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How History Matters for the Governance of Sociotechnical Transitions Special issue of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (Volume 32 pp. 1-168, September 2019) Edited by Stathis Arapostathis, Peter J.G. Pearson This special issue connects the history of technology and sustainability transitions literatures. You'll find a number of Tensions participants amongst the authors. A few papers…

Call for Papers Workshop Resources, Infrastructures and the Anthropocene: Dialogues between the Global-North and the Global-South Caparica Campus, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal 18 - 20 September 2019   We welcome proposals for participation in the workshop Resources, Infrastructures and the Anthropocene: Dialogues between the Global-North and the Global-South, which…

To strengthen its position in the sustainable mobility transitions research area, Eindhoven University of Technology is creating a new, full-time (associate) professor position. The candidate should connect historical and long-term perspectives to present-day and future-oriented sustainable mobility studies. Link: https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/associate-professor-transitions-to-sustainable-mobility-10fte-446733.html   

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…

  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…