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.
Eindhoven University of Technology's School of Innovation Sciences is now hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor to research and teach long-term, historical perspectives on sustainability transitions, e.g. socio-technical energy transitions and/or mobility transitions. Candidates preferably have an affinity with the history of technology & socio-technical change and the booming field of sustainability transition studies. Deadline for
The ToE network is planning a digital workshop Festival (28 June-2 July 2021), filling the gap caused by postponing the 10th biennial ToE conference to 6-8 July 2022. The organization will be bottom-up; if you would like to plan, or are already planning, relevant international ToE-related events around that time, please consider connecting them to
At the School of Innovation Sciences/ Intermate Best Teacher Award event on January 5 2021, EHL's Mila Davids was awarded the best teacher award for the master program Innovation Sciences 2019-2020, with particular reference to her course on Global Connections. Congrats Mila! In addition, EHL's Erik van der Vleuten and Frank Veraart received nice words
On November 19, EHL staff Frank Veraart (speaker), Erik van der Vleuten (session chair) and Henk-Jan Dekker (session moderator assistance) participated in the energy transition session of this year's annual congress of the Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap KNHG . The conference theme was "Meer dan menselijk verleden. Historici, Eco-geschiedenis, en Environmental humanities." Read more about
On November 10-13 we co-organized an online workshop on resources & infrastructure in the postcolonial Anthropocene. The workshop was a late evening event for participants from India, and a very early morning event for Latin American colleagues :) The workshop papers are to be published in a special journal issue. (see also call for papers)