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| Name | Dick van Lente |
| Academic title(s) | Dr |
| Institute | Erasmus University |
| Department | Erasmus School of History, Culture, and Communication |
| Function | lecturer |
| Address | Prinses Margrietlaan 7 |
| Zip code | 3051 AM |
| Country | |
| Phone | +31104188471 |
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| Short biography | I have been employed at the history department of Erasmus University since 1980 and will retire in 2018. Throughout my carreer, I have lectured on the history of modern societies since 1750, with courses ranging from a general introduction the history of western societies to social and cultural themes, including the history of science fiction, urban planning, popularization of science and technology, and the history of my home town Rotterdam. I have written a textbook on the history of western societies (in Dutch) together with my colleague Bert Altena, which is in its fourth printing. In the history of technology, I have mainly published about the history of printing and publishing, and popularization and debates about technology. I particpated in the creation of two series of edited volumes on the history of technology in the Netherlands, directed by Harry Lintsen and Johan Schot. I am now leading an international cooperative project on the reception and appropriation of, and resistances to, computers since World War Two, in several countries across the world. For more information, see my web-page at Erasmus University: https://www.eshcc.eur.nl/english/personal/vanlente/. |
| Recent publications |
Normal 21 false NL MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ Normal 21 false NL MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ “Nuclear power, popular culture and the rise of “global consciousness”“, Contemporanea. Revista di storia dell”800 e del”900, XVIII/4 (ottobre-dicembre 2015), 640-645. Dick van Lente (ed.), The Nuclear Age in Popular Media: A Transnational History, 1945-1965 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2012) |
| Role in Tensions of Europe | |
| Additional research interests | cultural history, transnational history, history of computers |