Dr. Alexander van Wickeren

In Progress

With Jean Stubbs and William Clarence-Smith (eds.), Tobacco and Empire from a Global Perspective, 1780-1960 (working title).

Tobacco Cultivation, Agricultural Enlightenment and Modern State Building in the Napoleonic Empire (working title), in: Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva / Thomás A. S. Haddad / Kapil Raj (eds.), Knowing Empires: Construction and Circulation of Knowledge in a Global Imperial Age (1700-1914), London: Routledge.

Bourbonising the French Empire? Humboldt, Bonpland and the Global Commercialisation of Tobacco Cultivation in the Early 19th Century (working title), in: Jakob Vogel and Helge Wendt (eds.), Alexander von Humboldt – A Transatlantic Perspective. The Circulation of State Knowledge in the 18th and 19th Centuries.

2020

Wissensräume im Wandel. Eine Geschichte der deutsch-französischen Tabakforschung (1780-1870), Köln / Weimar / Wien: Böhlau 2020 (Peripherien. Beiträge zur Europäischen und Globalgeschichte).

Reviews

Denise Phillips, in: Central European History, 54 (2021) S. 704-705, URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938921001618

Helge Wendt, in: Historische Zeitschrift, 312 (2021) 3, S.809–811, URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/hzhz-2021-1188

Daniel Mollenhauer, in: sehepunkte 21 (2021), Nr. 4, URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2021/04/33974.html

Frank Jacob, in: H-Soz-Kult, 24.11.2020, URL: http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-29417

2020

The Transformation of an Ecological Policy. Acclimatization of Cuban Tobacco Varieties and Public Scandalization in the French Empire, c. 1860-1880, in: Brett Bennett and Ulrike Kirchberger (eds.), Environments of Empire. Networks and Agents of Ecological Change, Chapel Hill 2020, 19–38.

2019

Territorializing Atlantic Knowledge: The French State Tobacco Monopoly and the Globalization of the Havana Cigar around Mid-19th Century, in: Lothar Schilling and Jakob Vogel (eds.), Transnational Cultures of Expertise. Knowledge and the Rise of the Modern State, Berlin 2019, 181–191.

2015

With Pascal Schillings, Towards a Material and Spatial History of Knowledge Production. An Introduction, in: Pascal Schillings and Alexander van Wickeren (eds.), Spaces – Objects – Knowledge. An Integrative Perspective on Recent Turns in Historical Research, in: Historical Social Research, 40 (2015) 1, 203–218.

With Pascal Schillings (eds.), Spaces – Objects – Knowledge. An Integrative Perspective on Recent Turns in Historical Research, in: Historical Social Research, 40 (2015) 1.

2012

Die Zirkulation staatsrelevanten Wissens (savoir d’État) über den Tabakanbau in Baden und im Elsass um 1800, in: Christine Lebeau (ed.), Der Staat: Akteure, Praktiken, Wissen (16.–19. Jahrhundert), URL: https://www.perspectivia.net/publikationen/discussions/10-2015/van wickeren_zirkulation.

2022

Reform Movements and the Color Line: „Natural Life“ and Segregation in Colonial South Africa in the late 19th and early 20th Century, Workshop: Laboratories of the Social: Utopian Settlements and Reform Movements in the Long 19th Century, DHI Washington / Universität Konstanz, 27-28 January.

2021

Limits of Globalisation: Processing the Havana Cigar in the Second Half of the 19th Century / Workshop: The Raw and the Refined: Commodities, Processing and Power in Global Perspective, University of London, 2-3 September.

2020

Book presentation on Wissensräume im Wandel. Eine Geschichte der deutsch-französischen Tabakforschung, 1780-1870 / Forschungskolloquium Wissensgeschichte, Universität Konstanz, 17 December.

2019

Die Globalisierung des Oberrheins. Eine Wissensgeschichte des Tabakanbaus (1780-1870) / Arbeitsgemeinschaft für geschichtliche Landeskunde am Oberrhein, Karlsruhe, 18 October.

From the Spanish to the Napoleonic Empire? Alexander von Humboldt, Agricultural Enlightenment and Tobacco Cultivation around 1800 / Conference: Redes sociales y poder colonial en el Sistema Atlántico del Tabaco: Cultures polítiques I pràctiques colonials, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, 16-18 September.

2018

Imperial Markets and Agricultural Science: Global Imaginations, Tobacco Cultivation and Expert Cultures in the Upper Rhine Region around mid-19th Century / Conference: Imaginations and Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition, Universität Leipzig, 4-6 October.

Ignorance and Knowledge: Agronomic Tobacco Science and the Atlantic Space of Circulation around Mid-19th Century / Conference: European Society for the History of Science Biennial Conference 2018, London, 14-17 September.

2016

Kontinentalsperre, Tabakmonopol und Wissenszirkulation. Die Genese einer rheinischen Tabakforschung im frühen 19. Jahrhundert / Exhibition: „Der blaue Dunst. Zur Kulturgeschichte des Rauchens“, Landesmuseum Koblenz, 3 August.

Humboldt, Bonpland and Tobacco: Globalizing Knowledge on Agricultural Resources during the First Half of the 19th Century / Congress: Sciences, Savoirs et Politique. Alexander von Humboldt et Aimé Bonpland entre Europe et Amérique Latine, Sciences Po / IHEAL, Paris, 4-7 July.

2015

Cubanizing Tobacco Cultivation. Ecological and Interimperial Networks in the French State Tobacco Monopoly, ca. 1850-1870 / Conference: Ecological Networks and Transfers in Colonial Contexts, c. 1850-1920, Universität Kassel, 26-27 June.

2014

Cuba in Paraguay? The Changing Margins of Europe and French Interest in Tobacco Knowledge, 1820–1840 / Conference: Les Marges changeantes de l’Europe. Frontières et Démarcations d’un Continent du XVIIIe au XXe Siècle, SciencesPo / EHESS, Paris, 5-6 December.

2021

With Jean Stubbs and William Clarence-Smith, Rethinking Tobacco History: Commodities, Empire and Agency in Global Perspective, 1780-1960, Universität zu Köln / British Academy Research Project Commodities of Empire, 2-4 December 2021.

2017

With Camille Buat and Aude-Cécile Monnot, The Production of Imperial Space. Empire and Circulations (18th-20th Centuries), Sciences Po Paris / CIERA, Paris, 23-24 November.

2013

With Pascal Schillings, Die Dinge des Wissens und ihre Räume, 1750-2000. Europäische und außereuropäische Perspektiven, 19 October.

Since 2021 British Academy Research Project Commodities of Empire.

Since 2013 Graduate Network for Interdisciplinary European Studies.

Since 04/2022

Research Coordinator at the Faculty of Cultural Studies of the University of Applied Sciences

Since 09/2015

Lectureships at Sciences Po Nancy, Campus  européen franco-allemand

10/2017-04/2022

Research associate at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne at the University of Cologne

04/2013-11/2017

Doctorate in Modern History at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cologne and the École doctorale of the Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po

10/2006-05/2012

Magister Artium of German Studies (minor subject) and Philosophy (minor subject), as of summer semester 2007 also of Medieval and Modern History (major subject) at the University of Cologne