Tensions of Europe Research Group on Technologies, Environment, and Resources Coproduction of territories and their resources: technologies of prospecting, extraction and remediation in history  16-17 April 2020 National Research University Higher School of Economics—St. Petersburg, Russia   In his recent manifesto,Bruno Latour argues in favour of ‘terrestrial politics’ and the importance of going beyond local…

HPS.CESEE editors announced the new online platform  HPS.CESEE, which aims to facilitate the exchange of information about the history of scientific knowledge in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The aim is to serve as a resource for the history of scientific knowledge in the region stretching from Prague to Perm and from Tallinn to Tirana,…

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The International Committee for the History of Technology’s 47th Symposium "A History of Technology for an Age of Crisis" will be held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 13 – 18 July 2020. The conference includes a summer school. Extended Deadline for session, paper and poster proposals: Sunday, 22 February 2020 Conference Call for Papers Conference website

On 18-20 September, the Tensions of Europe research network on Technology, Environment and Resources organized the workshop "Resources, Infrastructures and the Anthropocene: Dialogues between the Global-North and the Global-South". The workshop was hosted and funded by the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, the GREASE project, and the EURES project. More…

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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* Histories of Flexibility Special Issue Journal of Energy History / Revue d’histoire de l’énergie (JEHRH) Co-Editors: Peter Forman (Lancaster University), Stanley Blue (Lancaster University), Elizabeth Shove (Lancaster University) Deadline: 7th June 2019 Contact: p.forman@lancaster.ac.uk Description: Over the last five years, flexibility has emerged as a key topic in academic, industry and policy debates concerning the decarbonization of contemporary energy systems (IEA, 2008; Goutte and Vassilopoulos, 2019; Ofgem,…

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…

Symposium on physical objects of the Cold War will be held on December 16-17, 2019 in St. Petersburg. Advanced PhD-students and early career scholars are invited to submit an abstract (300–500 words) and a short CV untill May 15, 2019. National Research University Higher School of Economics in St Petersburg, Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History and…