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EUROCORES Programme Inventing Europe and Tensions of Europe Network

Location: Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

Launch of Inventing Europe: Technology and the Making of Europe, 1850 to the Present. European Science Foundation EUROCORES Programme
and
Third Plenary Conference of the Tensions of Europe Network

For more information (and photo's), please visit the site of the Conference.

The European Science Foundation and the Foundation for the History of Technology in the Netherlands are organizing the Launch of Inventing Europe and the Third Plenary Conference of the Tensions of Europe Network. This conference will provide scholars interested in the role of technology in European history the opportunity to present and discuss research.It will also provide participants in Inventing Europe to present their planned projects to a broad community and to discuss their collaboration. Graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and senior researchers who are interested in technology and the making of modern Europe are invited to meet and exchange ideas.

Theme of the Conference
Following the Inventing Europe objectives that were drawn from the ToE intellectual agenda, the conference contributions will treat technological change as an entry point into the contested practice of European integration. Four general areas to be explored are:

• Building Europe through Infrastructures, or, how Europe has been shaped by the material links of transnational infrastructure
  
• Constructing European Ways of Knowing, or, how Europe became articulated through efforts to unite knowledge and practices on a European scale
• Consuming Europe, or, how actors reworked consumer goods and artefacts for local, regional, national, European, and global use
• Europe in the Global World, or, how Europe has been created through colonial, ex-colonial, trans-Atlantic, and other global exchanges
• Synthetic methodological or historiographical explorations of European integration or fragmentation

Inventing Europe and ToE strive to promote studies of the interplay between technical change and transnational European history. Instead of focusing on national histories, the emphasis is on transnational technological developments that have shaped and are shaping Europe.

For more information (and photo's), please visit the site of the Conference

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