On February 1 2023, the Soy Stories project has formally started. We have assembled a great team! On February 1 we welcomed Nathaly Yumi da Silva as a new colleague at TU/e and Sjamme van de Voort at VU; Caroline Kreysel will start soon. More info will follow on our website (under construction).
Dick van Lente edited a new book: Prophets of Computing: Visions of Society Transformed by Computing When electronic digital computers first appeared after World War II, they appeared as a revolutionary force. Business management, the world of work, administrative life, the nation state, and soon enough everyday life were expected to change dramatically with these
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
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
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