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…
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Call for papers: Histories of Technology’s Persistence: Repair, Reuse and Disposal | Workshop at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
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),…
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Three doctoral students in History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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…
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Two PhD students in nuclear energy history at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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…
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International workshop | Call for papers: Economic Development and Environmental Transformations in Europe’s Extractive Peripheries (16th – 21st centuries)
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…
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Four-year research fellowship in History (open rank: PhD / post-doc) – “Capuchin missionaries and papal nuncios in the Portuguese Atlantic”
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:…
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Four-year PhD position in History – “Trade and consumption of Atlantic commodities in the southern Alps”
The Historical Institute of the University of Bern invites applications for a four-year PhD position in History. The position is scheduled to start on November 1, 2018. The PhD student will be a member of the project Atlantic Italies: Economic and Cultural Entanglements (15 th -19 th Centuries), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (2018-2022) and directed by Dr. Roberto …
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SHOT International Small Grants
International Small Grants of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) SHOT welcomes endorsement requests for events that globalize the Society’s intellectual terrain as well as broaden its international membership. SHOT seeks to advance the historical study of technology and its relations with politics, economics, labor, business, the environment, public policy, science, and the arts.…
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Call for Meeting Sites – ICOHTEC Symposium 2019 or 2020
The International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) is a global organisation and among the leading societies in its field. It is part of the UNESCO related network focused on the research of the history and philosophy of science and technology (IUHPS / DHST). For more information on our aims, please take a closer…
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