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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:

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.

The Dutch scientific research funder NWO awarded two new projects in the Open Competition round. Both projects contribute to the broader program  Global Sustainability: Past(s) Present(s) Future(s) that we have been developing over the past year together with our partners.   The projects are: Sustainability trade-offs in the Netherlands’ entangled modernisation, 1900-2020. Frank Veraart, Jan-Pieter

Several EHL scholars contributed to this forthcoming book:   It is impossible to understand societies without looking at their technological underpinnings. Technology constitutes the very fabric of societies' political, economic, cultural, and everyday realities. Building on recent historiography, this book offers the first overview of the global history of contemporary technology. Gathering more than fifty

On 17 and 18 June 2022, Gewina (the Belgian-Dutch Society for History of Science and Universities, founded 1913) organized its biennial annual conference at Woutschoten. EHL's Erik van de Vleuten was honorably invited to deliver the first keynote. PDF 2022-06 Gewina Conference keynote   Call for papers

Today our Quarter 4 course USEbase: Ethics and history of Technology started, which involves over 1800 students (all TUE freshmen) this year. We might be a bit slow answering emails... (read about our courses here)

EHL researchers will again contribute a number of chapters to the forthcoming Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland VOL. 2. 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. Our contributions to Wereldgeschiedenis

The EHL statement on police intervention during a UR demonstration on campus has been highly appreciated on campus--especially for making a general statement about the principle of a safe learning environment without making claims about the particulars of the event, which at the time were still contested and uncertain. For more information e.g. https://www.cursor.tue.nl/en/news/2022/april/week-1/tgd-and-ehl-concerned-about-police-actions-against-ur/ https://www.cursor.tue.nl/en/background/2022/april/week-1/all-eyes-on-climate-change/

Frank Veraart & the Deep Transitions in the Netherlands 1850-2050 project will present a poster at the 2022 Conference of the strategic alliance between Eindhoven University of Technology, Wageningen University & Research, Utrecht University and University Medical Centre Utrecht. This will take place on 19 April 2022 in Eindhoven. https://ewuu.nl/en/conference-2022/. The Deep Transitions project presents

On April 4, the IPCC published the final part of its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), which addresses the most up-to-date understanding of the climate system, impacts of climate change and climate change mitigation. Foundation SHT-advisor Prof.dr. Heleen de Coninck is lead author of the AR6 part on mitigation of climate change, and co-lead of the