About: Erik van der Vleuten

This Special Issue is a key publication of the Global Sustainability History project GREASE, which contributes to the ToE Technology, Environment & Resources network. It originated in a workshop in Lisbon in 2019, which was designed as an engagement between specialists on histories of technology & the environment in various continents. GE Vol.15 (2), June…

The Energy Challenge in Historical Perspective research team has published a new s.i. on Historicizing Renewables, which resulted from the Conference "How New Are the Renewables? Historicizing Energy Transions." (Munich, 21.02.2018 – 23.02.2018). History and Technology, Volume 37, Issue 4, December 2021 (Special) is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online. Historicizing Renewables. Guest…

(Reminder) Call for papers: ICOHTEC’s peer-reviewed journal, ICON: http://www.icohtec.org/icon/, is collecting papers for a special issue (to be published in July 2021) on history of technology for an age of crisis. The deadline is upcoming: Paper manuscripts need to be received at manuscriptmanager.net/icon by 31 March.   ICON, the bi-annual journal of ICOHTEC, publishes papers covering all…

Eindhoven University of Technology's School of Innovation Sciences is now hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor to research and teach long-term, historical perspectives on sustainability transitions, e.g. socio-technical energy transitions and/or mobility transitions. Candidates preferably have an affinity with the history of technology & socio-technical change and the booming field of sustainability transition studies. Deadline for…

Just published: Forum ‘History and Technology in an Age of Grand Challenges.’ Technology and Culture Volume 61, Number 1, January 2020, pp.260-332 In 2016 we formed a number of transnational working groups to build research agendas and networks in the context of the Tensions of Europe flagship program Technology and Societal Challenges. By early 2019…

  New publication from the ToE research network  Technologies, Environment and Resources: Anna Åberg and Frank Veraart (eds.), ‘Creating, Capturing and Circulating Commodities: The technology and politics of material resource flows, from the 19th century to the present’. Special section of The Extractive Industries and Society Vol.7. nr.1 (2020): 1-67. Frank Veraart, Anna Åberg, Hanna…

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The International Committee for the History of Technology’s 47th Symposium "A History of Technology for an Age of Crisis" will be held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 13 – 18 July 2020. The conference includes a summer school. Extended Deadline for session, paper and poster proposals: Sunday, 22 February 2020 Conference Call for Papers Conference website

On 18-20 September, the Tensions of Europe research network on Technology, Environment and Resources organized the workshop "Resources, Infrastructures and the Anthropocene: Dialogues between the Global-North and the Global-South". The workshop was hosted and funded by the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, the GREASE project, and the EURES project. More…