Events for 30 December 2024 - 30 December 2024

Organizers:Erik van der Vleuten and Harry Lintsen (TUE) Friday January 14th 2022 Zoom Meeting Abstract: Industrial societies are constituted by a broad range of socio-technical systems fulfilling functions such as the provision of energy, food, mobility, housing, healthcare, finance and communications. The Deep Transitions (DT) framework outlines a series of propositions on how the 250-year

Organizers: Jan Pieter Smits, Frank Veraart and Harry Lintsen (Eindhoven University of Technology and CBS) Friday 11 March 2022, 13:00 – 14:30 Via Zoom Abstract The main question of this seminar is: Deep Transition theory is focused on dynamics but not on impact on sustainability/well-being; how do we gain knowledge on quality of life in

Organizers: Johan Schot (Centre for Global Challenges, Utrecht University) and Sjoerd Bakker (Dasym) 13:00 – 14:30 Location: Zoom Abstract The final seminar in the series Deep Transitions in the Netherlands focuses on transformative investing. The financial world plays an important role in transforming human societies. But how can public and private investors best be mobilized

On Wednesday April 6, we kick off a short series of online discussion seminar series on Global Matters III: Non-Eurocentric Histories and Futures of Technology and Sustainability. The series will run from April to June 2022, leading up to our stringed sessions at the 10th Tensions of Europe Conference in Aarhus. Animesh Chatterjee (TU Darmstadt),

One-day conference and launch of the Deep Transitions Netherlands Research Program: Date: Friday 20 May 2022   THE DEEP TRANSITIONS NETHERLANDS PROJECT In the Deep Transitions in the Netherlands Project, the Eindhoven History Lab collaborates with researchers from Utrecht and Wageningen Universities to analyze the sociotechnical development of the Netherlands from a long-term perspective, and

On 17-18 JUNE 2022 Gewina, the Belgian-Dutch Society for the History of Science and Universities, will hold its 9th biannual meeting in the Woudschoten Hotel & Conference Centre (Zeist). The theme of this year’s conference is: Contested Expertise: Trust in Science and Technology. EHL's Erik van der Vleuten is invited as a keynoter. This two-day

The 10th Tensions of Europe Conference will have as its main theme the history of interactions between technology, environment and resources. It aims at exploring connections of factors such as scientific exploration, technology development, resource exploitation and use, resource markets and environmental change by investigating both scientific and technological practices as well as imaginations, representations

On 19 October, Ginevra Sanvitale will defend her PhD thesis Technopolitical Resonance: Emotions, computers and socialism in Cold War Italy (1965-1990). See the TU/e page (incl. a link to the thesis) here.

Empire, Globalization, and Technological Change SHOT Annual Meeting New Orleans 10-13 November 2022 https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2022-shot-annual-meeting-7-13-november-new-orleans-louisiana/

Technology and Material Culture in African History: Challenges and Potentials for Research and Teaching An international conference, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, January 4 – 8, 2023 Call for Papers and Roundtables The conference seeks to consolidate and foster the further development of history of technology and material culture in Africa. By gathering scholars from Tanzania

The Foundation SHT & the Eindhoven History lab organize the second workshop on Global sustainability pasts/ presents/ futures at 19 January 2023. Program: TBA