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BOOK CHAPTER Regional sustainability hi/stories: Crisis narratives from the Dutch soyacene

Soyacene hi-stories You can also find the Chapter and the Book online: Chapter: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv309h1fx.19?seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents Book: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv309h1fx Abstract: This chapter argues that a global environmental history of the Soyacene must not only study sustainability issues produced at sites of soy cultivation (notably in the Americas) and trade, but also those at sites of soy consumption. We

2023-01-05T15:00:34+01:00November 2nd, 2022|Global History, Publications, Resources, Sustainability, The resource challenge|
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Ginevra Sanvitale’s PhD thesis defended with Cum Laude

On Wednesday October 19, Ginevra Sanvitale defended her PhD thesis Technopolitical Resonance: Emotions, computers and socialism in Cold War Italy (1965-1990) with Cum Laude. The committee was highly impressed by the thesis's empirical, conceptual and methodological originality, its eloquence, and its (political) punch - and by the  informed and disciplined responses to the committee's questions.

2022-10-24T14:58:56+02:00October 24th, 2022|News|
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Nog meer Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland presented at IISG

Last Friday (14 October), the new volume Nog meer Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland (Amsterdam: Ambo Anthos, 2022) was presented at the International Institute of Social History IISG in Amsterdam. The volume will be available in Dutch bookstores from 20 October. This project, inspired by the Histoire mondiale de la France published in 2017, places Dutch history

2022-10-17T12:12:21+02:00October 17th, 2022|News|
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CHAPTERS: Nog meer wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland (Amsterdam: Ambo Anthos, 2022)

This project, inspired by the Histoire mondiale de la France published in 2017, seeks to place Dutch history in global perspective. EHL finds it important that the history of technology and sustainability is represented. EHL researchers contributed the following chapters: 1872: Nederlandse waterstaat naar Japan en China (Eric Berkers) 1924: Strijd om de plek van

2022-10-17T12:06:20+02:00October 17th, 2022|Global History, Publications|
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VACANCIES: PhD and Postdoc positions for SOY STORIES

Please find several job announcements for our new project SOY STORIES: Connected sustainability histories and futures of the global Soyacene, a collaboration of the History Lab (TU Eindhoven), Athena Institute (VU Amsterdam), and the Soy Observatory (UFFS Brazil): PhD POSITION: “SOY STORIES: Brazilian histories and futures of soy & (un)sustainability” (https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/phd-on-soy-stories-brazilian-histories-and-futures-of-soy-unsustainability-960035.html.) PHD POSITION: “SOY STORIES:

2022-10-24T15:31:57+02:00October 7th, 2022|News|
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Course in Historical Transition Studies started again

This week the new semester has started. For our M.Sc. program Innovation Sciences students, this includes a course on Modern Societies in Transition: An introduction to historical transition studies. Frank Veraart, Klara Strecker, Jonas van der Straeten and Erik van der Vleuten (responsible) participate as teachers.

2022-10-07T15:05:18+02:00September 7th, 2022|News|
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