About: Katerina Vlantoni

A post-doctoral researcher will be recruited from 1 September 2020 for one year at Eur’ORBEM research centre with the support of Sorbonne University. The salary will be €42,120 before taxes. The selected applicant will be affiliated to Eur’ORBEM and to a relevant department at Sorbonne University. They will work within the frame of the collective…

The 2020 competition for the Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Technology is now accepting applications. The deadline to apply is April 15, 2020. The Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Technology honors the contribution of Brooke Hindle to the work of the Society for the History of Technology. The Fellowship, made…

Rethinking the Histories and Legacies of Industrial Cities Workshop at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), University of Luxembourg 10-11 December 2020 Submission deadline: 31 March 2020 The history of (European) industrial cities is often told as a tragic tale of rise and decline: from rapid industrialisation in the late 19th century…

The Higher School of Economics Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History of the Center for Historical Research in St. Petersburg, Russia, invites applications for postdoctoral research positions in the field of environmental and technological history. We are particularly interested in applications on either of these aspects: history of natural resources, including history of scientific expertise;…

On October 22, in the midst of a storm, Josep Pujol left us. He was a doctor in Economics and professor of Economic History at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he developed for over 40 years his academic career. Prof. Pujol was born in April 1956 and was proud of being a son of the…

Call for application for two postdoc vacancies in the context of the Processing Citizenship Project, funded by the European Research Council. The positions are opened at the University of Bologna, with Annalisa Pelizza as Principal Investigator. See the call here. Highlights: One position in “Social studies of data infrastructures for population management” Open to candidates wishing to…

HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology is a peer-reviewed open access journal, available online, published in English by De Gruyter/Sciendo, as a result of a partnership between four Portuguese research units (CIUHCT, CIDEHUS, Institute for Social Sciences, and Institute of Contemporary History). TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOLUME 13.2 (December Special issue "Animals,…

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,…