I am excited to announce a new fellowship that has been awarded to me by the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies:

https://www.monticello.org/research-education/for-scholars/international-center-for-jefferson-studies/

This fellowship will allow me to carry out specific research for my book project on:

Jefferson, Territorial Expansion, and the Pursuit of Science in the American Southwest (1776-1826)

Lecture given in the context of a conference titled

The Monroe Doctrine: History, Interpretations, Legacy

taking place 30 Nov-2 December 2023

at the Goethe University in Frankfurt a. M., Germany

organized by the Justus Liebig Universität Giessen, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Asser Institute (December 2023).

Invited lecture funded by the German General Consulate in Houston and organized by the House of Germany in New Orleans, USA

27 November 2023.

Paper Presentation at the Annual Conference of the History of Science Society (HSS),

titled Shifting Standards, Creating Change, taking place in Portland, Oregon, USA

9-11 November 2023

Paper given at the Western History Association 63rd Annual Conference,

Titled: Restorations and Repairs: Lives and Landscapes across many Wests,

taken place in Los Angeles, USA, from 26-29 October 2023.

a new article was published in Science&Diplomacy, AAA Center for Science Diplomacy,

Online journal: https://www.sciencediplomacy.org/perspective/2023/pursuit-knowledge-in-world-politics-alexander-von-humboldt-early-advocate-science

October 2023

the Asociación Alexander von Humboldt de España has published the presentations given at the Humboldt Kolleg in León, Spain in September 2022.

El papel de la universidad en la sociedad rural. Documentos Humboldt 19, 2023, pp. 247-288.

the new book chapter has been published in:

Vera Parham (ed.), The American West in World History”, special issue of World History Connected, vol. 20, no. 2 (Summer 2023): 1-23.

Invited lecture at the German School in Rome, Italy

16 June 2023

presentation at the 75th NAFSA Annual Conference & Expo, Washington DC, at the European Commission booth on 1 June 2023.

Fellow’s presentation

at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California San Diego, USA

18 May 2023.

I am happy to receive a research award by the Charles Redd Center for the American West. This award allows me to undertake several research trips in the frame of my book project on “Jefferson, Territorial Expansion, and the Pursuit of Science in the American Southwest (1776-1826)”

Invited presentation at the Fifth West Coast Germanists Workshop,

taking place at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada from 29-30 April 2023.

Lecture and discussion with students of the Deutsche Schule (German School) in Madrid, Spain

David Ringrose Symposium for Iberian History

Saturday, January 28, 2023

10:00 am

University of California, San Diego

Virtual Lecture

Organised by the German Embassy in Madrid and the German General Consulate in Barcelona, Spain

5pm local time

Registration: https://forms.gle/5y1Do1abUs4BJcF19

More information: Wiss-100@madri-auswaertiges-amt.de

BFREE STUDIO

7857 Girard Ave, La Jolla, CA 92037

Please RSVP here:

https://www.bfreestudio.net/events/86/

The Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt is prominently featured across the California landscape: Humboldt Bay, Humboldt County. Humboldt Redwoods State Park, and elsewhere. Yet despite his desire to do so. Humboldt never visited California or the region now known as the American West. Nonetheless. California attracted Humboldt's attention as the northern edge of the Spanish Empire and as the western border of the nascent American empire in the nineteenth century. His fascination with the region and his scientific significance help to explain all these cartographic references.

Dr. Sandra Rebok will offer scholarly perspective on Humboldt's abiding and long-term interest in California, as well as California's interest in the famous Prussian.

Lecture organised by the German Embassy in Madrid, Spain

Time and place to be anounced

XXIX Encuentro Humboldt (Humboldt Kolleg)

Asociación Alexander von Humboldt de España

"El papel de la Universidad en el mundo rural" 

Universidad de León (Spain)

 9 September 2022

Ciclo TRANSFER (ciclo de conferencias divulgativas)

Centro de Servicios Universitarios de Avilés

C. la Ferrería, 7, 9, 33402 Avilés, Spain

El amanecer terrestre

A podcast on Gran Historia (Big History), organised by the University of Oviedo, Spain.

Episodio 28. Alejandro de Humboldt en la Gran historia, con Sandra Rebok.

https://www.ivoox.com/episodio-28-alejandro-humboldt-gran-audios-mp3_rf_88095551_1.html

F2022 French Colonial Historical Society Annual Meeting Charleston

Goethe Institute Chicago

Lecture sponsored by the German General Consulate and the Spanish Consulate in Chicago

Lecture at the German American Heritage Center & Museum in Davenport, Iowa.

Even over two centuries after Alexander von

Humboldt’s celebrated American expedition

(1799-1804), the Prussian naturalist, historian

and humanist is well remembered on both sides

of the Atlantic. While some praise him as the

father of environmentalism, others question his

contribution to the sciences. While some take

him as a colonial explorer, others heroize him

as the ideological leader of the Independence

movement in Spanish America.

Conference:

SOCIETY FOR GERMAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

46TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM

“German Americans in Multicultural Societies”

April 21–23, 2022

University of Iowa, Iowa City

Conference at the Max Kade Institut Madison:

Nineteenth-Century Echoes:

German Settlers and Explorers in South America

APRIL 18–20, 2022

Pyle Center Auditorium, 702 Langdon Street, Madison

Numerous German naturalists undertook exploration voyages through South America during the 19th century, in different regions and fields of knowledge. While for some of them it was rather a brief visit to a limited area, others decided to stay for many years carrying out their research and collaborating with the local scholarly community. This paper will give a brief overview on the work of those naturalists and then focus on three of them: the Prussian Alexander von Humboldtand his American expedition (1799-1804), the botanist Eduard Otto and his voyage to Cuba, Venezuela and the United States (1848-1841) and the physician Fritz Müller who emigrated in 1852 to the German community of Blumenau, Santa Catarina, and did his fieldwork over four decades mostly in solitude, but in close collaboration through correspondence with the international scholarly community.