Read the latest research and book reviews in Technology and Culture! We are proud to present the next issue of Technology and Culture, the leading journal in the history of technology; it draws on scholarship in diverse disciplines to publish insightful pieces intended for general readers as well as specialists. April 2023, Volume 64, No. 2
Erik van der Vleuten received the best teacher award in the category 'BSc program Sustainable Innovation', and Frank Veraart received an honorful nomination in the category '1st year courses of the BSc program Sustainable Innovation'. The annual award ceremony was again organised by the student association INTERMATE of the TU/e School of Innovation Sciences. The
Ginevra Sanvitale's thesis Technopolitical Resonance: Emotions, computers and socialism in Cold War Italy (1965-1990), defended cum laude at TU/e in October 2022, is a co-winner of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology/ Division of History of Science and Technology dissertation prize. The thesis has also been nominated as best TU/e
As of 1 April 2023, Anique Hommels is appointed as Professor of Sociohistorical Technology Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University. She will hold a Special Chair, offered by the Foundation of the History of Technology (Stichting Historie der Techniek, SHT). SHT is a non-profit organization that studies societal transitions in
This new book by our EHL affiliate researcher and former colleague Hans Schippers will be out soon!
Our Technology & Culture publishing team now published issue 64.1! Congrats team :) Read the latest research and book reviews in Technology and Culture! January 2023, Volume 64, No. 1 On The Cover On the Cover: Reading Ordinary Photographs | Scott Kushner Research Articles Controlling Crowds: On the Technological Management of Entertainment Audiences |
On February 1 2023, the Soy Stories project has formally started. We have assembled a great team! On February 1 we welcomed Nathaly Yumi da Silva as a new colleague at TU/e and Sjamme van de Voort at VU; Caroline Kreysel will start soon. More info will follow on our website (under construction).
The Foundation SHT, which also acts as the secretariat of the Society for the History of technology SHOT, was again instrumental in making the Annual Meeting (in New Orleans this time) a success. Special thanks to Jan, Sonja, Jeroen and Henk! Empire, Globalization, and Technological Change SHOT Annual Meeting 2022 New Orleans, 10-13 November
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.
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