February 2026
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IEG Fellowships for Doctoral Students
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December 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
CfA: IEG Mainz Writing-up Doctoral Fellowships in European History between 6 and 12 months, Deadline for Applications 15 February 2026
bewerbung.ieg-mainz.de/jobposting/a...
bewerbung.ieg-mainz.de/jobposting/a...
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📢 We are hiring! Tenure-track position in environmental history with a focus on long-term socio-ecological research. Exciting opportunity for post-docs working at the interface of environmental history & sustainability sciences. Deadline Jan 6, please spread far and wide! boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
boku.ac.at
November 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
📢 We are hiring! Tenure-track position in environmental history with a focus on long-term socio-ecological research. Exciting opportunity for post-docs working at the interface of environmental history & sustainability sciences. Deadline Jan 6, please spread far and wide! boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...
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Über Jahrzehnte bemalten Frauen Schweizer Uhren mit radioaktiver Farbe und opferten so ihre Gesundheit. Warum schritt die Politik nicht ein? Die drei letzten Teile unserer Podcast-Serie «Halbwertszeit».
Podcast-Serie «Halbwertszeit»: Die Leuchtfarbe
Wie die Uhrenindustrie trotz Kritik lange auf radioaktive Farbe setzte. Teil 3.
www.republik.ch
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Über Jahrzehnte bemalten Frauen Schweizer Uhren mit radioaktiver Farbe und opferten so ihre Gesundheit. Warum schritt die Politik nicht ein? Die drei letzten Teile unserer Podcast-Serie «Halbwertszeit».
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the most anticipated book of 2026:
bravo @ueberdruss.bsky.social !!
www.versobooks.com/products/334...
bravo @ueberdruss.bsky.social !!
www.versobooks.com/products/334...
Working Nature
Working Nature offers a history of the energy economy and its representations over the 19th and 20th century.Russ argues that “Energy” is not a thing nor an ability, but a social relation to nature fo...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
the most anticipated book of 2026:
bravo @ueberdruss.bsky.social !!
www.versobooks.com/products/334...
bravo @ueberdruss.bsky.social !!
www.versobooks.com/products/334...
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Heft 4/2024 #JahrbücherJGO ist erschienen! Special Issue zum Thema Resources in Use: Visions and Practices in Late Imperial Russia and the Early Soviet Union. Gastherausgeber:innen sind @corinnegeering.bsky.social, @immorebitschek.bsky.social, Timm Schönfelder.
biblioscout.net/journal/jgo/...
biblioscout.net/journal/jgo/...
September 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Heft 4/2024 #JahrbücherJGO ist erschienen! Special Issue zum Thema Resources in Use: Visions and Practices in Late Imperial Russia and the Early Soviet Union. Gastherausgeber:innen sind @corinnegeering.bsky.social, @immorebitschek.bsky.social, Timm Schönfelder.
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biblioscout.net/journal/jgo/...
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It has been a great pleasure to review the volume on Integration and Collaborative Imperialism edited by @mtoiv.bsky.social and @boscha.bsky.social for @hsozkult.bsky.social. Looking forward to continue the discussion on European Integration in an imperial context! www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...
Rezension zu: B. C. Schär u.a. (Hrsg.): Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe
Rezension zu / Review of: Schär, Bernhard C.; Toivanen, Mikko: Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe. At the Margins of Empire, 1800–1950
www.hsozkult.de
July 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
It has been a great pleasure to review the volume on Integration and Collaborative Imperialism edited by @mtoiv.bsky.social and @boscha.bsky.social for @hsozkult.bsky.social. Looking forward to continue the discussion on European Integration in an imperial context! www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...
The room is packed for the panel "Transatlantic Exchange and Imperialism" at the Central European History Convention #ceh-c in Vienna @univie.ac.at
July 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The room is packed for the panel "Transatlantic Exchange and Imperialism" at the Central European History Convention #ceh-c in Vienna @univie.ac.at
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CFP: Rohstoffe, Handel und koloniale Verflechtungen in der Regionalgeschichte, ca. 1800-1950
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156413
Feldkirch, 24.09.2026-25.09.2026, Wirtschaftsarchiv Vorarlberg; Universität Innsbruck, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.09.2025
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156413
Feldkirch, 24.09.2026-25.09.2026, Wirtschaftsarchiv Vorarlberg; Universität Innsbruck, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.09.2025
www.hsozkult.de
July 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
CFP: Rohstoffe, Handel und koloniale Verflechtungen in der Regionalgeschichte, ca. 1800-1950
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156413
Feldkirch, 24.09.2026-25.09.2026, Wirtschaftsarchiv Vorarlberg; Universität Innsbruck, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.09.2025
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156413
Feldkirch, 24.09.2026-25.09.2026, Wirtschaftsarchiv Vorarlberg; Universität Innsbruck, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.09.2025
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We are inviting abstracts for Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea workshop in November. We look for papers that help us confront and rethink the concept of imperialism in the context of the North Sea's extractive
history. You can read more on our website here: www.uis.no/en/research/...
history. You can read more on our website here: www.uis.no/en/research/...
Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea
We are a research collective that aims to shed light on the imperial logics embedded in extractive activities in the North Sea and to develop a comprehensive research agenda for rethinking extractive ...
www.uis.no
June 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We are inviting abstracts for Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea workshop in November. We look for papers that help us confront and rethink the concept of imperialism in the context of the North Sea's extractive
history. You can read more on our website here: www.uis.no/en/research/...
history. You can read more on our website here: www.uis.no/en/research/...
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The full program for this year's Central European History Convention (CEH-C) July 17-19 is online!: ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us... The overview: ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us... With 2 keynotes, 54 panels, a roundtable, poster sessions, + a research lab, there's something to interest everyone!
ceh-c.univie.ac.at
June 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The full program for this year's Central European History Convention (CEH-C) July 17-19 is online!: ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us... The overview: ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us... With 2 keynotes, 54 panels, a roundtable, poster sessions, + a research lab, there's something to interest everyone!
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It's finally here! Our edited volume is out with @mitpress!
And it could not be more timely! As the heatwave and water shortages across Europe are severely affecting nuclear power plants, the nuclear-water nexus is more important than ever
Read all about it here mitpress.mit.edu/978026255228...
And it could not be more timely! As the heatwave and water shortages across Europe are severely affecting nuclear power plants, the nuclear-water nexus is more important than ever
Read all about it here mitpress.mit.edu/978026255228...
The Nuclear-Water Nexus
Splitting atoms is a water-intensive business. To operate efficiently and safely, a standard nuclear reactor needs around 50 cubic meters (13,000 gallons) of...
mitpress.mit.edu
July 1, 2025 at 9:11 AM
It's finally here! Our edited volume is out with @mitpress!
And it could not be more timely! As the heatwave and water shortages across Europe are severely affecting nuclear power plants, the nuclear-water nexus is more important than ever
Read all about it here mitpress.mit.edu/978026255228...
And it could not be more timely! As the heatwave and water shortages across Europe are severely affecting nuclear power plants, the nuclear-water nexus is more important than ever
Read all about it here mitpress.mit.edu/978026255228...
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The oil and uranium industries always have been intertwined.
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte published my new article on the shared history of uranium and oil geophysics in German, French and Canadian seemingly depleted boreholes. You can read the article (Open Access) here:
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte published my new article on the shared history of uranium and oil geophysics in German, French and Canadian seemingly depleted boreholes. You can read the article (Open Access) here:
Transition in Residues: On Depleted Oil Wells, Radioactive Geophysics, and the Origins of the Twentieth Century's Energy Mix
The oil and uranium industries always have been intertwined. Both industries are inherently global and span an extensive geological history. The formation of uranium and oil deposits, and their event...
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June 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The oil and uranium industries always have been intertwined.
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte published my new article on the shared history of uranium and oil geophysics in German, French and Canadian seemingly depleted boreholes. You can read the article (Open Access) here:
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte published my new article on the shared history of uranium and oil geophysics in German, French and Canadian seemingly depleted boreholes. You can read the article (Open Access) here:
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Rare good news delivered from the US, although personal. It's printed and will be available from 1 July
ugapress.org/book/9780820...
ugapress.org/book/9780820...
June 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Rare good news delivered from the US, although personal. It's printed and will be available from 1 July
ugapress.org/book/9780820...
ugapress.org/book/9780820...
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We're putting on a conference! "We" being me, @odinnmelsted.bsky.social & @michielbron.bsky.social as part of the Managing Scarcity project.
