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David Pretel
@davidpretel.bsky.social
Historian @cchscsic.bsky.social, author, dad
visiting fellow @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social‬
PI ERC Consolidator Grant WILDHIST https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101171213
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on.ft.com/45cJxz9 It’s time to retire the word ‘technology’
It’s time to retire the word ‘technology’
The word spans too much and clarifies too little
on.ft.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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New special issue of OSIRIS: "Animal Mobilities" 🐫🐠🐛

The volume was edited by MPIWG Research Scholars Tamar Novick, @lisaonaga.bsky.social, and Gabriel N. Rosenberg of the working groups "Out of Place, Out of Time" and "Proteins and Fibers."

🔗 bit.ly/amv4025

#HistSci #EnvHist #STS #Zoology
June 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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A bit more than a month to go until our meeting in Madrid: please do not forget to register for your in-person/online attendance on eventbrite (especially if you are the author or presenter)!
ISHTIP 16th Annual Workshop 2025: Intellectual Property and Capitalism
International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property - 16th Annual Workshop. UAM University (Madrid) June 25-26, 2025
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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🎉 Exciting news! Thrilled to share that David Pretel, an economic historian from our Department @UAM, has been awarded a €2 million ERC Consolidator Grant for his project "Wild Rubber in the Industrial Age".
Congratulations, David - what an incredible achievement! 🌟 #ResearchExcellence
December 3, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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🟢David Pretel, profesor de Historia Económica en la #UAM, obtiene una prestigiosa ‘ERC Consolidator Grant’ de dos millones de euros para su proyecto ‘Wild Rubber in the Industrial Age: A Global History of Production, 1820s-1940s’. ¡Enhorabuena!

s.mtrbio.com/cnuqjnjvui

#OrgulloUAM #SomosUAM
December 3, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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ICHST (International Congress History of Science and Technology) program. 29 Jun 2025--5 July 2025)
New deadline: 11:59 PM Wednesday 15 December (AOE)
SUBMIT YOUR STAND-ALONE PAPER
www.ichst2025.org/call-for-sta...
SUBMIT YOUR SYMPOSIA ABSTRACT
www.ichst2025.org/approved-sym...
Call for stand-alone papers
www.ichst2025.org
December 3, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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The International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property is pleased to share its

Call for Paper for its 16th Annual Workshop in Madrid,
25-26 June 2025.

The 2025 theme is
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND CAPITALISM.

Please see ishtip.org for more detail
ISHTIP.org – International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property
ishtip.org
November 11, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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🥁 The next conference of the ESHS (European Society for the History of Science) will be in Barcelona from 4 to 7 September 2024, #ESHS2024. Call for for Proposals in the Conference website, open until November 22 ⤵️ eventum.upf.edu/94068/detail...
October 3, 2023 at 7:17 AM
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Second day of the "National historiographies of techiques" conference(tph.hypotheses.org/1244), at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. Great keynote by David Pretel on "Tropical Forest Commodities in the Industrial Age: A Global History of Production."#histtech #globalhistory
September 29, 2023 at 10:05 AM
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Please share this CFP from @historyrocio.bsky.social and myself for a new (virtual) seminar series hosted between VCU and UNLV, called El Laboratorio on history of STEM in LATAM

April 2024

Info in link

networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
CFP: El Laboratorio: Seminar for the History of Latin American Science, Technology, Engineering, and...
El Laboratorio: Seminar for the History of Latin American  Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine April 11-12, 2024
networks.h-net.org
October 12, 2023 at 10:10 PM