About: Katerina Vlantoni

The Tensions of Europe network is organizing mentoring sessions (online) that aim at supporting early career researchers (PhD students and post-doctoral researchers). The second session targets postdoctoral researchers and their needs. It will take place online on Friday, 9 June 2023, from 13.00 to 14.30 (CET). To participate in this meeting, please register by sending…

Do the historians gathered in the Tensions of Europe network have a particular relationship to archives, to sources, and to their research materials? What does being a historian of technologies, infrastructures, or networks imply, and is there a singularity regarding sources and archives? It is this relationship to the archives, to the sources, to the…

Job description PhD position, full time Deadline for applications:  March 22nd 2023. Position will start September 1st 2023. Read more about the position and how to apply. The Netherlands currently has Europe´s worst performance in foreign sustainability trade-offs to least developed countries. The huge Dutch imports of raw materials and goods have had profound consequences for economic,…

The Tensions of Europe network has been considering for a while how it could welcome and contribute to support early researchers (PhD students and post-doctoral researchers). It has already accomplished this over the years thanks to the early career scholars’ summer schools, organized before the ToE conferences, or through regular meetings during the course of…

The relationship of the historians to archives and sources is unique. It has been the subject of descriptions that have become classics, such as Arlette Farge's Goût de l'archive (The Allure of the Archives, 2013, 1st ed. 1989), but also of reflections on the relationship to "new sources'', and notably digital ones (Müller and Clavert,…

With accusations against the international oil industry’s contribution to environmental degradation and anthropogenic climate change on the rise, oil companies have reacted by advertising their investments in renewables, pollution control, and more recently “net-zero” efforts. Among concerned publics like environmental activists, however, these counter-narratives are often perceived as “greenwashing”—i.e., superficial efforts intended to confuse rather…

The History Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites proposals for IAMCR 2023, to be held in Lyon, France, from 9 to 13 July (Lyon23) with an Online Conference Papers (OCP23) component from 26 June to 5 July. The deadline for submission of proposals is 9 February 2023 at 23h59 UTC. See…

On November 17 and 18, 2023, the 43rd History of Technology Conference of the Iron Library (TGT) will take place at the Klostergut Paradies in Schlatt near Schaffhausen (Switzerland). Since 1978, it has provided an outstanding platform for exchange between research, teaching, and industry. The speakers and the invited guests come from universities, libraries, collections and…

The Division of History of Technology at TU Berlin invites proposals for a two-day historical workshop "Histories of technology acceptance in the 20th century", taking place on 5–6 October 2023. The workshop will feature a keynote by Ortwin Renn, Scientific Director of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam. Deadine for proposals: 10 February…

On the occasion of its 150th anniversary, the Universal Postal Union together with La Poste France and the CNRS (Sirice research unit), will host a conference under the theme: Achieving “a single postal territory”: A global promise – Past and present (Berne, 2 February 2024). The call for papers is open until 31 March 2023. Publication(s)…