About: Katerina Vlantoni

Position: Senior lecturer in economic history with a focus on innovation and sustainability Department of Economic History, Lund University We are looking for a senior lecturer and research leader for one of the three branches of the department’s innovation research. We are looking for a person who has a base in innovation research, preferably focusing on…

HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology is a peer-reviewed open access journal, available online, published in english by De Gruyter, 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 12.1  Opening essay by Jürgen Renn…

“Towards Digital Science and Technology Studies: Challenges and Opportunities” Luxembourg, 25-27 June 2019 We live in the digital age which has a huge impact on the way we do scholarly research. For emerging careers it seems to be particularly pivotal. One the one hand, digitalization brings opportunities enlarging the methodological and thematic horizons. On the…

The Tensions of Europe conference is organised biennially by an interdisciplinary community of scholars who study the shaping of Europe through the lens of technology and material culture. We welcome fruitful interactions between historians of technology and scholars from all other fields of the humanities and social sciences . The 9th Tensions of Europe Conference…

Since 2001, the Committee for the History of Electricity has three objectives focused on the history of electricity: to conduct or foster scientific research, to study and promote tangible and intangible heritage, and to share and impart knowledge. In 2013, the Committee widened its scope to become the Committee for the History of Electricity and…

Workshop at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), University of Luxembourg, 7-8 December 2018 Call for papers Submission deadline: 2 July 2018 The everyday use of technology involves practices of maintenance and repair but also raises questions of reuse and removal, dismantling and disposal. According to Stephen Graham and Nigel Thrift (2007: 19),…

Third-cycle subject: History of Science, Technology and Environment The PhD education takes place in the ERC-funded project “The Rise of Global Environmental Governance:  A History of the Contemporary Human-Earth Relationship” (GLOBEGOV). GLOBEGOV is a historical study of how humanity’s relation to planetary conditions and constraints became understood as a governance issue since the twentieth century. The…

The Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, is starting up a new, ambitious research project, targeting the history of nuclear energy in global perspective. The project is led by Per Högselius and is funded by the European Research Council (ERC). The research merges history of science…

EHESS – School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (Paris, France) 21 November 2018 Deadline for Submissions: May 30, 2018 Download the PDF version of the CfP Resource extraction is fundamental to the structure of the economy. It involves any activity that extracts raw materials from nature, which are then directly used or processed to add…

The Historical Institute of the University of Bern invites applications for a four-year position in History. The  appointment  will  be  at  the  level  of  PhD  student  or  post-doc  research  fellow,  depending  on  the successful candidate’s qualifications. The position is scheduled to start on November 1, 2018. The research fellow will be a member of the project Atlantic Italies:…