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How History Matters for the Governance of Sociotechnical Transitions Special issue of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (Volume 32 pp. 1-168, September 2019) Edited by Stathis Arapostathis, Peter J.G. Pearson This special issue connects the history of technology and sustainability transitions literatures. You'll find a number of Tensions participants amongst the authors. A few papers…

*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,…

Call for Papers Workshop Resources, Infrastructures and the Anthropocene: Dialogues between the Global-North and the Global-South Caparica Campus, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal 18 - 20 September 2019   We welcome proposals for participation in the workshop Resources, Infrastructures and the Anthropocene: Dialogues between the Global-North and the Global-South, which…

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…

To strengthen its position in the sustainable mobility transitions research area, Eindhoven University of Technology is creating a new, full-time (associate) professor position. The candidate should connect historical and long-term perspectives to present-day and future-oriented sustainable mobility studies. Link: https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/associate-professor-transitions-to-sustainable-mobility-10fte-446733.html   

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…

The division for Science, Technology and Society at Chalmers University of Technology are searching PhD candidates for two projects funded by the Swedish energy agency. Basic Swedish language is required in order to handle sources in both projects, however the working language can be English. Here are short descriptions of the two projects: 1) Swedish…

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