About: Katerina Vlantoni

42nd History of Technology Conference Raw Materials. Natural Resources in History 13–14 November 2020, Venue Klostergut Paradies, Schlatt, Switzerland Organizer: Iron Library, Foundation of Georg Fischer Ltd Call for Papers The 42nd History of Technology Conference will be held at the Klostergut Paradies in Schlatt near Schaffhausen, Switzerland on 13 and 14 November 2020. The…

Tensions of Europe Research Group on Technologies, Environment, and Resources Coproduction of territories and their resources: technologies of prospecting, extraction and remediation in history  16-17 April 2020 National Research University Higher School of Economics—St. Petersburg, Russia   In his recent manifesto,Bruno Latour argues in favour of ‘terrestrial politics’ and the importance of going beyond local…

HPS.CESEE editors announced the new online platform  HPS.CESEE, which aims to facilitate the exchange of information about the history of scientific knowledge in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The aim is to serve as a resource for the history of scientific knowledge in the region stretching from Prague to Perm and from Tallinn to Tirana,…

*CALL FOR PAPERS* Histories of Flexibility Special Issue Journal of Energy History / Revue d’histoire de l’énergie (JEHRH) Co-Editors: Peter Forman (Lancaster University), Stanley Blue (Lancaster University), Elizabeth Shove (Lancaster University) Deadline: 7th June 2019 Contact: p.forman@lancaster.ac.uk Description: Over the last five years, flexibility has emerged as a key topic in academic, industry and policy debates concerning the decarbonization of contemporary energy systems (IEA, 2008; Goutte and Vassilopoulos, 2019; Ofgem,…

Symposium on physical objects of the Cold War will be held on December 16-17, 2019 in St. Petersburg. Advanced PhD-students and early career scholars are invited to submit an abstract (300–500 words) and a short CV untill May 15, 2019. National Research University Higher School of Economics in St Petersburg, Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History and…

The Department of Technology Management and Economics (TME) broadly researches the interaction between technology development, industrial systems, society, people and the environment. The research can be divided into three main research areas, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Supply Chain & Operations Management and Sustainability & Society Studies. The department is organized in six divisions for research and…

The Journal of Energy History / Revue d'histoire de l'énergie (JEHRHE) is a new online and open access academic journal dedicated to all aspects of energy history. Informed by scholarship in the field to date, we aim to cultivate and advance an ambitious, creative space for scholarly conversation and dissemination. Please join us—submit, read, teach, and share cutting-edge ideas…

One-year post-doctoral position on History and Memory of Nuclear Tests in French Polynesia, based in Tahiti (9 months) and metropolitan France (3 months),  starting June 1st 2019, by the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme du Pacifique, Polynésie Française. For details and contacts (in French) see Fiche de poste Post doc-MSH-P For more see also: http://www.msh-reseau.fr/msh/maison-des-sciences-de-lhomme-du-pacifique-polynesie-francaise

ICOHTEC Summer School of 2019 Technology and Power University of Silesia, Poland 18 – 22 July 2019 Link: http://www.icohtec.org/w-annual-meeting/katowice-2019/summer-school/ OBJECTIVES The Third ICOHTEC Summer School in Katowice will combine the 46th ICOHTEC Symposium with a three-day intensive seminar course geared to PhD students and young post-doctoral scholars. The Summer School brings together conventional seminars and the…

(ICOHTEC symposium Katowice: DEADLINE EXTENDED) Call for Papers  TECHNOLOGY AND POWER   The International Committee for the History of Technology’s 46th Symposium in Katowice, Poland, 22 – 27 July 2019   Deadline for proposals is Monday 18 February, 2019 Sumposium's website. Social theorists from Max Weber to Jürgen Habermas have argued that power relations are among…