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PostDoc position at TU Berlin (5 years)

Research Assistant (PostDoc) - salary grade E13 TV-L Berliner Hochschulen - 2nd qualification period (Habilitation) Fakultät I – Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte / FG Technikgeschichte Reference number: I-291/20 (starting at 01/10/20 / for max. 5 years / part-time employment may be possible) Closing date for applications 03/07/2020. Working field: Cooperation in the…
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CfP, 4th Cycling Research Board Annual Meeting – “The Future, Past & Present, and Scale of Cycling”, 26-28 October 2020, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

“The Future, Past, Present, and Scale of Cycling” The Cycling Research Board (CRB) holds an annual meeting to share and discuss academic research on cycling. This year’s meeting, organized by Eindhoven University of Technology, is being paired with a Dutch cycling policy conference on Smart Cycling Futures. The CRB Annual Meeting actively seeks to bring…
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CfP, Workshop: “Making Europe through infrastructures of (in)security”, 12-13 Nov, 2020

Making Europe through infrastructures of (in)security Interdisciplinary Workshop 12-13 November 2020, University of Vienna Keynote Speakers: Prof. Claudia Aradau (King´s College London) Prof. Annalisa Pelizza (University of Bologna) Prof. Johan Schot (University of Utrecht) Organizers: Nina Klimburg-Witjes, Paul Trauttmansdorff, Pouya Sepehr (Dep. of Science and Technology Studies) Katharina T. Paul, Christian Haddad (Dep. of Political Science),…
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PhD opportunity “Anthropocene and empires: energy, environment, economy”

PhD opportunity "Anthropocene and empires: energy, environment, economy": the joint international doctoral program "Global History of Empires" (University of Turin and Higher School of Economics, St-Petersburg and Moscow) calls for a science and technology perspective. Global History of Empires is a joint doctoral program between the University of Turin (Italy) and the Higher School of Economics (Moscow and St.…
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New publication from the ToE research network Technologies, Environment and Resources

  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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ERC funded PhD position at TU Berlin on nuclear history

The Insti­tute of His­tory and Philo­sophy of Sci­ence, Tech­no­logy, and Lit­er­at­ure at Technical University Berlin is hiring a PhD student for an ERC funded project on nuclear history. The successful applicant is expected to explore the kind of regulatory presence international organizations came to embody in the nuclear field and the diplomatic practices that allowed organizations such as the…
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