In this working lunch\, Lasse Heerten will present his recent ly finished manuscript. Zooming into the port of Hamburg\, the book develo ps a locally-focused planetary history for the Anthropocene to flesh out t he port city’s significance for the histories of empires\, of transimper ial entanglements\, of capitalism\, of labour relations and (im)mobilities in the age of steam.
\nLasse Heerten is currently the interim professor for modern history at the University of Heidelberg in the winter semester 2025/2026. He is an historian specialising in moder n and global history\, with research interests in imperial\, transimperial and (post-)colonial entanglements\, the history of port cities\, humanita rianism and human rights. In July of 2025 he submitted his habilitation th esis “Water and Stone: Hamburg\, its Port\, and the River Elbe in the Ag e of Global Empires" at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
\nPlease regis ter by sending an email to paul.blickle@unibas.ch
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260311T140000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2744@europa.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260221T203933 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260312T090000 SUMMARY:Workshop with Lasse Heerten (Heidelberg): "Writing Histories of Com modity Capitalism in the Anthropocene" DESCRIPTION:Commodity histories have proven to be particularly productive t o develop fresh perspectives on the global history of capitalism. While sc holars in this field have repeatedly reflected on their subject’s enviro nmental dimension\, recent interdisciplinary discussions about the Anthrop ocene raise the question whether new models need to be developed to avoid replicating the “logic of frictionless production” (Dara Orenstein) in herent in dominant imaginaries of global capitalism. In this workshop\, we will probe whether the thinking of the anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsi ng\, the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Félix Guattari could help historians in this endeavour.\\r\\nLasse Heerten [https://www.h ist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/dr-lasse-heerten?utm_source=chatgpt.com] is curre ntly the interim professor for modern history at the University of Heidelb erg in the winter semester 2025/2026. He is an historian specialising in m odern and global history\, with research interests in imperial\, transimpe rial and (post-)colonial entanglements\, the history of port cities\, huma nitarianism and human rights. In July of 2025 he submitted his habilitatio n thesis “Water and Stone: Hamburg\, its Port\, and the River Elbe in th e Age of Global Empires" at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.\\r\\nPlease regi ster by sending an email to paul.blickle@unibas.ch X-ALT-DESC:Commodity histories have proven to be particularly productive to develop fresh perspectives on the global history of capitalism. While scholars in this field have repeatedly reflected on their subject’s envi ronmental dimension\, recent interdisciplinary discussions about the Anthr opocene raise the question whether new models need to be developed to avoi d replicating the “logic of frictionless production” (Dara Orenstein) inherent in dominant imaginaries of global capitalism. In this workshop\, we will probe whether the thinking of the anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt T sing\, the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Félix Guattar i could help historians in this endeavour.
\nLasse Hee rten is currently the interim professor for modern history at the Univ ersity of Heidelberg in the winter semester 2025/2026. He is an historian specialising in modern and global history\, with research interests in imp erial\, transimperial and (post-)colonial entanglements\, the history of p ort cities\, humanitarianism and human rights. In July of 2025 he submitte d his habilitation thesis “Water and Stone: Hamburg\, its Port\, and the River Elbe in the Age of Global Empires" at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
\nPlease register by sending an email to paul.blickle@unibas.c h
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260312T123000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2745@europa.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260206T113105 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260316T161500 SUMMARY:Public Lecture with Erika Rappaport (UC Santa Barbara): “´Aims o f Industry´: Big Sugar\, Public Relations and the Fight for Free Enterpri se in Decolonizing Imperial Britain” DESCRIPTION:Opening Event SNSF Consolidator Project “The Battle of Materi als: Commodity "Research and Propaganda" and the Road Towards Immoderate C onsumption\, 1900 – 1980” of Moritz von Brescius. X-ALT-DESC:Opening Event SNSF Consolidator Project “The Battle of Materia ls: Commodity "Research and Propaganda" and the Road Towards Immoderate Co nsumption\, 1900 – 1980” of Moritz von Brescius. END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR