Last Thursday 16 September 2021, EHL's Erik van der Vleuten had the honor of presenting the first lecture in the new Lipkens Lecture series at TU Delft. The series addresses science and technology in historical perspective, and is organized by TUD Studium Generale and the Heritage Team of the TUD Library. The series is named
The academic year 2021-22 has started. In Q1 this includes a new master-level course (in fact a completely redesigned course) offered by EHL: Modern Societies in Transition: Introduction to Historical Transition Studies. Currently 36 students participate. Short description for students (text adapted from the CANVAS course homepage): In 0EM130 you study sustainable innovation and socio-technical
Leon Vauterin is PhD candidate in the Technology, Innovation & Society group. He is working within the TOD-IS-RUR project, in which he tackles the issue of mobility justice. He also serves as the book review assistant for the journal of Technology and Culture. He graduated in 2018 with Master of Arts in German and Scandinavian
Gijs ten Berge is an external PhD candidate who graduated his master’s degree in History at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in 2015. He wrote his thesis on the role of collective memory in Serbia in the run-up to the Balkan war of the early 1990s. After graduating, he started working as a researcher, analyst and customer
We are very proud to announce that Gijs Mom (formerly EHL professor, now retired) has won the 2021 Book prize of the World History Association for his book Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900 – 1980 (Berghahn Books) The World History Association Book Prize was created in 1999 to recognize outstanding
Things are going in the right direction in the Netherlands, but this is also putting pressure on future generations and other (low income) countries, states the "Monitor Brede Welvaart 2021". Jan Pieter Smits, professor at History Lab and researcher at CBS, led this important publication. The year 2020 was defined by the coronavirus pandemic. Covid-19
In April 2021, the program Towards a Sustainable Economy and Society: the Second Deep Transition in the Netherlands received seed money funding from the SEED Alliance program. The program is a collaboration of research groups at Utrecht University, Wageningen University & Research, and Eindhoven University of Technology. For the TU/e History Lab, Harry Lintsen, Frank
Together with colleagues from India, Brazil and Amsterdam, we organized the 2nd online workshop on Transnational histories of resources in the postcolonial Anthropocene on May 6. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss the introduction and papers of our special journal issue on this topic. The workshop is part of the NWO GREASE program.
Annual highlight of the teaching season: The teaching of this year's version of USE (User-Society-Enterprise) basic: Ethics and history of technology has started in April and lasts throughout Q4. The course is mandatory for all 1st year TU/e Bachelor College students--over 1800 this year. For History Lab staff, this is the most intensive education period
Renown historian of technology Eda Kranakis (University of Ottawa, Canada) published an elaborate and favorable review essay of our Making Europe book series, analyzing these in the context of (1) the approach to large collaborative programs developed in, and coordinated from, Eindhoven and (2) the genre of multi-volume flagship publications in the field of History