Workshop on Alternative Energy Histories
Dates: October 20-21, 2025
Location: Maastricht University
Abstracts due: April 4, 2025
managingscarcity.com/waeh/
Workshop on Alternative Energy Histories
Dates: October 20-21, 2025
Location: Maastricht University
Abstracts due: April 4, 2025
managingscarcity.com/waeh/
WAEH
Call for Papers Workshop on Alternative Energy Histories (WAEH): Scenarios and Transitions Organizers: Michiel Bron, Odinn Melsted, Cyrus Mody (Maastricht University) Venue: Maastricht University D…
managingscarcity.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
We're putting on a conference! "We" being me, @odinnmelsted.bsky.social & @michielbron.bsky.social as part of the Managing Scarcity project.
Workshop on Alternative Energy Histories
Dates: October 20-21, 2025
Location: Maastricht University
Abstracts due: April 4, 2025
managingscarcity.com/waeh/
Workshop on Alternative Energy Histories
Dates: October 20-21, 2025
Location: Maastricht University
Abstracts due: April 4, 2025
managingscarcity.com/waeh/
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Join us on 6 Feb at the @nlireland.bsky.social for the launch of our exhibition RePEAT: Reimagining Ireland's Peatlands in Precarious Times. It is the outcome of a project using early 19th-century maps & recent geospatial data to assess land-use change over the past 200y 👇
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
Ireland’s Boglands Through Culture and Science
RePeat and ReViewing Ireland at the National Library of Ireland
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January 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Join us on 6 Feb at the @nlireland.bsky.social for the launch of our exhibition RePEAT: Reimagining Ireland's Peatlands in Precarious Times. It is the outcome of a project using early 19th-century maps & recent geospatial data to assess land-use change over the past 200y 👇
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
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Very happy to see this #specialissue on #oilhist and #envhist out in the world: stm.cairn.info/journal-of-e....
With great articles by @renaudbecot.bsky.social, Reynaldo de los Reyes Patiño, @mattinbiglari.bsky.social, Randal L. Hall, Jelena Stanković, @michielbron.bsky.social, and Robert Lifset.
With great articles by @renaudbecot.bsky.social, Reynaldo de los Reyes Patiño, @mattinbiglari.bsky.social, Randal L. Hall, Jelena Stanković, @michielbron.bsky.social, and Robert Lifset.
Journal of Energy History 2024/1 (No 12)
Black and Green? Environmental Histories of the Oil Industry
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February 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Very happy to see this #specialissue on #oilhist and #envhist out in the world: stm.cairn.info/journal-of-e....
With great articles by @renaudbecot.bsky.social, Reynaldo de los Reyes Patiño, @mattinbiglari.bsky.social, Randal L. Hall, Jelena Stanković, @michielbron.bsky.social, and Robert Lifset.
With great articles by @renaudbecot.bsky.social, Reynaldo de los Reyes Patiño, @mattinbiglari.bsky.social, Randal L. Hall, Jelena Stanković, @michielbron.bsky.social, and Robert Lifset.
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Monuments and Territory is now available in open access on JStor: www.jstor.org/stable/10.78...
January 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Monuments and Territory is now available in open access on JStor: www.jstor.org/stable/10.78...
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What a buzz to see my essay, on Finnish colonial adventure fiction from a century ago, in print! And not in some boring academic journal but in the country's oldest and finest culture magazine, Nuori Voima.
December 19, 2024 at 12:19 PM
What a buzz to see my essay, on Finnish colonial adventure fiction from a century ago, in print! And not in some boring academic journal but in the country's oldest and finest culture magazine, Nuori Voima.
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We have launched our new Energy Lives! project! A great team led by @melinabuns.bsky.social will explore how people have lived with energy transitions in the Nordic countries over the past 150 years. #envhist #envhum #energyhistory
New international research project on energy transitions
New international research project to explore energy transitions in the Nordic region over the past 150 years. The project was awarded funding from NordForsk’s 'Green Transition' call and runs from Oc...
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November 27, 2024 at 6:48 PM
We have launched our new Energy Lives! project! A great team led by @melinabuns.bsky.social will explore how people have lived with energy transitions in the Nordic countries over the past 150 years. #envhist #envhum #energyhistory
The first book from our junior research group "Contrasting East Central Europe" at #GWZO is out! 🎉 Hana Antal's comparative study of populism in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Austria link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Populismus in Ostmitteleuropa
Das Buch vergleicht die Populismen in der Slowakei, Tschechien und Österreich anhand der Diskurse über Flüchtlings- und Eurokrise, Ausländer, Minderheiten.
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December 13, 2024 at 12:19 PM
The first book from our junior research group "Contrasting East Central Europe" at #GWZO is out! 🎉 Hana Antal's comparative study of populism in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Austria link.springer.com/book/10.1007...