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

ICOHTEC Summer School of 2019 Technology and Power University of Silesia, Poland 18 – 22 July 2019 Link: http://www.icohtec.org/w-annual-meeting/katowice-2019/summer-school/ OBJECTIVES The Third ICOHTEC Summer School in Katowice will combine the 46th ICOHTEC Symposium with a three-day intensive seminar course geared to PhD students and young post-doctoral scholars. The Summer School brings together conventional seminars and the…

(ICOHTEC symposium Katowice: DEADLINE EXTENDED) Call for Papers  TECHNOLOGY AND POWER   The International Committee for the History of Technology’s 46th Symposium in Katowice, Poland, 22 – 27 July 2019   Deadline for proposals is Monday 18 February, 2019 Sumposium's website. Social theorists from Max Weber to Jürgen Habermas have argued that power relations are among…

The Turriano ICOHTEC Prize is an Early Career Prize for Books on the history of technology, sponsored by the Juanelo Turriano Foundation and consists of 2,500 Euro. The prize-winning book will be presented and discussed at a special session of the next ICOHTEC symposium, in Katowice, Poland, from 22-27 July 2019. An additional 500 Euro is available…