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International Conference on Global Histories of Capitalism and the Environment
From 2 to 4 June, SNSF professor Moritz von Brescius organised an international conference at the Institute for European Global Studies that explored the intersection of the history of global capitalism and environmental history.
Bringing together scholars from multiple continents, thematic specialisations, authorial positions, archives and languages, the conference created a truly global conversation on global history. The conference also celebrated the numerous achievements of the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard University, where several of the presenters had worked as fellows over the past 13 years.
Moritz von Brescius is a global historian of Europe and Asia from the late eighteenth century to the present, focusing on resource and environmental history, economic history, and science and empire studies in global and comparative perspective. He has received an SNSF Consolidator Grant for the project “The Battle of Materials: Commodity ‘Research and Propaganda’ and the Road to Immoderate Consumption, 1900–1980.”