Events for 20 September 2024 - 20 September 2024

This workshop is a follow-up to our 2019 workshop Resources, Infrastructures and the Anthropocene: global North-South dialogues", in the context of our Global Sustainability history project. An international author team will meet to discuss draft versions for a special journal issue on the postcolonial Anthropocene. Organizers: Evelien de Hoop (VU Amsterdam), Aarthi Sridhar (Dakshin Foundation/

In close collaboration with the Environmental Humanities Center at the VU University Amsterdam, KNHG is organizing a digital conference entitled ‘More than Human Past: Historians, Eco-history and Environmental Humanities.’ Our researchers Erik van der Vleuten and Frank Veraart make a contribution on this event. Read more in Dutch

The ToE network plans 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. To the conference page Join A Unique Series of Online Events from the 28th of June to the 2nd of July 2021: The ToE network plans a digital

Workshop on teaching environmental, societal, and ethical dimensions of technological change. Deadline for submissions: March, 31th, 2021 Organisation: Rafaela Hillerbrand / Marcus Popplow (Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis & Institute for Technology Futures, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Anna Antonova / Hanna Straß-Senol (Environmental Humanities Development, Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich) Karena Kalmbach /

EHL's Erik van der Vleuten will deliver the first lecture in the new Lipkens Lecture cycle at TU Delft. Maurits Ertsen (TUD) will act as  commentator. For more information please consult the TU Delft Studium Generale website.

In an effort to fight climate change, many cities try to boost their cycling levels. They often look towards the Dutch for guidance. However, historians have only begun to uncover how and why the Netherlands became the premier cycling country of the world. Why were Dutch cyclists so successful in their fight for a place

Johan Schot (Utrecht University) & Harry Lintsen (Eindhoven University of Technology) 8th October 2021 13.00-14.30 We are excited to announce that the first in a series of six seminars on the Deep Transitions Netherlands project will take place on 8 October, organized within the framework of the Strategic Alliance between Utrecht University, TU Eindhoven and

Bram Bouwens (UU) & Frank Veraart (TUe) November 5th 2021 13.00-14.30   After the first successful Deep Transitions Netherlands Project Seminar  we are looking forward to continue discussing the Deep Transitions project in the Netherlands with you. The seminar series facilitate the development of a research program on deep transitions in the past and in the future. The seminars are meant to inform, to discuss and to get your feedback

DUE TO THE DUTCH COVID SITUATION, WE WILL MOVE THIS WORKSHOP ONLINE On Monday 15 November 2021, we will host a small workshop on the Global History of Technology and Sustainability. The workshops explores issues and challenges related to our new research project Global Sustainability: Past--Present--Future, and draws on the experiences of the Global History

DUE TO THE DUTCH COVID SITUATION, WE WILL MOVE THIS SYMPOSIUM ONLINE TU/e Symposium on Historical Transition Studies Location: Atlas 1.65 --> ONLINE   Sustainable innovation and transitions are deeply temporal phenomena. Innovation choices of one generation affect the needs of later ones. Sociotechnical transitions too are long-term processes that may take decades to unfold,

18-21 November 2021 the joint SHOT-HSS Annual Meeting will take place in New Orleans (Louisiana). Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting New Orleans, 19-21 N0vember 2021     Dear SHOT Members and contacts, The SHOT Program Committee is pleased to issue the Call for Papers and Sessions for the SHOT 2021 Annual Meeting,

Gaston Heimeriks and Johan Schot (Utrecht University) Friday 10 December 2021, 13:00 – 14:30 Link to 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