Vacancy for a fully funded 4-year PhD at @uvahumanities.bsky.social on the key roles played by social science, demography, and nutritional science during the blockades of the First and Second World Wars, especially where they related to food.
2 doctoral positions on the '(Dis)Empowered Communities: A Comparative Study of Decommissioning Nuclear Sites' project led by Davide Orsini at the @carsoncenter.bsky.social
Deadline: 30 November
#histtech #envhist #energyhistory #nuclearhistory
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...
Het is nu ondenkbaar dat er honderdduizenden mensen de straat op gaan tegen kernenergie en -wapens, zoals in de jaren '80 gebeurde. Terwijl minstens zo actueel is. Voor iedereen die meer wil weten over de antikernenergiebeweging tot nu toe.
iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/de...
@mathijsboom.bsky.social
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excited to share the call for the workshop
EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION
happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025,
β¨made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social
deadline: 10 September!
full call below ‡
#envhist #envhum
We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist
Another review of Dam Internationalism just appeared in Neue Politische Literatur: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The deadline is approaching, so apply soon!
Very happy to see this review of our volume Dam Internationalism in Technology & Culture: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
De nieuwe aflevering van de podcast Verrekijkers van het Rathenau Instituut gaat over het betrekken van burgers bij het beslissen over de berging van radioactief afval. Naast de Nederlandse situatie worden ook de ervaringen in BelgiΓ« besproken!
Luister nu via open.spotify.com/episode/7Iem...
π New article online!
'Toxic Exports, βThird Worldβ Hunger and Pesticide Politics: International Pesticide Trade and Perception in West Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s', by Benjamin Brendel
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Notifications for #ESEH2025 have been sent out --check spam or with session organiser if you haven't heard anything-- BUT there are 10 days left to apply to the @eseh.bsky.social summer school taking place on an island out in the Stockholm archipelago! π
#envhist #envhum #anthropocene
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We're throwing an #energyhist conference in Maastricht, Workshop on Alternative Energy Histories (October 20-21, deadline for proposals is April 4):
Very happy to see this #specialissue on #oilhist and #envhist out in the world: stm.cairn.info/journal-of-e....
With great articles by @renaudbecot.bsky.social, Reynaldo de los Reyes PatiΓ±o, @mattinbiglari.bsky.social, Randal L. Hall, Jelena StankoviΔ, @michielbron.bsky.social, and Robert Lifset.
Tomorrow, I will defend my PhD dissertation "The Petro-Atom: A century of ubiquitous oil involvement in nuclear energy, 1895-1993" at Maastricht University (16.00 CET) @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social
Interested in pursuing a PhD in Germany with a focus on the intβl/ transnational history of technology, medicine, and environment? Come work with me @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social ! Iβm looking to fill 2 PhD positions (for 4 years), details below and inquiries very welcome
zzf-potsdam.de/en/chances/j...
New publication alert! Disclaimer: Only extremely cool people read my articles π
My article on archival sources for the energy history of Yugoslav space is available in the latest issue of the Journal for Energy History π
stm.cairn.info/journal-of-e...
Very happy with this book review of the edited volume Dam Internationalism, with Frederik Schulze!
Very honored to be a part of it!
CfP: Predicting Europe. Histories of the Future in Post-1945 Europe
Deadline: 17 January
It's here!β¨ Dam Internationalism: Rethinking Power, Expertise and Technology in the Twentieth Century, edited by @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social and Frederik Schulze πhttps://tinyurl.com/36hp56zc.
My βNuclear Nordicsβ project would have ended on Saturday, but instead of finishing the postdoc project, I started a position at @greenhouseuis.net two years ago - best decision!
But, perfect time to have the chapter out OA!
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
#envhist #nuclearhistory
We have made a starter pack! Are you looking for FASoS researchers? Need expertise on history, political science, art and literature, science and technology studies, or philosophy? Consult the starter pack: go.bsky.app/5kvecGk
Let us know in the comments if we are missing anyoneπ
FASoS researcher @pablo1981.bsky.social digs into Madridβs fascist past and its ties to global far-right networks. His work spans a book, a doc, and campaigns to remove Franco-era monuments. His message? Understand the far rightβs playbook to fight its rise.
π edu.nl/kk3df
Interested in doing research in Global Environmental History and the Environmental Humanities in Germany?
I am scouting!
Offering an up to 2 year research fellowship with the Humboldt Foundation. Deadline, December 13.
www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet...
Cross-posting from the other platform: in this new Review of Democracy podcast, Aleksandra Komornicka, @koenvanzon.bsky.social and me discuss some key questions that organized the two editions of our overview of European integration history. πͺπΊ
π§ Listen to it now:
π tinyurl.com/ytvvddrs
Congratulations @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social & Frederik Schulze, Iβm so thrilled this is in the series www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/hi...
and Alec Badenoch's work on chocolate: books.google.nl/books?hl=nl&...
The work of Elitsa Stoilova on Bulgarian yoghurt is great: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
the oil spillover - read all about it!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
