The Dutch scientific research funder NWO awarded two new projects in the Open Competition round. Both projects contribute to the broader program Global Sustainability: Past(s) Present(s) Future(s) that we have been developing over the past year together with our partners. The projects are: Sustainability trade-offs in the Netherlands’ entangled modernisation, 1900-2020. Frank Veraart, Jan-Pieter
Several EHL scholars contributed to this forthcoming book: It is impossible to understand societies without looking at their technological underpinnings. Technology constitutes the very fabric of societies' political, economic, cultural, and everyday realities. Building on recent historiography, this book offers the first overview of the global history of contemporary technology. Gathering more than fifty
On 17 and 18 June 2022, Gewina (the Belgian-Dutch Society for History of Science and Universities, founded 1913) organized its biennial annual conference at Woutschoten. EHL's Erik van de Vleuten was honorably invited to deliver the first keynote. PDF 2022-06 Gewina Conference keynote Call for papers
This Special Issue is a key publication of our Global Sustainability History project GREASE. It is inspired by a workshop we organized in Lisbon in 2019, which was designed as an engagement between specialists on histories of technology & the environment in various continents. EHL's Erik van der Vleuten co-edited the si and co-authored the
EHL's Jonas van der Straeten co-edited and contributed to this new special issue of Central Asian Survey, Volume 41, Issue 2 (2022). If this has caught your interest, you might want to take a look at the virtual exhibition Soviet Central Asia in 100 Objects that recently started and to which he also contributed. Technology,
Dick van Lente, our book review editor of technology & Culture, just published this article in a special issue of ICON on the history of AI and robots: Dick van Lente, 'Robots and Healthcare: The deep roots of a technological Fix', ICON 2022.1: 158-178
Brand, Christian, Henk-Jan Dekker, and Frauke Behrendt. 2022. “Cycling , Climate Change and Air Pollution.” In Advances in Transport Policy and Planning, edited by Eva Heinen and Thomas Götschi, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.atpp.2022.04.010 Abstract Cycling is considered a healthy and sustainable form of getting from A to B. The net effects of the various forms of
Our TC editorial team just released the ToC for the latest TC issue. Also note the Public History special section. In addition, several EHL staff contributed with a book review. ToC: April 2022, Volume 63, No. 2 Special Issue, Industry in Common: Thinking Globally with Modern Japan April 2022, Volume 63, No. 2 Special
Today our Quarter 4 course USEbase: Ethics and history of Technology started, which involves over 1800 students (all TUE freshmen) this year. We might be a bit slow answering emails... (read about our courses here)
EHL researchers will again contribute a number of chapters to the forthcoming Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland VOL. 2. 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. Our contributions to Wereldgeschiedenis