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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|

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|

Two new research projects awarded by NWO

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

2022-07-19T15:48:32+02:00July 19th, 2022|News|

Forthcoming book: Global History of Techniques

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

2022-07-18T13:12:03+02:00July 18th, 2022|News|

EHL contributions to Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland 2

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

2022-07-19T15:54:47+02:00April 19th, 2022|News|

History Lab statement on police intervention during UR demonstration widely appreciated

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/

2022-05-27T18:04:58+02:00April 19th, 2022|News|

Poster for the TUE-UU-UMC-WUR Alliance Conference

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

2022-04-18T17:19:49+02:00April 18th, 2022|News|

Heleen de Coninck presents the latest IPCC findings

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

2022-04-11T11:01:27+02:00April 6th, 2022|News|
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