Dick van Lente

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Name

Dick van Lente

Academic title(s)

Dr

Institute

Erasmus University

Department

Erasmus School of History, Culture, and Communication

Function

lecturer

Address

Prinses Margrietlaan 7

Zip code

3051 AM

Country

Netherlands

Phone

+31104188471

Visible Email Address

dick.vanlente@eur.nl

Short biography

I have been employed at the history department of Erasmus University since 1980 and will retire in 2018. Throughout my carreer, I have lectured on the history of modern societies since 1750, with courses ranging from a general introduction the history of western societies to social and cultural themes, including the history of science fiction, urban planning, popularization of science and technology, and the history of my home town Rotterdam. I have written a textbook on the history of western societies (in Dutch) together with my colleague Bert Altena, which is in its fourth printing. In the history of technology, I have mainly published about the history of printing and publishing, and popularization and debates about technology. I particpated in the creation of two series of edited volumes on the history of technology in the Netherlands, directed by Harry Lintsen and Johan Schot. I am now leading an international cooperative project on the reception and appropriation of, and resistances to, computers since World War Two, in several countries across the world. For more information, see my web-page at Erasmus University: https://www.eshcc.eur.nl/english/personal/vanlente/.

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“Nuclear power, popular culture and the rise of “global consciousness”“, Contemporanea. Revista di storia dell”800 e del”900, XVIII/4 (ottobre-dicembre 2015), 640-645.

Dick van Lente (ed.), The Nuclear Age in Popular Media: A Transnational History, 1945-1965 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2012)
‘Huizinga’s Children: Play and Technology in Twentieth Century Dutch Cultural Criticism (From the 1930s to the 1960s)’, ICON: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology 19 (2013), 52-74.
‘Object lesson: Teaching Children Confidence in a High Tech World: The Netherlands 1950-1962’, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth Volume 5, Number 2, (Spring 2012), 181-191.
‘A chance for Utopia: modern technology and the design of the IJsselmeerpolders’ in M. Kemperink, L. Vermeer (eds), Utopianism and the sciences, 1880-1930 (Leuven: Peeters 2010) 107-124.
‘Technology as politics: engineers and the design of Dutch society‘ in Johan Schot,  Arie Rip, Harry Lintsen (eds), Technology and the making of the Netherlands (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, Zutphen: Walburg Pers 2009), 365-431 (with Johan Schot).
Trajectories of Internationalization: Knowledge and National Business Styles in the Making of Two Dutch Publishing Multinationals, 1950-1990, Enterprise and Society 9/1 (2008), 165-202 (with Ferry De Goey).
Three overviews of the history of technology’, History and technology 24/1 (2008), 89-96.

Role in Tensions of Europe

Participant

Additional research interests

cultural history, transnational history, history of computers