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Co-authored by Giel van Hooff, the Historical Atlas of Eindhoven. From a small market town to the center of the Brainport Region was published in February 2021. It is available in Dutch and in English.

Eindhoven University of Technology's School of Innovation Sciences is now hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor to research and teach long-term, historical perspectives on sustainability transitions, e.g. socio-technical energy transitions and/or mobility transitions. Candidates preferably have an affinity with the history of technology & socio-technical change and the booming field of sustainability transition studies. Deadline for

The ToE network is planning a digital workshop Festival (28 June-2 July 2021), filling the gap caused by postponing the 10th biennial ToE conference to 6-8 July 2022. The organization will be bottom-up; if you would like to plan, or are already planning, relevant international ToE-related events around that time, please consider connecting them to

At the School of Innovation Sciences/ Intermate Best Teacher Award event on January 5 2021, EHL's Mila Davids was awarded the best teacher award for the master program Innovation Sciences 2019-2020, with particular reference to her course on Global Connections. Congrats Mila! In addition, EHL's Erik van der Vleuten and Frank Veraart received nice words

On November 19, EHL staff Frank Veraart (speaker), Erik van der Vleuten (session chair) and Henk-Jan Dekker (session moderator assistance) participated in the energy transition session of this year's annual congress of the Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap KNHG . The conference theme was "Meer dan menselijk verleden. Historici, Eco-geschiedenis, en Environmental humanities." Read more about

On November 10-13 we co-organized an online workshop on resources & infrastructure in the postcolonial Anthropocene. The workshop was a late evening event for participants from India, and a very early morning event for Latin American colleagues :) The workshop papers are to be published in a special journal issue. (see also call for papers)

Karena Kalmbach was part of the online Dutch Design Week round table / live performance of the art project “Soundscapes of Fear” at the Temporary Art Centre in Eindhoven. Due to the Corona measures, the event was livestreamed on Youtube: SEE HERE. Don’t miss out on this year’s virtual version of the Dutch Design Week.

In July the EHL organized the first online ICOHTEC annual conference due to Covid, which attracted roughly 140 participants despite the limitations of the digital format. After the conference, the ICOHTEC General Assembly evaluated the event. There was overwhelming praise for the technical workings and scientific quality of the conference, and for the EHL team's

Erik van der Vleuten's contribution to the Material Civilization section of the online EHNE Digital Encyclopedia of European History was recently published here. Read more about this ambitious bi-lingual project (published in French and English) here.   Excerpt: The ‘European blackout’ of Saturday evening, 4 November 2006 was remarkable. In Northern Germany, close to the

Interesting reading for the upcoming ICOHTEC 2020 conference on Technology & Crises: Earlier this year, Technology & Culture published a Forum on ‘History and Technology in an Age of Grand Challenges.’ (Technology and Culture Volume 61, Number 1, January 2020, pp.260-332) Short description and ToC: In 2016 we formed a number of transnational working groups