BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2654@europa.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250506T085058 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250512T180000 SUMMARY:Book Launch: «Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World » by Prof. Dr. Corey Ross DESCRIPTION:In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries\, a handful of powerf ul European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet. These sprawling empires encompassed not only rainforests\, desert s\, and savannahs but also some of the world’s most magnificent rivers\, lakes\, marshes\, and seas. Liquid Empire tells the story of how the wate rs of the colonial world shaped the history of imperialism\, and how this imperial past still haunts us today.\\r\\nCorey Ross [t3://page?uid=1416] is Director of the Institute and Professor for European Global Studies. Hi s research on the socio-environmental history of Europe’s relations with the rest of the world builds on interdisciplinarity\, investigates the gl obal\, transimperial and transnational circulation of ideas\, goods and pe ople\, and aims to highlight perspectives that are relevant to major prese nt-day and future challenges.\\r\\nJulia Adeney Thomas [https://history.nd .edu/people/julia-adeney-thomas/] (University of Notre Dame) is spending p art of May as a guest professor at the Europainstitut. As an intellectual historian of Japan and a member of the Anthropocene Working Group\, Julia has a keen interest in combining intellectual history and environmental hi story as well as working across disciplines.\\r\\nThe book launch will be followed by a reception. X-ALT-DESC:

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries\, a handful of powe rful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of t he planet. These sprawling empires encompassed not only rainforests\, dese rts\, and savannahs but also some of the world’s most magnificent rivers \, lakes\, marshes\, and seas. Liquid Empire tells the story of h ow the waters of the colonial world shaped the history of imperialism\, an d how this imperial past still haunts us today.

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Corey Ross is Director of the Institute and Professor for E uropean Global Studies. His research on the socio-environmental history of Europe’s relations with the rest of the world builds on interdisciplina rity\, investigates the global\, transimperial and transnational circulati on of ideas\, goods and people\, and aims to highlight perspectives that a re relevant to major present-day and future challenges.

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Julia Ad eney Thomas (University of Notre Dame) is spending part of May as a gu est professor at the Europainstitut. As an intellectual historian of Japan and a member of the Anthropocene Working Group\, Julia has a keen interes t in combining intellectual history and environmental history as well as w orking across disciplines.

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The book launch will be followed by a r eception.

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