ToE Conferences

To stimulate interaction and scientific debate between scholars since 2004 ToE organizes  biannual conferences and general meetings.

The next edition of the Tensions of Europe Conference, the 12th ToE Conference, will take place in the Netherlands, in 2024. The 11th Tensions of Europe conference “Transformations. Fundamental Change and Technology” (ToE24) was held at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice, 19 – 21 September 2024. The conference preceded the ToE Early Career Scholars’ summer school from 16 – 19 September. The Conference was organized by the Viadrina Center of Polish and Ukrainian Studies and the European New School of Digital Studies, which are both part of the European University Viadrina.

In 2023, we organized a one-day remote conference under the title “Surprising Sources”, an initiative of  Valérie Schafer (C²DH, University of Luxembourg). It was held online, in  May 11, 2023 (see the program).

The 10th Tensions of Europe Conference, was planned to take place in June/July 2021, in Aarhus (Denmark), organized by Matthias Heymann. Due to the uncertainties of the Covid-19 pandemic, the members of the management committee, in agreement with the organizer, decided to postpone it to 29 June - 1 July 2022. The week 28 June – 2 July 2021 the ToE network organized the Digital Workshop Festival, a series of online events. Find out more about the Tensions of Europe Digital Workshop Festival here.

 

TOE Conferences

  • Frankfurt (Oder)/Słubice  (Germany/Poland) - September 19-21, 2024 (11th edition)

  • Aarhus (Denmark) - June 29 - July 1, 2022 (10th edition)

  • Tensions of Europe Digital Workshop Festival - June 28 - July 2, 2021 (Online events due to the COVID-19 pandemic)

  • Luxembourg - June 27-30, 2019 (9th edition)

  • Athens (Greece) - September 7-10, 2017 (8th edition)

  • Stockholm (Sweden) - September 3-6, 2015 (7th edition)

  • Paris (France) - September 19-21, 2013 (6th edition)

  • Copenhagen (Denmark) - October 3-4, 2012 (5th edition)

  • Sofia (Bulgaria) - June 17-20, 2010 (4th edition)

  • Lisbon (Portugal) - October 9-11, 2008 (General Toe Meeting)

  • Rotterdam (The Netherlands) - June 7-10, 2007 (3rd edition)

  • Lappeenranta (Finland) - May 25-28, 2006 (2nd edition)

  • Budapest (Hungary) - March 17-20, 2004 (1st edition)

 

TOE Workshops

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TOE Summerschools:

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Bordeaux (France) September 18-22, 2006: Tales of integrating and fragmenting Europe: The role of infrastructures 1850-2000
Ockenheim (Germany) July 8-13, 2007: Technologies and their environments: The circulation of materials, people and knowledge in twentieth century Europe
Chios (Greece) and Izmir (Turkey) August 27 – September 1 2007: Cold War Technology in Europe
Munich (Germany) September 8-13, 2008: Europeanization, Globalization, Americanization, Sovietization, Conceptual Tools of Framing the History of Technology in Europe
Turku (Finland) August 10-15, 2009: Oral History and Technological Memory: Challenges in Studying European Pasts
Cité de Télécoms (France) September 14-18, 2009: History of electronic images: a long term perspective