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Riverlandscapes: A New Glossary

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:00:00 GMT

14.04.2026: Panel Discussion "Global Warming - an Economic Approach"

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:00:00 GMT

19.03.2026: Podium discussion "Die Zukunft der Vergangenheitsbewältigung in der Schweiz”

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Engaging Plants: A New Understanding of Action, Interaction, and Agency

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:00:00 GMT

New publication by Dr. Atiya Hussain

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Debjani Bhattacharyya wins an ERC Consolidator for her project Fair-Weather Finance: Historical Antecedents of Climate Risk Management.

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Prof. Dr. Debjani Bhattacharyya is on Research Sabbatical

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 23:00:00 GMT

SNSF Project Grant for Debjani Bhattacharyya

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:16:53 GMT

New Journal Anthropocene History with Duke University Press launched

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:22:49 GMT

Debjani Bhattacharyya at FocusTerra, ETH

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:49:34 GMT

Forms of Mixing: Contemporary History and Sociocultural Anthropology

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:55:55 GMT

Debjani Bhattacharyya elected the Vice President for the European Society for Environmental History (2025-2027)

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:58:58 GMT

Debjani Bhattacharyya's research featured in the Ocean World Conference film

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:22:00 GMT

Debjani Bhattacharyya published Afterword: The deep conquest of land by property.

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:20:24 GMT

Camile Schneiter presented the paper "Neue „Spezies“ im Anthropozän: Die Unsichtbarkeit von Neobiota in der Schweiz"

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:18:38 GMT

Michele Sollai received the SNF Ambizione Fellowship for his project “Droughtscapes of Empire: Food Production and the Techno-Politics of Dryland Adaptation, 1890s-1940s, which he will undertake in University of Basel.

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:16:59 GMT

Camille Schneiter published an article in Historische Anthropologie. Kultur, Gesellschaft, Alltag

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 07:28:43 GMT

Dr. Michele Sollai’s published an article in the Journal of Global History

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 07:48:03 GMT

Debjani Bhattacharyya's interview about India under Modi in WOZ

Wed, 21 May 2025 22:00:00 GMT

Debjani Bhattacharyya published an article on the changing monsoon system and its impact on inequality in India

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:00:00 GMT

Editorial Board Member, Environmental History (University of Chicago Press)

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:07:44 GMT

Law and Political Economy in South Asia

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:06:25 GMT

Moira Pinkus presents her work at University of Geneva

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:04:06 GMT

Dr. Michele Sollai joins the SNSF project “Organised Business and Environmental Governance in Western Europe, 1945-1995

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:00:00 GMT

Yale University, New Haven on commodification of monsoon

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Columbia University, New York on commodification of monsoon

Sun, 09 Feb 2025 23:00:00 GMT

CSAS Lecture Series on risk and cyclone science at University of Michigan

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Debjani Bhattacharyya will be speaking at the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne on Nov. 26, 2024 at 20 hours

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Debjani Bhattacharyya will be speaking at the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne on Nov. 26, 2024 at 20 hours at the event The Time for Denial is over- Decolonial Ecology organized by Group 50:50.https://vidy.ch/en/event/the-time-for-denial-is-over/

New Open Access Publication: "Papering over Muddy Histories: Imperial Logics of Space in the Anthropocene."

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 23:00:00 GMT

New Open Access Publication: Debjani Bhattacharyya, "Papering over Muddy Histories: Imperial Logics of Space in the Anthropocene." In Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds, edited by Antoinette Burton , Renisa Mawani and Samantha Frost , 199–213. Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350454231.ch-8

Capitalism Studies Network at Australian National University in Canberra

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 13:04:22 GMT

Debjani Bhattacharyya became an affiliated scholar of the Capitalism Studies Network at Australian National University in Canberra

https://csn.anu.edu.au/people

Colonial heritage and its significance today

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 10:58:20 GMT

Debjani Bhattacharyya will be talking about "Colonial heritage and its significance today," at the History Talk at the Landesmuseum (05.11.2024, 18:30-20:00, Auditorium Willy G. S. Hirzel, Museumstrasse 2, 8021 Zürich)

https://www.landesmuseum.ch/de/veranstaltung/colonial-heritage-and-its-significance-today-28681. To see her contribution to the exhibition "Colonial: Switzerland's Global Entanglements" at the Swiss National Museum you can visit this page: https://www.landesmuseum.ch/kolonial-experteninterviews

