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
You can register as attendee for the 2020 digital congress of the International Committee for the History of Technology ICOHTEC: A History of Technology for an Age of Crisis From June 26 onward you can only register as attendee. Attendees can attend all sessions, they have access to the program and the abstracts, but they
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