Now available: Historical Atlas of Eindhoven
Co-authored by Giel van Hooff, the Historical Atlas of Eindhoven. From a small market town to the center of the Brainport Region was published in February 2021. It is available in Dutch and in English.
Now hiring: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) position (application deadline: 31 March 2021)
Eindhoven University of Technology's School of Innovation Sciences is now hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor to research and teach long-term, historical perspectives on sustainability transitions, e.g. socio-technical energy transitions and/or mobility transitions. Candidates preferably have an affinity with the history of technology & socio-technical change and the booming field of sustainability transition studies. Deadline for
Call for proposals: Tensions of Europe Digital Workshop Festival
The ToE network is planning 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. The organization will be bottom-up; if you would like to plan, or are already planning, relevant international ToE-related events around that time, please consider connecting them to
BOOK: Chernobyl And Its Afterlives In Britain And France
The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was an event of obviously transnational significance—not only in the airborne particulates it deposited across the Northern hemisphere, but in the political and social repercussions it set off well beyond the Soviet bloc. Focusing on the cases of Great Britain and France, this innovative study explores the
Mila Davids wins best teacher award
At the School of Innovation Sciences/ Intermate Best Teacher Award event on January 5 2021, EHL's Mila Davids was awarded the best teacher award for the master program Innovation Sciences 2019-2020, with particular reference to her course on Global Connections. Congrats Mila! In addition, EHL's Erik van der Vleuten and Frank Veraart received nice words
BOOK CHAPTER Europe and Chernobyl
Europe and Chernobyl: Contested Localisations of the Accident’s Environmental, Political, Social and Cultural Impact In C. Wenkel, E. Bussière, A. Grisoni, & H. Miard-Delacroix (editors), The Environment and the European Public Sphere: Perceptions, Actors, Policies (blz. 54-69). White Horse Press. Namen van auteurs Was Chernobyl an accident in a
ARTICLE Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research
Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research Energy Research & Social Science 70 (2020): 1-35 Benjamin K. Sovacool, David J. Hess, … Erik van der Vleuten (+ 15) The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced and developed a “sociotechnical” perspective that has been
The energy transition at the KNHG 2020 Congress
On November 19, EHL staff Frank Veraart (speaker), Erik van der Vleuten (session chair) and Henk-Jan Dekker (session moderator assistance) participated in the energy transition session of this year's annual congress of the Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap KNHG . The conference theme was "Meer dan menselijk verleden. Historici, Eco-geschiedenis, en Environmental humanities." Read more about
Workshop: resources & infrastructure in the postcolonial Anthropocene
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)
Soundscapes of Fear at Dutch Design Week
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.