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Two PhD students in nuclear energy history at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

The Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, is starting up a new, ambitious research project, targeting the history of nuclear energy in global perspective. The project is led by Per Högselius and is funded by the European Research Council (ERC). The research merges history of science…
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International workshop | Call for papers: Economic Development and Environmental Transformations in Europe’s Extractive Peripheries (16th – 21st centuries)

EHESS – School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (Paris, France) 21 November 2018 Deadline for Submissions: May 30, 2018 Download the PDF version of the CfP Resource extraction is fundamental to the structure of the economy. It involves any activity that extracts raw materials from nature, which are then directly used or processed to add…
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Four-year research fellowship in History (open rank: PhD / post-doc) – “Capuchin missionaries and papal nuncios in the Portuguese Atlantic”

The Historical Institute of the University of Bern invites applications for a four-year position in History. The  appointment  will  be  at  the  level  of  PhD  student  or  post-doc  research  fellow,  depending  on  the successful candidate’s qualifications. The position is scheduled to start on November 1, 2018. The research fellow will be a member of the project Atlantic Italies:…
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Four-year PhD position in History – “Trade and consumption of Atlantic  commodities in the southern Alps” 

The  Historical  Institute  of  the  University  of  Bern  invites applications  for  a  four-year PhD  position  in  History.  The position is scheduled to start on November 1, 2018.  The PhD student will be a member of the project Atlantic Italies: Economic and Cultural Entanglements (15 th -19 th  Centuries), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (2018-2022) and directed by Dr. Roberto …
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SHOT International Small Grants

International Small Grants of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) SHOT welcomes endorsement requests for events that globalize the Society’s intellectual terrain as well as broaden its international membership. SHOT seeks to advance the historical study of technology and its relations with politics, economics, labor, business, the environment, public policy, science, and the arts.…
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Call for Meeting Sites – ICOHTEC Symposium 2019 or 2020

The International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) is a global organisation and among the leading societies in its field. It is part of the UNESCO related network focused on the research of the history and philosophy of science and technology (IUHPS / DHST). For more information on our aims, please take a closer…
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Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships 2018-2019 – Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac

The musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac offers every year doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships to support Ph.D. candidates and early career scholars in pursuing innovative research projects. The academic fields concerned are: anthropology, ethnomusicology, art history, history, archaeology, sociology, performance studies. The research topics concerned are: Western and non-Western arts, material and immaterial heritage,…
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Turku Book Prize 2019

The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC), are pleased to announce the call for entries for the 2019 Turku Book Prize in European Environmental History that they jointly sponsor every two years. With the purpose of identifying and encouraging excellent, innovative, and well-written scholarship in…
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