Last Thursday 16 September 2021, EHL's Erik van der Vleuten had the honor of presenting the first lecture in the new Lipkens Lecture series at TU Delft. The series addresses science and technology in historical perspective, and is organized by TUD Studium Generale and the Heritage Team of the TUD Library. The series is named
The academic year 2021-22 has started. In Q1 this includes a new master-level course (in fact a completely redesigned course) offered by EHL: Modern Societies in Transition: Introduction to Historical Transition Studies. Currently 36 students participate. Short description for students (text adapted from the CANVAS course homepage): In 0EM130 you study sustainable innovation and socio-technical
Mila Davids (2021): Local meets global: resilience in Dutch and Taiwanesehigh-tech regions, Business History, DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2021.1944111To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.194411
Henk-Jan Dekker, "An accident of history? How mopeds boosted Dutch cycling infrastructure (1950–1970)", The Journal of Transport History(2021) https://doi.org/10.1177/00225266211011935
We are very proud to announce that Gijs Mom (formerly EHL professor, now retired) has won the 2021 Book prize of the World History Association for his book Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900 – 1980 (Berghahn Books) The World History Association Book Prize was created in 1999 to recognize outstanding
In April 2021, the program Towards a Sustainable Economy and Society: the Second Deep Transition in the Netherlands received seed money funding from the SEED Alliance program. The program is a collaboration of research groups at Utrecht University, Wageningen University & Research, and Eindhoven University of Technology. For the TU/e History Lab, Harry Lintsen, Frank
Together with colleagues from India, Brazil and Amsterdam, we organized the 2nd online workshop on Transnational histories of resources in the postcolonial Anthropocene on May 6. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss the introduction and papers of our special journal issue on this topic. The workshop is part of the NWO GREASE program.
Annual highlight of the teaching season: The teaching of this year's version of USE (User-Society-Enterprise) basic: Ethics and history of technology has started in April and lasts throughout Q4. The course is mandatory for all 1st year TU/e Bachelor College students--over 1800 this year. For History Lab staff, this is the most intensive education period
Renown historian of technology Eda Kranakis (University of Ottawa, Canada) published an elaborate and favorable review essay of our Making Europe book series, analyzing these in the context of (1) the approach to large collaborative programs developed in, and coordinated from, Eindhoven and (2) the genre of multi-volume flagship publications in the field of History
Co-authored by Giel van Hooff, the Historical Atlas of Eindhoven. From a small market town to the center of the Brainport Region was published in February 2021. It is available in Dutch and in English.