About: Jan Korsten

Unflattening European History through Transmedia Storytelling: The Making Europe Digital Comics Series Public lecture by Andreas Fickers Monday, 28 March 2022 19:00 – 21:00 CEST Digital event: Find all information here About this event The Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (CLIC) welcomes Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers as Lorand Chair Intermediality in 2021/2022 at the…

The Turriano ICOHTEC Prize is an Early Career Prize for Books on the history of technology, sponsored by the Juanelo Turriano Foundation and consists of 2,500 Euro. The prize-winning book will be presented and discussed at a special session of the next ICOHTEC symposium, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, from 13-17 July 2020. An additional 500 Euro…

Dear Colleagues, The SHOT Program Committee is pleased to issue the Call for Papers and Sessions for the SHOT 2020 Annual Meeting to be held 7-11 October, 2020 in New Orleans. The 2020 SHOT Annual Meeting will be held jointly with the History of Science Society. SHOT is an interdisciplinary and international organization concerned with…

International Conference: The Multifaceted Relationship between Fear and Technology 10 to 12 October 2018 Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin You can find all information here.

The John Scholes Prize is awarded annually to the writer of a publishable paper based on original research into any aspect of the history of transport and mobility. The prize is intended to recognise budding transport historians. It may be awarded to the writer of one outstanding article, or be divided between two or more…

Deadline for Applications: 30th March 2018 This is a call for applications for a three year fully funded PhD studentship  in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University, UK. The studentship is part of Lancaster University’s Leverhulme Doctoral Training Centre in Material Social Futures. We live in a world where technology is developing at a pace…

Henry Ford’s early and lifelong passion for timekeepers, and the important connections between 19th-century New England watch manufacturing and 20th-century automobile mass-production, have never before been comprehensively examined.   With a roster of important speakers and at the perfect venue, these themes will be developed at the September 20-22 symposium sponsored by the National Association…

Proposals are now being accepted for the Second Workshop on Scientific Archives. The aim of the workshop is to explore topics in the area of the contemporary archives of science and technology. The workshop will be held in Washington, D.C., 13 and 14 August 2018 at the Carnegie Institutions for Science. Proposals are due by…

Fully funded PhD CASE Studentship, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University Transitions in the technologies and practices of office work: Manchester’s administrative industries (1960-2017) With Manchester Museum of Science and Industry. This project investigates the relation between innovations in office technology - from filing cabinets and fax machines through to hard drives and email – and…