Insect Pests and Economic Entomology, c. 1870-1930s: A Multispecies History of Global Capitalism
The spread of hazardous chemicals, such as pesticides like DDT, has been the topic of much re-search in recent decades. Yet the scientific formation of economic entomology – the branch of study of insects interrelated with profit-oriented land management – since the late nineteenth century remains unexplored.
About the Speaker
Tomás Bartoletti earned his PhD from the University of Buenos Aires. He read Latin American Literature and Linguistics at the University of Buenos Aires and History of Science and Technology at the University of Quilmes (Argentina). Between 2019 and 2021, Tomás was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich. He has been Researcher in the Gotha Research Centre (2019), the University of Erfurt (2017-2018) and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2014-2016). He has published articles in journals, like Comparative Studies in Society and History, Global Intellectual History, and HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. An exhibition coming out of his research, Naming Natures, is planned to take place in 2024.
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