Barbara Hof

The annual meeting of historians of science and technology working in Switzerland will be held this year in Lucerne on December 5 👇.

It’s a friendly and informal gathering that offers great opportunities for early-career researchers to share their work. If you’re around, come join us!

To all friends of the CDC: This semester, we are again organizing a series of lectures and colloquia (both online and offline) that may be of interest to you – we hope to see many of you there!

PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

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From radio with love: A Cold War astronomical collaboration To construct an interferometer with a baseline spanning the planet, US radio astronomers reached out to their Soviet counterparts.

I wrote a short article on my research in the history of VLBI for Physics Today this week :-) pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

The successes and challenges of US–Soviet scientific communication Research exchanges between US and Soviet scientists during the second half of the 20th century may be instructive for navigating today’s debates on scientific collaboration.

Despite working in a time of tense diplomatic relations, proxy wars, and budget cuts, many US and Soviet scientists collaborated productively during the 1970s and 1980s, writes Anna Doel. Prior exchanges help better understand the challenges to scientific cooperation today.

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This podcast is great stuff

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Another key goal: fostering connections among historians of science & tech worldwide 🌍
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