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Lucas Mueller
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MIT PhD '19 | Science Studies #histSTM History Geography | Department of Geography & Environment #UNIGE | @youngacademy_ch | Environment ❄️ Experts 👩‍🔬 Political Economy | More at https://avalanche.hypotheses.org/
Tonight!
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
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 16, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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L’approche néo-schumpeterienne de Philippe Aghion a largement inspiré les politiques économiques en Europe depuis le tournant des années 2000. Et singulièrement celle d’Emmanuel Macron 1/
🏆 Le prix Nobel d'économie a été décerné à l'Américano-Israélien Joel Mokyr, au Français Philippe Aghion et au Canadien Peter Howitt pour leurs travaux sur l'impact des nouvelles technologies sur la croissance économique.
October 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
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October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
If you want to hear more about avalanches (and avalanche dogs 🐶 ), you have three opportunities in three languages across Switzerland this:

21/10, Chur, "Lawinen und soziale Ordnung. Graubünden als Labor des Umgangs mit Naturgefahren, 1867–1972," historia-gr.ch/veranstaltun...
October 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
We have two great talks coming up in the Geneva Environmental Lecture series this term.

22/10 – David S. Jones (Harvard): "Particulate Matters: How PM2.5 Became a Cause of Death, and a Matter of Concern," 17h15, E712, Bd. Carl-Vogt 66
October 6, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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1/12 - In our book, The Mask, we show 58 striking images.

Remember those depictions of plague doctors wearing a beaked mask? Such visual elements were common in the 17th C and were always satirical.

Here is one by F. Bertelli, from Il Carnevale Italiano…1642 (The Met, NY).

tinyurl.com/uvzjs9py
August 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Switzerland will vote in late November on a popular initiative to impose a 50% tax on inheritance and donations above 50 million. The initiative, lanced by the JUSO, proposes to use the funds for socially just measures for climate protection. zukunft-initiative.ch/fr/
IPA
Les ultra-riches détruisent notre avenir avec leurs jets privés, leurs super-yachts et leurs investissements de plusieurs milliards nuisibles au climat. En quelques heures, elles et ils sont…
zukunft-initiative.ch
August 13, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Submit your proposal for a presentation at HSSuisse25 in Lucerne (5 December) till 15 August! Going into its 6th year, this workshop serves as an informal, respectful, and constructive environment to present new and old projects and think through them together. More on hssuisse.ch/meetings/202...
HSSUISSE - History of Science Switzerland
hssuisse.ch
August 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Our book is out! The surprising history of masks worn by plague doctors, factory workers, trench soldier, hospital nurses, and the rest of us.

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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July 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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More information about the conference's content and program:
July 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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"The Mask" by @brunostrasser.bsky.social and #thomasschlich is out today. I have listened to talks and seen some papers and cannot wait to read this.
June 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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We look forward to seeing the conversations that come out of this exciting forum!
June 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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The rest of the research articles in the issue are part of a special forum on the planetary age Lucas Mueller (@lumu.bsky.social‬) and Simone M. Müller compiled a great set of articles and wrote the introduction, which is available in open access academic.oup.com/dh/article/4...
Visions of the One Planet: The Planetary Age in International and Environmental History
“We know that you don’t have the power to stop a transaction, but for goodness’ sake, we are all on the same planet.”- Congressional Representative John Co
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June 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Our Forum "Visions of the Planet" is now published in Diplomatic History (49.3) - and you can find all articles in one place: academic.oup.com/dh/issue/49/3
Volume 49 Issue 3 | Diplomatic History | Oxford Academic
The official journal of Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Examines issues relating to U.S. diplomacy, foreign relations, and security issues from the colonial period to the present...
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June 19, 2025 at 7:57 AM
New day, new archive. Let's see how the Swiss planners thought about avalanches and other natural dangers - and what they did about it.
June 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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The doctoral summer school of conflict in the history of capitalism continues today with a keynote by Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social.
Full program: www.unige.ch/sciences-soc...
June 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Tonight! Join for Mark Carey's talk about icebergs - not icons of climate change but a problem for commerce!
Save the date for the next talk in the "Geneva Environmental Lecture" series! On 8 May, Mark Carey (Oregon) will speak on the very mundane history of icebergs 🧊 More on avalanche.hypotheses.org/gel
May 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Our introduction, w/ @smueller.bsky.social, about the planetary age in environmental and international history is online! Check out the Forum articles by Perrin Selcer, Andrea Westermann, Liesbeth van de Grift &
@smacekura.bsky.social Let's begin the debate about the visions of the one planet 🌍
Visions of the One Planet: The Planetary Age in International and Environmental History
“We know that you don’t have the power to stop a transaction, but for goodness’ sake, we are all on the same planet.”- Congressional Representative John Co
academic.oup.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Can activists change businesses? In this special issue, an inspiring group of colleagues explores attempts to do so, and discuss the opportunities and limitations these historical cases bring to the fore.

Thanks to all of them, and to @sabinepitteloud.bsky.social for the great teamwork!
April 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Save the date for the next talk in the "Geneva Environmental Lecture" series! On 8 May, Mark Carey (Oregon) will speak on the very mundane history of icebergs 🧊 More on avalanche.hypotheses.org/gel
April 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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"Labour has nothing to say about the forces shaping our economy and society."

Listen to @davidedgerton.bsky.social on the New Economics podcast with @graceblakeley.bsky.social and Ayeisha Thomas-Smith
February 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Andrew Barry (UCL) will speak on "Chemical Government" at the University of Geneva on April 1 at 17h00! Looking forward to seeing you at this next Geneva Environmental Lecture! More on the lecture series and my project at avalanche.hypotheses.org/gel
February 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The first article of the Diplomatic History Forum "Visions of the One Planet" that smueller.bsky.social and I edited is online! Andrea Westermann offers an Earth-attuned - new materialist - perspective to write the history of our one planet. Watch out for more: academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...
Entirely New and Very Old Water: Elemental Shifts in the Atacama Mining Desert’s Relations with the Pacific, the Andes, and Chile
The study of international history and environmental history have converged in the past fifteen years because this intersection of topics has seemed worth
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February 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM