ARTICLE Sustainability’s “Other”: Coming to Terms with the Electric Rickshaw in Bangladesh

van der Straeten, Jonas. 2022. Sustainability’s “Other”: Coming to Terms with the Electric Rickshaw in Bangladesh. Historical Social Research 47 (4): 139-167. doi: 10.12759/hsr.47.2022.42. Abstract: The transition from fossil fuel-powered to electric mobility is widely discussed as a trajectory towards more efficient, affordable, and sustainable transport infrastructure. Widely ignored in academia, this transition has occurred

beh33r2022-12-23T13:44:49+01:00December 23rd, 2022|Energie, Global History, Mobility, Publications, Sustainability|

Annual Meeting SHOT in New Orleans

The Foundation SHT, which also acts as the secretariat of the Society for the History of technology SHOT, was again instrumental in making the Annual Meeting (in New Orleans this time) a success. Special thanks to Jan, Sonja, Jeroen and Henk! Empire, Globalization, and Technological Change SHOT Annual Meeting 2022 New Orleans, 10-13 November

beh33r2022-11-23T20:50:52+01:00November 23rd, 2022|News|

BOOK CHAPTER Regional sustainability hi/stories: Crisis narratives from the Dutch soyacene

Soyacene hi-stories You can also find the Chapter and the Book online: Chapter: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv309h1fx.19?seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents Book: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv309h1fx Abstract: This chapter argues that a global environmental history of the Soyacene must not only study sustainability issues produced at sites of soy cultivation (notably in the Americas) and trade, but also those at sites of soy consumption. We

Erik van der Vleuten2023-01-05T15:00:34+01:00November 2nd, 2022|Global History, Publications, Resources, Sustainability, The resource challenge|

Ginevra Sanvitale’s PhD thesis defended with Cum Laude

On Wednesday October 19, Ginevra Sanvitale defended her PhD thesis Technopolitical Resonance: Emotions, computers and socialism in Cold War Italy (1965-1990) with Cum Laude. The committee was highly impressed by the thesis's empirical, conceptual and methodological originality, its eloquence, and its (political) punch - and by the informed and disciplined responses to the committee's questions.

Erik van der Vleuten2022-10-24T14:58:56+02:00October 24th, 2022|News|

12th Biennial European Society for Environmental History Conference (August 22-26, 2023)

The 12th Biennial European Society for Environmental History Conference (Bern, August 22-26, 2023) will have as its conference theme: Mountains and Plains: Past, present and future environmental and climatic entanglements

Erik van der Vleuten2022-10-17T12:47:04+02:00October 17th, 2022|Events|

Nog meer Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland presented at IISG

Last Friday (14 October), the new volume Nog meer Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland (Amsterdam: Ambo Anthos, 2022) was presented at the International Institute of Social History IISG in Amsterdam. The volume will be available in Dutch bookstores from 20 October. This project, inspired by the Histoire mondiale de la France published in 2017, places Dutch history

Erik van der Vleuten2022-10-17T12:12:21+02:00October 17th, 2022|News|

BOOK: Technopolitical Resonance: Emotions, computers and socialism in Cold War Italy (1965-1990)

By Ginevra Sanvitale Link: https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/technopolitical-resonance-emotions-computers-and-socialism-in-col

Erik van der Vleuten2022-10-17T11:55:31+02:00October 17th, 2022|Publications|

CHAPTERS: Nog meer wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland (Amsterdam: Ambo Anthos, 2022)

This project, inspired by the Histoire mondiale de la France published in 2017, seeks to place Dutch history in global perspective. EHL finds it important that the history of technology and sustainability is represented. EHL researchers contributed the following chapters: 1872: Nederlandse waterstaat naar Japan en China (Eric Berkers) 1924: Strijd om de plek van

Erik van der Vleuten2022-10-17T12:06:20+02:00October 17th, 2022|Global History, Publications|

VACANCIES: PhD and Postdoc positions for SOY STORIES

Please find several job announcements for our new project SOY STORIES: Connected sustainability histories and futures of the global Soyacene, a collaboration of the History Lab (TU Eindhoven), Athena Institute (VU Amsterdam), and the Soy Observatory (UFFS Brazil): PhD POSITION: “SOY STORIES: Brazilian histories and futures of soy & (un)sustainability” (https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/phd-on-soy-stories-brazilian-histories-and-futures-of-soy-unsustainability-960035.html.) PHD POSITION: “SOY STORIES:

Erik van der Vleuten2022-10-24T15:31:57+02:00October 7th, 2022|News|

Course in Historical Transition Studies started again

This week the new semester has started. For our M.Sc. program Innovation Sciences students, this includes a course on Modern Societies in Transition: An introduction to historical transition studies. Frank Veraart, Klara Strecker, Jonas van der Straeten and Erik van der Vleuten (responsible) participate as teachers.

Erik van der Vleuten2022-10-07T15:05:18+02:00September 7th, 2022|News|

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