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:…

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 …

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.…

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…