About: Katerina Vlantoni

Sustainability transitions in business history Background Businesses today face unprecedented pressure to transform their operations in response to environmental crises, particularly climate change, and government policy. From the European automobile industry's mandated transition to zero-emission vehicles by 2035 to the emergence of entirely new manufacturing sectors like battery cell production in China, we are witnessing…

This is a call for papers for a workshop that will explore the history of prediction in post-1945 Europe. In recent years, the future of Europe has acquired new political prominence. In 2019, Ursula von der Leyen announced that she would put “Foresight” at the heart of her Commission, and her Vice-President for Foresight, Maroš…

Report by Michal Ďurčo, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of History From 19 to 21 September, European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) hosted the 11th Tensions of Europe (ToE) conference. The main organisers were The Viadrina Center of Polish and Ukrainian Studies and the European New School of Digital Studies, both of which are part…

Applications are invited for a PhD fellowship/scholarship at Graduate School of Natural Sciences, Aarhus University,Denmark, within the mathematics programme (science studies programme). The position is available from February 2025 or later. Research area and project description (Title: Energy Lives! Infrastructural Citizenship in Nordic EnergyTransitions, Subproject: Citizens for District Heating in Denmark). The project Energy Lives!…

2 PhD Positions, Division of Science, Technology and Society, Chalmers University of Technology 1. PhD position in Energy and Environmental History: The PhD candidate will work in a cross-disciplinary setting toconsider the possible future role of hydrogen in the Swedish energy system from a historical perspective.The position isfunded by the Swedish Energy Agency through the…

The Lemelson Center Fellowship Program supports projects that present creative approaches to the study of inventionand innovation in American society. These include, but are not limited to, historical research and documentationprojects resulting in dissertations, publications, exhibitions, educational initiatives, documentary films, or other multimedia products. The Center annually awards two to three fellowships to pre-doctoral graduate…

The Comité d'histoire de l'électricité et de l'énergie (Committee for the History of Electricity and Energy) of theFondation EDF is offering several research grants to scholars studying history of electricity and of energy at large. Applications are accepted in French and English. Deadline for applications: October 23rd,  2024. For more, see here.

The 11th Tensions of Europe Conference is taking place 19 to 21 September 2024, in the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder. The Conference Theme is “Transformations. Fundamental Change and Technology”. The Keynote Speech “Writing Transformative Envirotech History in the Anthropocene: Provocations and Opportunities” by Prof. Dr. Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Museum Munich) will take place Saturday 21/09/2024,…

The Comité d'histoire de l'électricité et de l'énergie (Committee for the History of  Electricity and Energy) of the Fondation EDF is offering several research grants to scholars studying history of electricity and of energy at large. Applications are accepted in French and English. The deadline is the 23rd October 2024. Find the full call (in French and…

Looking ahead, we are excited to announce a Call for Interest for hosting the ToE 2026 Conference. We invite interested colleagues and institutions to submit their proposals by June 15, 2024, to Valérie Schafer. The proposals will be reviewed by the ToE Management Committee. To host the ToE conference, your proposal should include the following details:…