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).
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
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.
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
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:
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.
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
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)