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Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed)
Among Planters and Merchants. How the Tikal Lintels Became ‘Scientific Objects’, Dynamis (Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandum) 44, no. 2 (2024), 415-441.
Reviews
Bernhard C. Schär, and Mikko Toivanen: Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe. At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950, HSozKult, 18.07.25.
Miruna Achim, Susan Deans-Smith, and Sandra Rozental (eds.), Museum Matters. Making and Unmaking Mexico’s National Collections, 21 Inquiries into Art, History and the Visual 4, no. 2 (2023), 319-324.
Academic Blog Posts
A Round Trip? The Lintels 33 and 39 from Yaxchilán, 2023.
with Susann Liebich, Carlotta Kallenbach and Lara Horras: Mammoth Bones, Plant Robberies and Bird Skins from Mexico, 2025.
Talks
Disinterring the Mesoamerican Past. Nation-State Building, Archaeology and Agro-Entrepreneurs in Guatemala, 1860-1898, Workshop Inventing Traditions in a Dis:connected World. Self-Fashioning and Nation-Building in the Age of Empire 1860s-1960s, Käte Hamburger Kolleg München 05.-05.09.2025.
Planting Crops, Gathering Knowledge. Scientific Objects, Plantation Economies and Knowledge Production in Nineteenth-Century Guatemala, Cabinet of Natural History Seminar Cambridge 02.06.2025.
Working in the Field. How Commodity Frontiers, Corporate Strategies and Labour Regimes Shaped the Production of Scientific Objects in 19th and 20th Century Latin America, Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society in Mérida 07.-10.11.2024.
„Unsere Schweizerkolonie hat sich in letzter Zeit wieder vergrösser.“ Schweizer Auswanderer und der Ausbau der Kaffeeplantagenökonomie in Guatemala in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts, Jahrestagung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Fribourg 12.-13.09.2024.
Diaspora or Global Bourgeoisie. 'Scientific' Collections and (Trans-)National Networks among Planters in Nineteenth Century Guatemala, Workshop Linguistic and National Networks. The Role of Diasporas, Neuchâtel 13.-15.06.2024.
Planters as Collectors. The Role of Plantation Owners in Collecting, Interpreting, and Circulating Mayan Material Culture in Guatemala during the 19th Century, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in San Francisco 04.-07.01.2024.
Beyond Coffee Beans. Coffee Plantations and Collecting Practices in 19th Century Guatemala, Workshop Places of Encounter & Culture of Curiosity, Barcelona 13.-14.04.2023.
From the Temple Ceiling to the Museum Wall. How the Tikal Lintels became Ethnographic Objects, Workshop Things on the Move - Materiality of Objects in Global and Imperial Trajectories, 1700-1900, German Historical Institute London 08.-10.09.2022.
Newspaper
Von Zürich bis Guatemala: Eine Schweizer Kolonialgeschichte, Das Lamm, 20.09.2023.

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