On 10 December 2021, Patrick Bek successfully defended his PhD thesis called No Bicycle, No Bus, No Job: The Making of Workers' Mobility in the Netherlands, 1920-1990 The dissertation is available in the TUE repository. Table of contents: Acknowledgements 5Figures 9Introduction 111 Responding to the Transport Mismatch, 1920-1940 352 Protesting Bus Regulations during the
On 9 December 2021 Kenneth Bertrams presented his inaugural lecture as Endowed Professor of History of Science and Technologyin the Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Maastricht University. The lecture was entitled: ‘From Scientific Patronage to Philanthocapitalism (and Back)' The professorship is an Endowed Chair by our Foundation for the History of Technology SHT. Jan
On 15 November 2021, we organized the first Global History of Sustainability and Technology (GHoST) exploratory workshop. Participants came from EHL, TU Darmstadt, VU Amsterdam, and TU Delft. The participants explored various dimensions of the new research program that we imagine. For more information contact Erik van der Vleuten.
We are proud to present the latest issue of Technology and Culture edited here in Eindhoven at TIS, with the latest research and book reviews! Technology and Culture is the leading journal in the history of technology, science, medicine and mathematics; it draws on scholarship in diverse disciplines to publish insightful pieces intended for general readers as well
On Friday 17 September, EHL's Ginevra Sanvitale and Klara Strecker presented their research in a grad student event at Amsterdam University with the prominent historian of technology John Krige. Later that Friday John gave a public lecture (link). The inspiring event was organized by Mario Daniels of the German Studies department.
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
Leon Vauterin is PhD candidate in the Technology, Innovation & Society group. He is working within the TOD-IS-RUR project, in which he tackles the issue of mobility justice. He also serves as the book review assistant for the journal of Technology and Culture. He graduated in 2018 with Master of Arts in German and Scandinavian
Gijs ten Berge is an external PhD candidate who graduated his master’s degree in History at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in 2015. He wrote his thesis on the role of collective memory in Serbia in the run-up to the Balkan war of the early 1990s. After graduating, he started working as a researcher, analyst and customer
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