The Tensions of Europe network is organizing mentoring sessions (online) that aim at supporting early career researchers (PhD students and post-doctoral researchers). The third session will address the topic of publications (strategies, choices of journals and topics, reviews, etc.). It will take place online on September 28, 2023, from 13.00 to 14.30 (CET). To participate…

 Call for Papers The 11th Tensions of Europe Conference Conference theme: Transformations. Fundamental Change and Technology European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany 19 – 21 September 2024 Deadline for proposals: 30.11.2023 Conference website We live in a world of constant change. There are periods, however, of accelerated change in the political, economic, social or technological sphere.…

Applications are open for a funded PhD studentship addressing the broad theme of modern history, with a particular emphasis on energy, technology and the environment. Potential candidates for the studentship are invited to submit research proposals of approximately 1,000 words on topics in modern history. One fully funded PhD studentship is available for a successful…

Tensions of Europe has always been an open, inclusive network, supporting early career researchers and allowing scholars to participate and join as an individual. The management committee remains convinced that this is a path to be pursued and that it is one of the strengths of our network. In order to develop its activities and…

The Tensions of Europe network is organizing mentoring sessions (online) that aim at supporting early career researchers (PhD students and post-doctoral researchers). The second session targets postdoctoral researchers and their needs. It will take place online on Friday, 9 June 2023, from 13.00 to 14.30 (CET). To participate in this meeting, please register by sending…

Do the historians gathered in the Tensions of Europe network have a particular relationship to archives, to sources, and to their research materials? What does being a historian of technologies, infrastructures, or networks imply, and is there a singularity regarding sources and archives? It is this relationship to the archives, to the sources, to the…

Job description PhD position, full time Deadline for applications:  March 22nd 2023. Position will start September 1st 2023. Read more about the position and how to apply. The Netherlands currently has Europe´s worst performance in foreign sustainability trade-offs to least developed countries. The huge Dutch imports of raw materials and goods have had profound consequences for economic,…

The Tensions of Europe network has been considering for a while how it could welcome and contribute to support early researchers (PhD students and post-doctoral researchers). It has already accomplished this over the years thanks to the early career scholars’ summer schools, organized before the ToE conferences, or through regular meetings during the course of…

The relationship of the historians to archives and sources is unique. It has been the subject of descriptions that have become classics, such as Arlette Farge's Goût de l'archive (The Allure of the Archives, 2013, 1st ed. 1989), but also of reflections on the relationship to "new sources'', and notably digital ones (Müller and Clavert,…

With accusations against the international oil industry’s contribution to environmental degradation and anthropogenic climate change on the rise, oil companies have reacted by advertising their investments in renewables, pollution control, and more recently “net-zero” efforts. Among concerned publics like environmental activists, however, these counter-narratives are often perceived as “greenwashing”—i.e., superficial efforts intended to confuse rather…