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Job vacancy: (associate) professor sustainable mobility transitions, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Historians are encouraged to apply (deadline 31/3/2019).

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   
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Two PhD positions in Environmental history/Environmental humanities at Chalmers University of Technology

The Department of Technology Management and Economics (TME) broadly researches the interaction between technology development, industrial systems, society, people and the environment. The research can be divided into three main research areas, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Supply Chain & Operations Management and Sustainability & Society Studies. The department is organized in six divisions for research and…
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New journal: Journal of Energy History / Revue d’histoire de l’énergie (JEHRHE)

The Journal of Energy History / Revue d'histoire de l'énergie (JEHRHE) is a new online and open access academic journal dedicated to all aspects of energy history. Informed by scholarship in the field to date, we aim to cultivate and advance an ambitious, creative space for scholarly conversation and dissemination. Please join us—submit, read, teach, and share cutting-edge ideas…
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Call for Papers: SHOT Annual Meeting Milan (Italy), 24-27 October 2019

The SHOT Program Committee is pleased to issue the Call for Papers and Sessions for the SHOT 2019 Annual Meeting to be held 24-27 October, 2019 in Milan, Italy. SHOT is an interdisciplinary and international organization concerned with the history of technological devices, systems, and processes as well as with technology in history, culture, and…
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Post-doc (one year) on History and Memory of Nuclear Tests in French Polynesia

One-year post-doctoral position on History and Memory of Nuclear Tests in French Polynesia, based in Tahiti (9 months) and metropolitan France (3 months),  starting June 1st 2019, by the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme du Pacifique, Polynésie Française. For details and contacts (in French) see Fiche de poste Post doc-MSH-P For more see also: http://www.msh-reseau.fr/msh/maison-des-sciences-de-lhomme-du-pacifique-polynesie-francaise
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Call for ICOHTEC Summer School of 2019

ICOHTEC Summer School of 2019 Technology and Power University of Silesia, Poland 18 – 22 July 2019 Link: http://www.icohtec.org/w-annual-meeting/katowice-2019/summer-school/ OBJECTIVES The Third ICOHTEC Summer School in Katowice will combine the 46th ICOHTEC Symposium with a three-day intensive seminar course geared to PhD students and young post-doctoral scholars. The Summer School brings together conventional seminars and the…
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TURRIANO ICOHTEC PRIZE

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 Katowice, Poland, from 22-27 July 2019. An additional 500 Euro is available…
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PhD Vacancy History of Technology and Sustainbility at Eindhoven University of Technology

The Technology Innovations and Society group of Eindhoven University of Technology is searching a PhD candidate for a research project called: Drivers of ‘Sustainability’ (DOS), in Dutch-African horticulture supply chains, 1960-2020 The Ph.D. project aims at analyzing the entangled long-term dynamics of the international horticulture supply chain, through the lens of sustainability developments. To this…
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