Events for 14 November 2024 - 14 November 2024

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

From chicken fiat to chicken nuggets. Notes on gender, technology and poultry processing in 20th century Italy (1920s-1990s) Research Seminar – Eindhoven History Lab (Atlas 9320) June 8th 2023, 10:45-12:00   10:45-10:50 Introduction. Erik van der Vleuten, Eindhoven History Lab   10:50-11:10 From chicken fiat to chicken nuggets. Notes on gender, technology and poultry processing

ICOHTEC's 50th Conference will be organized in Estonia at August 14-18, 2023 Topic: INTERDEPENDENCIES. FROM LOCAL MICROSTORIES TO GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY Call for Papers (deadline for submissions is 15th January 2023) More information: Please check the ICOHTEC site

The 12th Biennial European Society for Environmental History Conference (Bern, August 22-26, 2023) will have as its conference theme: Mountains and Plains: Past, present and future environmental and climatic entanglements Conference website: https://www.eseh2023.unibe.ch/conference/

EHV's Erik van der Vleuten will present the opening keynote. Conference program link

This year, our SHOT secretariat will again co-organize the annual meeting of the Society for the History Of Technology. CfP: For the 2023 Annual Meeting, the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) will convene at the historic meeting place of land, sea, wetlands, and built worlds that is Long Beach, California. Shaped by histories

The 10th Gewina’s Woudschoten conference will be organized 21-22 June 2024 from Rotterdam (medical history group from Erasmus MC and historians of the EUR). Conference theme: ‘Ecology & Economy: History of Knowledge during the Unequal Anthropocene’.

EHL and SHT will participate in and co-organize the joint annual conference of the Society for History of Technology SHOT and The International Committee for the History of Technology ICOHTEC in Viña del Mar (near Santiago de Chile) on July 8-14, 2024. This will the first time that either society meets on the South American

The 11th quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) takes place in the Netherlands. It is  is hosted by the Athena Institute at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), with witch the EHL collaborates e.g. in the Soy Stories project.  STS

From 19 to 23 August, the World Congress of Environmental History will be held at the University of Oulu. The conference theme is “Transitions, Transformations and Transdisciplinarity: Histories beyond History”, emphasizing both the arc of time and the importance of bringing diverse approaches to bear on contemporary problems. WCEH2024 will illuminate the value of historical understandings

On September 13 2024, Anique Hommels will accept the Foundation SHT special chair in "Sociohistorical Technology Studies with a focus on Urban Sustainable Sociotechnical Transformations" at the Faculteit der Cultuur- en Maatschappijwetenschappen (FASoS) of Maastricht University. The title of the lecture: “Transforming Cities in Times of Turmoil – Obduracy, Sustainability and Experimentation”.   Watch online     

CfP Conference website We live in a world of constant change. There are periods, however, of accelerated change in the political, economic, social or technological sphere. Usually, these spheres are closely interrelated and entangled. If this change is of fundamental character, scientists usually speak of ´transformations´. Common examples are the political and economic system changes,