"Governing the Ocean: From Imperial Commerce to Blue Economies"

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 11:13:24 GMT

Prof. Debjani Bhattacharyya gave a keynote lecture on "Governing the Ocean: From Imperial Commerce to Blue Economies” at the Ocean Worlds conference in Bremen University.

http://naturenkulturen.de/26-9-2024-prof-debjani-bhattacharyya-universitaet-zurich-prof-jennifer-telasca-radboud-university-governing-the-ocean-from-imperial-commerce-to-blue-economies/

UZH Semester Prize for Moira Pinkus

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 11:11:04 GMT

Moira Pinkus received the UZH Semester Prize for FS 2024 for her MA thesis «In a Climate of Hope and Worry: myclimate and the ‚Kyoto Decade‘ in Switzerland, 1998-2013» which she wrote with Prof. Bhattacharyya. Hearty congratulations for her success.

Workshop „Species on the Move. Historical Perspectives on Invasive Species“

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:54:17 GMT

Debjani Bhattacharyya joins the Editorial Collective of the Book Series InterConnectons: The Global 20th Century, by UNC Press.

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:41:53 GMT

New Publication by Debjani Bhattacharyya

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 22:00:00 GMT

Debjani Bhattacharyya published "Edges: Thinking Environments with Ports." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 1 May 2024; 44 (1): 164–166. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-11141447

There are hot spots of wrecks in places I did not expect

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:13:32 GMT

Read more about Debjani Bhattacharyya's digital history project on Historical Climatology in the Indian Ocean “There are hot spots of wrecks in places I did not expect”

Camille Schneiter - Published Paper

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 09:13:57 GMT

Debjani Bhattacharyya won a Senior Fellowship to Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften der Kunstuniversität Linz in Wien (IFK) for 2024-25

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 09:14:28 GMT

Debjani Bhattacharyya has been elected to the steering committee for the Center of Competence for Sustainable Finance

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 09:23:49 GMT

Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 11:59:15 GMT

Book Talk with Prof. Kasia Paprocki & Prof. Nikhil Anand

Jointly hosted with the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies at ETH Zurich, as part of their LUS Talks series.

31 October, 2023, 18:45, Hochparterre Bücher, Schöneggstrasse 27

Natur. Und wir?

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 11:59:15 GMT

Ein Buch über die entscheidende Frage unserer Zeit

NZZ Libro

Zum Geburtstag viel Recht

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 11:59:15 GMT

Die Schweizer Bundesverfassung wird 175 Jahre alt. Zu ihrem Geburtstag präsentiert das Schweizerische Nationalmuseum eine Ausstellung über den Wert von Grundrechten. Begleitend dazu reflektieren neun Beiträge in diesem Buch, wann, wie und warum sich ausgewählte Grundrechte durchsetzen konnten.

Sandstein Verlag

Climate Justice. Public Lecture Series - Spring 2023

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 23:00:00 GMT

Talk: Monsoon: Histories and Future

Prof. Debjani Bhattacharyya — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 23:00:00 GMT

Talk: Monsoon: Histories and Future, Smithsonian, Washington DC, December 9, 2022

Master Thesis Mini Conference

Silvia Rodríguez — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 23:00:00 GMT

Talk: Logistics of Turbulence: Climate History from the Indian Ocean

Prof. Debjani Bhattacharyya — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 23:00:00 GMT

Talk: Logistics of Turbulence: Climate History from the Indian Ocean, University of Innsbruck, Austria. December 5, 2022

Decolonising Elephants: Animals, Capital and the End of Empire in Myanmar Jonathan Saha, Durham University

Silvia Rodríguez — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 23:00:00 GMT

Talk: Climate Ledgers: Atmospheric Politics, Risk and Liability in the Indian Ocean, 1770-1850

Prof. Debjani Bhattacharyya — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 23:00:00 GMT

Talk: Climate Ledgers: Atmospheric Politics, Risk and Liability in the Indian Ocean, 1770-1850, Sciences Po, Center for History, Paris, November 25, 2022

Talk: Climate Ledgers: Atmospheric Politics, Risk and Liability in the Indian Ocean, 1770-1850

Prof. Debjani Bhattacharyya — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 23:00:00 GMT

Talk: Climate Ledgers: Atmospheric Politics, Risk and Liability in the Indian Ocean, 1770-1850, Center for South Asian Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, Nov. 18, 2022