InsSciDE is a project funded through the European Horizon 2020 framework, under the coordination of Professor Pascal Griset, Sorbonne Université. It was launched at the National Academy of Medicine (Académie nationale de médecine), on 26th January 2018. The European Commission calls for the development of effective science diplomacy for Europe. InsSciDE responds to this call…
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Call for Papers workshop Columbia University“On the Natural History of Destruction: Technology, Politics and Material Transformation in Asia’s Long World War II”
Call for Papers: “On the Natural History of Destruction: Technology, Politics and Material Transformation in Asia’s Long World War II” Location Columbia University, Friday, October 5, 2018 Deadline for Abstract Submissions: Friday, April 6, 2018 This one-day workshop aims to illuminate the complicated relationship between political possibilities and material transformation in Asia during the catastrophe…
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Historian Jan-Pieter Smits endowed professor of Quantification of Sustainability at Eindhoven University of Technology
Prof. Jan-Pieter Smits was appointed endowed professor of Quantification of Sustainability in the School of Innovation Sciences at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He delivered his inaugural lecture ‘Measuring what matters: a long-term view of sustainability’ January 26, 2018. Economic growth does not necessarily foster sustainable development. Jan-Pieter Smits examines which indicators are needed to…
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Call for Proposals SHOT Annual Meeting 2018 – St. Louis (Missouri, USA) 11-14 October – Deadline proposals March 31
The SHOT Program Committee is pleased to issue the Call for Papers and Sessions for the SHOT 2018 Annual Meeting to be held 11-14 October, 2018 in St. Louis, Missouri, US. SHOT is an interdisciplinary and international organization concerned not only with the history of technological devices and processes but also with technology in history…
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CfP Workshop Getting Value or Poison? Benefit – Harm Dilemmas in Efforts to Improve Life. Center for the History of Global Development, Shanghai University (deadline 15 February, 2018)
Workshop: Getting Value or Poison? Benefit – Harm Dilemmas in Efforts to Improve Life Workshop hosted by the Center for the History of Global Development, Shanghai University Time: 29/30 April, 2018 Place: Shanghai University, Shanghai The last two centuries have seen a dramatic increase in the release of toxic substances into the environment. Though the…
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HoNEST CfP: Atoms for Peace In Europe Around the Globe
HoNEST Call for Papers: Atoms for Peace In Europe Around the Globe Conference/Workshop in Barcelona, May 28-29, 2018 This is a call for paper proposals for a conference on the Atoms for Peace era (ca. 1954-1965). The general focus of this conference is on public/society -- industry/government interactions. We are interested in papers…
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Blogpost: The 8th Tensions of Europe Conference, Athens 2017
Blog-post by Julia Erol, Germany/ Norway This year I attended the Tensions of Europe for the first time. I came to Athens because I was interested in the research that could be combined under the work theme: “across borders“. Clearly, this short blog post is not meant to fully summarize the conference, but describe some…
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Textbook: Engineering the Future, Understanding the Past. A Social History of Technology (2017)
Engineering the Future, Understanding the Past discusses the role of engineering in our age of grand challenges - by drawing lessons from the past. Since the birth of modern engineering roughly two centuries ago, technology has helped to reshape our modern world. At the same time, social challenges have shaped engineering science and practice. This…
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