Tomás Bartoletti

From cotton fields to global networks 🌱🐛 Join us next Thursday as we welcome Professor of History Tomás Bartoletti from @ethzurich for our first CLACS and STS Colloquium 🧬 
His presentation explores how the fight against insect pests in Latin America (1880–1940) reshaped agriculture, science, and economies worldwide. Centered on Peru and Brazil, it traces the rise of “economic entomology” and how pest control became key to modern plantation systems and the path toward the Green Revolution. 📍Thursday, April 9 @ 4pm in room 106 at 67 George St. For more information, check out the link in our bio!

“Insect Empires and Cotton Frontiers: Ecologies of Global Capitalism, 1900-1930s” Tomás Bartoletti, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. Senior Lecturer and SNSF-Ambizione Principal Investigator, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zürich. Commenter Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Faculty Associate. Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University. Chair Sven Beckert, Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. Laird Bell Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History Seminar, Harvard University November 17, 2025 03:45PM - 05:45PM America/New_York Location: Robinson Hall, Room 125 35 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 United States

Gracias 2025 por los horizontes, los ríos, los mares, los lugares, los encuentros y reencuentros, por los nuevos lenguajes, y los ritmos. Gracias por reencontrarme con NuestraAmérica, que se extiende del Pacífico, el Caribe y el Atlántico hasta la Polinesia. Thank you, 2025, for the horizons and the rivers, the seas and the places; for encounters and reunions, for new languages and rhythms. Thank you for bringing me back to NuestraAmerica, stretching from the Pacific, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic, all the way to Polynesia.

HISTORIES AND FUTURES OF THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT May 7, 2026 01:15PM - 05:15PM EDT Harvard University These panels bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to consider the past, present, and future of the “global environment.” The first panel will focus on histories of the environment in the shadow of climate change to discuss how we can meaningfully conceptualize climate’s role on history and history’s role in understanding climatic and planetary changes through different lenses. The second is on the question of capitalism. We hope to learn more about how markets and states interact with the environment, to what extent they are suitable vehicles for dealing with climate change or necessarily disruptive. Agenda: Opening Remarks — 1pm-1:15pm Marc Dorpema, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program, Harvard University Tomás Bartoletti, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History; Senior Lecturer and SNSF-Ambizione Principal Investigator, University of Zurich Panel 1. Histories: The Global Environment and the Shadow of Climate Change — 1:15pm-3pm Perrin Selcer, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan Leah Aronowsky, Assistant Professor of Climate, Columbia Climate School, Columbia University) Xan Chako, Assistant Teaching Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Brown University Moderator: Tomás Bartoletti (ETH Zürich/Harvard University) Coffee Break — 3pm-3:30pm Panel 2. Futures: Capitalism, States, and the Environment — 3:30pm-5:15pm Alyssa Battistoni, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Barnard College Stephen Macekura, Professor of International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington Boyd Ruamcharoen, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University Moderator: Marc Dorpema (Harvard University)

🌱 The Amazon: A Planetary Forest The Amazon is more than a global ecosystem — it is a living network of relationships. From Indigenous knowledge to soil science, join Swissnex for an evening conversation exploring the forest beyond data and metrics, as a space of encounter, co-creation, and planetary significance. 📍 Swissnex | Cambridge, MA 🗓 April 30, 2026 ⏰ 6:00–8:15 PM 🍷 Reception to follow 🔗 RVSP with the link in bio. Part of our Planetary Embassy series. #PlanetaryEmbassy #Amazon #Climate

Tomorrow! Join me at Brown (CLACS & STS Colloquium) for my talk on insects & capitalism: “Weevils and Bollworms in Latin America: Cotton Empires and the Ecologies of Global Capitalism, c. 1880–1940”

More than Capitalism: Ecologies of Extraction and Production Conference held at ETH Zurich from 2 – 4 of July Organised by: Dr. Tomás Bartoletti, ETH Zurich, Senior Lecturer and SNSF-Ambizione Fellow This conference is generously funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation through the Ambizione project «Insect Pests and Economic Entomology in Plantations, c. 1870–1930s: A Multispecies History of Global Capitalism», led by Dr. Tomás Bartoletti and supported by the Professorship for the History of the Modern World in the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland. design @_a_language_

@namingnatures guided tour today for Research Professor Hanna B. Hölling‘s (@hanidom @hkb_bfh ) think tank and reading group ‚Nature-Culture Lab‘ together with the curators @tomasbarto12 and @denisebertschi and two Peruvian artists @herrera_fernandez and our current artist resident @nereidaapazamamani in collaboration with @prohelvetia_southamerica and @cancentredartneuchatel 🙏🏼 - - - The Naming Natures exhibition can still be visited over the summer until August 17th 2025.

"Agricultural Modernities in Latin America: Historical Intersections". Excited to join this amazing group of colleagues from Latin America History—can’t wait for the gathering!