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)
Karena Kalmbach was part of the online Dutch Design Week round table / live performance of the art project “Soundscapes of Fear” at the Temporary Art Centre in Eindhoven. Due to the Corona measures, the event was livestreamed on Youtube: SEE HERE. Don’t miss out on this year’s virtual version of the Dutch Design Week.
In July the EHL organized the first online ICOHTEC annual conference due to Covid, which attracted roughly 140 participants despite the limitations of the digital format. After the conference, the ICOHTEC General Assembly evaluated the event. There was overwhelming praise for the technical workings and scientific quality of the conference, and for the EHL team's
Erik van der Vleuten's contribution to the Material Civilization section of the online EHNE Digital Encyclopedia of European History was recently published here. Read more about this ambitious bi-lingual project (published in French and English) here. Excerpt: The ‘European blackout’ of Saturday evening, 4 November 2006 was remarkable. In Northern Germany, close to the
Interesting reading for the upcoming ICOHTEC 2020 conference on Technology & Crises: Earlier this year, Technology & Culture published a Forum on ‘History and Technology in an Age of Grand Challenges.’ (Technology and Culture Volume 61, Number 1, January 2020, pp.260-332) Short description and ToC: In 2016 we formed a number of transnational working groups
This publication is an outcome of the transnational research group Technology, Environment and Resources in the Tensions of Europe research program Technology and Societal Challenges 1800-2050, as well as the Eindhoven History Lab program on Global Sustainability History. The special issue was co-edited by Frank Veraart and contains an article by History Lab researchers Frank
Welcome to the new website of the Eindhoven History Lab. The site is published just before the start of the ICOHTEC2020 conference, the first digital conference in the field of history of technology (and hosted by the Eindhoven History Lab). Content will be added gradually in the coming months. The website has been designed by